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Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-83-195-1426: David Mayer Poultry Farm; Hobgood, North Carolina
No full textArea and breathing zone samples were analyzed for ammonia (7664417), carbon-dioxide (124389), airborne dust, endotoxins, and microorganisms at poultry confinement houses of David Mayer Poultry Farm (SIC-0251) and other poultry growers in Hobgood, North Carolina, in March, June, and October 1983. The survey was requested by growers in the area due to an increased incidence of eye and throat irritations, headache, shortness of breath, and chest tightness among the growers. Spirometry tests and a respiratory symptom questionnaire were administered to 25 growers. Ammonia concentrations were 6.0 to 13.1 parts per million (ppm) in June and 15 to 80ppm in March and April when windows and doors were closed. The OSHA standard for ammonia is 50ppm. Carbon-dioxide concentrations were below the Federal standards. Total dust concentrations in four area samples exceeded the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists recommended limit of 10 milligrams per cubic meter. Endotoxin concentrations were 1.6 to 14.0 nanograms per cubic meter. Airborne microorganism concentrations were 2500 to 360000 colony forming units per cubic meter. There were no current standards for endotoxins or microorganisms. No clear association between reported respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function, and exposure was found. The authors conclude that the primary exposure at the poultry farms is to dust and ammonia. Improved ventilation is recommended
Rabbit menace in New South Wales : an abridgement of the report / by David G. Stead ... commissioned on 30th April 1925 to inquire into matters connected with the rabbit menace in New South Wales.
No full textAt head of title: Department of Agriculture, New South Wales.; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2012.; Library's copy signed by the author
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Shadowing the Legendary Dizzy Gillespie
No full textShadowing the Legencary Dizzy Gillespie with author and jazz aficionado David G. Brown
DYNAMIC PRODUCTS IN WORLD EXPORTS
No full textThe values and market shares of three product categories have grown most rapidly in world exports during the period 1980–1998: electrical and electronic goods (including parts and components for such goods), goods which require high R&D expenditures, and labour-intensive products, particularly clothing. A strong geographical concentration in developing countries at both regional and country levels is discernable regarding the origin of these products. There appears to be a sustained movement in world exports towards the growing significance of a limited number of products and it would seem that there has been a rapid and sustained technological upgrading in the export composition of developing countries. However, since the involvement of developing countries is usually limited to the labour-intensive stages in the production process of technology-intensive goods in the context of international production sharing, simple measures of growth in gross export values are poor guides for an assessment of the nature of participation of developing countries in world trade.
THE EMERGING OF A MULTILATERAL FORUM FOR DEBT RESTRUCTURING: THE PARIS CLUB
No full textThis paper describes the evolution of intergovernmental relationships on debt rescheduling. It starts describing some experiences that aroused in the 18th Century and which negotiations were carried out, in many occasions, with the help of gunboat diplomacy. The settlement of liabilities that were created at the aftermath of the two 20th Century World Wars, which were – at least for some countries –- not exactly debt but war reparations, gave some insights in how to deal with these problems allowing the debtor country to find its own path to get out of the debt overhang. The settlement of these foreign liabilities may give some guidelines for dealing with debt restructuring in more general cases The creation of the Paris Club – which is a very civilized way to settle debt defaults compared to gunboat diplomacy – is analyzed and described here: first its emergency as an ad hoc transitory institution and later its evolution toward its definitive establishment in the international financial system landscape. It is also suggested that for a combination of events, which included the launch in Evian of the G-8’s so-called Evian Approach for the Paris Club, as well as the lack of support of some major industrialized countries to the implementation of a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM), the Paris Club has become the only feasible international intergovernmental debt restructuring mechanism in spite of numerous shortcomings embodied in it. On this basis, some improvements of the actual mechanism are proposed, without precluding the possibility of the implementation of a more equilibrated SDRM in the future.
Food for Thought: Basic Needs and Persistent Educational Inequality
No full textThis research demonstrates that human capital accumulation by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health and well-being has been attained. When families do not have enough resources to invest in the satisfaction of basic needs and health care, and finance is not available for this purpose, a poverty trap exists with low health, education and income. These poverty traps may persist if policies financing education are applied which do not also address deficiencies in nutrition and health impairing human potential, and in particular early child development. This link between health and education contributes to explain the important, long-term effects of nutrition and health on economic growth and implies that nutrition and health play a causal role in the persistence of inequality and in the effects of inequality on growth.Health, Human Capital, Growth, Credit constraints
Sindrome di Mayer- Rokitansky: Aspetti genetici, clinici, radiologici e prospettiveterapeutiche
No full textLa sindrome di Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) è una rara
anomalia congenita dell'apparato genitale femminile che consiste
nell'agenesia dell'utero e della vagina, ha una incidenza stimata di 1:4500, ed
in genere si presenta con carattere sporadico. Le ovaie e tube di fallopio
morfologicamente normali, cosi come lo sviluppo dei caratteri sessuali
secondari ed il cariotipo. Un’interazione di fattori genetici ed ambientali è
l’ipotesi eziopatogenetica più plausibile. La trasmissione sembra essere
autosomica dominante con penetranza incompleta ed espressività variabile.
Sono stati individuati diversi geni tra cui TCF2 e LHX1. La RMN è
particolarmente adatta per la sua multiplanarietà e l’attitudine allo studio dei
tessuti molli ed è più specifica ed accurata nella valutazione dell’aplasia
uterina rispetto all’ecografia. Il trattamento delle pazienti con sindrome MRKH
prevede la ricostruzione del canale vaginale che, in casi selezionati, si può
eseguire anche con metodiche non invasive “Franck's dilator method”,
tecnica Williams e Mc Indoe. Tra le prospettive terapeutiche anche il trapianto
di mucosa vaginale umana autologa “in vitro”, mediante vaginoplastica
The Arts Interview. Dr. David Pitt : The Truant Years, E. J. Pratt
No full textHost Fred Hollingshurst interviews Dr. David Pitt of Memorial University, who discusses the life and work of Newfoundland poet E. J. Pratt. Pitt is the author of E. J. Pratt: The Truant Years, 1881-1927
The Methodist church in Carlton
No full textDeposited with permission of the author © 1966 David G. CoxIn writing this essay, I have attempted to trace the building activity of the Methodist Church in Carlton
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