Note: Fertility & -- Infertility For Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgements -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How This Book Is Organised -- Icons Used in This Book -- Part I: Making Babies as Nature Intended -- Chapter 1: In the Beginning -- Making Babies: An Inefficient Process at Best -- How Aging Affects Fertility -- Things to Think About Before You Conceive -- Timing Your Baby: The Big Picture -- Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Birth Control -- Gene Genie: Looking at the Family Tree -- Getting Pregnant: Was It Easier for Grandma? -- Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps -- Biology for Baby Makers: Reviewing Male and Female Anatomy -- Putting Male and Female Parts Together: Having Sex (At the Right Time) -- Conceiving a Baby: How Sex Should Work -- Making Sure That You're Healthy - Before Conception -- Behaving Yourself When Trying to Conceive -- Finding Information -- Part II: Planning a Pregnancy -- Chapter 3: We're Trying! We're Trying! (to Get Pregnant) -- Predicting Ovulation: Kits, Sticks, and Software -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Positive Thinking - Home Pregnancy Tests -- Coping with That Time of the Month Again: The Pain of Not Getting Pregnant -- Looking at Your Lifestyle -- Eating for Two? Sampling a Fertility Diet -- Looking at Supplements - Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and More -- Turning to Complementary Therapies -- Chapter 4: You, Your Fertility, and Your GP -- Deciding When the Time is Right to See Dr G Practitioner -- Thinking About FAQs for Your First Visit -- Carrying Out Tests on Your First Visit -- Choosing Over-the-counter Remedies: Placeboes or Simple Solutions? -- Chapter 5: Great Expectations . . . But: Early Pregnancy Loss -- Getting 'a Little Bit' Pregnant - It's Possible -- Suffering a Miscarriage. , Ectopic Pregnancy: When the Embryo Is Developing in the Wrong Place -- Picking Yourself Up after a Loss -- Part III: Tests and Investigations -- Chapter 6: Moving on Up: Seeing a Specialist -- Seeking Dr Specialist -- Working with Dr Specialist -- Facing the Stranger in Your Sex Life -- Understanding What Dr Specialist Says -- Chapter 7: Finding the Female Problem: Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 -- Cataloguing the Common Tests: ABCD HSG -- Understanding Female Infertility Problems -- Reversing Sterilisation -- Understanding Diseases That Affect Fertility -- Chapter 8: It's a Man Thing: When Tests Reveal Sperm Problems -- Sounding Out Semen Analysis -- Interpreting Your Partner's Test Results -- Reversing a Vasectomy -- Overcoming Cancer and Male Fertility: The News Is Cautiously Optimistic -- Part IV: Eureka! Possible Solutions -- Chapter 9: Doing Your Homework: Researching Fertility Clinics and Funding Treatment -- Dealing with First Reactions -- Researching Fertility Clinics -- Footing the Bill: Who Will Pay? -- Chapter 10: All The 'I's: Introducing IUI, IVF, and ICSI -- Doing the Groundwork -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Discovering IUI, IVF, and ICSI - the Basics -- Deciding How Long to Keep Trying -- Thinking Ahead: Health Effects of Fertility Treatment -- Chapter 11: Giving Mother Nature a Helping Hand: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Treating Luteal Phase Defects -- Acquiring Help through AI -- Moving Up to Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation -- Boosting Progesterone -- Chapter 12: Making Test-Tube Babies: IVF -- Starting an IVF Cycle: A Roller Coaster Ride of Emotions -- Taking a Shot in the Dark: Time for hCG -- Going for the Gold: The Egg Retrieval -- Doing His Duty: Your Partner Is Busy, Too -- Answering Common Egg Retrieval Questions -- Chapter 13: ICSI: It Only Takes One Good Sperm!. , Understanding How ICSI Works -- Knowing Who Can Benefit from ICSI -- Recognising a Good Sperm When You See One -- Thinking Ahead: Things to Know about ICSI -- Chapter 14: 'Babies on Ice': Egg Freezing and Fertility Treatment -- Freezing Eggs: Coming In from the Cold -- Reaping the Benefits of Egg Freezing -- Completing the Job: Thawing, Fertilisation, and Transfer -- Creating a Storm in a Test Tube - The Controversy over Freezing Eggs -- Chapter 15: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing: Egg Donor Treatments -- Using Donor Eggs: The Whys and Wherefores -- Finding an Egg Donor -- Taking Steps to Egg Donation -- Getting Support -- Chapter 16: Creating an Embryo: Amazing Teamwork in the Lab -- Recognising a Good Egg -- Sorting Suitable Sperm -- IVF: Making an Embryo 'in Glass' -- Taking the Call from Embryology -- Grading an Embryo -- Looking at Your Uterine Lining -- Hatching Embryos - Come on Out, Guys -- Blast Off! Considering a Blastocyst Transfer -- 'One Embryo or Two?' -- Transferring Your Embryo -- Keeping Your Feet and Your Spirits Up after the Transfer -- Do's and Don'ts for the Two-Week Wait -- Part V: Post-First Cycle: How You May Feel and What You Can Do -- Chapter 17: Waiting and Hoping: Surviving the Two-Week Wait after Embryo Transfer -- Technically, You're Pregnant - Waiting for the Proof -- Sensing Every Little Twinge: The Truth about Pregnancy Symptoms -- Preparing for 'But What If?' - Having a Plan B -- Saying 'No' to Home Pregnancy Tests -- Responding to Positive News -- Considering the Next Step If IVF Doesn't Work -- Chapter 18: What's in Your Freezer? Frozen Embryo Transfers -- Facing a Few Facts about Frozen Embryos -- Discovering Why Embryos Are Frozen -- Understanding the Process of Cryopreservation -- Dealing with the Ethical Issues of Embryo Freezing -- Chapter 19: If at First You Don't Succeed: Trying IVF More than Once. , Calculating the Odds: Success Rates per IVF Cycle -- Going Back for Seconds? Considering Your Options -- I'm Okay, You're Okay - Checking On the State of Your Union -- Exploring Some Controversial Fertility Treatments -- Gearing Up for More Cycles -- Giving Up on Fertility Treatments? Considering When to Let Go -- Part VI: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Options for Non-Traditional Families -- Chapter 20: Third-Party Reproduction: You and You and Me and Baby Make . . . Four! -- Preparing Yourselves for Using a Donor -- Borrowing from the Sperm Bank -- Using Donor Eggs -- Receiving Donor Embryos - Embryo Adoption -- Surrogacy: Borrowing a Uterus for Nine Months -- Traditional Surrogacy - The Road Less Travelled -- Telling the Family or Keeping It to Yourself -- Chapter 21: Safe Options for Same-Sex Couples and Single Mums -- Examining the Issues That You May Face as a Same-Sex Couple -- Adoption in the Gay and Lesbian Community -- Going It Alone: Fertility Issues for the Single Parent -- Chapter 22: Ready-Made Families and Other Choices -- Opting to Adopt -- Trying Out Foster Parenting First -- Deciding to Live Child Free -- Working with Children -- Chapter 23: New Advances and Ethical Dilemmas -- Looking Down the Road: Long-Term Health Effects of Fertility Medication -- Selecting the Sex: When You Absolutely, Positively, Want a Boy Or a Girl -- Selective Reduction: Making the Hardest Choice -- Dividing Up the Leftover Embryos -- Putting Old Genes into New Skins: Cytoplasmic Transfer -- Posthumous Conception: Legal and Ethical Issues -- Cloning and Human Concerns -- Saving Stem Cells for Research -- 'Welfare of the Child': Asking Clinics to Decide Who's Fit to Parent -- Making Mistakes in the Lab: When Saying You're Sorry Isn't Enough -- Where Is All This Leading? New Fertility Frontiers -- Part VII: The Part of Tens. , Chapter 24: Ten Tips to Get You Through Treatment (and Keep You Sane!) -- Give Yourself Time -- Don't Panic -- Remember You're Not Alone -- Don't Blame Yourself -- Listen to Friends - Occasionally -- Don't Delay Treatment -- Don't Freak about the Financing -- Don't Get Needled about Needles -- Share Your Treatment Experience -- Coming to Terms with No Success -- Chapter 25: Ten (Okay, Seven) Groups of Fertility Medications and Where to Find Them -- Gonadotrophins -- GnRH Agonists -- GnRH Antagonists -- hCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) Intramuscular -- hCG Subcutaneous Recombinant -- Progesterone -- Clomiphene Citrate -- Locating What You Need -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 THESEUS Project -- 1.3 This Book -- References -- Chapter 2 - Developing a Holistic Approach to Assessing and Managing Coastal Flood Risk -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Flood Nomenclature: Vulnerability, Risk, and Resilience -- 2.3 Describing the Coastal Flood System: The Source-Pathway-Receptor-Consequence Model -- 2.4 Assessment of Existing Flood Management -- 2.5 Flood Damage -- 2.6 The Social Context of Flooding at the Coast -- 2.7 Coastal Habitats Within the Flood System -- 2.8 The Physical Context of Flooding at the Coast -- 2.9 Handling Uncertainty -- 2.10 Capturing Future Changes -- 2.11 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 - Innovative Engineering Solutions and Best Practices to Mitigate Coastal Risk -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Floating Breakwaters and Wave Energy Converters -- 3.3 Innovative Submerged Structures -- 3.4 Overtopping Resistance of Grass-covered Landward Slopes of Dikes -- 3.5 Upgrade of Conventional Rubble Mound Breakwaters and Revetments -- 3.6 Management of Sediment Resources -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 - Ecological Approaches to Coastal Risk Mitigation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Management of Sandy Habitats: Sandy Beaches to Sand Dunes -- 4.3 Management of Saltmarsh Habitats -- 4.4 Management of Biogenic Reefs -- 4.5 Management of Seagrass Meadows -- 4.6 Ecological Design Considerations for Hard Structures -- 4.7 Interaction of Multiple Stressors in the Coastal Zone -- 4.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 - Nonstructural Approaches to Coastal Risk Mitigations -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Insurance -- 5.3 Spatial (Land Use) Planning -- 5.4 Business Continuity Planning -- 5.5 Postflood Recovery, Vulnerability, and Resilience. , 5.6 Risk Communications at the Crossroads of Vulnerability Reduction and Resilience Enhancement -- 5.7 Evacuation Plans -- 5.8 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 - Toward Sustainable Decision Making -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Efficiency, Equity, and Sustainability of Mitigation Options -- 6.3 Evaluation of Mitigation Options -- 6.4 Legislative Constraints -- 6.5 Decision Making -- 6.6 Decision Support Systems -- 6.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7 - Case Studies Worldwide -- 7.0 - Introduction -- 7.1 - Extreme Estuarine Water Levels and Channel Morphology, Effect on Flood Extents and Habitat Resilience: The Scheldt Es ... -- 7.1.1 Description of the Site -- 7.1.2 The Scheldt Estuary Flood System -- 7.1.3 Application of the SPRC Model -- 7.1.4 Flood Sources and Drivers for the Dendermonde Case -- 7.1.5 Flood Mapping and Impacts -- 7.1.6 How Sediment Dynamics May Alter Conclusions on Flood and Erosion Risks -- 7.1.7 Conclusions and Recommendations for Risk Assessment Studies -- Acknowledgments -- 7.2 - Mitigating Flood and Erosion Risk using Sediment Management for a Tourist City: Varna, Bulgaria -- 7.2.1 Description of the Site -- 7.2.2 Risk Assessment -- 7.2.3 Mitigation Measures -- 7.2.4 Planning the Best Combination of Defense Strategies -- 7.2.5 Overall Conclusions and Recommendations -- Acknowledgments -- 7.3 - Coastal Wetlands in the Yangtze Estuary, China -- 7.3.1 Description of the Site -- 7.3.2 Existing Management -- 7.3.3 Coastal Wetlands in the Yangtze Estuary -- 7.3.4 Present Climate and Environmental Conditions and Future Trends -- 7.3.5 Vulnerability Assessment of the Coastal Wetlands under SLR -- 7.3.6 Mitigation Measures -- 7.3.7 Conclusion -- 7.4 - Managing Risk in a Large Flood System, the Gironde Estuary, France -- 7.4.1 Description of the Site -- 7.4.2 Existing Coastal Policy and Management Strategies. , 7.4.3 Flood System in the Gironde Estuary -- 7.4.4 Flooding in the Estuary -- 7.4.5 Mitigation Measures -- 7.4.6 Strategic Management (in the Short, Mid, and Long Term) -- 7.4.7 Policy Implications and Overall Conclusions and Recommendations -- 7.5 - Flood Hazard Mitigation in a Heavily Modified Estuary, the Elbe Estuary, Germany -- 7.5.1 Description of the Site -- 7.5.2 Physical Characteristics -- 7.5.3 Historical Development of the Estuary -- 7.5.4 The Flood System within the Elbe Estuary -- 7.5.5 Flood Mapping for HafenCity -- 7.5.6 Mitigation Measures -- 7.5.7 Strategic Management -- 7.5.8 Overall Conclusions and Recommendations -- Acknowledgments -- 7.6 - Risk Assessment and Mitigation in a Low-lying Coastal Area: Cesenatico, Northern Italy -- 7.6.1 Characterization of the Site -- 7.6.2 Risk Modeling -- 7.6.3 Identification of Mitigation Options -- 7.6.4 Preliminary Design of Mitigation Options -- 7.6.5 Selection of the Portfolio of Mitigation Measures -- 7.6.6 Impacts of the Portfolio of Mitigation Options -- 7.6.7 Strategic Management and Policy Implications -- 7.7 - Balancing Flood and Erosion Risk with Landscape Sustainability: Cancun, Mexico -- 7.7.1 Description of the Site -- 7.7.2 Characterization of the Flood System -- 7.7.3 Application of the SPRC Model -- 7.7.4 Risk Mitigation Measures -- 7.7.5 Strategic Management -- Acknowledgments -- 7.8 - Flood and Erosion Management on a Dynamic Spit: the Hel Peninsula, Poland -- 7.8.1 Description of the Site -- 7.8.2 The Current Flood System -- 7.8.3 Application of the SPRC Model -- 7.8.4 Meteomarine Climate: Present Conditions and Long-Term Trends -- 7.8.5 Flood Mapping -- 7.8.6 Erosion Scenarios -- 7.8.7 Mitigation Measures -- 7.8.8 Overall Conclusions and Recommendations -- 7.9 - Flooding and Erosion Risk Analysis in Santander Bay, Spain -- 7.9.1 Description of the Site. , 7.9.2 The Coastal System -- 7.9.3 Flood and Erosion Risk Modeling -- 7.9.4 Mitigation Measures -- 7.9.5 Cost and Benefit Analysis for the Mitigation Measures -- 7.9.6 Policy Implications -- 7.9.7 Overall Conclusions and Recommendations -- 7.10 - Teign Estuary, South Devon, UK: Stakeholder-Led Mitigation -- 7.10.1 Description of the Site -- 7.10.2 Settlements -- 7.10.3 Habitats and Ecology -- 7.10.4 Existing Flood Governance and Management -- 7.10.5 Quantifying Flood Risk Under Climate Change -- 7.10.6 Stakeholders and Flood Mitigation -- 7.10.7 Future Mitigation Options for the Teign Estuary -- 7.10.8 Conclusions -- References -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 WADER BIRDS -- 2 THE WADER WATCHERS -- 3 SPACING AND DISPERSION -- 4 DOWNS, BRECKS AND FARMLANDS -- Stone Curlew -- Oystercatcher -- Lapwing -- 5 MOORS AND HEATHLANDS -- Golden Plover -- Curlew -- Whimbrel -- 6 FLOWS AND PEATLANDS -- Greenshank -- Snipe -- Dunlin -- 7 LOCH, RIVER AND STREAM -- Common Sandpiper -- Red-necked Phalarope -- Redshank -- Ringed Plover -- 8 THE FOREST MARSH -- Temminck's Stint -- Wood Sandpiper -- Green Sandpiper -- 9 THE WOODCOCK -- 10 THE DOTTEREL -- 11 NEW OR RETURNING WADERS -- 12 PIPE-DREAM WADERS -- Selected bibliography -- Tables -- Sonagrams -- Index of birds -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- General index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Note: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Part I Synthesis/Overview -- 1 Knowledge Gained from Video-Monitoring Grassland Passerine Nests -- 2 Conservation Implications When the Nest Predators Are Known -- 3 Gamebirds and Nest Cameras: Present and Future -- Part II Breeding Behavior -- 4 Hatching And Fledging Times From Grassland Passerine Nests -- 5 Attendance Patterns And Survival of Western Meadowlark Nests -- 6 Sprague's Pipit Incubation Behavior -- 7 Patterns of Incubation Behavior In Northern Bobwhites -- 8 The Influence of Weather on Shorebird Incubation -- 9 Nocturnal Activity of Nesting Shrubland and Grassland Passerines -- Part III Behavioral Responses to Predation/Predator Identification -- 10 Bird Productivity and Nest Predation In Agricultural Grasslands -- 11 Predatory Identity can Explain Nest Predation Patterns -- 12 Nest Defense: Grassland Bird Responses To Snakes -- 13 Partial Depredations On Northern Bobwhite Nests -- 14 Identification of Sprague's Pipit Nest Predators -- Part IV Technology -- 15 Development of Camera Technology For Monitoring Nests -- Appendix -- Index -- Complete Series List.

Note: Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of appendices -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Preface -- Authors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Greenshank -- Chapter 2 The Family -- Chapter 3 Greenshank Country -- Chapter 4 Nest Hunting -- Chapter 5 Individual Greenshanks -- Chapter 6 Groups, Populations and Breeding Density -- Chapter 7 Voice -- Chapter 8 Territory and Dispersion -- Chapter 9 Courtship and Displays -- Chapter 10 Nest -- Chapter 11 Egg, Clutch and Laying Season -- Chapter 12 Brooding and Hatching -- Chapter 13 Young -- Chapter 14 Feeding Habitats, Feeding Behaviour and Food -- Chapter 15 Predators -- Chapter 16 The Breeding Habitat of The Greenshank in Scotland -- Chapter 17 Distribution, Numbers and Movements -- Chapter 18 Progress -- Bibliography -- Tables -- Appendix 1 Description of nesting territories -- Appendix 2 Nest sites and nest linings (D. A. Ratcliffe) -- Appendix 3 Egg-laying notes and observations -- Appendix 4 Analysis of unhatched greenshank egg -- Appendix 5 Food (Glutz 1977) -- Appendix 6 Ringing recoveries (R. Spencer, BTO) -- Appendix 7 Ectoparasites -- Appendix 8 Endoparasites (Parasitic Worms) -- Appendix 9 Hut diary for 21 May 1977 -- Appendix 10 Note on the interpretation of the sound spectrograms -- Appendix 11 World breeding and wintering ranges of greenshank T. nebularia and greater yellowlegs T. melanoleuca -- Colour plates -- Plates.

Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication & -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Welcome to Bird Watching in the South -- Creating a Habitat -- Profiles of Backyard Birds of the South -- Sharp-shinned Hawk -- Cooper's Hawk -- Rock Pigeon -- Eurasian Collared-Dove -- Mourning Dove -- Common Ground-Dove -- Eastern Screech-Owl -- Chimney Swift -- Ruby-throated Hummingbird -- Red-headed Woodpecker -- Red-bellied Woodpecker -- Downy Woodpecker -- Hairy Woodpecker -- Northern Flicker -- Pileated Woodpecker -- Eastern Phoebe -- Blue Jay -- American Crow -- Purple Martin -- Tree Swallow -- Barn Swallow -- Carolina Chickadee -- Tufted Titmouse -- White-breasted Nuthatch -- Brown-headed Nuthatch -- Carolina Wren -- House Wren -- Eastern Bluebird -- Wood Thrush -- American Robin -- Gray Catbird -- Northern Mockingbird -- Brown Thrasher -- European Starling -- Cedar Waxwing -- Yellow-rumped Warbler -- Summer Tanager -- Eastern Towhee -- Chipping Sparrow -- Field Sparrow -- Song Sparrow -- White-throated Sparrow -- Dark-eyed Junco -- Northern Cardinal -- Indigo Bunting -- Painted Bunting -- Red-winged Blackbird -- Common Grackle -- Brown-headed Cowbird -- Baltimore Oriole -- Purple Finch -- House Finch -- Pine Siskin -- American Goldfinch -- House Sparrow -- Birding Hotspots for the South -- Resources -- Index -- Meet Bill Thompson III -- Copyright Page.

Note: Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- WELCOME TO BIRD WATCHING IN THE NORTHEAST -- CREATING A HABITAT -- PROFILES OF BACKYARD BIRDS OF THE NORTHEAST -- Hawks -- Sharp-shinned Hawk -- Cooper's Hawk -- Pigeons & -- Doves -- Rock Pigeon -- Mourning Dove -- Owls -- Eastern Screech-Owl -- Swifts & -- Hummingbirds -- Chimney Swift -- Ruby-throated Hummingbird -- Woodpeckers -- Red-bellied Woodpecker -- Downy Woodpecker -- Hairy Woodpecker -- Northern Flicker -- Pileated Woodpecker -- Flycatchers -- Eastern Phoebe -- Crows & -- Jays -- Gray Jay -- Blue Jay -- American Crow -- Swallows -- Purple Martin -- Tree Swallow -- Barn Swallow -- Chickadees & -- Titmice -- Black-capped Chickadee -- Tufted Titmouse -- Nuthatches -- White-breasted Nuthatch -- Red-breasted Nuthatch -- Wrens -- Carolina Wren -- House Wren -- Thrushes -- Eastern Bluebird -- Wood Thrush -- American Robin -- Mimids -- Gray Catbird -- Northern Mockingbird -- Starlings -- European Starling -- Waxwings -- Cedar Waxwing -- Warblers -- Yellow-rumped Warbler -- Tanagers -- Scarlet Tanager -- Sparrows -- Eastern Towhee -- Chipping Sparrow -- American Tree Sparrow -- Field Sparrow -- Song Sparrow -- White-throated Sparrow -- Dark-eyed Junco -- Cardinals & -- Buntings -- Northern Cardinal -- Rose-breasted Grosbeak -- Indigo Bunting -- Orioles & -- Blackbirds -- Red-winged Blackbird -- Common Grackle -- Brown-headed Cowbird -- Baltimore Oriole -- Finches -- Purple Finch -- House Finch -- Common Redpoll -- Pine Siskin -- American Goldfinch -- Evening Grosbeak -- Weaver Finches -- House Sparrow -- BIRDING HOTSPOTS FOR THE NORTHEAST -- BIRDS I'VE SPOTTED -- RESOURCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- MEET BILL THOMPSON III.

Note: Ebook , Introduction: Themes and Objectives-- Water Emergencies: Opening remarks-- Water is life: a view of organisational resilience in the Australian water industry-- Online toxicity monitors and their use in distribution system and watershed early warning systems-- Water supply security issues and trends-- Consequence management within the Environmental Protection Agency's water security initiative-- Application of a risk based approach to security and integrity of assets - a regulators view-- Let's get real: Real world experiences with real-time on-line monitoring for security and quality. Detecting and responding to events-- The organisational culture of managing incidents and risks in the water sector-- A simulation tool for contaminant warning system design and evaluation-- CBRN modelling: application to water contamination-- Planning, preparedness and security of the alternative water supply-- Procedures for the decontamination of building plumbing systems-- Lessons learned from summer floods 2007. Phase 1 report - Emergency response prepared by Water UK's Review Group on flooding-- Risk assessment methodology for water utilities - RAM-WTM - lessons learned-- Risk-based approaches to water quality management: integrating public health metrics in water safety planning-- How standards can assist the assessment of, recovery and prevention of future emergencies-- The XX edition of the Torino Olympic Games experience: planning for and responding to drinking water contamination threats-- Sensitive, selective and simple UV-spectrometry for contaminant alarm systems-- Fully automated instrumentation for nucleic acid testing in the field-- Optimisation of NMR methodology for non-targeted detection of water contaminants-- Preventing water contamination - a co-ordinated response-- Potential sources of man-made radiochemical contamination of water resources with special emphasis on the nuclear fuel cycle-- Rapid methods-- Processing and databasing spectroscopic analyses and its use in the elucidation of unkowns-- Handbooks to assist in the management of a radiological incident involving the contamination of drinking water supplies-- Robust on-line total organic carbon (TOC) analyser for security monitoring-- Water UK emergency planning-- The Scottish Waterborne Hazard Plan-- Research related to water security-- Early warning and reports-- OK, we've got a problem, so who do we tell? Inter-agency communication - a water company view-- Review and evaluation of water concentration technologies for analysis by real-time PCR-- Scientific and Technical Advisory Cell (STAC) - getting timely public health advice to multi-agency frontline responders-- Communicating with the public during water contamination events: addressing vulnerable populations-- Medical preparedness for water contamination events-- Keeping the public on-side and maintaining reputation-- Sociological and psychological constraints to learning from failure-- Lessons learned from major contamination incidents - a discussion-- Review of conference-- List of posters-- Subject Index.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Pediatric Eye Examination; Anatomy and Physiology of Eye Movements; Binocular Vision and Introduction to Strabismus; Visual Development and Amblyopia; The Ocular Motor Examination; Sensory Aspects of Strabismus; Esodeviations; Exotropia; Alphabet Patterns and Oblique Muscle Dysfunctions; Complex Strabismus: Restriction, Paresis, Dissociated Strabismus, and Torticollis; Strabismus Surgery; Ocular Motility Disorders; Optical Pearls and Pitfalls