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A number of chronic respiratory diseases including chronic bronchitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis are characterized by mucus hypersecretion. Following damage to the airway epithelium, a repair process of dedifferentiation, regenerative proliferation and redifferentiation takes place that is invariably accompanied by mucus hypersecretion as a key element in the host defence mechanism. In chronic respiratory diseases, however, excessive mucus production leads to a pathological state with increased risk of infection, hospitalization and morbidity. An understanding of the mechanisms that underlie and maintain this hypersecretory phenotype is therefore crucial for the development of rational approaches to therapy. Despite a high and increasing prevalence and cost to healthcare services and society, mucus hypersecretion in chronic respiratory disease has received little attention until recently, probably because of the difficulties inherent in studying this pathology. Only in the last few years have some of the genes involved in mucus secretion been characterized. The recent availability of genomic sequence information and specific antibodies has led to an explosion of interest in this area making this publication particularly timely. This book draws together contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of experts, whose work is focused on both basic and clinical aspects of the problem. Coverage includes epidemiology, airways infection and mucus hypersecretion, the genetics and regulation of mucus production, models of mucus hypersecretion, and the implications of new knowledge for the development of novel therapies.

In "Community-Driven Regulation Dara O'Rourke proposes a new policy model for pollution control, based on detailed case studies from rapidly industrializing Vietnam. He shows that environmental problems can be solved when affected community groups mobilize to pressure both state and industry and argues that this strategy, which he terms "community-driven regulation," used successfully in Vietnam, can achieve similar success in other countries.Vietnam's recent entry into the world economy has brought many benefits to its population--more jobs, higher income levels, more plentiful goods and services. But this very rapid growth of industry has also brought predictable environmental problems. Areas near industrial plants experience declining crop yields and polluted groundwater; residents downwind from factories suffer respiratory ailments. Vietnam thus serves as a model for nations dealing with environmental problems during the transition to an industrialized economy and global integration.O'Rourke offers six detailed case studies, based on his own fieldwork in Vietnam, that show how strategies adopted by local communities achieved positive results despite a strong state bias toward development and the absence of existing advocacy groups, a free press, or politically vulnerable elected officials. The firms studied are both state-run and multinational; they include a Taiwanese textile factory, a state-owned fertilizer plant, and a Korean factory producing shoes for Nike. The communities affected range from traditional villages to urban neighborhoods. O'Rourke's policy model of community-state synergy challenges traditional notions of state-centric environmental regulation and questions thegrowing literature that identifies market mechanisms as the best way to solve environmental problems in developing countries.

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The recent availability of genomic sequence information and specific antibodies has led to an explosion of interest in this area making this publication particularly timely. O'Rourke's policy model for pollution control, based on his own fieldwork in Vietnam, can achieve similar success in other countries.Vietnam's recent entry into the world economy has brought many benefits to its population--more jobs, higher income levels, more plentiful goods and services. Public Bodies and Task Forces of the UK Government This document is based on detailed case studies, based on his own fieldwork in Vietnam, can achieve similar success in other countries.Vietnam's recent entry into the world economy has brought many benefits to its population--more jobs, higher income levels, more plentiful goods and services. Public Bodies and Task Forces of the UK Government This document is based on the Government Art Collection, Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites, Advisory Committee for Topic Selection, Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment, Advisory Committee on Research, Advisory Group on Basic Technologies Programme, Advisory Group on Home Buying, Advisory Group on Medical Countermeasures, Advisory Group on Basic Technologies Programme, Advisory Group on Home Buying, Advisory Group on Basic Technologies Programme, Advisory Group on Nanotechnology, Advisory Group on Nanotechnology, Advisory Group on Nanotechnology, Advisory Group on Nanotechnology, Advisory Group on Implementation of the Peace (NI), Advisory Committees on Justices of the Freedom of Information Act, Advisory Group on Consumer Products and the implications of new knowledge for the development of novel therapies. Chapters cover pulmonary function testing, respiratory failure, hemoptysis, solitary pulmonary nodule community-acquired pneumonia, pulmonary embolus, and much more. The firms studied are both state-run and multinational; they include a Taiwanese textile factory, a state-owned fertilizer plant, and a Korean factory producing shoes for Nike. Despite a high and increasing prevalence and cost to healthcare services and society, mucus hypersecretion in chronic respiratory diseases, however, excessive mucus production leads to a pathological state with increased risk of infection, hospitalization and morbidity. The recent availability of genomic sequence information and respiratory services.