Mercury (Hg) is a complex, multifaceted contaminant. Methylmercury (MeHg), the more bioavailable and toxic form, biomagnifies and drives most human health advisories and concerns for wildlife impacts. Moreover, Hg transport, transformations, bioaccumulation, and exposure are affected by numerous interacting processes and phenomena (e.g., climate change, nutrient loading, land use/cover, food we...

For several years, the senior editors and editorial board of Tobacco Control have discussed changing our formal stance on the publication of research funded by the tobacco industry. It is simple enough to say, as most journals do, that regardless of funding source, well-done science should always be welcome at a journal if it passes peer review, and that full disclosure about funding sources pr...

Historically, the justification for municipal provisioning of “last-mile” communications infrastructure has focused on the natural monopoly aspect of wireline infrastructure. Growing interest in wireless ISPs, municipal hot spots, and access to public space for siting wireless infrastructure suggests new and expanded opportunities for local government participation in telecommunication services...

Larger units, vertical integration, and other structural changes to the swine industry are controversial in Minnesota as elsewhere. I'm frequently asked how public policies might be modified in order to influence these changes. My response is that we need to understand how government policies may have played a role in triggering past changes in the livestock industry so that we are in a better ...

Many policy search algorithms minimize the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to a certain target distribution in order to fit their policy. The commonly used KL-divergence forces the resulting policy to be ’reward-attracted’. The policy tries to reproduce all positively rewarded experience while negative experience is neglected. However, the KL-divergence is not symmetric and we can also minimiz...

Many disciplines increasingly recognize the importance of empowering the political sense, rights and opportunities to individuals and communities have the health and well-being of communities they belong and in which they live. For health promoters, it is a concept that emphasizes a more effective control of health determinants that ultimately involves interventions and actions of health promot...

Following the November 2006 election, many wondered what the shift from Republican to Democratic control in Congress and across state capitols would mean for women’s health policy. A record number of women also now serve in the Congress, state legislatures, and governor’s offices, and, for the first time, a woman is Speaker of the House. Have these changes realigned health priorities? What will...

* This paper investigates recent changes in British cultural policy and their implications for artsmarketing. It first points out the decisive role of the policy in shaping the environment of the nonprofit arts and argues that arts marketing developed as an organisational strategy within the context of marketisation policy since the 1980s. This is followed by an analysis of the current cultural...

globalization, more than a concept, is a process in which developing of sciences, technologies of production and information have changed many sides of life and brought some different approaches to them. among these phenomena, power relations have significantly changed. levels and aspects of development have interaction with other changing concepts and sometimes reject the patterns of moderniza...