AIMS To describe the globalized sector of the alcoholic beverage industry, including its size, principal actors and activities. METHODS Market research firms and business journalism are the primary sources for information about the global alcohol industry, and are used to profile the size and membership of the three main industry sectors of beer, distilled spirits and wine. FINDINGS Branded...

Our activities affect the environment and. the environment affects our health. As the number of humans on earth increases, our agricultural and industrial activities have a greater impact on the environment, particularly on the atmosphere. As our most precious resource, the atmosphere has been polluted, so it is imperative to take measures to control air pollution. It becomes necessary to know ...

healthy hire effect (hhe) is considered as an epidemiological phenomenon, complicating the assessment of a true cause - effect relationship between occupational exposure and health status of workers. the current study was aimed at identification and elimination of hhe in the risk assessment of arterial hypertension (ah) in coal miners. overall, 1553 miners, working in west siberia, were enrolle...

This paper explores the extent to which the UK tourism industry has accepted the increased standards of performance under the new Disability Discrimination Act. The research utilises the mystery shopper technique to request basic information from two hundred and ten randomly selected companies from various sectors of the tourism industry. The request stated that the mystery shopper is visually ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the preparedness of the US mass fatality infrastructure, we developed and tested metrics for 3 components of preparedness: organizational, operational, and resource sharing networks. METHODS In 2014, data were collected from 5 response sectors: medical examiners and coroners, the death care industry, health departments, faith-based organizations, and offices of emergency m...

Net-zero-energy buildings (ZEBs) that contribute to making annual energy consumption balances zero are effective measures for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the construction sector. As application of ZEBs progresses, GHG during and manufacturing materials products (called EG) account a relatively large proportion overall emissions. This study aimed clarify EG as means by which formu...

BACKGROUND The provision of occupational health (OH) services to the UK population is limited and concentrated in certain industries. Occupational physicians (OPs) therefore see a different subset of the population than general practitioners (GPs) and their recognition of work-related ill health may differ. AIMS To examine how reports submitted by OPs and GPs compare and to discuss how biases...

The construction industry is one of the largest sectors in the U.S. economy, yet little is known about the key macroeconomic parameters that affect its industry’s structure and performance. The main objectives of this research are 1) to analyze the macroeconomic performance of construction industry as a whole and at fourteen of its sub-sectors in terms of labor productivity, gross margin, and w...

We provide visualizations of the architecture of the economy that are informed by theory, empirically based, and meaningful at multiple levels of analysis. The systems-based view of industry architecture disaggregates the economy into demand-based vertical sectors in which firms collaborate and compete to collectively satisfy a set of similar demands. Within vertical sectors, inter-industry rel...