This paper compares the application of two recently published guidance documents for risk-based assessment hydraulic actions on bridges, namely UK Design Manual Roads and Bridges Italian Ministry Infrastructure Transport’s Guidelines, to case study bridges (Staverton Bridge, UK; Borgoforte Italy). work is one first illustrate how apply these guidelines. Both present methods actions, while exhib...

involving radioactive materials in recent years have had consequences for the health of the general public. These have ranged from the major accident at Chernobyl in 1986 to accidental dispersion of medical and industrial radioactive sources. Responses to these accidents differed between countries. It later became apparent that some protective actions were taken that, in the most extreme cases,...

Overabundant populations of ungulates have caused environmental degradation and loss of biological diversity in ecosystems throughout the world. Culling or regulated harvest is often used to control overabundant species. These methods are difficult to implement in national parks, other types of conservation reserves, or in residential areas where public hunting may be forbidden by policy. As a ...

The national policy in Norway have since the last part of the 1990-ies been organized in programs that erected actions including national authorities, municipalities, regional authorities and private enterprises. What have we gained by our national activities to mainstream inclusive and accessibility policy for persons with reduced capability through the principles of Universal Design? Have we ...

Since Canter and Fritzon first introduced their "4D" classification system for arson, many studies have replicated the model with samples of arsonists from around the world. However, scholars have reported differences in the offence actions of arsonists across samples. No study as yet has attempted to statically examine the relevance of these differences. Using multidimensional scaling procedur...

MC Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (m.otten@erasmusmc .nl). Conflict of Interest Disclosures: The authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Dr Otten reported receiving travel grants from Pfizer (formerly Wyeth); and serving as a consultant to Roche. Dr Prince reported serving as a consultant to Bristol-Myers Squ...

Objective: to understand the knowledge and practice of Primary Health Care nurses about gender assistance LGBTQIA+ people. Methods: qualitative study, conducted with nine from Care. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews submitted Thematic Content Analysis. Results: three categories emerged: population; perception National LGBT Comprehensive Policy; demand for services nursing c...

Environmental policy research fails to integrate procedural and recognitional justice perspectives collective actions in governance learning for just climate adaptations. Drawing on the insights of two cities experiencing impacts differently, Bergen (Norway) Istanbul (Turkey), this paper assesses how influence different levels governments (local national) learn from these implement their locali...

in this paper, we extend some propositions of banachalgebras into module actions and establish the relationships betweentopological centers of module actions. we introduce some newconcepts as                         -property and -property for banach modules and obtain some conclusions inthe topological center of module actions and arens regularity of banachalgebras.