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The environments

2022
This chapter discusses the context in which policy engagement on the part of social workers takes place. It identifies four distinctive environments that have been identified in the literature on the policy engagement of social workers. The claim is that these environments offer a necessary context within which policy engagement emerges and that they ...
John Gal, Idit Weiss-Gal
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THE ENVIRONMENT

1968
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the environment for the growth of micro-organisms. If growth is to take place, biosynthetic raw materials and utilizable sources of energy must be present in the environment; this holds true for all living organisms and not just micro-organisms.
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Environment

Science, 1980
In contrast to the approaches to resource management and preservation of the past decade, a new perspective on environmental problems is emerging. Six major trends in scientific thinking are (i) increased efforts to examine environments in holistic frameworks, (ii) greater attention to life support systems, (iii) enlarged canvass of the range of ...
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Encapsulated Environment

Comprehensive Physiology, 2013
AbstractIn many occupational settings, clothing must be worn to protect individuals from hazards in their work environment. However, personal protective clothing (PPC) restricts heat exchange with the environment due to high thermal resistance and low water vapor permeability.
McLellan, T.M.   +2 more
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Environment

2013
Musculoskeletal disease covers a broad spectrum of conditions whose aetiology comprises variable genetic and environmental contributions. More recently it has become clear that, particularly early in life, the interaction of gene and environment is critical to the development of later disease.
Christopher R. Holroyd   +3 more
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The Abiotic Environment

1980
The development and reproduction of insects are greatly influenced by a variety of abiotic factors. These factors may exert their effects on insects either directly or indirectly (through their effects on other organisms) and in the short or long term (light, for example, may exert an immediate effect on the orientation of an insect as it searches for ...
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The Environment

Science of The Total Environment, 1980
This book started with a review of how organisms change genetically, because genetic variability provides the raw material for evolution.
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Statistics for the Environment

Technometrics, 1993
Partial table of contents: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND SAMPLING The Active Mixing Volume: A New Concept in Modeling Environmental Systems (P. Young & M. Lees) Comparing Sampling Designs for Monitoring Ecological Status and Trends: Impact of Temporal Patterns (N.
V. Barnett, David Kemp, K. F. Turkman
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Luminous Environment and the Perceived Environment

Light & Engineering, 2019
In lighting design, the main concept is to achieve a healthy environment, which addresses energy efficiency, cost, maintenance, and quality. User-friendly lighting systems shall be adopted to architecture and interior architecture. User control over the lighting system is important, by dimming or increasing light output, by changing the colour of the ...
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Development and the Environment

1994
The environment is vital to supporting life and providing inputs for production. Over the last three decades, there has been increasing concern about the effects of economic activity on the environment. In particular, it has been argued that economic growth has caused serious environmental damage and that the current state of the environment will ...
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