scholarly journals Environmental Air Sampling and Monitoring during Cleanup of a Manhattan Project Era Radioactive Waste Site

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Whicker ◽  
William F. Jr. Eisele
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Air Sampling ◽  
Manhattan Project ◽  
Waste Site ◽  
Environmental Air

scholarly journals Environmental Air Sampling to Detect Exotic Newcastle Disease Virus in Two California Commercial Poultry Flocks

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon K. Hietala ◽  
Pamela J. Hullinger ◽  
Beate M. Crossley ◽  
Hailu Kinde ◽  
Alex A. Ardans
Keyword(s):  
Newcastle Disease Virus ◽  
Disease Virus ◽  
Newcastle Disease ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Air Sampling ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Poultry House ◽  
Air Sampler ◽  
Commercial Poultry ◽  
Environmental Air

The 2002–2003 Exotic Newcastle Disease (END) outbreak in Southern California poultry provided an opportunity to evaluate environmental air sampling as an efficient and cost-effective means of sampling flocks for detection of a circulating virus. Exotic Newcastle Disease virus was detected by real-time reverse transcriptase PCR from air samples collected using a wetted-wall cyclone-style air sampler placed within 2 m of birds in 2 commercial flocks suspected of being naturally exposed to END virus during the outbreak. Exotic Newcastle Disease virus was detected after 2 hours of air sampling the poultry-house environments of the 2 naturally infected flocks.

Effective Additional Gamma Dose for General Population and Workers from a Mexican Radioactive Waste Site

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 2155-2162 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.I. Gaso . ◽  
N. Segovia . ◽  
P.R. Gonzalez . ◽  
J. Azorin .
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Gamma Dose ◽  
Waste Site

Critical Mechanisms for Critical Masses: Exploring Variation in Opposition to Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site Proposals

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Paired Comparison ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Waste Site ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Low Level Radioactive Waste

Between 1986 and 1993, local activists in the U.S. organized more than 900 collective acts of public opposition to low-level radioactive waste site proposals across twenty-one counties. Yet, the number of such acts varied significantly across the counties. Both waste-siting professionals and social movement scholars have sought to identify factors of mobilization to explain such variation. An analysis of these cases reveals that a focus limited to pre-existing factors of mobilization—whether the demographic and economic factors favored by siting professionals, or the mobilization and political opportunity structures of the "classic social movement agenda"—badly misjudges mobilization. A paired comparison of two counties that differed dramatically in the number of acts of collective opposition mustered over the course of the siting process demonstrates the importance of social mechanisms that shape just how a community interacts with its political resources. The key differences between the two counties lie in the setting, sequence, and in the combination of the following social mechanisms: social appropriation, identify shift, and the attribution of threat and opportunity. To understand the assertion of local political power in an implementation process such as siting efforts, we need to understand not only the political resources available in a community context, but also the way in which human relationships shape the perception and application of that context.

scholarly journals Environmental Air Sampling to Detect Biological Warfare Agents

1999 ◽  
Vol 164 (8) ◽  
pp. 541-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Campbell ◽  
Stephen Francesconi ◽  
Jennifer Boyd ◽  
Lisa Worth ◽  
Timothy Moshier
Keyword(s):  
Air Sampling ◽  
Biological Warfare ◽  
Biological Warfare Agents ◽  
Warfare Agents ◽  
Environmental Air
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