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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964271703321

Titolo

Environmental hazards and neurodevelopment : where ecology and well-being connect / / editor, Cindy Croft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Waretown, New Jersey] : , : [Apple Academic Press, Inc.], , [2015]

ISBN

1-77463-370-1

0-429-15618-9

1-4987-1438-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Disciplina

618.3/2

618.32

Soggetti

Pediatric toxicology

Environmental toxicology

Environmental health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; ABOUT THE EDITOR; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND HOW TO CITE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: OVERVIEW; Chapter 1: AMERICA'S CHILDREN AND THE ENVIRONMENT: NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS (EXCERPT FROM THE THIRD EDITION); Chapter 2: A STRATEGY FOR COMPARING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS AND OTHER RISK FACTORS TO NEURODEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN; Chapter 3: DECODING NEURODEVELOPMENT: FINDINGS ON ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES AND SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; Chapter 4: SEVEN-YEAR NEURODEVELOPMENTAL SCORES AND PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO CHLORPYRIFOS, A COMMON AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE

Chapter 5: FETAL AND NEONATAL ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORSPART II: AUTISM; Chapter 6: A RESEARCH STRATEGY TO DISCOVER THE ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES OF AUTISM AND NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; Chapter 7: A KEY ROLE FOR AN IMPAIRED DETOXIFICATION MECHANISM IN THE ETIOLOGY AND SEVERITY OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; Chapter 8: ASSESSMENT OF INFANTILE MINERAL IMBALANCES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ASDs);



Chapter 9: URINARY PORPHYRIN EXCRETION IN NEUROTYPICAL AND AUTISTIC CHILDREN

Chapter 10: B-LYMPHOCYTES FROM A POPULATION OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND THEIR UNAFFECTED SIBLINGS EXHIBIT HYPERSENSITIVITYPART III: ADHD, LEARNING DISABILITIES, AND OTHER NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; Chapter 11:  ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: A FOCUSED OVERVIEW FOR CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS; Chapter 12: URINARY POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON METABOLITES AND ATTENTION/DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER, LEARNING DISABILITY, AND SPECI

Chapter 13: SERUM PERFLUORINATED COMPOUND CONCENTRATION AND ATTENTION DEFICIT/ HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER IN CHILDREN 5-18 YEARS OF AGEChapter 14: IN UTERO AND CHILDHOOD POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDE) EXPOSURES AND NEURODEVELOPMENT IN THE CHAMACOS STUDY; PART IV: CONCLUSION; Chapter 15: TAKING ACTION ON DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY: SCIENTISTS' DUTIES TO PROTECT CHILDREN; AUTHOR NOTES; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

<P>The rate of identification of children with neurobiological disabilities has been on the increase in recent years. Millions of dollars in research are being spent to understand the factors influencing these increases. The articles within this compendium shed vital light on this issue, confirming that various ""ordinary"" chemical hazards-of the sort encountered by countless children in their everyday lives-are having serious impacts on development. This volume investigates the impact of exposure to tobacco smoke, household chemicals, lead, agricultural toxins, and flame retardants.</P>



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484624703321

Titolo

Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XIV : International Workshop, MABS 2013, Saint Paul, MN, USA, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Shah Jamal Alam, H. Van Dyke Parunak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-54783-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 163 p. 50 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 8235

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Computer simulation

Computer science

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Modelling

Theory of Computation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Dynamically Tracking the Real World in an Agent-Based Model -- Large-Scale Multi-Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Microblogging-based Online Social Network -- Dynamic Identity Model for Agents -- Verification and Validation of Agent-Based Simulations using Approximate Model Checking -- Validating Simulated Networks: Some Lessons Learned -- The MAELIA multi-agent platform for integrated assessment of low-water management issues -- Globalisation, regionalisation and behavioural responses of land use agents -- Simulating the Expansion of Large-sized Farms in Rural Netherlands: A Land Exchange Model -- Multi-Agent-Based Simulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth -- Who Creates the Housing Bubble? An Agent-Based Study -- Towards Simulating the Impact of Culture on Organizations.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2013, held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, in May



2013. The workshop was help in conjunction with Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2013. The 11 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on MABS for real-time and online data, formal approaches in MABS: design and validation, MABS in environmental modeling, simulating social phenomena.