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Lead content in wild game shot with lead or non-lead ammunition - Does "state of the art consumer health protection" require non-lead ammunition? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The toxicity of lead has been known for a long time, and no safe uptake level can be derived for humans. Consumers' intake via food should therefore be kept as low as possible.
Antje Gerofke +11 more
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Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 2004 The mechanism of primary cosmic particle transformation into secondary radiation near the ground surface is analysed. It is known that the main part of secondary cosmic radiation consists of muons.
Dmitrijus Styra +2 more
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Leading by Example to Protect the Environment: Do the Costs of Leading Matter? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Environmentalists often urge their home countries to take a leading role in reducing global environmental problems like climate change. A pertinent question is, Will examples set by leading nations influence others to follow suit, and if so, do the costs of leading matter?
van der Heijden, E.C.M., Moxnes, E.
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Assessing the reliability of adaptive power system protection schemes [PDF]
, 2012 Adaptive power system protection can be used to improve the performance of existing protection schemes under certain network conditions. However, their deployment in the field is impeded by their perceived inferior reliability compared to existing ...
Abdulhadi, Ibrahim Faiek +3 more
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South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016 Cash transfer based social protection can potentially contribute positively upon targeted beneficiaries on a variety of developmental aspects. This study explored the pilot and scaled-up phases of the Harmonised Social Cash Transfer program to determine ...
Hilton Nyamukapa
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Public Health Research & Practice, 2022 Objectives: To describe blood lead levels (BLLs) and their distribution among children in Broken Hill, New South Wales (NSW), at each of the scheduled testing points aligned with childhood immunisation and to determine how BLLs change over time for ...
David M Lyle +2 more
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Parental participation in statutory child protection intervention in Scotland [PDF]
, 2016 In recent years there has been an increasing interest in understanding parental participation in the processes that characterise statutory child protection intervention.
Jackson, Sharon +2 more
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Data protection: the future of privacy [PDF]
, 2011 The Art. 29 Working Party (hereinafter “Art. 29 WP”) is an influential body comprised of representatives from the Member State Data Protection Authorities2 established under the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, has recently issued an opinion with the ...
Wong, R
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Gadolinium- and lead-containing functional terpolymers for low energy X-ray protection
Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021 By polymerization of gadolinium methacrylate (Gd (MAA)3), lead methacrylate (Pb(MAA)2) and methyl methacrylate (MMA), Gd and Pb were chemically bonded into polymers.
Yu-Juan Zhang +5 more
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Physics of electro-thermal effects in ESD protection devices [PDF]
, 1991 Damage in ESD protection devices can be caused by high local temperatures resulting from heat generation by an ESD pulse. In order to obtain physical insight into the process that leads to permanent damage, device simulations of coupled thermal and ...
Beltman, R.A.M. +3 more
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