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• Bamboo
  ...raphic locations or climatic conditions, then the bamboo dies. The lack of environmental impact on the time of flowering indicates the presence of some sort of “a ...d from the moment of planting through harvesting, transportation, storage, design, construction and maintenance. Bamboo harvested at the correct time of year
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• Drywall
  ...um.org/pdf/GA-600-09_Print_7_Megs.pdf Gypsum Association - Fire Resistance Design Manual (GA-600-2009)]</ref>) are used where a fire-resistance rating is des ...ntal or vertical. Evidence of this can be found both in publicly available design catalogues, including, but not limited to DIN4102 Part 4 and the Canadian B
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• Chipseal
  ...on or over application of stone. If not removed, this can cause safety and environmental problems such as cracked windshields, loss-of-control crashes (especially f ...in acoustical intensities produced depending upon the specific tire tread design and its interaction with the roadway surface type.
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• Permeable paving
  ...materials appear nearly indistinguishable from nonporous materials, their environmental effects are qualitatively different. Whether [[pervious concrete]], porous ..., old town centers, redevelopment and reconstruction are opportunities for environmental rehabilitation. Permeable paving is an important component in [[low impact
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• Rammed earth
  ...untain areas and the tropics. The availability of useful soil and building design for the local climatic conditions are the factors which favour its use. ...tainable]] resource, and harvesting it for use in construction has minimal environmental impact.<ref name="one">[http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/EarthGuideli
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• Cement-bonded wood fiber
  It is known for its use in [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]]-certified projects and other types of [[green building]]. The materi
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• Natural building
  ...h design, fundamentally lessen operational costs and positively impact the environmental. Building compactly and minimizing the [[ecological footprint]] is common, ...many practitioners of this building approach, due to their major negative environmental or health impacts. These include unsustainably harvested wood, toxic wood-
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• Concrete
  ...ingredients has been gaining popularity because of increasingly stringent environmental legislation. The most conspicuous of these is [[fly ash]], a by-product of The ''[[types of concrete#Mix design|mix design]]'' depends on the type of structure being built, how the concrete will be
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• Cement
  ...s to form a strong building material that is durable in the face of normal environmental effects. ...cite book | author = Kosmatka, S.H. | coauthors = Panarese, W.C. | title = Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures | publisher = Portland Cement Association
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• Iron
  .../ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book | title = Chemistry, Precision and Design | publisher = A Beka Book, Inc. | first1 = Verne | last1 =Biddle | first2= Since coke is becoming more regulated due to environmental concerns, alternative methods of processing iron have been developed. One o
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• Brainport
  ...ortrayal of environmental characteristics," in Psychological Issues in the Design and Use of Virtualk and Adaptive Environments, L. Hettlinger and M. Haas, E
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• Lockout-Tagout
  ...adily see if a device is isolated. Also, the devices are usually of such a design and construction to prevent it being removed with any moderate force. (That * [http://ehs.ucsc.edu/Safety/ehs.asp?page=Lock-out_Tag-out UCSC Environmental Health & Safety]
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• Hearing conservation program
  '''Hearing conservation programs''' are design to prevent [[noise induced hearing loss]]. A written hearing conservation The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] (EPA) requires that all hearing protection devices be l
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• Confined space
  In addition to the hazards posed by the design of the space, work activities can also pose serious safety hazards (heat, n • Environmental hazards.
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• Dry cleaning
  ...n the same way modern tumble dryers exhausts. This not only contributed to environmental contamination, but also much potentially reusable perc was lost to the atmo ...ls and keep soil from redepositing on garments. Depending on the machine's design, either an anionic or a cationic detergent is used.
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• Indoor air quality
  ...ormal hot water levels to allow for 120°F at the tap, evaluating facility design layout, removing faucet aerators, and periodic testing in suspect areas. ...[http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/indoorenv/BuildingVentilation.html Indoor Environmental Quality: Building Ventilation]. National Institute for Occupational Safety
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• Hazard analysis
  ...ical functions. When software is involved in a system, the development and design assurance of that software is often governed by [[DO-178B]]. The severity o * Major occupational illness and/or major environmental damage, and/or major property damage
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• Laser safety
  '''Laser safety''' is safe design, use and implementation of lasers to minimise the risk of [[laser]] acciden ....vanderbilt.edu/safety_links/laser.htm Laser safety resources] (Vanderbilt Environmental Health & Safety)
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• Cancer
  ...ttest]], where the driving forces of [[evolution]] work against the body's design and enforcement of order. In fact, once cancer has begun to develop, this s ...or small and the strength of evidence is often weaker. Other lifestyle and environmental factors known to affect cancer risk (either beneficially or detrimentally)
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• Manganese
  ...nt.gov/mint_programs/golden_dollar_coin/index.cfm?action=sacDesign|title = Design of the Sacagawea dollar|publisher = United States Mint|accessdate = 2009-05 ...round|accessdate = 2008-04-30|publisher = Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting University of Rhode Island |date = 2006-04}}</ref> <!--Manganese
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• Institute of Occupational Medicine
  ...re of scientific excellence in the fields of [[occupational health]] and [[environmental health]], [[occupational hygiene]] and [[occupational safety]]. Its mission ...ween exposure to respirable quartz and risk of silicosis. Occupational and Environmental Medicine; 60(3):159-164.</ref>. This work demonstrated the need for very lo
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• Hazard symbol
  ...uments/CIS_WSH_part476_54539_7.pdf|title=Biohazard and radioactive symbol, design and proportions}} According to Charles Baldwin<ref name="waterloo"/>, an environmental-health engineer who contributed to its development: "We wanted something th
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...to the Anticipation, Recognition, Evaluation, Communication and Control of environmental stressors in, or arising from, the work place that may result in injury, il ..."[[Employment|Work]]", "[[Workplace]]" and "Place of Work" in general. ''Environmental Hygiene'' addresses similar issues to ''Occupational Hygiene'', but is like
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• Ergonomics
  ...designing jobs, equipment and workplaces to fit workers. Proper ergonomic design is necessary to prevent [[Repetitive strain injury|repetitive strain injuri ...m, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance.}}
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• Benzene
  ...com/books?id=N8RcH8juG_YC&pg=PA114|page=114|title=Ludwig's applied process design for chemical and petrochemical plants, Volume 1|author=A. Kayode Coker, Ern ...le=Control of Hazardous Air Pollutants From Mobile Sources |publisher=U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |pages=15853 |accessdate=2008-06-27 |date=2006-03-29}}</r
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• Occupational safety and health
  • Giving information on occupational hygiene, ergonomics and also environmental and safety risks in the work place (Hale A, Ytehus I, 2004, ‘Changing re • Safety, health and environmental sciences
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• Construction site safety
  ...f the main health hazards on site are [[asbestos]], [[solvents]], [[noise (environmental)|noise]], and manual handling activities. ...equipment must be designed by a competent person, qualified in structural design.
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• Environment, Health and Safety
  '''1. Environmental''' *2.1 General Facility Design and Operation
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• Beryllium
  ...=99|issue=2|pages=260–70|issn=0265-931X|pmid=17904707|journal=Journal of environmental radioactivity}}</ref> ...of its hardness, high melting point and exceptional [[heat dissipation]]. Environmental considerations have led to substitution by other materials.<ref name=Be/>
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• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
  related_legislation=[[Environmental Protection Act 1990]]<br>[[Railways Act 2005]]| ...ol of emissions was brought under a uniform scheme of legislation by the [[Environmental Protection Act 1990]]. In general, the other provisions about emissions in
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• Mining
  ==Environmental effects== {{Main|Environmental issues with mining}}
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• Lead
  ...05|pages = 38–39|issn = 0262-4079|title = How Long Will it Last?}}</ref> Environmental analyst, [[Lester Brown]], however, has suggested lead could run out within ...ters of lead poisoning: a medical anthropologist's view of intervention in environmental lead exposure.
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• Knovel
  ...products for applied scientists and engineers to lead the original product design for Knovel. David Shaffer, [[Chairman of the Board]] is also currently [[ex *Environment & Environmental Engineering
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• International Energy Conservation Code
  ...2zhu_ElTT6lmDsulDYtHcyQ }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Passive and Active Environmental Controls |last=Heerwagen |first=Dean |year=2004 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Prof
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• John Howard (public health administrator)
  He also worked as an assistant professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the [[University of California, Irvine]].<ref ...dealing with issues that have personal risks, and it is more difficult to design strategies for causation and intervention studies to eliminate those risks,
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• Emerson Electric Company
  * Emerson was No. 15 on the Electronic Design magazine's ranking of the top 100 employers of electronic designers that ha ==Environmental record==
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• Robert Bosch GmbH
  ...closely with an extensive network of certified dealers and integrators to design dependable security and life safety solutions for the market. Like others {{cite web|title=Global Responsibility - Environmental Report 2003/2004|work=Bosch|publisher= |date= |url=http://www.bosch.com/con
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• Air knife
  ...of the Montreal Protocol and the worldwide industry compliance to meet its environmental stewardship mandates, the former niche business of air knives became an ind There are many application, environmental, efficiency and duty cycle aspects to consider when choosing between compre
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• Partition coefficient
  ...ral have longer half lives and therefore display increased risk of adverse environmental impact. ===Environmental===
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• Activity coefficient
  ...argarita Hernandez-Esparza, Carmen Doria-Serrano, Mono Mohan Singh| title= Environmental Chemistry: Fundamentals| year= 2007| publisher= Springer| isbn= 97803872606 ..., "COSMO-RS: From Quantum Chemistry to Fluid Phase Thermodynamics and Drug Design", Elsevier, 2005.</ref>.
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• Acid dissociation constant
  }}</ref> the design of these solutions depends on a knowledge of the p''K''_a values ...e transition pH range, which is approximately p''K''_a ± 1. The design of a [[universal indicator]] requires a mixture of indicators whose adjacen
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• Haber process
  ...g from 6&ndash;18 MPa (60&ndash;180 bar), depending upon which proprietary design is used. ==Economic and environmental aspects==
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• Index of health articles
  - [[Environmental health]] [[Universal design]]
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• Xenon
  |pmid=15728132}}</ref> The first [[excimer laser]] design used a xenon [[Dimer (chemistry)|dimer]] molecule (Xe₂) as its [ |year=2006|title = Optical Pumping System Design for Large Production of Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe
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• Temple Beth Israel (Eugene, Oregon)
  ...ichman/> and occupied its current [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]]-compliant facilities in 2008.<ref name=Reichman/><ref name=Schirmer/ ...efficient heating, ventilation and lighting":<ref name=Reichman/> specific design issues with the building's energy efficiency included the fact that the lar
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• Reliability (semiconductor)
  ...ogy, many new devices are developed using new materials and processes, and design calendar time is limited due to [[non-recurring engineering]] constraints, ...tor products is impractical. Therefore incorporation of reliability at the design stage and reduction of variation in the production stage have become essent
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• DO-160
  | title = Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment ...Conditions and Test Procedures for Airborne Equipment''' is a standard for environmental test of avionics hardware published by [[RTCA, Incorporated]].
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• Honeywell
  ==Environmental record== ...063a09c/ffd75cd0c4a99d1b85256b1400529837!OpenDocument |title=United States Environmental Protection Agency |publisher=Yosemite.epa.gov |date=November 30, 2001 |acce
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• Surface-mount technology
  ...1980s. Much of the pioneering work in this technology was by [[IBM]]. The design approach first demonstrated by IBM in 1960 in the a small-scale computer wa ...h boiling points which use a method called [[vapor phase reflow]]. Due to environmental concerns, this method was falling out of favor until lead-free legislation
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• Thermal management of electronic devices and systems
  In cases of extreme low environmental temperatures, it may actually be necessary to heat the electronic component The most common design of a heat sink is a metal device with many fins. The high [[thermal conduct
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