Food colors are added to different types of commodities to increase their visual attractiveness or to compensate for natural color variations. The use of these additives is strictly regulated in the European Union, the United States, and many other countries worldwide. There is a growing concern about the safety of some commonly used legal food colorants and there is a trend to replace the synt...

abstract environmental protection is a major concern of the international community. renewable natural resources and to protect the rights of current and future generations of sustainable development was concerned governments and international organizations. sustainable development seeks to balance and compromise between economic, social and environmental. the traditional approach economy brown...

background: although natural disasters leave thousands of deaths and wounded, one of their most significant outcomes is empowering women as well as taking measures with special attention to women. this study aimed to analyze women’s cooperation and its affective factors in natural disasters and accidents. materials and methods: the study design is cross-sectional and descriptive. the study popu...

1 Introduction Although many legal experts thought this would be impossible we are very close in creating an algorithm for automated norm analysis from legal texts. This algorithm makes use of invariant linguistic structures at the syntactical level that characterises specific normative expressions in natural language. Since the algorithm has not been realised and tested completely jet, we will...

If you could choose to live in a place in the United States that met all of your preferences and needs, where would it be? The "perfect state," of course, but does such a place exist? Judging places from best to worst has become an American pastime. Several surveys that rate the quality of life in different metropolitan areas are published annually (1-3). Not surprisingly, the results of these ...

Prediction of natural disasters and their consequences is difficult due to the uncertainties and complexity of multiple related factors. This article explores the use of domain knowledge and spatial data to construct a Bayesian network (BN) that facilitates the integration of multiple factors and quantification of uncertainties within a consistent system for assessment of catastrophic risk. A B...