Adherence to treatment is a key element for global TB control. Public health laws can be used to enforce isolation, adherence, and completion of TB treatment. However, the practical application of public health laws can potentially range from voluntary measures to involuntary detention approaches. This paper explores the potential risks and impacts of using detention approaches to enforce TB tr...

Storm water detention has been widely used for on-site runoff release control. The required storm water detention volumes are often determined by the pre-selected release rates for various design events. When a low release rate is selected, the basin stores more storm water volume than required and it results in an insufficient base flow for the downstream habitats. When a high release is selec...

Approximately 4.5 million U.S. citizen children live in mixed-status families, in which at least 1 family member is an unauthorized migrant and therefore vulnerable to detention and deportation from the United States (Passel & Cohn, 2011). This article critically examines the current state of the literature on the psychosocial consequences of detention and deportation for unauthorized migrants,...

Harvesting stormwater from urban catchments provides a supplementary water resource and, due to the physical abstraction of polluted water, also leads to environmental benefits. These benefits include the reduction of frequent ecosystem disturbance during small storms and less waterway erosion; hydrological impacts which are currently addressed by WSUD guidelines for stormwater detention. Altho...

In Italy, Law 231/99 and subsequent amendments standardize the conditions allowing or not a HIV positive inmate to remain in jail. Currently such clinical conditions are not automatically associated with the decline of preventive detention and the Court evaluates the incompatibility with detention on the basis of two additional and independent criteria. We have been observing the tendency by ja...

The term high-rate sedimentation used here refers to the use of shallow gravitational settlers with detention periods of not more than 15 min to achieve comparable or better settling efficiencies normally obtained in conventional rectangular settling tanks having detention periods of usually more than 2 hr. The settlers can be rectangular, circular, or any other convenient shape. They can be ei...

INTRODUCTION Obesity and overweight are universally recognized as risk factors for cardiovascular disease, stroke and other chronic diseases. The few studies of overweight and obesity in inmate populations suggest that the prevalence of obesity in an institution is associated with the prevalence of the region. The goal of the study is to describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity in a sa...