Humans in the Cyber Loop: Perspectives on Social Cybersecurity examines the evolving intersection of cybersecurity and human factors through an analysis of how digital interactions and advancements both shape and are shaped by societal, econom...Loe edasi...
The British Prime Minister has avowed to ’kill off the health and safety culture’ which he described as ’a monster’. Nonetheless, industries face ever increasing public expectation and legislative pressure to improve safety when, actually, rates of s...Loe edasi...
This book is a comprehensive survey on safety for older adults. It contains contributions by experts from over a dozen disciplines, including physicians, audiologists, optometrists, mental health professionals, lawyers, occupational therapists, an...Loe edasi...
This book provides comprehensive coverage on aging and safety aspects including fire safety, food safety, and occupational safety in a single volume. It will an ideal text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human fac...Loe edasi...
This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management drawing on data, case studies and lessons learned from different European countries. The aim of this book is to tackle innovation in crisis management through lessons learned and ex...Loe edasi...
This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management drawing on data, case studies and lessons learned from different European countries. ...Loe edasi...
Public safety as well as the safety of products and services is of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organizations and the society. Safety successes are achieved every second, but we take them for granted and we do not appreciate the...Loe edasi...
Enclosure Fire Dynamics, Second Edition explores the science of enclosure fires, and how they cause changes in the environment. The authors discuss mechanisms for controlling enclosure fires, and how to develop analytical relationships usef...Loe edasi...
Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place. Providing clear, basic technic...Loe edasi...
Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians’ safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place. ...Loe edasi...
By the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20 percent of the population in North America, and 28 percent of those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles, and the need for planning and policy development becomes...Loe edasi...
French social scientists examine radicalism through the prism of the temptation it arouses in young French people today, investigating the extent to which school-goers accept and justify radicalism and the role it plays in their value systems. Th...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citizen’s perspective.Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstra...Loe edasi...
Public safety, as well as the safety of products and services, is of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organisations and society. Safety successes are achieved every second, but we take them for granted and we do not appreciate the...Loe edasi...
ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES GO TO HEROES, A CHARITY PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING HEALTHCARE WORKERS.The first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the vi...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform. Departing from the priorities applied in traditional approaches, it instead assesses – both theoretically and practically – the successful lessons learned in other safety-critical in...Loe edasi...
From Chernobyl to Fukushima, have we come full circle, where formalisation has replaced ambiguity and a decadent style of management, to the point where it is becoming counter-productive? Safety culture is a contested concept and a complex phenome...Loe edasi...
CHOICE Recommended Title, March 2019This book brings together diverse new perspectives on current and emerging themes in space risk, covering both the threats to Earth-based activities arising from space ev...Loe edasi...
Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported, 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly...Loe edasi...
This title was first published in 2003. Research on driver behaviour over the past two decades has demonstrated that driver characteristics, goals and motivations are important determinants of driving behaviour. We are now in a position to apply t...Loe edasi...
Measuring Road Safety Using Surrogate Events provides researchers and practitioners with the tools they need to quickly and effectively measure traffic safety. As traditional crash-based safety analyses are being undermined by today’s growi...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform. Departing from the priorities applied in traditional approaches, it instead assesses – both theoretically and practically – the successful lessons learned in other safety-critical in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231171472)
Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use. The tactics of each side have far-reaching consequences for...Loe edasi...
While the health effects of many aspects of life, from diet to marital status, have been extensively explored, little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers, the role of unions in worker protecti...Loe edasi...
This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety. It discusses the concept of safety from engineering, philosophy, and psychology angles, and considers various definitions of safety and its relationship to risk. Examinin...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays explores the critical and fluid nature of security challenges that have plagued Nigeria since colonial times. Insecurity in diverse forms remains the bane of growth and progressive development in the country, and has the ca...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in post-1960 British public life. Since 2010 health and safety has appeared to be in crisis, being attacked by press, politicians and public alike, but are these claims of crisis accura...Loe edasi...
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety an...Loe edasi...
As material objects, guns are one of the simplest mechanical tools. As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, however, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and what policies should b...Loe edasi...
Application of a sociotechnical systems approach to the road safety domain is lagging behind other safety domains. Benefits in reviewing driver error have begun to be recognized, but not yet transcended into countermeasures. This book covers the r...Loe edasi...
Shannon M. Barton, Nancy L. Hogan, Eric G. Lambert
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035332618)
This compelling Research Handbook presents an overview of the literature on the attitudes and behaviors of criminal justice employees in institutions around the world. Expert contributors examine how work environment variables affect employees in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118686287)
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In essence this book deals with an area that contributes significantly to the pollution and degradation of Chesapeake Bay, but has been completely overlooked in many of the efforts to restore the Bay, specifically, the federal military pollution sour...Loe edasi...
Humans in the Cyber Loop: Perspectives on Social Cybersecurity examines the evolving intersection of cybersecurity and human factors through an analysis of how digital interactions and advancements both shape and are shaped by societal, econom...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529220360)
From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar. This important book explores the dimensi...Loe edasi...
From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar. This important book explores the dimensi...Loe edasi...
The British Prime Minister has avowed to ’kill off the health and safety culture’ which he described as ’a monster’. Nonetheless, industries face ever increasing public expectation and legislative pressure to improve safety when, actually, rates of s...Loe edasi...
This book examines the controversies surrounding gun control, which are less about whether it works and more about whether the nation should prioritize traditional values of rugged independence or newer values of communitarian interdependence...Loe edasi...
AI, robots, algorithms, and data/metrics are pervasive throughout the media industry, increasingly dictating and rapidly changing journalistic and newsroom practices, cultures, and norms - from editorial agenda setting to news production processes...Loe edasi...
This book discusses health and educational success from a variety of perspectives. It discusses the management of various health conditions, such as diabetic mellitus, epilepsy, mental health, hepatitis, and HIV/AIDS. It covers a broad range of topi...Loe edasi...
A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Sep-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781433195310)
Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other isms. Ageing of the Oppressed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Sep-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781433195303)
Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other isms. Despite its visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, ageis...Loe edasi...
Sexual education is a worldwide concern that intersects with various attitudes, values, and cultural norms. Various societies have chosen various means to provide sexual education both at school and to the wider society. There is still much more dev...Loe edasi...
This book is a comprehensive survey on safety for older adults. It contains contributions by experts from over a dozen disciplines, including physicians, audiologists, optometrists, mental health professionals, lawyers, occupational therapists, an...Loe edasi...
This book provides comprehensive coverage on aging and safety aspects including fire safety, food safety, and occupational safety in a single volume. It will an ideal text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human fac...Loe edasi...
This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management drawing on data, case studies and lessons learned from different European countries. The aim of this book is to tackle innovation in crisis management through lessons learned and ex...Loe edasi...
This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management drawing on data, case studies and lessons learned from different European countries. ...Loe edasi...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sari: Food Safety and Quality Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), ISBN-13: 9789251365908)
Identifies food safety hazards linked to the consumption of seaweed and aquatic plants, such as heavy metals and marine biotoxins. The report also reviews factors that affect the presence of hazards in seaweed, including the type of seaweed, its phy...Loe edasi...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sari: Food Safety and Quality Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), ISBN-13: 9789251372012)
Provides scientific advice to establish threshold levels in foods for the priority allergens. After extensive discussion, the expert committee reached a consensus on reference doses for priority allergenic foods, meeting the criterion for health-bas...Loe edasi...
