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Spatial variations in airborne microorganism and endotoxin concentrations at green waste composting facilities (2011)
Journal Article

The emission and dispersal of bioaerosols from open-air commercial composting facilities continues to be contentious. A meta-dataset enumerating cultivable microorganism emission and downwind concentrations is not yet available. A dataset derived fro... Read More about Spatial variations in airborne microorganism and endotoxin concentrations at green waste composting facilities.

Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history (2011)
Journal Article

Beyond greener pastures: exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history The history of immigrant Filipino nurses in Canada has received little attention, yet Canada is a major receiving country of a growing num... Read More about Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history.

Film noir and Los Angeles (2011)
Book Chapter

An overview of the different ways in which Los Angeles has been represented in film noir and neo-noir, so films from the 1940s to the present, from Double Indemnity (1944) to Collateral (2004). The essay explores the particular relationship between L... Read More about Film noir and Los Angeles.

State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations (2011)
Journal Article

Over the last three decades, new concepts, strategies, frameworks and systems have been developed to tackle the sustainable development issue. This paper reviews the challenges, perspectives and recent advances in support of sustainable production op... Read More about State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations.

Identification of key performance indicators for measuring the performance of value management studies in construction (2011)
Journal Article

Value management (VM) is widely regarded as a useful tool for management to meet the challenges, such as limited resources and tight schedules arising in the construction industry. A rigorous measurement on the performance of VM studies is likely to... Read More about Identification of key performance indicators for measuring the performance of value management studies in construction.

Breath ammonia levels in a normal human population study as determined by photoacoustic laser spectroscopy (2011)
Journal Article

Photoacoustic laser spectroscopy was used as a technique to measure real-time levels of ammonia in exhaled human breath in a small, locally recruited, normal healthy population (n = 30). This yielded an average level of breath ammonia of 265 ppb, ran... Read More about Breath ammonia levels in a normal human population study as determined by photoacoustic laser spectroscopy.