Like any self-respecting public health official, it was my lifelong dream to be sued by a tobacco company. I got my wish in 2008. At that time I was the Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and we became the first locality to ban the sale of tobacco at pharmacies. Phillip Morris USA, Inc. promptly filed suit in the United States District Court to overturn the ban. Their la...

Citation: Schlundt J and Aarestrup FM (2017) Commentary: Benefits and risks of antimicrobial use in food-producing animals. In a recent general attempt to review literature related to documentation of policy changes in the area of antimicrobial use in agriculture we have read the article by Hao et al. (2014) and have found it full of flaws and misinterpretations. We cannot comment on all but wo...

Amaç: Bu çal??mada ?ark ç?ban? hastalar?nda; tedavi s?ras?nda e?itim olmaks?z?n hastal?kla ilgili bilgi düzeyinde de?i?iklik olup olmad???n? ve sa?l?k e?itiminin hastalar?n düzeyi üzerine etkisini belirlemek amaçlanm??t?r. Yöntem: Ara?t?rma müdahale tipindedir ?anl?urfa Ç?ban? Tan? Tedavi Merkezinde gerçekle?tirilmi?tir. Çal??ma 51 ki?i müdahale, kontrol grubu olmak üzere, toplamda 102 ile tama...

Food system regulators often decide whether to ban existing practices or approve new technologies without conclusive scientific evidence on possible damage and knowing that resolution is likely in the future. In a model with three decision points and stochastic resolution of uncertainty, we study interactions between expected losses due to regulation and information availability when a regulato...

Wireless sensor network has undergone tremendous development in the last one decade. The reduced size of the sensors coupled with enhanced capability made the dream of unobtrusive monitoring closer to reality. Sensors are cheaper and readily available in the market in these days. These sensors, when deployed on the human body, forms a Body Area Network (BAN) that can detect and forward various ...

electrokinetic remediation is one of the most promising in situ or ex situ processes for decontamination of heavy metals, anions and polar organic compositions from the soil. in this study, we investigated the efficacy of this method in removing mercury from clayey soil (with kaolin to sand weight ratio of 2:1) and from gold mine tailing dam sediment and determined optimum removal conditions. t...

How does the CITES trade ban on international trade in elephant ivory affect the incentives to poach African elephants? In this commentary, the major effects of a trade ban on poaching incentives are captured in a simple static model of world ivory supply and demand. It is shown that a trade ban has ambiguous effects on poaching incentives. Although the ban reduces international ivory demand, o...

INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................512 I. GAGING THE RESPONSE TO HUMAN CLONING .................................517 A. Initial Reactions and Actions ........................................................517 B. Recent Attitudes Toward Human Cloning .....................................519 II. CAN A BAN ON HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CLONING ...

Type III unprojection plays a very important role in the birational geometry of Fano threefolds (cf. [CPR], [Ki], [BZ]). According to [Ki] p. 43, it was first introduced by A. Corti on his calculations of Fano threefolds of genus 6 and 7. It seems that at present a general definition of type III unprojection is still missing. After proving in Section 2 some general facts about residual ideals, ...