A decade ago, declaring that women "may not be forced to choose between having a child and having a job," the Supreme Court invalidated the "fetal protection" policies that employers were using to bar pregnant or potentially pregnant women from workplaces with toxins or other known hazards to fetal development.
In March 2007, the CERHR will convene an expert panel to determine whether exposure to bisphenol A, found in many plastics and in the linings of steel food cans, is a hazard to human development or reproduction.
The emplacement of rockslide dams and the behaviour of their impounded lakes are critical hazards to communities and the development of infrastructure, including hydroelectric facilities, in this region of Central Asia.
Due to environmental concerns, health hazards to human beings and the development of resistance in insect pests to the various insecticides, constant efforts were made to discover newer insecticides both from natural sources and by chemical synthesis.
It comprises a voluntary set of targets and priorities to foster increased resilience to present and future hazards and to prevent setbacks to development as the result of small and large disasters.
This paper aimed to clarify whether maternal inhalation of engineered nanoparticles (NP) may constitute a hazard to pregnancy and fetal development, primarily based on experimental animal studies of NP and air pollution particles.
The structure was burned by vandals in the early 1970s, and in 1977 the upper storey was removed as a hazard to aviation, following the development of a new longer runway at nearby Edinburgh Airport.
Predictors of time to development of de novo post-transplant DM were evaluated using a multivariate Cox proportional hazard model; the time to development of DM was calculated from the transplant to the first recorded DM onset, and censoring time was the last recorded absence of DM.
In this multidisciplinary study, we used an Internet-based tool to investigate perception of ecological risks to water environments due to most relevant hazards (urban development, drought, urban water consumption, interbasin water transfer from rural to urban areas, and water-intensive landscaping) in urban and rural Nevada.
River overflood constitutes a potential hazard to offshore oil and gas development, as it relates to facilities access, oil spill spreading, and the associated phenomenon of strudel drainage and potential seabed scouring.
