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"Tungohan's project traces the arrival of migrant care workers in Canada beginning in the early twentieth century through to the contemporary age in which Filipina migrant care workers constitute nearly 95% of all live-in caregivers in the country. Within that timeline, the project concentrates more fully on the emergent migrant care worker activism which has led to institutional policy changes with both the Foreign Domestics Movement (FDM) and the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) -- programs that have placed strict terms on workers. Unlike other migrant worker groups, migrant care workers have been inordinately successful with their activism; besides policy changes, migrant care worker activism has created greater public awareness regarding the rights of migrant care workers, and has formed new organizations that meet the needs of migrant care workers in ways that sending and receiving states cannot or will not. Incorporating seven years of primary and archival research, Tungohan's project examines the types of organizing currently taking place among migrant care workers, the internal dynamics of such organizing, as well as the different activist sites, strategies, and short- and long-term goals that define migrant care worker activism. Through this specified focus on Canadian migrant care workers, Tungohan's project makes greater connections to the role migrant workers play in Western societies. Care activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society's legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work by reaffirming a belief that they, and what they do, are important and necessary."

"Tungohan's project traces the arrival of migrant care workers in Canada beginning in the early twentieth century through to the contemporary age in which Filipina migrant care workers constitute nearly 95% of all live-in caregivers in the country. Within that timeline, the project concentrates more fully on the emergent migrant care worker activism which has led to institutional policy changes with both the Foreign Domestics Movement (FDM) and the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) -- programs that have placed strict terms on workers. Unlike other migrant worker groups, migrant care workers have been inordinately successful with their activism; besides policy changes, migrant care worker activism has created greater public awareness regarding the rights of migrant care workers, and has formed new organizations that meet the needs of migrant care workers in ways that sending and receiving states cannot or will not. Incorporating seven years of primary and archival research, Tungohan's project examines the types of organizing currently taking place among migrant care workers, the internal dynamics of such organizing, as well as the different activist sites, strategies, and short- and long-term goals that define migrant care worker activism. Through this specified focus on Canadian migrant care workers, Tungohan's project makes greater connections to the role migrant workers play in Western societies. Care activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society's legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work by reaffirming a belief that they, and what they do, are important and necessary"--

Introduction to Pyrethroid Insecticides: Chemical structures, properties, mode of action and use -- Analytical methods for determining Pyrethroid Insecticides in environmental and food matrices -- Analytical methods for determination urinary metabolites of synthetic Pyrethroids -- Fate of Pyrethroids in freshwater and marine environments -- The ecological and evolutionary implications of Pyrethroid exposure: A new perspective on aquatic ecotoxicity -- Stereoselectivity and environmental behaviour of Pyrethroids -- Environmental risks of synthetic Pyrethroids used by the salmon industry in Chile -- Bioavailability and bioaccumulation of Pyrethroid Insecticides in wildlife and humans -- Indoor and outdoor Pyrethroid air concentrations -- Risk assessment of human exposure to Pyrethroids through food -- Human risk associated with long-term exposure to Pyrethroid insecticides -- Conclusions and future trends.

Frontmatter --Preface --Contents --Tables --Chapter 1. The Thalidomide Background --Chapter 2. The Research Study --Chapter 3. The Social Normalization of Abnormality --Chapter 4. Abnormality within Normality: The Child in the Family Environment --Chapter 5. The Normification of Abnormality: The Prostheses --Chapter 6. Summing Up --APPENDIXES, GLOSSARY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, and INDEXES --Appendix A --Appendix B --Glossary of Medical Terms --Bibliography --Chronological Index --Subject Index

Intro -- FEMA'S DISASTER LOGISTICS EFFORTS ASSESSMENTS -- FEMA'S DISASTER LOGISTICS EFFORTS ASSESSMENTS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: FEMA COLLABORATES EFFECTIVELY WITH LOGISTICS PARTNERS BUT COULD STRENGTHEN IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS CAPABILITIES ASSESSMENT TOOL* -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- FEMA Logistics Roles and Responsibilities -- FEMA Logistics Efforts -- FEMA Regional Structure -- Role of Logistics in FEMA's Disaster Response -- FEMA'S COLLABORATION WITH FEDERAL PARTNERS GENERALLY REFLECTS ESF GUIDANCE AND LEADING PRACTICES -- FEMA's Actions with Federal Partners Generally Reflect ESF 7 Guidance -- Establishing Collaborative Relationships -- Leveraging Partner Capabilities -- Establishing Interagency Agreements and Other Documentation -- FEMA's Collaboration with Federal Partners Reflects Leading Practices for Interagency Collaboration -- Identifying a Lead Agency and Clearly Identifying and Agreeing upon Responsibilities as Leadership Is Shared -- Funding and Staffing Collaborative Interagency Mechanisms -- Defining Desired Outcomes and Measures to Monitor Progress and Success -- COLLABORATION WITH STATE AND LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS GENERALLY REFLECTS ESF GUIDANCE, BUT FEMA COULD STRENGTHEN IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS LOGISTICS ASSESSMENT TOOL -- FEMA Has Taken Actions to Address ESF 7 Guidance -- Training, Education, and Exercises -- Assessment Program to Validate Capabilities and Identify Shortfalls -- FEMA's Implementation of the LCAT Could Be Enhanced to Reflect Leading Program Management Practices to Better Support Needs -- Identifying Resources Needed Could Enhance Regional Implementation of the LCAT Program.

Si le combat de Voltaire pour l'élimination du domaine pénal de toute une série de conduites - sorcellerie, hérésie, opposition politique - et contre la sévérité excessive des châtiments semble étrangement actuel à notre époque de création de nouvelles infractions et d'alourdissement des peines, il en est de même de son plaidoyer pour la tolérance face à la montée des fondamentalismes à laquelle nous avons le malheur d'assister.--Cf. Site web de l'éditeur.