Society looks to science and technology when confronted with challenges such as terrorism, climate change, ageing society, and sustainable consumption. However, not all change is perceived by all stakeholders to be positive. The public sector has an increasing role in influencing the application of modern technologies: policy makers are confronted with technological challenges with far-reaching...

A distributive politics model establishes that the presence of exogenously enforceable spending limits reduces spending and that the effect of executive veto authority is contingent on whether spending is capped and whether the chief executive is a liberal or conservative. Surprisingly, when spending limits are in place, governments with conservative executives spend more than those with more l...

Institutional recommendation is an important factor for building trust in business or social interactions. Institutional ratings are issued by trusted authorities such as public bodies or reference publications. They assess people’s expertise, the quality of products or services or the economic health of companies among other. Institutional ratings are characterized by objective and repeatable ...

A novel power-efficient IC test scheme is proposed, containing parallel test application (PTA) architecture and its procedure. PTA parallelizes the stimuli assignments and the vectors can be observed immediately once applied, which assures the shift safety timely and hence only logic test is required. The procedure contains two phases for each pattern. In shift phase, each clock chain is activa...

The Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI) is the regulatory authority for nuclear activities in Sweden. It is responsible for the development of a Design Basis Threat (DBT), as a basis for regulations on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities. SKI has recently revised its regulations concerning Physical Protection of Nuclear Facilities. The starting point for this tas...

The proportion of US food that is imported is increasing; most seafood and half of fruits are imported. We identified a small but increasing number of foodborne disease outbreaks associated with imported foods, most commonly fish and produce. New outbreak investigation tools and federal regulatory authority are key to maintaining food safety.