This paper presents a critical analysis of health impact assessment (HIA) in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) in the context of institutional policy and practice. It begins with a brief background to the origins and aims of HIA. Core developments in health and environmental sectors pertaining to HIA in the ROI are then considered. A series of significant developments have taken place in these sect...

background: despite some successful dynamic simulation of self-impact double pendulum (sidp)-as humanoid robots legs or arms- studies, there is limited information available about the control of one leg locomotion. objective   : the main goal of this research is to improve the reliability of the mammalians leg locomotion and building more elaborated models close to the natural movements, by mod...

In this paper we show that the measure of diffusion introduced by Ian Rowlands called the Journal Diffusion Factor (JDF) is highly negatively correlated with the number of citations, leading highly cited journals to get a low JDF, whereas less cited journals gets a high JDF. This property reduces the utility of the JDF as a tool for evaluation of research influence. We present a new definition ...

This paper considers the turn-off robustness (the maximal current being able to be turned off) of high power IGBTs under over current condition. The analysis of turn-off curves shows that the turn-off robustness of the investigated devices is not really limited by the rate of voltage rise on collector-emitter (dVCE / dt ). The main reason of the robustness limitation is found out to be the rate...

this study aims at evaluating the completeness of the content of the ecological part in environmental impact assessments (eias) and environmental impact statements (eiss) on content review basis. the requirements of the ecological content as stated in the of five sets of thai’s eia guidelines, namely the specific guidelines for power plants, industrial projects, dams and harbors and the gene...

Process-induced strain dependence of impact ionization efficiency (IIE) in nMOSFETs with a tensile contact etch stop layer (CESL) is presented for the first time. From the universal relationship between the IIE and the electric field in the pinch-off region, a difference in the IIE of nMOSFETs between without and with the tensile CESL is found. This result can be mainly attributed to the narrow...

3 Collisional-radiative model for O atoms 4 3.1 Atomic model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Elementary rate coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2.1 Electron-impact excitation and deexcitation rate coefficients . . . . 7 3.2.2 Electron-impact ionization and three-body recombination rate coefficients . . . . . . . . . . ....

this study examines the impact of organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) on client satisfaction of the judiciary system. the research is applied based on objective and based on the type of data is a correlation analysis. to test the hypothesis of the research, the data were collected using a likert scale questionnaire and be analyzed using spss and amos packages. statistical population of th...

The influence of nanoclay on the impact damage resistance of glass fiber–epoxy composites has been investigated using high-velocity repeated ice impact tests. The incorporation of nanoclay into epoxy enhances the impact resistance of the composites. The impact of ice is a realistic scenario for composite structures such as aircraft fuselages, wing skins and fan blades and it is not a completely...