The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
Human security is a framework related to the stability and sustainability of political, environmental, economical, and socio-cultural areas of concern. Water resources around the world are under increased pressure from increased development, growing populations, pollution, and global climate change. Large-scale dam development while still popular for political and economic development...
Japanese, giant, and the hybrid Bohemian
knotweeds (Fallopia japonica, F. sachalinensis and
F. x bohemica) have invaded the western USA and
Canada, as well as other regions of the world. The
distribution of these taxa in western North America,
and their mode of invasion, is relatively unresolved.
Using amplified fragment...
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During the 19th century the United States Army was a military institution characterized by a hierarchical system of authoritative, social and economic inequality between members of its different military grades. Although necessary for insuring military discipline within the Army this system of inequality also influenced the non-military social lives of...