UID:
almahu_9949199184802882
Format:
X, 550 p. 12 illus.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 1981.
ISBN:
9781468440522
Series Statement:
Environmental Science Research ; 21
Note:
The risks of measuring risk -- Session I: Statistical Inference of Risks -- The proper interpretation of significance tests in risk assessment -- Remarks on sequential designs in risk assessment -- Epidemiologic studies of toxic response - significance requirements -- Biological models in epidemiology: radiation carcinogenesis -- Session II: Risks of Prenatal Exposures -- Dose-response relationships for adult and prenatal exposures to methylmercury -- Risk factors for deficits in early cognitive development -- Utilization of critical periods during development to study the effects of low levels of environmental agents -- Epidemiologic studies of environmental exposures in human reproduction -- Session III: Risks of Contaminated Air and Drinking Water -- Health risks of lead as judged from autopsy material -- Use of tests of pulmonary function to measure effect of air pollutants -- Experimental evaluation of air pollutants in humans as a basis for estimating risk -- Problems and possibilities of determining the carcinogenic potency of inhalable fibrous dusts and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons -- Session IV: Comparative Risks of Energy Sources -- Some probabilistic aspects of safety assessment -- What is the total risk of energy systems? -- Have the nuclear power risk assessors failed? -- Session V: Genetic and Cancer Hazards -- Cytogenetic bases for risk inference -- Problems and solutions in the estimation of genetic risks from radiation and chemicals -- Evaluation of genetic risks -- Session VI: Extrapolation to Low Doses -- Extrapolation from long term low dose animal studies -I. Review -- Extrapolation from long term low dose animal studies -II. The ED01 study -- The shapes of the radiation dose - mutation response curves in Drosophila: mechanisms and implications -- The cancer risk from low level radiation -- A simple threshold model for the classical bioassay problem -- A biological basis for the linear non-threshold dose - response relationship for low-level carcinogen response -- Participants.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781468440546
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780306408182
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781468440539
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4684-4052-2
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4052-2
