BACKGROUND The hazards of cigarette smoking and its increasing consumption are well known despite the ongoing tussle between the tobacco industry and global governments. To curb the menace of smoking, anti-smoking laws have been enforced from time to time by various governments. In 2003, Ministry of Health (MoH) Government of Pakistan has imposed certain regulations on cigarette manufacturing i...

[1] We examine five different methods to estimate an earthquake’s magnitude using only P wave data for use in earthquake early warning systems. We test two input parameters: the maximum predominant period of the P wave (τp) and the displacement amplitude of the P wave’s vertical component (Pd). We apply our algorithms to 174 earthquakes 3.0<M< 8.0 from California and Japan that have also been u...

Abstract A U.S.-Japan expert workshop on mobile alert and warning was held online 8–10 September 2021. Funded by the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership (CGP) responding to Sendai Framework Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, compared U.S. Japanese contexts, systems, policies, messages investigate possibilities international harmonization of device-based early warning. The workshop’...

In a vehicular Hoc Network (VANET), reaching a potentially dangerous zone on road, wireless Collision Avoidance(CA) system issues warnings to drivers. Global positioning system can be used to get the vehicle position and which can be shared with other vehicles in the network. In case of emergency not all the vehicle get affected so broadcasting of alert packet is not feasible rather it has to b...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses a network of orbiting and geostationary satellites to calculate the position of a receiver over time. This technology has revolutionised a wide range of safety-critical industries and leisure applications ranging from commercial fisheries through to mountain running. These systems provide diverse benefits; supplementing the users existing navigation skil...

Van Rensselaer Potter's original concept of bioethics as a global integration of biology and values was designed to guide human survival. His attention to the creation of human knowledge and the incorporation of ecological concepts and values into medicine and health remain important, yet largely neglected, contributions deserving of further elaboration. Bioethicists should heed his warning abo...

The global nature of antimicrobial resistance and the failure to control the emergence of resistant organisms demand the implementation of a global surveillance program involving both developed and developing countries. Because of the urgent need for infection control interventions and for rapid distribution of information about emerging organisms, we initiated the International Network for the...