The following topics related to radionuclide transport in the vicinity of the repository in the 1996 performance assessmentfor the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant are presented (i) mathematical description of models, (ii) uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results arising from subjective (i.e., epistemic) uncertainty for individual releases, (iii) construction of complementary cumulative distribu...

This paper studies voluntary certification when (a) there is uncertainty about managerial propensity to report truthfully, (b) some components of the firm’s value may be certified for a cost (“hard”), (c) other components may be disclosed but not certified free of misstatements (“soft”). We establish that untruthful managers are more likely to certify hard information and that, among truthful m...

OBJECTIVE To examine an online auction site for the presence and sale of children's products and toys previously recalled because of safety concerns. METHODS Targeted items were randomly selected from US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) press releases of recalled children's products dated 1992-2004. Auction listings from eBay were searched for the 150 targeted recalled items for 30 d...

Summary Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world's largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions releases. These have devastating consequences for miners' health environment. Most >20 million ASGM miners worldwide are not officially recognized, registered, regulated, or protected by state laws. Formalization—the process organizing, registering, reforming ASGM—is ma...

Anticipating some emerging audio devices and features, this paper surveys trends in mobile telephony (especially regarding mobile internet in Japan), wearable/intimate multimedia computing, handheld/nomadic/portable interfaces, and embedded systems like multimedia furniture and spatially immersive displays, gleaned from recent press releases and advertisements, popular media, and publications b...

2. Surveys comparing the quality of taxi services across countries are quite common. In France, every year, the “hotels.com” taxi survey makes the headlines of the newspapers when it comes out. Its press release () specifies: “Research was conducted amongst 1,400 travellers from the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark in May 2009.” In its last three issues London’s c...

—Introductions of non-indigenous species in ballast water are one of the greatest threats to freshwater and marine ecosystems worldwide. New approaches to reducing the release of organisms from ballast water are under consideration nationally and internationally. Unfortunately, the development of scientifically defensible policy for controlling introductions from ballast water has been retarded...

Drug addiction has developed to a social illness. Changes in glutamate transmission have been recorded by the repeated administration of addictive drugs into VTA. In this investigation, In vivo microdialysis was used to study the effects of morphine on glutamate release from the ventral tegmentum area (VTA) in freely moving rats. Rats were anesthetized with chloral hydrate (350 mg/kg, i.p.) and...