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Journal articles on the topic "Living environment textbook"
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Temirgaliyev, N. "Scientific, scientific-methodological and organizational report “The Institute of theoretical mathematics and scientific computing (ITMSC) L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University in 2019 year (Part II)”." BULLETIN of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. MATHEMATICS. COMPUTER SCIENCE. MECHANICS Series 132, no. 3 (2020): 31–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.32523/2616-7182/2020-132-31-69.
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The article is the written on the constantly actual problem of \textit{understanding mathematic} which is even confessed by G.H. Hardy: "\textit{I learnt for the first time as I read it} ("Course of Mathematical Analysis" by Jordan - N.T.). Therefore, it is devoted to the question "\textit{To what extent and in what relation are the scientific environment and basic textbooks important for understanding mathematics?}". Although Hardy's case refutes, in any case does not make it unconditional, it is obvious that "\textit{A qualified environment makes up for the omissions of the textbook"}. This historical example in favor of the textbook shows that in mathematically incandescent Cambridge, an \textit{Englishman} with absolutely high mental abilities, Hardy \textit{understood mathematics} from the \textit{Frenchman} Jordan's textbook on mathematical analysis. On the other hand, during the heyday of the Moscow Mathematical School, all 5-year undergraduates and 3-year postgraduates were coming out from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University(MSU), with proper \textit{understanding Mathematics}. They were juniors with a powerful basic mathematical training without a single mandatory textbook, but with outstanding professors and three hundred seminars (a unique phenomenon of the USSR) where learners were introduced to Mathematics in their very early age, as the professor of Moscow State University Taras Pavlovich Lukashenko said to author of this article. In Kazakhstan the pioneer graduates from Moscow State University were the legendary Saduakas Bokaev and Askar Zakarevich Zakarin, post-war graduates were Kabdush Zhumagazievich Nauryzbaev, Marat Rakhimberdiev, Zhanbek Aubakirov, and now living Lyudmila Alekseeva, Nurlan Amanov, Nurlan Rakhmetov, Surgule Tanulkaev, Nurlan Zharkenov. The Kazakh position of Mathematics and Computer Science through IThMandSC is expressed in §§0-2 of this article. Further, the details of the implementation of Program A (Author's fundamentals of basic mathematical training as the Kazakh equivalent of general training in the PhD doctoral program of the USA from IThMandSC) are presented. The "Mathematical Analysis" book is made from the standpoint of self-sufficiency in providing the \textit{understanding of mathematics} without relying on a qualified environment. In the "§ 7 Introduction" the author acquaints the reader with everything developed in the \textit{understanding of mathematics} during the time of numerous conversations with many primarily outstanding mathematicians with their observations in the special mathematical environment of Moscow and personal conclusions in the process of their scientific research and reading mathematical literature of all levels. The theory of the Lebesgue measure is a separate topic of exceptional significance in the development of mathematics in 20th century and future, the mathematical understanding of which the author of these text received according to an individual program from Scientific Supervisor Pyotr Lavrentievich Ulyanov with the support of his fellow graduate student Dimitri Pechersky. According to the author, Probability theory is a specific discipline in which some points need more clarification.
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김형균. "Comparative Analysis of the Units on『A Suitable Living Environment』in Practical Arts Textbook According to 2007 Revised National Curriculum." Journal of Korean Practical Arts Education 17, no. 3 (August 2011): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17055/jpaer.2011.17.3.1.
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Melnik, Eleonora. "TIPS FOR TEACHING SCIENCE SUBJECTS UNDER PANDEMIC CONDITIONS." GAMTAMOKSLINIS UGDYMAS / NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION 17, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 58–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.48127/gu-nse/20.17.58.
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For the system of education in many countries of the world, the end of the school year 2020 was disordered by the appearance of a new virus - COVID-19. A big number of people being infected, made it a necessity to use distance learning tools in the majority of educational institutions. It is clear that for the younger age students according to their physiological and psychological development peculiarities, it is necessary to use all sense organs – seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching in the process of learning. In practice it means that for the given category of children, for successful cognition of the world, it is necessary not only to see learning subjects, but also according to their possibilities to touch them, to smell them and to taste them. Complex understanding about the surrounding environment of a contemporary student is a combination of a real and virtual components of his life and activity. And, the more place virtual space occupies in a child’s intellect, the more positive is seen the involvement of a real natural component in their cognition of the surrounding world. One has to combine and develop the work with the textbook, i.e., theoretical knowledge, with the practical abilities and skills of the younger age students in mastering natural science subjects. Therefore, thematic excursions, research works, activities in nature are very important for the younger age students. Knowing the surrounding world of one’s own concrete place of living, a small part of the world, and establishing relationship between human and nature, a child acquires common understanding about the whole world. Keywords: educational process, distance teaching, science education, surrounding environment.
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Loveland, W., A. Gallant, and C. Joiner. "The Living Textbook of Nuclear Chemistry." Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 263, no. 1 (January 2005): 151–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-005-0029-x.
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Sesmiyanti, Sesmiyanti, Rindilla Antika, and Suharni Suharni. "The Development of Reading Textbook Oriented to Character Education using Multimodality in College." AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan 13, no. 1 (May 6, 2021): 283–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.35445/alishlah.v13i1.436.
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This research aims to develop a textbook for the Basic Reading subject by using multimodality and oriented to character education. This research is research and development, which refers to the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Develop, Implementation, and Evaluation). Subjects of this research are students and lecturers who have taken part in the Basic Reading subject at English Education Department STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat. Data collection techniques used are document analysis, questionnaire, interview, and expert judgments. The results of need analysis show that the textbook used in Basic Reading subject has not oriented to character education and used multimodality yet. The development of Basic Reading has been validated by education experts and practitioners (lecturers). Based on the validation of experts and practitioners, this textbook is included in the very well category and confirmed as the feasibility to use. The trial results in implementing the book show that the N-Gain calculation shows 0.43, which is categorized as moderate, which means the book improves students’ cognitive learning outcomes in the reading subject and also instills core ethical values in daily living. Thus, this textbook is feasible to be used in the learning process at Basic Reading Subject.
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Liu, Xuexue, Yanli Zhang, Yefang Li, Jianfei Pan, Dandan Wang, Weihuang Chen, Zhuqing Zheng, et al. "EPAS1 Gain-of-Function Mutation Contributes to High-Altitude Adaptation in Tibetan Horses." Molecular Biology and Evolution 36, no. 11 (July 4, 2019): 2591–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz158.
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Abstract High altitude represents some of the most extreme environments worldwide. The genetic changes underlying adaptation to such environments have been recently identified in multiple animals but remain unknown in horses. Here, we sequence the complete genome of 138 domestic horses encompassing a whole altitudinal range across China to uncover the genetic basis for adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia. Our genome data set includes 65 lowland animals across ten Chinese native breeds, 61 horses living at least 3,300 m above sea level across seven locations along Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, as well as 7 Thoroughbred and 5 Przewalski’s horses added for comparison. We find that Tibetan horses do not descend from Przewalski’s horses but were most likely introduced from a distinct horse lineage, following the emergence of pastoral nomadism in Northwestern China ∼3,700 years ago. We identify that the endothelial PAS domain protein 1 gene (EPAS1, also HIF2A) shows the strongest signature for positive selection in the Tibetan horse genome. Two missense mutations at this locus appear strongly associated with blood physiological parameters facilitating blood circulation as well as oxygen transportation and consumption in hypoxic conditions. Functional validation through protein mutagenesis shows that these mutations increase EPAS1 stability and its hetero dimerization affinity to ARNT (HIF1B). Our study demonstrates that missense mutations in the EPAS1 gene provided key evolutionary molecular adaptation to Tibetan horses living in high-altitude hypoxic environments. It reveals possible targets for genomic selection programs aimed at increasing hypoxia tolerance in livestock and provides a textbook example of evolutionary convergence across independent mammal lineages.
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Toyomasu, Miki, Sayo Suzuki, and Yoshiko Akitake. "Descriptions of sound in the textbooks of living environment studies in elementary schools and the development of a life and sound activity programs." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, no. 4 (October 2016): 3197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4970061.
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Каленкова, О. Н., and О. Э. Чубарова. "ADDRESSEE OF THE WORK BOOK «WINTER STORIES OF RUSSIA»." Russkii iazyk za rubezhom, no. 6(283) (January 12, 2021): 97–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.37632/pi.2020.283.6.014.
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Цель статьи – рассказать о пособии «Зимние истории России», методический потенциал которого позволяет работать с учащимися разных категорий: как иностранцами, изучающими русский язык, так и детьми соотечественников, проживающими в условиях ограниченной языковой среды. Рассматриваются точки пересечения методики преподавания РКИ и методики обучения русскому языку билингвов. Обсуждаются особенности учебных пособий, допускающих расширение целевой аудитории. Анализируется опыт работы с детьми-билингвами и взрослыми иностранцами, обучающимися по специальности «Перевод и переводоведение». This article aims to present the work book «Winter stories of Russia», which has a methodological potential to teach students of different categories: both foreigners who study Russian, and children of compatriots living in a limited language environment. The meeting points of the teaching methodology of the Russian language as a foreign and the methodology of teaching Russian the bilingual language are considered. The features of textbooks that allow the expansion of the target audience are discussed. The experience of working with bilingual children and adults – foreigners studying in the specialty «Translation and Translation Studies» is analyzed.
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Etcheverria et al, K. W. M. "The qualitative analysis of biochemical content in textbooks of elementary school." Revista de Ensino de Bioquímica 13 (August 24, 2015): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.16923/reb.v13i2.588.
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Introduction: Biochemistry is the science that deals with the metabolic functions of living beings. In its concepts, it uses chemistry and biology to study the interactions of organisms with the environment. For basic education students is often complex the association of biochemistry with their daily lives, especially in elementary school where they have their first contact with science in school and the didactic book will serve as an important tool for research. Thus, this work aims to analyze qualitatively content related to biochemistry in science books of the final years of elementary school. Methods: We analyzed six science books used in elementary school, and the following criteria were examined: clarity and language presented on the inserted content; resolutions and images shown subtitles, and interdisciplinarity of matters. Results and discussion: The books of the sixth and fifth years were those who achieved the expected learning goals. The first of then made a very good presentation of the content and the images, addressing the subject in an interdisciplinary way. However, the second one is well below in the analyzed criteria, bringing the matter in a vague writing, and failing in associate the content with other assumptions themes. The images had a very low quality and their explanations were difficult to associate. Conclusion: We can say that the biochemistry content are complex, however its development from the beginning of primary education contributes to overcoming the complexity of their understanding. The analysis of the books brought a result that was expected. Only one book had significantly positive results in all analyzed characteristics, the other books had some very good aspects, but in several details, they were vague and poorly contextualized. Approaching the school sciences to the student every day we can demystify scientific knowledge and its production.
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Van Tonder, Estelle, and Mornay Roberts-Lombard. "A Theoretical Framework For Managing CSR Plans And Related Initiatives In The Modern Business Environment." Journal of Business & Economics Research (JBER) 11, no. 12 (November 29, 2013): 503. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jber.v11i12.8259.
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Organisations can make a valuable contribution in alleviating poverty and improving the general living standards of society. In the modern turbulent business environment, characterised by intense competition and customers demanding corporate responsibility, it further seems that a well-managed corporate social responsibility (CSR) plan could assist executives in winning the hearts and minds of their customers. Regular interactions with stakeholders on CSR initiatives can also assist executives in identifying trends in the market and introducing innovations. CSR can further be used as a strategic tool to manage the reputation of the organisation. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework on guidelines that organisations could implement to manage their CSR plans and CSR-related initiatives more effectively. A number of secondary sources, including textbooks and previous research studies, were consulted in compiling the proposed framework which includes actions that executives could take to design and implement their CSR plans more effectively. In addition, principles for the effective management of CSR-driven innovations and reputation management initiatives are also provided. The framework also focuses on guidelines for the types of social media initiatives that would need to be incorporated into the executives strategic plan to ensure that the strategy implemented is truly competitive. The paper concludes with a number of recommendations that could be further investigated in a follow-on empirical study to provide further assistance to organisations wishing to survive and grow their businesses in the modern turbulent business environment. The paper is relevant to executives requiring guidance on implementing their CSR initiatives more successfully and contributes to the improvement of organisational behaviour within the socially responsible environment.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Living environment textbook"
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Chen, Chiung-Hui, and 陳瓊惠. "A Study of Content on the Environmental Protection for Junior High School Science and Living Technology Textbooks." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06418109551870138518.
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Since 2004, a continuous curriculum applied to Grad 1-9 has been practiced, in which environmental protection has been a focal point to teach in science and technology subject. However, thorough studies of the content about environmental protection in junior high school’s science and technology textbooks remain rare both in Taiwan and abroad. In response to this, this paper explores the content about environmental protection in junior high school’s science and technology textbooks. First, it conducts a content analysis to conceptualize environmental protection in the field of science and technology in junior high school, in order to classify main categories and minor categories of the content. Subsequently, the method of content analysis is applied to discuss how science and technology textbooks of Junior High School, published by different educational publishing companies (inclusive of Nani, Kang Hsuan, and Han Lin) address the issue of environmental protection. Moreover, via detailed interviews with instructors teaching science and technology in junior high school, current trend about educating environmental protection is thus revealed. This study draws these conclusions on current textbooks of science and technology in junior high school: 1.Content of environmental protection is mainly composed of Pollution Prevention, Nature Conservation, and Resource Recycling. 2.In the distribution of content about environmental protection, Han Lin version has highest ratio of chapters and paragraphs addressing the issue, and its content appears with good distribution. Other versions refer to the issue primarily in the third-year textbook (volume six), and the content distribution does not seem to have a system. 3.In places where environmental protection is mentioned, number of the articles under the main category of Pollution Prevention is the highest, in which articles under the sub-category of air pollution prevention is the biggest part; while numbers of articles under the sub-categories of noise prevention and resource conservation are the lowest. Contents of each categories is lacking of fair distribution and systematic design. 4. Among different versions of science and technology textbooks of Junior High School, 63% of the Curriculum Competence Indicators for environmental protection does not meet the criteria. Han Lin textbook has the highest number of paragraphs that fulfill the criteria. 5.Here is a comparison of content about environmental protection in textbooks of different versions:(1)In the sub-category of air pollution prevention, the content is composed of transportation, energy technology, human beings and nature. In the sub-category of water pollution prevention, human beings and nature is the primary subject. In noise pollution prevention, there are primarily chapters introducing wave and sound. In waste pollution prevention, content is primary made up with these three subjects, human beings and environment, production technology, and residential environment and equipment. In natural environment, the content circles around technology and life, human beings and environment.(2) In ecology conservation, human beings and environment, biological organisms and environment, the impacts of technology fully contribute to this sub-category.(3) Among different versions of textbooks, a chi-square cross-analysis and comparison indicates that numbers of chapters dealing with pollution prevention differ visibly (p<.05). In Han Lin textbooks, number of paragraphs dealing with pollution prevention is noticeably more than the other 2 version. 6.Current trend of teaching environmental protection in the field of science and technology in junior high school:(1)The curriculum of the main category of pollution prevention focuses on air pollution prevention and water pollution prevention.(2)The curriculum of nature conservation focuses on teaching ecological conservation.(3)The curriculum of resource recycling focuses on teaching recycling and reusing resource. At last, this study gives a few points, which are expected to be useful suggestion for related educational institutions, textbook writers and editors, instructors teaching science and technology in junior high school, and future studies.
Books on the topic "Living environment textbook"
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Strel'nikov, Viktor, and Natal'ya Chernysheva. Analysis and forecast of environmental pollution. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1030338.
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The proposed textbook deals with various aspects of the analysis, prediction and evaluation of various types of impacts on the environment. It is intended to provide future ecologists with an idea of the main types of habitats of living organisms, the main types of impacts on environmental components, methods of sampling in different environments, as well as their analysis. The basic concepts of environmental impact assessment on environmental components, environmental forecasting and modeling are analyzed.
For undergraduate students of higher educational institutions in the field of "Ecology and nature Management". It may be of some interest to specialists of related specialties.
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Sokol'skaya, Elena, and Boris Kochurov. Geoecology of the city: models of environmental quality. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1205961.
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The monograph examines the features of studying the geoecological state of urbanized territories, reveals the use of integrated assessment and mapping in urban diagnostics, and finds a solution to geoecological problems on the example of world cities that are leading in the rating for quality of life.
The components of an information and analytical model of the urban environment for assessing the geoecological situation are described; an algorithm for a comprehensive study of the geoecological state aimed at an adequate assessment of the quality of the urban environment. Special attention is paid to the methodology of geoecological assessment of the quality of the urban environment based on multifactor modeling, which allows making recommendations for improving the comfort of living of the population.
It is intended for a wide range of specialists in the field of geoecology of the city, and can also be used as a textbook for students of environmental, natural-geographical, engineering specialties.
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Hudson, Travis. Living with Earth: An introduction to environmental geology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.
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Living with Earth: An introduction to environmental geology. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.
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Scott, Spoolman, ed. Living in the environment: Principles, connections, and solutions. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2012.
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Botkin, Daniel B. Environmental science: Earth as a living planet. New York: Wiley, 1995.
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1942-, Keller Edward A., ed. Environmental science: Earth as a living planet. 6th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.
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1942-, Keller Edward A., ed. Environmental science: Earth as a living planet. 5th ed. New York: John Wiley, 2005.
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Botkin, Daniel B. Environmental science: Earth as a living planet. 3rd ed. New York: J. Wiley, 2000.
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1942-, Keller Edward A., ed. Environmental science: Earth as a living planet. 4th ed. New York: Wiley, 2003.
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Jansman, Hugh A. H. "Animal Conservation in the Twenty-First Century." In The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 27–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_2.
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AbstractBiodiversity on Earth is rapidly decreasing and the situation in the Netherlands is in that perspective a textbook example. The main causes for species extinction are habitat loss, landscape degradation and overuse. Conservation efforts should focus more on the level of viable ecosystems. A strategic plan to do so is called Cores, Corridors and Carnivores (rewilding’s three C’s). This requires strong Cores of nature, mutually connected via robust Corridors. Based on island biogeography theory it can be calculated that if we want to conserve roughly 85% of the current biodiversity, 50% of the Earth’s surface needs to be protected, ‘Nature needs half’. For healthy ecosystems we need to get top-down forcing by apex consumers back in ecosystems. These apex consumers are mainly large Carnivores, and bringing them back asks for coexistence. If we want to keep our living conditions on planet Earth healthy we have to change our unsustainable way of living and change our way of thinking with respect to nature, natural processes and our relation with other species. The loss of biodiversity can only be halted or reversed if we save more space for nature and natural processes including top-down forcing and last but not least, find a way of coexistence with our fellow creatures.
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Venhoeven, Leonie, Danny Taufik, Linda Steg, Marino Bonaiuto, Mirilia Bonnes, Silvia Ariccio, Stefano De Dominicis, et al. "The role of nature and environment in behavioural medicine." In Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health, edited by Matilda van den Bosch and William Bird, 89–94. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725916.003.0041.
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Human behaviour has had an immense impact on natural environments. Often this impact has caused environmental degradation and impaired the possibilities for living well across the planet and especially for future generations. This calls for a specific target in reversing the current trend—namely to change human behaviour itself. By changing human behaviour into a more environmental friendly mode, as well as more pro-social, we may increase the chances for continued prosperous lives for ourselves and for our children and grandchildren. This chapter outlines a few theories around how such changes may be encouraged and how exposure to nature may be one factor with certain impact on making people more pro-environmental and pro-social. Indirectly, such changes may improve health, both for humans and for the environment.
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Kurmi, Om P., Kin Bong Hubert Lam, and Jon G. Ayres. "Air pollution and health." In Oxford Textbook of Medicine, edited by Jon G. Ayres, 1677–87. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198746690.003.0204.
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The term ‘occupational and environmental health’ includes any act of emission of any substance, likely to be hazardous in nature, which is either not originally present or is present in a higher concentration than normal in the natural atmosphere. Most air pollutants are generated from human activities (e.g. energy, transportation, industry, agriculture), but natural events in the living (e.g. methane emissions in wetlands) and non-living environment (e.g. volcanic eruptions) also contribute to atmospheric air pollution, although their relative importance has declined since the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern fossil fuel-based economies. Pollutants may be classified as (1) primary (emitted directly into the atmosphere) or secondary (formed in the air through chemical reactions with other pollutants and gases); (2) indoor or outdoor; (3) gaseous or particulate.
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Brüne, Martin. "Principles of evolutionary theory, evolutionary psychopathology, and genetics." In Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, 3–40. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780198717942.003.0001.
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Darwin’s work on evolution by natural and sexual selection is the central scientific framework in biology that explains how life developed through adaptation to changing environments. Evolution has been the driving force that has shaped the human brain and mind in the same way as it has formed somatic traits. Many adaptations pertaining to human cognition, emotions, and behaviour emerged in ancestral environments of evolutionary adaptedness, from which modern living conditions deviate in one way or another. Such ‘mismatches’ of evolved traits and current environments may cause vulnerability to dysfunctional operation of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural traits. Genes and environment interact in manifold ways, yet genetic plasticity may not only convey vulnerability to dysfunction. Instead, the very same genetic variants that may lead to dysfunction when associated with environmental adversity exert protective effects against dysfunction when environments are more favourable. These insights have yet to be acknowledged by psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine.
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Persaud, Albert, Antonio Ventriglio, Koravangattu Valsraj, and Dinesh Bhugra. "Geopolitics of migration and refugees." In Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry, edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Oyedeji Ayonrinde, Edgardo Juan Tolentino, Koravangattu Valsraj, and Antonio Ventriglio, 19–28. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198833741.003.0002.
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Humankind is on the move all the time, but in the past few decades this movement has become massive in different parts of the world. We are living in an era of unprecedented mobility of ideas, technology, money, and people. Globalization has changed the world and is continuing to change the relationships between nation-states, corporations, and international organizations. By 2030, 80% of the world’s poor will be living in an area defined as ‘fragile’—a status that may reflect any number of political, social, security, economic, or environmental causes, forcing millions who are suffering to flee their country and homes. The CAPE Vulnerability Index tool helps assess the causes of violent conflict, terrorism, climate change, poverty, inequality and injustice, migration and displacement through this new axis of geopolitical determinants of health rather than focusing disproportionately on the effects. Leaders across the globe have a moral imperative to provide security, economic prosperity, and well-being to their people, but the policy needs to be fit for the local environment, be it geographical, political, or cultural, to help people to function well.
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Hardin, Garrett. "Carrying Capacity." In Living within Limits. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195078114.003.0026.
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An often quoted passage of Arthur Conan Doyle's story "Silver Blaze" makes the point that the absence of data can be a datum. When the mystery of the purloined racehorse seems insoluble, Police Inspector Gregory asks Sherlock Holmes:… "Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes…. The dog that does not bark attracts no attention to itself. It takes insight to recognize that a nonhappening can be an alarm. Herman Daly showed a Holmeslike insight when he called attention to the bark that was absent from a would-be authoritative study made by a group of economists reporting to the prestigious National Research Council in 1986 on population growth and economic development. In 108 pages of text there is not a single mention of carrying capacity, a concept that should be central to all discussions of population and environment. It is as though gravity were left out of a treatise on the dynamics of the solar system; or assets and liabilities were left out of a textbook on business accounting. If civilization survives another century, and if there are still economists, a history of what will then be called "modern economics" may well begin with a belittling account of the "premodern" economics of the twentieth century in which carrying capacity plays no role. Nothing shows so well the impermeability of the barriers between academic disciplines as the silence of economists about a concept that dominates discussions of game management, a discipline concerned with population and environment problems as they affect animals other than Homo sapiens. Economists, dealing only with human populations, probably unconsciously embrace the human exemptionist doctrine (Chapter 15), though their commitment is seldom no more than implicit in their statements (Box 20-1). Two serious criticisms can be leveled against most of the authors quoted in the box. First, it is obvious that they desperately yearn for a world without limits. This is particularly evident in the last quotation, by Gro Harlem Brundtland, who chaired the United Nations commission that issued this statement. One can praise the heart of the commission without agreeing with the head.
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Riener, Robert. "Virtual reality for neurorehabilitation." In Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation, 418–39. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199673711.003.0034.
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Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful tool to motivate its participants to active participation, while providing augmented feedback to instruct the subject and improve task performance. This chapter presents the technical prerequisites of different recording, display, and rendering technologies. VR does not replace the real environment, but is a tool for setting up automatic training schedules. VR can be a good solution to train dangerous or difficult tasks. VR is being applied in physiotherapy, occupational therapy to recover limb functionality after disease or accident, and to enhance cognitive learning. VR technologies can also be applied to provide feedback as assistance during activities of daily living. Despite the many technological achievements and positive results in many therapeutic and assistive applications, the field of VR rehabilitation is still in an early phase. VR technologies will continue to grow, gain further mainstream acceptance and, eventually, have a significant positive effect on therapeutic outcome.
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Bannwart, Mathias, and Robert Riener. "Virtual reality for neurorehabilitation." In Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation, edited by Volker Dietz, Nick S. Ward, and Christopher Kennard, 497–522. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198824954.003.0036.
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Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful tool to motivate its participants to active participation, while providing augmented feedback to instruct the subject and improve task performance. This chapter presents the technical prerequisites of different recording, display, and rendering technologies. VR does not replace the real environment, but is a tool for setting up automatic training schedules. VR can be a good solution to train dangerous or difficult tasks. VR is being applied in physiotherapy, occupational therapy to recover limb functionality after disease or accident, and to enhance cognitive learning. VR technologies can also be applied to provide feedback as assistance during activities of daily living—this is then typically called augmented reality (AR). Despite the many technological achievements and positive results in many therapeutic and assistive applications, the field of VR rehabilitation is still in an early phase. VR technologies will continue to grow, gain further mainstream acceptance and, eventually, have a significant positive effect on therapeutic outcome.
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McCay, Layla, and Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan. "Urbanization and its impact on migrant mental health." In Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry, edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Oyedeji Ayonrinde, Edgardo Juan Tolentino, Koravangattu Valsraj, and Antonio Ventriglio, 89–96. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198833741.003.0010.
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The urban environment plays an important role in the mental health of migrant populations. One in five international migrants lives in the top 20 ‘global cities’ and over 90% of immigrants in traditional countries of immigration live in urban areas. Cities have the potential to exert a positive impact on migrants’ mental health, through opportunities including education, employment, cultural diversity, and ready-made social networks. However, rates of many mental disorders are higher in cities. Migrants interact with cities in specific ways that can trigger or create mental health problems such as disparities and segregation; economic stress; pressures to integrate; and reduced access to nature. Many also face the bureaucratic hurdles and uncertainty of living in cities while applying for legal status; and encounter the gap between aspirations and reality. Urban impact on mental health can be particularly pronounced for asylum seekers and refugees.
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Ahmed, Syed Masud, and Mohammad Didar Hossain. "Social determinants in low-income countries." In Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health, edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui, Samuel Y. S. Wong, and Stephen E. Gilman, 177–80. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792994.003.0020.
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Mental health disorders are increasingly being recognized as an important public health problem in low-income countries of Asia and Africa. For people of low-income countries, poverty is all pervasive and affects physical, as well as mental, health in various ways. Common mental disorders (CMD), such as anxiety and depression, are quite common among these populations. Social determinants—such as poverty and exclusion; low level of education; violence against women, including intimate partner violence; unemployment; unhygienic living and work environment; and social capital—play a significant role in precipitating CMD at different stages of life. The association is not always straightforward as sometimes these determinants act in a vicious circle (e.g. poverty and mental illnesses), which, in turn, is exacerbated by other determinants such as low education and unemployment. To address this complex problem, tackling of these important social determinants is essential and should be prioritized.