In the past two decades, the heavy environmental loading has led to the deterioration of air quality in Taiwan. The task of controlling and improving air quality has attracted a great deal of national attention. The Taiwanese government has since set up the National Air Quality Monitoring Network (TAQMN) to monitor nationwide air quality and adopted an array of measures to combat this problem. ...

Recent studies have shown that information mined from Craigslist can be used for informing public health policy or monitoring risk behavior. This paper presents a text-mining method for conducting public health surveillance of marijuana use concerns in the U.S. using online classified ads in Craigslist. We scraped more than 200 thousands of rental ads in the housing categories in Craigslist and...

In 2015, a 24-year-long prohibition of coal mining within some territories in the North Bohemia coal basin was lifted and as a consequence mining a part of the brown coal reserves might well be resumed. This paper analyses the impacts of maintaining the ban versus three options for a less environmentally stringent policy on the Czech energy system; fueland technology-mix, the costs of generatin...

The linkages between decisions about health research and policy and actual health outcomes may be extraordinarily difficult to specify. We performed a pilot application of a "road mapping" and technology assessment technique to perinatal health to illustrate how this technique can clarify the relations between available options and improved health outcomes. We used a combination of data-mining ...

The existing public access policy for our three journals-The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology-is fully compliant with new policies from the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Wellcome Trust. In addition to mandating public access, the new policies specify licensing terms for reuse of content by third parties, in particular for...

The firewall is usually the first line of defense in ensuring network security for an organization. However, the management of firewalls has proved to be complex, error-prone, and costly for many large-networks. Manually configured firewall rules can easily contain anomalies and mistakes. Even if the rules are anomaly-free, the presence of defects in the firewall implementation, or the firewall...

This article aims to describe how is the policy of coal mining management on country which its system socialism or capitalism then it will be compared with in Indonesia that follow democracy system. research included ad qualitative research. The method used literature study find by a capitalism, socialism, and Islam ideologies. By case approach law regulations are found every has function for l...