The use of cyberspace increases tremendously in the past 20 years. An increasing number of businesses and consumers worldwide have accessed the Internet and there is few doubt on its growing significance for world trade. The unique features of E-business lead to the uncertainty and insecurity for the consumers as well as the companies, and incur great strikes to the traditional jurisdiction rul...

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Public health researchers express concern about branded computer games on food company websites (i.e. advergames) that enable marketers to engage children for unlimited lengths of time to promote calorie-dense nutrient-poor foods. Study 1 examines children’s exposure to US food company websites with advergames: 1.2 million children visit these sites every month and spend up to 1 hour per month ...

Direct demand (DD) models are used to estimate pedestrian volumes at intersections as a function of readily available variables, such land use and socioeconomic features. The objectives this paper are: (1) identify qualitatively assess existing DD in the literature; (2) evaluate spatial transferability for estimating annual average daily traffic (AADPT) signalized intersections. Six developed f...

PURPOSE There are some epidemiological studies on pilots and cabin staff, but we found few health studies on aviation ground employees. The aim was to study associations between digestive symptoms in airline ground employees and diet, insomnia and lifestyle factors. METHODS A standardized questionnaire was mailed to all Stockholm ground employees in a Scandinavian airline company, 201 service...

Abstract This article develops a typology of historical and archival gaps—physical, historiographical, epistemological—to consider how non-existent sources are central to understanding colonial law governance. It does so by examining the institutional history court known as Chaudrie in French colony Pondichéry India eighteenth century, integrating problems that specific study legal history—ques...