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Record Nr.

UNISA996205070203316

Titolo

Chemical safety [[electronic resource] ] : international reference manual / / edited by Mervyn Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim ; ; New York, : VCH, c1994

ISBN

1-281-75884-1

9786611758844

3-527-61603-9

3-527-61602-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (638 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RichardsonMervyn

Disciplina

363.19

363.738

Soggetti

Pollution - Environmental aspects

Pollution - Risk assessment

Chemicals - Safety measures

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chemical Safety; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Section 1: Introductory Chapters; 1. Global Chemical Pollution - The UNEP View; 2. Principles of Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Chemicals; Section 2: Chemical Safety Information; 3. Information Retrieval, Validation and Interpretation; 4. UNIDO/lNTIB: An Energy and Environment Information System for Developing Countries; 5. International and National Governmental Information Activities Concerning the Environmental Effects of Chemicals; 6. Accessing Health and Safety Information; Section 3: Chemical Hazard Assessment

7. Environmental Hazard Assessment of Chemicals8. Adverse Health Effects of Environmental Chemicals: Indian Scenario; 9. Parental Occupation and Childhood Cancer; 10. Comparative Genetic Toxicity of Some Pesticides; 11. Intake of Organochlorine Compounds and Levels in Population Groups; 12. Heavy Metal Dietary Intake: A European Comparison; 13. COMPACT and ENACT Procedures in Predicting the Formation of Reactive Intermediates by Cytochrome P450 Metabolism; Section 4: Monitoring; 14. Environmental Monitoring: Use of



Luminescent Bacteria; 15. Cytogenetic Monitoring in Hungary

Section 5: Risk Assessment and Management16. Identification of Carcinogenic Risks - Qualitative Aspects; 17. New Approaches for the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals; 18. Risk Assessment of Chemicals, Contrast and Comparison - International Perspectives; 19. Assessment of Pesticide Action on Human Health and the Environment in the Ukraine; 20. Some Organochlorine Pollutants in the Water Environment and their Influence on Drinking Water Quality; 21. Regional Contamination of Soil and Biota with Heavy Metals Following an Explosion of an Ammunition Stockpile near Oštarije, Croatia

22. Assessment and Management of Environmental Exposure to Colorants23. Fate of Pesticides in the Environment and the Quality of Drinking Water in Relation to Human Health; 24. Chlororganic Pesticides and Atrazine in the Environment of Lithuania: Retrospective Analysis and Management Evaluation; 25. Management of Halide Mined Water Discharges; Section 6: Safety; 26. Safety in the Use of Chemicals at the Workplace; 27. Poisoning and Safety; 28. Some Information Regarding Chemical Safety Both in Occupational and Environmental Medicine in China; 29. Environmental Chemical Safety

30. Approaches to Identifying and Adverse Health Effects of Chemicals in UseSection 7: Legal Aspects; 31. Liability for Dangerous Industrial Activities and Damage to the Environment: Where Do We Stand After the Council of Europe Convention and the Commission Green Paper?; 32. Safety and Environmental Stewardship in the Single Market; 33. Chemical Regulation in Europe and the United States: International Implications; 34. Worldwide Regulatory Controls to Ensure Safety of Chemicals; 35. Epilogue; Annex 1 Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE)

Annex 2 OECD Guidelines for Testing of Chemicals

Sommario/riassunto

How safe is safe enough? We live in a world that is totally dependent on chemicals, be they agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, colorants - it is vitally important that we adopt a sustainable strategy for an environment containing some 11 million chemicals. This book provides a pragmatic guide to the basic tools of chemical safety assessment, from information retrieval, through hazard and risk assessment to safety evaluation and legal aspects. It is truly global in coverage with contributors drawn from East and West, North and South. It covers natural and artificial hazards to the environm



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821401503321

Autore

Peters Kurtis

Titolo

Hebrew lexical semantics and daily life in ancient Israel : what's cooking in biblical Hebrew? / / by Kurtis Peters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

90-04-32598-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Biblical interpretation series, , 0928-0731 ; ; volume 146

Disciplina

492.4/0143

Soggetti

Hebrew language - Semantics

Jews - Antiquities

Jewish cooking

Jews - Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Literature Review -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Lived Backgrounds -- 4 Lexemes-Concepts -- 5 A Transition -- 6 Exegetical Contributions -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel, Kurtis Peters hitches the world of Biblical Studies to that of modern linguistic research. Often the insights of linguistics do not appear in the study of biblical Hebrew, and if they do, the theory remains esoteric. Peters finds a way to maintain linguistic integrity and yet simplify cognitive linguistic methods to provide non-specialists an access point. By employing a cognitive approach one can coordinate the world of the biblical text with the world of its surroundings. The language of cooking affords such a possibility - Peters evaluates not only the words or lexemes related to cooking in the Hebrew Bible, but also the world of cooking as excavated by archaeology"--