Economía

This unique reference reveals what works best in preventing workplace disability. Preventing and Managing Disabling Injury at Work examines the changing nature of the workplace and work force and includes recent information on effective early and staged multi-modal interventions in the workplace. The text also explores psychological risk perception and the essential linking of the workplace, clinician, insurer, and worker in the recovery process and in the prevention of subsequent disability events. Well-illustrated with case studies and practical examples, much of the book focuses on the common musculoskeletal disabilities and "regional disorders" along with other, broader applications.
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Health & Safety
Personnel and Human Resource Management
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Professional

Los estudios culturales resultan de la fuerte interrelación disciplinaria que se produjo a partir de la década de 1960 con el objeto de explicar los complejos fenómenos socioculturales producidos después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y que fue poniendo en relación las revisiones y nuevas corrientes de la sociología, la historiografía, la etnografía; la semiología, la semiótica y la lingüística; las teorías de la comunicación y la pragmática comunicacional; la crítica literaria, la sociología de la cultura, la historia cultural; los estudios de los medios masivos y de la cotidianidad; las corrientes críticas, los estudios neogramscianos y de las «nuevas izquierdas», etcétera.
Este intenso tráfico fue decantando términos y conceptos, estrategias analíticas destinadas a elaborar y profundizar el análisis sociocultural, que encuentran en este repertorio de «conceptos clave» una excelente muestra, así como de las formas en que se va definiendo y diferenciando epistemológicamente un nuevo campo del saber: el de los estudios sobre comunicación y cultura, o estudios socioculturales.

The full impacts of marginal pollution, particularly that caused by uncontrolled overflows, must be recognized now and planning needs to be initiated to improve sewage sytem efficiencies in order to bring wastewater flows under control. Time is of the essence for municipal programs because corrective action is a time consuming process. Current research and development is elucidating the most efficient and least costly methods needed to restore and maintain water resources. Based on seminars presented by international experts for the U.S. EPA, Wet-Weather Flow in the Urban Watershed: Technology and Management covers a broad spectrum of urban wet-weather flow management and pollution abatement topics.
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Storm Water
Surface Water
Water Quality & Pollution
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Professional

Aquatic Effects of Acidic Deposition summarizes and synthesizes the advances of the last ten years, particularly those directly relevant to policy making. It offers complete coverage of recent findings that have substantiated, deepened, modified, and sometimes revolutionized scientific understanding. It addresses the quantification of effects, predictive modeling capabilities, nitrogen effects research, natural sources of acidity, the influence of land use and landscape change, and the role of short-term episodic events. It thoroughly illustrates the progression and refinement of the field and helps readers make educated decisions based on the most recent and reliable data.
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Surface Water
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Water Engineering
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