The methodology for the scientific assessment of animal welfare has developed rapidly in recent years and has become a major scientific discipline. The concepts of welfare, need, stress, health, pain, emotion and feeling are now clarified. In teaching, legislation and practical work referring to animal welfare, a clear definition that can be related to other concepts is needed. The welfare of a...

In order to provide comfortable and safety life for every people in the world, information technologies will be useful in a rural area as well as in a metropolitan area. This paper proposes a new concept of Life Support Network (LSN) for elderly people living in a rural area. The network is a type of Intranet, which incorporates a safety confirmation system, a remote healthcare system, an emerg...

― ― S30 ― US FDA is a regulatory body to regulate not only drugs but also medical devices, biological products, cell therapy products, cosmetics and food additives. The largest laboratory animal users are laboratories that follow the government requirement for safety testing and the amendment of GLP regulation is interested in by laboratory animal industry. In USA, GLP is regulated by law inste...

We study antitrust enforcement in which the fine must obey four legal principles: punishments should fit the crime, proportionality, bankruptcy considerations, and minimum fines. We integrate these legal principles into an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model. Bankruptcy considerations ensure abnormal cartel profits. We derive the optimal fine schedule that achieves maximal social welfare under ...

Department of Infectious Diseases, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Osaka 537-0025; Osaka Prefectural Dog Management Office, Osaka 537-0025; Food Safety Promotion Division, Department of Public Health and Welfare, Osaka Prefectural Government, Osaka 540-8570; and Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Infection Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 208-0011, J...

Administrative data provide a rich source of information for child welfare administrators and the child welfare research community. With administrative data, program managers, evaluators and others may examine who is served by the child welfare system, engage in continuous quality improvement efforts, and evaluate changes in service delivery outputs and outcomes over time. In addition, using ad...

In March 2007, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) was asked to evaluate the noise exposure of employees in the Nutrition and Food Services Department of a large hospital, because of noise concerns raised after the installation of the PowerSoak dishwashing system. Eleven employees (two cooks, eight food service workers, and a materials handler) contributed 13 full-...

This paper is centered around the design of a threadand memory-safe language, primarily for the compilation of application-specific services for extensible operating systems. We describe various issues that have influenced the design of our language, called Cuckoo, that guarantees safety of programs with potentially asynchronous flows of control. Comparisons are drawn between Cuckoo and related...

This paper investigates how the formation of larger buyers affects a supplier’s profits and, by doing so, his incentives to undertake non-contractible activities. We first identify two channels of buyer power, which allows larger buyers to obtain discounts. We subsequently examine the effects of buyer power on the supplier’s incentives and on social welfare. Contrary to some informal claims in ...