In 2011, Boston became one of the first cities in the United States to launch a bike-sharing program. Because public transportation by bus and subway can be slow in Boston, and driving even worse at times, bikes were thought to be a good alternative. One of the fun parts about taking public transportation is seeing who will be riding with you. Oftentimes you’ll learn more about some topic just ...

OBJECTIVE This article presents an evaluation of Common Ground, a media campaign-supported prevention program featuring increased enforcement, decreased alcohol access, and other environmental management initiatives targeting college student drinking. METHOD Phase 1 of the media campaign addressed student resistance to environmentally focused prevention by reporting majority student support f...

The ratio of blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) to breath-alcohol concentration (BrAC) was determined for 799 individuals apprehended for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in Sweden. The BrAC was determined with an infrared analyzer (Intoxilyzer 5000S) and venous BAC was measured by headspace gas chromatography. The blood samples were always taken after the breath tests were made and ...

Ignition interlocks are effective in reducing recidivism among driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders while installed on their vehicles. However, the devices are not widely used in the USA. This survey gauged public support for requiring ignition interlocks for all convicted DWI offenders including first-time offenders. 69% of respondents supported such a policy. Support was lowest (38%) amo...

interpreter for logic programs Input: a goal G and a program P Output: an instance of G that is a logical consequence of P, or no otherwise. Algorithm: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 initialize the resolvent to G. while the resolvent is not empty do choose a goal A from the resolvent choose a (renamed) clause A’ B1, ..., Bn from P such that A and A’ unify with MGU Θ. (if no such goal and clause exist, exit ...

Over the past decade there has been little decrease in the number of alcohol-related driving fatalities. During this time most interventions have been educational or legal. This paper presents the results of a field experiment that used social marketing to introduce a new ride program into three rural communities. Almost all people in the 21-34-year-old target know that they should not drive wh...

This paper tries to analyze effects of trade and financial liberalizations on the Iran’s government size during both long-run and short- run. Accordingly, a specification of the auto regression with distributed lag (ARDL) has been used for investigating the long run relationships between variables, and a vector correction model (VECM) has examined dynamically the short-run relationships betwe...

T his paper empirically examines the relationship among exports, foreign direct investment, current account deficit and economic growth in Pakistan during the period 1975-2016.We adopted the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration together with ECM techniques to trace the long-run as well as the short-run relationships. The results demonstrate the existence o...