Ciclovía Initiatives

Ciclovía initiatives: engaging communities, partners, and policy makers along the route to success.

CONTEXT Recent efforts to increase physical activity through changes to the built environment have led to strategies and programs that use existing public space, including bicycle lanes, temporary parks, and the ciclovia initiative (scheduled events in which streets are closed to motorized vehicles and opened for recreational activities) popularized in South America. OBJECTIVE This article de...

NIEHS Initiatives

THE CELL MEMBRANE is a recognized site for radiation injury (Myers, 1970; Alper, 1971). Chemical agents known to interact with membrane components may therefore amplify cell killing when present during irradiation. Indeed membrane-active agents such as local anaesthetics, analgesics and tranquillizers have been shown to enhance radiation effects on cells (George et al., 1975; Shenoy et al., 197...

Standardization Initiatives

It is predicted that mobile applications will become an integral part of our lives at the personal and professional level. Mobile Payment (MP) is a promising and exciting domain that has been rapidly developing recently, and although it can still be considered in its infancy, great hope is put on it. If MP efforts succeed, they will boost both eand m-commerce and may be the killer service in 2....

NIEHS Initiatives

0^ Agricultural Chemicals Although agricultural chemicals improve crop yields, increase the quality of the American diet, and contribute to improvements in public health, there is growing public concern about their human health effects. Agricultural chemicals are usually mixtures of chemicals, some of which can damage the environment and accumulate in ecosystems. Depending on dose, some agricul...

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