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The present major concern on sustainable development is at the beginning of a growing interest on product recyclability. More and more strict norms and regulations will be prescribed to companies in order to increase the level of recyclability of industrial products. Usually described in natural language, these norms can be difficult to interpret for the product designer. There will also be an ...

This paper develops a measure that can be used to compare ethnic voting levels across countries. The measure examines the relationship between ethnicity and vote choice: as it becomes easier to predict voting behavior in a country by knowing only voters’ ethnicity, the ethnic voting measure increases. The paper then uses data from 71 surveys to estimate ethnic voting levels in 45 countries, and...

For well over two decades, the public health community has undertaken a broad range of initiatives to identify and eliminate various health-related disparities among populations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health (OSH), for example, has committed resources to help states eliminate population disparities related to tobacco use. These initiatives ...

The City of Seattle’s pioneering Mobile City Government Project has received wide attention, since it promises greatly improved fieldwork operations in local government. Three years into operation and with another fieldwork unit in the process of adopting mobile applications, our research studies the work domains of the units involved to better understand the premises, requirements, and effects...