These ovens, six among the 100,000 which turn out the 200 billion bricks made each year in India, are worked by dalits members of castes once regarded as untouchable.India's brick kilns are noxious sources of pollution, particularly soot, and working them means a life that is always nasty, frequently brutish and often short.
AFTER meeting only mixed success in its years of campaigning to improve the quality of its air, Beijing is tackling one noxious source of emissions, in a measure that promises better air in offices, meeting rooms and maybe even restaurants.
The livestock waste is major source of noxious gases, harmful pathogens and odor; hence, it has public health and environmental concern.
They also show primitive emotions, the earliest forerunners to our own experiences of pain and pleasure, moving away from noxious stimuli and towards food sources.
But: If it sounds a lot like Vietnam when Vietnam started to really come apart, it is — President Diem's grotesquely corrupt brother was a CIA source and a noxious agent of influence….
True, art-worldlings did at least adopt one thing from the Occupy Wall Street movement: a new identifying label for the source of particularly noxious vibes emanating from art fairs, V.I.P. galas and museum boardrooms: namely the 1 percent.
He also hypothesized that certain mechanical (impingement) and chemical (bursitis) factors could be a source for the noxious stimuli inducing increased amounts of substance P in the afferent nerves.
When first responders arrived at the scene that night, they used a chlorine meter to lead them to the source of the noxious odor.
This study has shown that an individual's life history with noxious stimuli is a potential source of variability in adult pain experiences and one that can affect sensorimotor processing, pain sensitivity and other behavioral outcomes.
Not of course the rich subjectivity with which the word is imbued today, but what they call sensory consciousness, the ability to respond to and act on the external environment, as when their present-day successors – single-celled animals such as amoeba – detect and navigate towards food sources and withdraw from noxious ones.
TORC1 is not only regulated by the quality and the quantity of both carbon and nitrogen sources [ 34, 38- 40], but also by noxious stressors, such as caffeine [ 41, 42].
