This book should be of interest to building and civil engineering contractors and specialists, especially site engineers, supervisors and agents; ready mixed concrete suppliers; consulting engineers; site staff; building control officers and other loc al authority staff.

In all industrialised countries, closed head injuries are responsible for vast numbers of hospital admissions and days of work lost. For instance, about 120,000 patients are admitted to hospital in the United Kingdom each year with a diagnosis that reflects closed head injury. Such injuries are a major cause of deaths following accidents, especially those that involve children and young people, and they are also a major cause of handicap and morbidity among the survivors.
This clinical condition is intrinsically a neurological one, but its proper evaluation demands an understanding of the...

This book gives a comprehensive survey of the field of industrial relations, focusing on general principles and problems. Illustrations are drawn from the practices adopted in many parts of the world such as Australia, France, Germany and the USA.

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