What makes recycling work? We study the factors driving household waste disposal and recycling in 18 cities in Taiwan and Japan in order to understand the impact of alternative waste management incentives. We show that this depends on the effect of distinct policies on the relative costs of the main alternative disposal methods: recycling, disposal to landfill and illegal dumping. The willingne...

BACKGROUND Informal ("curbside") consults are widely used by primary care physicians. These interactions occur in person, by telephone, or even by e-mail. Exposure to malpractice liability is a frequent concern of subspecialty physicians and influences their willingness to engage in this activity. To assess this risk, we reviewed reported judicial opinions involving informal consultation by phy...

The use of an inconsistent speed limit determination method can cause low compliance. Therefore, we developed objective methodology based on engineering judgment considering the traffic accident rate in road sections, degree roadside development, and geometric characteristics sections urban roads. scope this study is one-way roads with two or more lanes cities, appropriate were selected among a...

Expanding the curbside collection system for household plastic packaging could help in accomplishing ambitious recycling targets set by European Union. In this study, effects of such expansion terms quality and quantity sorted waste fractions were investigated. By applying a validated sorting model, flows packages Belgium from their use phase until output plant composition simulated. These data...

This position paper highlights an ethic of machine-to-machine cooperation and machine pro-sociality, argues that machines capable autonomous sensing, decision-making action, such as automated vehicles urban robots, owned used by different self-interested parties, having their own agendas (or interests owners) should be designed built to cooperative in behaviours, especially if they share public...

Abstract Urban afforestation is an important strategy for promoting sustainable urban development. In cities where large new green spaces are not available, the planting of curbside trees deemed to be strategy. However, variations in ecosystem services provided by street tree assemblages across socioeconomic gradients have been unexplored. We examined such along urban–suburban continuum. Our fi...

conclusions listening to the relaxant music can reduce postoperative pain. it is suggested that relaxant music be used as a complementary method in patients in order to reduce prospective pain. results before intervention, the mean of pain intensity was 6.32 ± 0.21 and 6.10 ± 0.21 for experimental and control groups, respectively; and the difference was not significant (p = 0.21). after interve...

Food waste is a growing global issue with widespread environmental, economic, and social impacts. Households are both major driver of generation key enabler solutions such as source reduction composting. In the U.S., household food still predominantly landfilled, motivating this study to understand beliefs, experiences, barriers that individuals face when deciding whether separate precursor lan...