the lake urmia and its satellite wetlands have been selected as a demonstration site for the united nations development program / global environment facility / department of environment conservation of iranian wetlands project. this project aims to demonstrate reduction of the major threats of this wetland protected area coordinated through an integrated management plan. a choice experiment was...

introduction environmental impact assessment is a systematic process to identify, predict and evaluate the environmental effects of proposed actions and projects. this process is applied prior to major decisions and commitments being made. environment, social, cultural and health effects are considered as an integral part of eia. particular attention is paid to eia practice for preventing, miti...

the lake urmia and satellite wetlands was selected as a demonstration site for the undp/gef/doe conservation of iranian wetlands project. this project aims to demonstrate reduction of the major threats of this wetland protected area coordinated through an integrated management plan. we developed a choice experiment to examine public preferences and elicit their willingness to pay on improvement...

Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 the Health Care Financing Administration's proficiency-testing requirement applies to approximately 12,000 hospital, reference, and large-clinic laboratories in the United States. The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene is approved by the Health Care Financing Administration to provide proficiency testing in all specialties and subspecialt...

Traditional quality-control methods are effective for detecting systematic error caused by deterioration of reagents or instruments, but ineffective for detecting sporadic error, which is more likely to occur in low-volume testing environments. Decentralized testing performed by individuals without formal laboratory training has a high potential for sporadic errors. New methods for validating t...

Drastic genetic changes have occurred in many commercial broiler lines during the last years with regard to performance. This genetic improvement needs a corresponding adjustment of our knowledge about amino acid nutrition in broilers. Additionally, today broiler feed formulators are not only focused on minimising the costs. They also have to take into consideration environmental issues and the...