BACKGROUND Police officers have been reported to exhibit a high incidence of pathologies, which present prematurely in an otherwise healthy population. Shift work has also been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular and sleep disorders, attributable to its propensity for circadian rhythm dysfunction. However, contention exists as to whether shift work has a direct effect upon blood...

GUILTY STEREOTYPES: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF RACE AND SUSPICION IN POLICE INTERVIEWS AND INTERROGATIONS by SARA C APPLEBY Adviser: Maria Hartwig Over 300 people have been exonerated by post conviction DNA testing, unequivocally proving their innocence. Nearly 70% of these post conviction DNA exonerees are members of minority groups, and approximately 69% of those convicted as a result of false ...

Objectives—To evaluate the contribution of traYc fumes to exposure to benzene in urban workers, an investigation on personal exposure to benzene in traYc police from the city of Rome was carried out. Methods—The study was performed from December 1998 to June 1999. DiVusive Radiello personal samplers were used to measure external exposures to benzene and alkyl benzenes during the workshift in 13...

As a participating national lab in the inter-institutional effort to resolve performance issues of the non-elutable ion exchange technology for Cs extraction, we have carried out a series of characterization studies of UOP IONSIV IE-911 and its component parts. IE-911 is a bound form (zirconium hydroxide-binder) of crystalline silicotitanate (CST) ion exchanger. The crystalline silicotitanate r...

BACKGROUND There is lack of data on idiopathic epilepsy (IE) in the Italian Spinone (IS). OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of IE in the IS in the United Kingdom (UK) and to investigate predictors of survival and seizure remission. ANIMALS The target population consisted of 3331 IS born between 2000 and 2011 and registered with the UK Kennel Club (KC). The owners of 1192 dogs returned p...

Public sector officials are typically not rewarded by explicit pay for performance mechanisms. Instead, they are often monitored by sporadic investigation, where the relevant issues for oversight are (i) who oversees performance, and (ii) what triggers an investigation. I consider a choice between internal and external monitoring of public agencies. I argue that a drawback with internal oversig...