INTRODUCTION Moving from an original ICRP system wherein humans constituted the focus of all radiological protection criteria, recent efforts, within the last 15-20 years, have also been placed on developing principles and methods for considering the protection of non-human species (Polikarpov, 2001; Pentreath, 2002; Higley and Alexakhin, 2004). The ICRP have recently acknowledged these develop...

Traditionally, HENP computing facilities have been open facilities that are accessed in many different ways by users that are both internal and external to the facility. However, the need to protect the facility from cybersecurity threats has made it difficult to maintain the openness of the facility to off-site and on-site users. In this paper, we discuss the strategy we have used and the arch...

Biological monitoring of aquatic biota is used to assess the impact of changes in the ∗We are grateful to Melissa Hughes of EPA Delaware and Tony Olsen of EPA Corvallis for making these data available to us, and to Wendy Meiring for a careful reading of the paper and many valuable suggestions. This research had partial support from the United States Environmental Protection Agency under a coope...

The article addresses the mutual relationship between environmental improvements and improvement in social status of women. The main question of this article is: Are there any relationships between improvement in environment protection and promotion in the situation of women? The theoretical framework includes Hatfield’s view about the existence of communities between the public and private sph...

the article addresses the mutual relationship between environmental improvements and improvement in social status of women. the main question of this article is: are there any relationships between improvement in environment protection and promotion in the situation of women? the theoretical framework includes hatfield’s view about the existence of communities between the public and private sph...

ali hossein najafi abrand abadi associate professor, shahid beheshti university mohammad jafar habibzadeh associate professor, department of law, tarbiat modares university abulfat'h khaleghi ph.d. student of criminal law, tarbiat modares university the imprisonment (custodial sentences) is the most common and expensive sanction in the criminal law, which has enjoyed hardly any success on ...