BACKGROUND Nearly 40 million persons in the United States were without health insurance for all of 2000. National health insurance would remedy this situation, and many believe the success of reform efforts in this direction may depend on physician support. OBJECTIVE To determine the general attitudes of U.S. physicians toward the financing of national health care. DESIGN Cross-sectional st...

Australia has seen substantial changes to its framework of mine ventilation legislation, statutory mining qualifications and ventilation training over the past 15 years. This has been driven by a number of factors including: advances in underground mining technology, shortages of professionals, fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) arrangements on many sites, the ascendancy of the “risk assessment” philosophy...

Motives: The increased interest in alternative fuels requires the creation of special legislation, especially context rules for development and performance proper infrastructure necessary electric vehicles. Any change these regulations usually results an or hybrid cars. This, turn, entails need to develop appropriate fuels. Aim: aim this paper is present legal force Poland related support elect...

Except for some U.S. states and localities, gay men and lesbians are largely unprotected from employment discrimination. In debate over national legislation (Employment Non-Discrimination Act), some legislators have questioned the efficacy of antidiscrimination legislation. To address this issue, we conducted three studies. In Study 1, we documented public awareness of sexual orientation employ...