Introduction: Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) are a major recent innovation in English local Governance (Aulakh et al, 2002; Hastings, 2003). Their role is crucial to the success of a number of other government policies ...
Recent global health threats from bioterrorism and chemical attacks to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa have shown that there is a necessity for teaching toxicology, public health and emergency preparedness to future ...
Many peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been proposed
for the provision of scalable live video streaming services
over the Internet. While the literature contains surveys of
the architectures of these systems, there is a ...
Bidding for contracts depends mainly on estimated costs of a given project, which makes an accurate estimation of effort and time required very important with great impact on budget computation and project success. Inaccurate ...
The use of small portables and mobile devices has
made MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) very popular. A
MANET is a network composed by a group of mobile nodes
without any fixed device or a central coordination. They ...
Monitoring the levels of trace elements in hair can allow estimating the effects of the geographical location and also can provide a notion of the metal body burden. However, the use of human hair is controversial due to ...
The consumption of vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements (VMHS) has grown in popularity over the past several years due to an increase in health and physical appearance awareness within the young population. ...
The pharmaceutical industry is demanding professionals with knowledge in environmental toxicology due to increasing public concern about protecting the environment. However, the study of toxicology within the pharmacy ...
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a common technique in measuring the relative efficiency of a set of decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Unfortunately, the existing DEA models are ...
Currently, a third of first year physics students at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, have declared that they have a disability. The majority of these students are on the autistic spectrum. How many more of the ...
Human biomonitoring programmes are robust, efficient and practical tools to protect the public health against environmental pollutants. Human hair is a good matrix to measure exposure to mercury (Hg). A monitoring study ...
Human pathogenic free-living amoebas include Acanthamoeba spp., Naegleria fowleri and Balamuthia mandrillaris. These FLA are widely distributed protozoa in the environment and are becoming a public health threat as they ...