Roads To Health

Author : Neil Arason
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781554589654

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No Accident by Neil Arason Pdf

It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority. Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, the driver has taken most of the blame for its failures. In a world where each person’s safety is dependent on a system in which millions of drivers must drive perfectly over billions of hours behind the wheel, failure on a massive scale has been the result. When we neglect the central role of the motor vehicle as a dangerous consumer product, the result is one of the largest human-made means for physically assaulting human beings. It is time for Canadians to embrace internationally recognized ways of thinking and enter an era in which the motor vehicle by-product of human carnage is relegated to history. No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies such as radar and camera-based sensors on vehicles that prevent crashes. This multi-disciplinary study demystifies the world of road safety and provides a road map for the next twenty years.

Author : G. Geltner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251357

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Roads to Health by G. Geltner Pdf

In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water, air pollution, and the improper disposal of human and animal waste. He consults scientific, narrative, and normative sources that detailed and consistently denounced the physical and environmental hazards urban communities faced: latrines improperly installed and sewers blocked; animals left to roam free and carcasses left rotting on public byways; and thoroughfares congested by artisanal and commercial activities that impeded circulation, polluted waterways, and raised miasmas. However, as Geltner shows, numerous administrative records also offer ample evidence of the concrete measures cities took to ameliorate unhealthy conditions. Toiling on the frontlines were public functionaries generally known as viarii, or "road-masters," appointed to maintain their community's infrastructures and police pertinent human and animal behavior. Operating on a parallel track were the camparii, or "field-masters," charged with protecting the city's hinterlands and thereby the quality of what would reach urban markets, taverns, ovens, and mills. Roads to Health provides a critical overview of the mandates and activities of the viarii and camparii as enforcers of preventive health and safety policies between roughly 1250 and 1500, and offers three extended case studies, for Lucca, Bologna, and the smaller Piedmont town of Pinerolo. In telling their stories, Geltner contends that preventive health practices, while scientifically informed, emerged neither solely from a centralized regime nor as a reaction to the onset of the Black Death. Instead, they were typically negotiated by diverse stakeholders, including neighborhood residents, officials, artisans, and clergymen, and fostered throughout the centuries by a steady concern for people's greater health.

Author : Sophia Kidd
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811685743

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Culture Paves The New Silk Roads by Sophia Kidd Pdf

This book approaches Silk Road studies from within the microcosm of China’s Southwest avant-garde arts sector in order to approach the macrocosm of China’s cultural heritage and creative industry influence worldwide. While reading China’s cultural hegemony and its attendant ideologies as ‘shaping’ memory and history throughout New Silk Road regions, the book includes new regional research from within China's borders, as well as throughout New Silk Road regions. With twenty years of experience in China, Sophia G. Kidd fills a void in discussions of the New Silk Roads (NSR) which fail to underscore the importance of the initiative’s people-to-people component. Cultural diplomacy aids cooperation between New Silk Road Regions by reducing ‘cultural discount’ of Chinese cultural exports, i.e., ideas and values, creating a shift of geo-cultural thinking to come. This book will prove illuminating for students of the arts and soft power in greater China.

Author : Brian Luke Seaward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0983665052

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The Road to Wellness by Brian Luke Seaward Pdf

Author : Morhaf Al Achkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578557649

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Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer: Forty Stories of Coping, Finding Meaning, and Building Resilience While Living with Incurable Lung Cancer by Morhaf Al Achkar Pdf

The book tells the stories of 39 patients with incurable lung cancer. It aims to help patients, families, and healthcare providers understand the experience of living with cancer. It also invites reflections on the essential questions of meaning, resilience, and coping with adversity in life. The author is a family doctor, teacher, and researcher who is also a stage 4 lung cancer patient himself. He is patient #40. Facing one's mortality, patients with cancer develop an urgency to find meaning in life. They struggle with the illness, its emotional impact, and the consequences of treatments. However, with time, reflection, and support from others, they develop resilience. Cancer patients often are not passive. Instead, they choose different strategies to maintain and restore their health. They also leverage a variety of approaches to cope better with their struggle. The book is for cancer patients who are tarrying at the limits of time. It is also for those who live around patients with cancer: caregivers, families and friends, and health care providers. People who struggle with other illnesses will also find aspects of their story reflected here. Also, the ones who have experienced a crisis of identity will discover elements of their story here as well. By sharing the experiences of the forty authentic individuals, the book opens the space for them to teach others. This book is about the essence of the human experience at its limits. It is for every reader.

Author : Andrée A. Michaud
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487005818

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Back Roads by Andrée A. Michaud Pdf

In Scotiabank Giller Prize–longlisted author Andrée A. Michaud’s genre-defying, ethereal mystery, a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity. In the dubious sanctuary of a wintry forest, a writer encounters a woman who she suspects may be her double. So begins a journey of inquiry in which nothing, not even the author’s own identity, is certain. Who is Heather Thorne? Is she a stranger dangerously out of place in the woods, the victim of an accident or of a crime? Who is the author? Is her own name not in fact Heather Thorne? Brimming with the snowy menace and mystery of the boreal woods, where nothing is ever entirely known, the celebrated and prize-winning Quebec noir novelist Andrée A. Michaud once again defies categorization in an ethereal story that is also a meditation on the very process of literary creation.

Author : United States. Department of Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Parkways
ISBN : MINN:319510001450069

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A Proposed Program for Scenic Roads & Parkways by United States. Department of Commerce Pdf

"In April 1962, Executive Order 11017 and subsequent amendments, established the Recreation Advisory Council comprised of the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Defense, Commerce, Health, Education and Welfare. the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and the Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The council was commissioned, among other things, to provide broad policy advice on all important matters affecting outdoor recreation resources and to facilitate coordinated efforts among the various Federal agencies. In 1964, the Council issued a policy statement (Circular No. 4) recommending that a national program of scenic roads and parkways be developed. In this policy circular, the Council identified certain elements to be considered in a comprehensive study of such a program and commissioned the Department of Commerce to conduct it."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001890305

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Jamaica Feeder Roads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kimberly M. Andrews,Priya Nanjappa,Seth P. D. Riley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781421416397

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Roads and Ecological Infrastructure by Kimberly M. Andrews,Priya Nanjappa,Seth P. D. Riley Pdf

Published in association with The Wildlife Society.

Author : Grant William Anderson,Charles G. Vandervoort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Roads
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173027760757

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Rural Roads Evaluation Summary Report by Grant William Anderson,Charles G. Vandervoort Pdf

Author : Irwin Levy,Clarence Zuvekas,Charles Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Roads
ISBN : UOM:39015042013022

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Philippines, Rural Roads I and II by Irwin Levy,Clarence Zuvekas,Charles Stevens Pdf

Author : Heinz Mehlhorn,Xiaoying Wu,Zhongdao Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783031352751

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Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads by Heinz Mehlhorn,Xiaoying Wu,Zhongdao Wu Pdf

The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civilizations past and today. Compiled by an international team of subject authors, this book includes two themed parts. Readers are first introduced into history naming, former, present and future routes of the Silk Road, representing the longest trade way and culture diffuser in the world. The second part contains the main book focus and addresses medical research as well as individual diseases and parasite groups from the region in detail. By drawing an arc between the past and present disease situation, the authors trace how parasites and vectors spread around the globe, and what impact infectious diseases had and will have upon human civilizations. Through its interdisciplinary character this book will be enjoyed by interested readers from the fields of parasitology and palaeoparasitology, medical sciences and public health, as well as cultural history.

Author : C. A. Tyrrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1419281240

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The Royal Road to Health by C. A. Tyrrell Pdf

Having striven to explain in an intelligible manner the true nature and cause of disease, and to point out the inadequacy of the drug system of treatment to combat pathological conditions successfully (not from any lack of intention on the part of the drug practitioners: but from the unreliability of their methods), I shall now proceed to lay before you the system of treatment which it is proposed to substitute in its stead.

Author : Mary K. Moriarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Child care
ISBN : NWU:35556005394093

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Many Roads to Health by Mary K. Moriarty Pdf

Author : Roger Thompson,Rodrigo Peroni,Alex T. Visser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780429958007

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Mining Haul Roads by Roger Thompson,Rodrigo Peroni,Alex T. Visser Pdf

Mining haul roads are a critical component of surface mining infrastructure and the performance of these roads has a direct impact on operational efficiency, costs and safety. A significant proportion of a mine’s cost is associated with material haulage and well-designed and managed roads contribute directly to reductions in cycle times, fuel burn, tyre costs and overall cost per tonne hauled and critically, underpin a safe transport system. The first comprehensive treatise on mining haul road design, construction, operation and management, Mining Haul Roads – Theory and Practice presents an authoritative compendium of worldwide experience and state-of-the-art practices developed and applied over the last 25 years by the three authors, over three continents and many of the world’s leading surface mining operations. In this book, the authors: Introduce the four design components of an integrated design methodology for mining haul roads – geometric (including drainage), structural, functional and maintenance management Illustrate how mine planning constraints inform road design requirements Develop the analytical framework for each of the design components from their theoretical basis, and using typical mine-site applications, illustrate how site-specific design guidelines are developed, together with their practical implementation Summarise the key road safety and geometric design considerations specific to mining haul roads Specify the mechanistic structural design approach unique to ultra-heavy wheel loading associated with OTR mine trucks Describe the selection, application and management of the road wearing course material, together with its rehabilitation, including the use of palliatives Develop road and operating cost models for estimating total road-user costs, based on road rolling resistance measurement and modelling techniques Illustrate the approach of costing a mining road construction project based on the design methodologies previously introduced List and describe future trends in mine haulage system development, how mining haul road design will evolve to meet these new system challenges and how the increasing availability of data is used to manage road performance and ultimately provide 24x7 trafficability. Mining Haul Roads – Theory and Practice is a complete practical reference for mining operations, contractors and mine planners alike, as well as civil engineering practitioners and consulting engineers. It will also be invaluable in other fields of transportation infrastructure provision and for those seeking to learn and apply the state-of-the-art in mining haul roads. “This book is the most definitive treatise on mining haul roads ever written [...] There has never been a text that addresses the many facets of mining haul roads on such a scope [...]” From the Foreword by Jim Humphrey, Professional Engineer, Autonomous haulage systems developer and Distinguished Member of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.