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The Significance Of The Oso Condensate Project In The Nigerian Economy, I. P. Ojinnaka Dec 1995

The Significance Of The Oso Condensate Project In The Nigerian Economy, I. P. Ojinnaka

Bullion

This paper outlines the historical background and financing of the Oso condensate project, examines the benefits of the project in terms of revenue expectation, infrastructure development, employment and investment opportunities, benefit to the communities and owners of the project, as well as underline the potential constraints. For the ease of presentation, the paper is organised into sections and an introduction. Section I describes the features of the project while section II analyses the benefits. Section III outlines the potential constraints and section IV is summary and conclusion.


Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Four, Fall 1995, Risk Editorial Board Sep 1995

Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Four, Fall 1995, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)


Vrware Beware: Vr At Siggraph, P.D. Quick Sep 1995

Vrware Beware: Vr At Siggraph, P.D. Quick

SWITCH

The article uses the author’s experiences from the event of Siggraph ‘95 to comment on upcoming products using virtual or augmented reality. The article includes further discussion on the products’ effects on the psychology and physiology of consumers. Some examples include the “i-Glasses” from Virtual I/O, the “Smart Model” from Multigen, as well as the nanomanipulator created by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science, and the Phobia Project developed by the Georgia Tech Graphics Visualization and Usability Center. The article also covers not only the products of this event, but also the courses, panels, papers, and …


Review Of: World Health Organization, Legislative Responses To Organ Transplantation, Lisah K. Carpenter Jun 1995

Review Of: World Health Organization, Legislative Responses To Organ Transplantation, Lisah K. Carpenter

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

No abstract provided.


Brown Fields, A Regional Incinerator And Resident Perception Of Neighborhood Quality, Michael Greenberg, Dona Schneider, Jim Parry Jun 1995

Brown Fields, A Regional Incinerator And Resident Perception Of Neighborhood Quality, Michael Greenberg, Dona Schneider, Jim Parry

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The authors discuss an extension of their research into residential perceptions of neighborhood quality as affected by urban blight. They believe that unwanted facilities may help deteriorate neighborhoods to the point where they are fit only for such uses.


The Role Of The Unconscious In The Perception Of Risks, Andrew F. Fritzsche Jun 1995

The Role Of The Unconscious In The Perception Of Risks, Andrew F. Fritzsche

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Fritzsche argues that our world is too "rational" and that the psychology of the unconscious, as developed by Jung, can be key to understanding responses to hazards and to resolving conflicts that arise in the political management of risks.


Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Three, Summer 1995, Risk Editorial Board Jun 1995

Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Three, Summer 1995, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)


Ranking Risks, Baruch Fischhoff Jun 1995

Ranking Risks, Baruch Fischhoff

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Fischhoff considers the role of government in helping citizens manage risks. He then offers a general procedure for risk ranking and concludes by discussing what can be done with a list of risks.


Decision Analysis And Fda Drug Review: A Proposal For Shadow Advisory Committees, John M. Mendeloff Jun 1995

Decision Analysis And Fda Drug Review: A Proposal For Shadow Advisory Committees, John M. Mendeloff

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The FDA seems to acknowledge that sometimes different standards of proof for assessing drug efficacy should be used. Dr. Mendeloff thus proposes a methodology that might illuminate the FDA's decision-making and help better to assess its decisions.


Risk Analysis And Policy Association Announcement And Membership Application, Risk Editorial Board Jun 1995

Risk Analysis And Policy Association Announcement And Membership Application, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

An announcement from the editors of RISK about the formation of a new professional organization concerned with improving procedures for risk assessment and using this knowledge to develop public policy.


Present Risk, Future Risk Or No Risk - Measuring And Predicting Perceptions Of Health Risks Of A Hazardous Waste Landfill, William K. Hallman, Abraham H. Wandersman Jun 1995

Present Risk, Future Risk Or No Risk - Measuring And Predicting Perceptions Of Health Risks Of A Hazardous Waste Landfill, William K. Hallman, Abraham H. Wandersman

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Given that perceived risk is multidimensional, the authors seek better understanding by focusing on health risks and, more particularly, on their temporality. In this way, they attempt to measure more meaningfully psychological influences on risk perceptions.


Risk And Rapa On The Internet, Thomas G. Field Jr. Jun 1995

Risk And Rapa On The Internet, Thomas G. Field Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Editorial news item announcing new email addresses and electronic formats for back issues and indexes. Details on an upcoming conference entitled Promoting and Managing Genome Innovation scheduled to be held October 13-14, 1995 are also given.


Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Two, Spring 1995, Risk Editorial Board Mar 1995

Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Two, Spring 1995, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)


The Separation Of Facts And Values, Arthur Kantrowitz Mar 1995

The Separation Of Facts And Values, Arthur Kantrowitz

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Kantrowitz maintains that much modern pessimism derives from failure to separate what is from what ought to be and urges that scientific conflicts be resolved as value neutrally as possible.


Coping With Phantom Risks In The Courts, Peter W. Huber Mar 1995

Coping With Phantom Risks In The Courts, Peter W. Huber

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Huber describes "phantom" risks as those tending to hover indefinitely, never to crystallize. He argues that legal procedures should optimally lead' to closure and eliminate unwarranted fears.


Evaluating The Expertise Of Experts, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette Mar 1995

Evaluating The Expertise Of Experts, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Shrader-Frechette maintains that a rigid distinction between risk assessment and risk management is unwise. Concerned about procedural fairness, she argues that the public should have a voice in both.


Resolving Medical Controversies, Itzhak Jacoby Mar 1995

Resolving Medical Controversies, Itzhak Jacoby

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Jacoby explains why emerging technologies must be evaluated expeditiously. He also argues that an approach closely following "Science Court" tenets would more uniformly guide practitioners and insurers.


Program - Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Risk Editorial Board Mar 1995

Program - Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Program of events and list of registered attendees for the October 6, 1994 conference Which Scientist Do You Believe? Process Alternatives in Technological Controversies held in Concord, NH.


Resolving Technological Controversies In Regulatory Agencies, Sidney A. Shapiro Mar 1995

Resolving Technological Controversies In Regulatory Agencies, Sidney A. Shapiro

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Shapiro notes that, e.g., advisory committees may increase technical accuracy at the price of delaying already slow rule making and urges Congress and the courts to provide agencies with broad procedural discretion.


Congressional Risk Proposals, Dalton G. Paxman Mar 1995

Congressional Risk Proposals, Dalton G. Paxman

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Paxman relates how an ambitious environmental agenda supported by the Administration and many members of the 103d Congress was ultimately derailed. He associates this with an apparently ever-growing interest in risk assessment.


Alternative Dispute Resolution In Patent Controversies, Norman L. Balmer Mar 1995

Alternative Dispute Resolution In Patent Controversies, Norman L. Balmer

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Mr. Balmer relates how ADR allows attorneys to tailor rules to resolve disputes in light of, e.g., party relationships and internal dynamics. He notes that, for life to go on, having resolution is itself an important goal.


The Regulatory Reform Recommendations Of The National Performance Review, Jeffrey S. Lubbers Mar 1995

The Regulatory Reform Recommendations Of The National Performance Review, Jeffrey S. Lubbers

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Of ten recommendations Mr. Lubbers discusses, several were of particular interest. These include encouraging consensus-based rule making and ADR in enforcement, as well as ranking risks and improving regulatory science.


Rapa And Risk, Dalton G. Paxman, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Thomas G. Field Jr. Mar 1995

Rapa And Risk, Dalton G. Paxman, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Thomas G. Field Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Short article prepared by members of the professional organization Risk Assessment & Policy Association (RAPA) describing the work that will be undertaken by the newly formed group.


Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Scientific Literacy And Environmental Policy- The Missing Prerequisite For Sound Decision Making (Quorum Books 1992), Diane M. Albert Mar 1995

Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Scientific Literacy And Environmental Policy- The Missing Prerequisite For Sound Decision Making (Quorum Books 1992), Diane M. Albert

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: Dorothy J. Howell, Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy- The Missing Prerequisite for Sound Decision Making (Quorum Books 1992). Acknowledgements, bibliography, epilogue, index, introduction. LC 91- 36028; ISBN 0-89930-616-0. [181 pp. Cloth $45.00. One Madison Ave., New York, NY 10010.1


Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Ecology For Environmental Professionals (Quorum Books 1994), Karla Sievers Mcmanus Mar 1995

Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Ecology For Environmental Professionals (Quorum Books 1994), Karla Sievers Mcmanus

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: Dorothy J. Howell, Ecology for Environmental Professionals (Quorum Books 1994). Appendices, bibliographical references, figures, glossary, index, preface, tables. LC 93-5580; ISBN 0-89930-745-0 [215 pp. Cloth $59.95. 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881.]


Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Thomas G. Field Jr. Mar 1995

Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Thomas G. Field Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Beyond introducing these papers, Professor Field argues that those designing processes for tasks originally contemplated by the Science Court proposal should closely consider, e.g., intervening experience with alternative dispute resolution.


Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer Feb 1995

Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer

SWITCH

Interview with Joel Slayton, Professor of Computers in Fine Art at San José State University, and Director of the CADRE Institute. Slayton discusses the history of the Cadre Institute and details his views on the relationship between art and new technology. Slayton describes the role of artists in exploring the possibilities and ethical implications of emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, nano-techology, robotics, and artificial life. He describes installations and in-progress work focused on ubiquitous video surveillance. The interview concludes with a discussion of Slayton’s use of the DoWhatDo model for artistic collaboration and of his piece "Conduits," presented in …


Addressing Problems In Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs Through Systematic Planning And Evaluation, Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Rios Jan 1995

Addressing Problems In Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs Through Systematic Planning And Evaluation, Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Rios

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The authors argue that inconsistent terminology is often a hindrance in assessing health program implementation, effectiveness and efficiency. Attending closely to this, they propose a model scheme for conducting such evaluations.


Gender Patterns In Science Course Enrollment And Course Drop Patterns In An Iowa Senior High School, Sandra L. Stephen, Elizabeth D. Riesz Jan 1995

Gender Patterns In Science Course Enrollment And Course Drop Patterns In An Iowa Senior High School, Sandra L. Stephen, Elizabeth D. Riesz

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

In order to ascertain whether local patterns corresponded to the national trends, which show fewer female and minority students enrolling in and completing high school physical science courses, the Cedar Rapids Community School District studied the course enrollment and drop patterns of seniors in one of the District high schools. Male students predominated in physics and AP Chemistry, and the proportion of males in AP Physics was significantly greater than the proportion of females. The proportion of females in chemistry was significantly greater than their proportion in the senior class. Course dropping patterns revealed a statistically significant relationship between gender …


Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors Jan 1995

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.