Stormwater run-off from for example industrial areas as well as roads with heavy traffic may contain considerable amounts of pollutants. Run-off from these areas may require special treatment to fully comply with existing environmental regulations and safeguard the receiving water bodies. In this study, flocculation and membrane filtration are tested to evaluate their efficacy in removing heavy...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of various types of inoculation message treatments on resistance to persuasive and potentially deceptive health- and nutrition-related (HNR) content claims of commercial food advertisers. METHODS A three-phase experiment was conducted among 145 students from a Midwestern U.S. university. Quantitative statistical analyses were used to interpret the results. RESU...

Administrative agencies frequently use guidance documents to set policy broadly and prospectively in areas ranging from Department of Education Title IX enforcement to Food and Drug Administration regulation of direct-to- consumer pharmaceutical advertising. In form, these guidances often closely resemble the policies agencies issue in ordinary notice-and-comment rulemaking. However, guidances ...

This feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specifi c goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., Professor of Economics, University of Mich...

Environments for Safety Regulations A common factor in whether regulation is used is the seriousness of the outcome being addressed in terms of human health. For this reason regulation is more common in transportation and the workplace, where the potential for fatal injury is perceived to be relatively great, and less common in the home and in sports environments, where the potential for fatal ...

Introduction: Vehicle and motorcycle accidents are one of the main causes of mortality in the world and the highest rates of mortality are attributed to developing countries. On average, every day, there are three thousand car deaths in the world, and mortality related to vehicles are the 11th most common cause of death in developing countries. In our country, the death toll from driving accide...

Despite decades of research on social capital, studies that explore the relationship between political institutions and generalized trust-a key element of social capital-across time are sparse. To address this issue, we use various cross-national public-opinion data sets including the World Values Survey and employ pooled time-series OLS regression and fixed- and random-effects estimation techn...

This article discusses the risk of exploitation mobile scene. The types such scenes were characterized. Building and traffic regulations for are cited. selected scene construct risks related to its safe operation

Road traffic accidents are a leading cause of death of children. It is the law that all children should be appropriately secured when traveling in vehicles. The aim of this study was to evaluate parental conformity with these regulations and to test if advice given at a Paediatric outpatient clinic could improve compliance. Two groups were assigned, an intervention group (parents given an infor...