Worldwide there is a tendency towards deregulation in many policy sectors - this, for example, includes liberalization and privatization of drinking-water management. However, concerns about the negative impacts this might have on human health call for prospective health impact assessment (HIA) on the management of drinking-water. On the basis of an established generic 10-step HIA procedure and...

Quality of life was measured by means of the sickness impact profile (SIP) questionnaire in a prospectively collected, consecutive series of 25 patients with perimesencephalic haemorrhage. A mean of two years and four months (range six months to six years) after the perimesencephalic haemorrhage, quality of life scores of the (former) patients were comparable with those of a random sample from ...

Citation Hoffmann, Matthias C. et al. " Impact ionization in InSb probed by terahertz pump terahertz probe spectroscopy. Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story mat...

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was penned 5 years ago to articulate best practices for how we communicate and judge our scientific contributions. In particular, it adamantly declared that Journal Impact Factor (JIF) should never be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research contributions, or for hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. Since t...

While health impact assessment (HIA) has typically been applied to projects, plans or policies, it has significant potential with regard to strategic considerations of major health issues facing society such as climate change. Given the complexity of climate change, assessing health impacts presents new challenges that may require different approaches compared to traditional applications of HIA...

The behaviour of the (I-V) characteristics is investigated in n+-i-n+ highly compensated Si resistors at temperatures 4.2-45K. The conduction mechanisms are discussed in detail here. The prebreakdown and breakdown regions of I-V characteristics were simulated by a one-dimensional model including the evidence of impurity high compensation and freeze out effects as well as the shallow-dopants imp...

In a recent paper [1], Talukder proposed a new empirical formula for electron-impact ionization cross sections of He-like ions that was claimed to excellently agree with the available experimental and theoretical data. Discussing this agreement, the author of reference [1] makes extensive comparison with our recommended formula of reference [2] (referred to as “BRY” in [1] although it would be ...

Purpose – This study shows that the journal impact factor is not able to reflect the full impact of scholarly journals and provides an overview of alternative and complementary methods in journal evaluation. Design/methodology/approach – Aslib Proceedings (AP) is exemplarily analyzed with a set of indicators from five dimensions of journal evaluation, i.e. journal output, content, perception an...

In this paper we study a partially ionized plasma that corresponds to an arc discharge at atmospheric pressure. We derive an inviscid hydrodynamic/diffusion limit, characterized by two temperatures, from a system of Boltzmann type transport equations modelling that plasma problem. The original property of this system is that impact ionization is a leading order collisional process. As a consequ...