A Wake-Up Call Theory of Contagion

Elder abuse--a wake up call.

Challenging Safety Regulation – a Wake-up Call

In presenting a framework for tackling these issues, the paper examines current safety practices. In particular it challenges, from a theoretical perspective, and by reference to recent research, two common misconceptions that safety is largely a matter of equipment reliability and that process-based assurance can provide adequate evidence of system safety. It argues that failure to address the...

A clear 'wake-up call' from Korea

*Correspondence: Tae-Il Kim (Editor-in-Chief) Department of Periodontology, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-749, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82-2-2072-2642 Fax: +82-2-744-1349 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) first occurred in Jordan in April 2012, began spreading in Saudi Arabia as of September 2012, and recently emerged in Ko...

A wake-up call for nutrition labelling.

In 2011, the European Union issued a new regulation on the provision of information on food for consumers (1). The regulation includes new directives for the provision of nutrition information on processed foods. In response, a number of food manufacturers and retailers recently committed themselves to harmonize the nutrition information on their products (2). In the USA in 2011, the Institute ...

Pure or wake-up-call contagion? Another look at the EMU sovereign debt crisis

We test whether the sharp increase in sovereign spreads of euro-area countries with respect to Germany after the explosion of the Greek crisis was due to deteriorating macroeconomic and fiscal fundamentals or to some form of financial contagion. Our analysis includes indicators of domestic and external imbalances which were mostly disregarded by previous studies, and distinguishes between inves...