Science : Environmental Science

This e-book addresses the issue of emotion in healthcare organization. It reflects a more general and growing interest in the role of emotion across a range of academic disciplines. The articles selected for inclusion in this e-book therefore trace both the interpersonal nature of emotion, as well as how it can also span the individual and the organizational setting. In addition there are articles which look at the bridges into both the shadowy areas of organizational life like gossip, as well as the interface between personal and professional lives. The papers indicate a shared international desire to understand meaning in emotion that is now spreading across organizational process and into all professional roles within healthcare. more...

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In celebration of Professor John O’Brien’s considerable impact on the discipline of Social Economics, this festival of writing celebrates his unique style by producing a number of learned and substantial articles covering a very wide area within the subject area. more...

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AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. more...

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The book begins with an overview of the research topics which were addressed in the three different phases of the Dutch Priority Program on Acidification (DPPA), executed between 1985 and 1994. This chapter is followed by a chapter which deals with the emissions of acidifying substances, the concentrations and the deposition to forest and nature conservation areas. Prognoses are given for the acid deposition in 2000 and 2010; the deposition in the countries surrounding the Netherlands is also mentioned. The differences in the results of the DPPA-II are analysed. The third chapter deals with the effects of exposure and load on forests. The chapter moves from small-scale to large-scale: first the effects in laboratory-scale studies are described, then the effects in the field, both at stand level and on a regional scale. In addition, the critical thresholds (critical level of concentration and critical load of deposition) are discussed. The fourth chapter covers terrestrial ecosystems (or parts thereof) as well as weakly buffered surface waters, springs and other streams. Critical levels and loads are also discussed. The most important results are given in chapter 5. In the appendices of the book, so-called umbrella theme reports on deposition, stand modelling and effects on forests are presented which describe in more detail the scientific work performed in the third phase of the DPPA. This book will be of interest to anyone involved in research related to acidification and eutrophication; i.e., not only those who perform the research in the causal chain from emissions to effects, but also policy-makers and students. more...

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From a December 1990 meeting in Bilthoven, Netherlands, called by the World Health Agency, 22 papers discuss the application of geographical information systems (GIS) to the field of public and environmental health in Europe. Contributors review the principles of GIS, the opportunities for using the more...

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