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Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
CONT

The differences in duration and routes of exposure may also help to explain the differences in health effects.

CONT

Duration of exposure acute: seconds, minutes or hours chronic: days, months or years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
CONT

On distingue en général trois formes d'intoxication suivant la rapidité d'apparition, la sévérité et la durée des symptômes et la rapidité d'absorption de la substance toxique. Une terminologie assez arbitraire, bien qu'utile en pratique, repose sur la durée de l'exposition au toxique.

CONT

La durée d'exposition au bruit intervient aussi [...]; plus elle est longue, plus le déficit auditif est important.

CONT

Il a été convenu d'appeler Critères de qualité d'air ambiant les méthodes expérimentales par lesquelles on pourra établir une corrélation entre la dose d'un polluant (produit de la concentration par le temps d'exposition) et les effets sur la santé; [...]

OBS

durée de contact : La sécurité et l'hygiène du travail [...], Quindron, p. 144.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estudios y análisis del medio ambiente
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Record 2 2011-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • History
CONT

Contact Period in the Champlain Valley (1609-1664 AD) ... 1609 the Mahican living in the Hudson Valley came in contact with Dutch explorer Henry Hudson. Shortly thereafter, the Dutch began to trade metal tools to the Mahican in exchange for furs. The Mahican also developed alliances with the French. When the English captured New Amsterdam in 1664, a region which included much of the Mahican’s traditional territory, the Mahican were forced to develop alliances with the British. By 1700 the Mahican population had been decreased from an estimated 4,000 to about 500 through European diseases, famine, wars, and political pressures. Many of the Mahican merged with other groups, including the Dutch, the Western Abenaki, the French, and the Mohawk Iroquois. By 1720 the Mahican no longer existed as an organized native tribe in the Champlain and Hudson Valleys. The influx of Europeans to the Northeast caused great upheaval among the region’s Native American populations. Disease, confusing political and economic relations, and continuous warfare split native communities apart and forced them to join outlying groups. ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire

Spanish

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