Wonju is the first municipality in the Republic of Korea to fund the Healthy City project through municipal revenues from the local tobacco consumption tax. We investigated the process of the local tobacco consumption tax being approved as the main source of financing for the local Healthy City project. We also examined the sustainability and sufficiency of the funding by looking at the pricing...

This article characterizes and measures errors in the 2010 National Research Council (NRC) assessment of researchdoctorate programs in geography. This article provides a conceptual model for data-based sources of uncertainty and reports on a quantitative assessment of NRC research data uncertainty for a particular geography doctoral program. Findings indicate that important variables, including...

1Department of Agriculture and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2P5; 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research Centre, 6000 C&E Trail, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada T4L 1W1; 3Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Western Forage Beef Group, Lacombe Research Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. T4L 1W1. Received 27 January 2003, accepted 28 Au...

Council President: J. D. MacDonald President-Elect: J. H. Andrews Immediate Past President: G. C. Bergstrom Vice President: J. E. Leach Secretary: D. T. Beadle Treasurer: E. L. Stromberg Editor-in-Chief, Phytopathology: C. C. Mundt Editor-in-Chief, Plant Disease: K. L. Bowen Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: J. Stougaard Editor-in-Chief, Phytopathology News: M. L. Daughtrey...

How the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) faced electoral dilemma? Despite their rejection of political institutions, French municipal elections 2020 led some participants to embrace conventional politics. Under which circumstances can a social movement lead participation and eventually obtain success? Relying on quantitative qualitative data, this article provides an explanation activists different...