Ideally, both ecosystem service and human development policies should improve human well-being through the conservation of ecosystems that provide valuable services. However, program costs and benefits to multiple stakeholders, and how they change through time, are rarely carefully analyzed. We examine one of China's new ecosystem service protection and human development policies: the Relocatio...

Early screens in yeast for mutations exhibiting sensitivity to DNA damage identified nuclear pore components, but their role in DNA repair was not well understood. Over the last decade, studies have revealed that several types of persistent DNA lesions relocate to either the nuclear pore complex (NPC) or nuclear envelope (NE). Of these two sites, the nuclear pore appears to be crucial for DNA r...

BACKGROUND A workplace's design can have various positive or negative effects on the employees and since the 1970s the advantages and disadvantages of open-plan offices have been discussed. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate perceived health, work environment and self-estimated productivity one month before and at three, six and twelve months after relocation from individual o...

Among the stressors that can affect animal welfare in zoos, the immediate effect of relocation to a novel environment is one that has received little attention in the literature. Here, we compare the social network, daily activity and the expression of stress-related behavior in capuchins (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) before and just after they were relocated to a new e...

Kristina Laurell Stenlund Luleå University of Technology Luleå, Sweden Successful construction projects include stakeholder management. However, it still is diffi cult to communicate stakeholders’ interest in the early planning processes of complex building projects due to different stakeholder groups and their confl icting values. The question of how city relocation processes are infl uenced b...

Medical malpractice liability reform is often promoted as a means to increase the labor supply of health care providers and improve access to medical care. Theory suggests, however, that if physicians differ in their malpractice risk, then reforms will tend to attract those physicians with the highest risk. In principle, any association between reforms and overall malpractice risk could be attr...

Many companies move from open-plan offices (OPO) to activity-based workplaces (ABWs). However, few studies examine the benefits and drawbacks following such a change. The aim of this study was to explore how physical conditions, office use, communication, privacy, territoriality, satisfaction and perceived performance change following a company's relocation from an OPO to an ABW. A mixed method...

OBJECTIVE First, to investigate the intertester reliability of clinical shoulder instability and laxity tests, and second, to describe the mutual dependency of each test evaluated by each tester for identifying self-reported shoulder instability and laxity. METHODS A standardised protocol for conducting reliability studies was used to test the intertester reliability of the six clinical shoul...