Soil Moisture Workshop

The Soil Moisture Workshop was held at the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland on January 17-19, 1978. The objectives of the Workshop were to evaluate the state of the art of remote sensing of soil moisture; examine the needs of potential users; and make recommendations concerning the future of soil moisture research and development. To accomplish these objectives, small working groups were organized in advance of the Workshop to prepare position papers. These papers served as the basis for this report

The Nature and extent of lead poisoning in children in the United States: a report to Congress

This national study on lead poisoning in children is organized in three parts. Part 1 provides an executive summary. Part2 presents background information, an overview, findings, and conclusions. Part 3, which constitut.as the bulk of the report, discusses terms, issues, and findings concerning lead metabolism, its relationship to lead exposure and adverse effects of lead, and adverse health effects of lead in relationship to public health risk and societal well-being. Also discussed are the number of children exposed to lead in the United States; numbers of children exposed to lead according to lead source; numbers of women of child bearing age and pregnant women exposed to lead; low-level lead sources and children's aggregate exposure to lead; methods and alternatives for reducing environmental exposure to lead for young children and related risk groups; environmental releases of lead as evaluated under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1966; and exposure to lead and toxicity in children and other related groups. Information gaps, research needs, and recommendations are discussed. Appendices provide numerous tables of data, a draft report on lead-contaminated soil cleanup, the final and proposed national priorities list of waste sites with lead as a contaminant, and methodological details of blood-lead prevalence projections from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II data. References number 255."July 1988."Includes bibliographical references

Recruitment patterns and processes and the connectivity of rocky shores in southern Africa

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-171).This thesis addresses the recruitment patterns of barnacles and mussels at a range of spatial and temporal scales and attempts to relate them to larval and adult abundance, as well as to local productivity and oceanographic conditions that would influence larval transport and the connectivity of adult populations

High altitude revegetation workshop no. 9

Includes bibliographies.The 9th high altitude revegetation workshop was held on March 1-2, 1990 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado

Social work with airports passengers

Social work at the airport is in to offer to passengers social services. The main methodological position is that people are under stress, which characterized by a particular set of characteristics in appearance and behavior. In such circumstances passenger attracts in his actions some attention. Only person whom he trusts can help him with the documents or psychologically