Use of drinking water sold in plastic bags (sachet water) is growing rapidly in west Africa. The impact on water consumption and child health remains unclear, and a debate on the taxation and regulation of sachet water is ongoing. This study assessed the feasibility of providing subsidized sachet water to low-income urban households in Accra and measured the resultant changes in water consumpti...

Two trials were conducted to determine the effect of air velocity on feed and water consumption at a constant temperature of 27 C and a daily cyclic temperature of 22-32-22 C. Air velocity over the broilers was <15 or 120 m/min. These temperature and air velocity treatments were arranged in a 2 x 2 factorial design in eight environmental chambers, with two replications of each treatment. The ai...

Atlantic gardens and swimming pools constitute one of the most relevant features of a new phase in the history of the urbanization process in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona, coinciding with the real state “madness”, by which the traditionally compact urban form typical of Mediterranean cultures lose ground to more disperse patterns of settlement characteristic of Anglo-Saxon countries. Th...

Using probability plots and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), we fit lognormal distributions to data compiled by Ershow et al. for daily intake of total water and tap water by three groups of women (controls, pregnant, and lactating; all between 15-49 years of age) in the United States. We also develop bivariate lognormal distributions for the joint distribution of water ingestion and body w...

BACKGROUND In 2003, residents of the District of Columbia (DC) experienced an abrupt rise in lead levels in drinking water, which followed a change in water-disinfection treatment in 2001 and which was attributed to consequent changes in water chemistry and corrosivity. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the public health implications of the exceedance, the DC Department of Health expanded the scope of i...

advisories and travel health precautions were subsequently released, including those from Canada and United States (9,10). These precautions recommended that preventative measures such as vaccination and safe food and water consumption practices be adhered to by residents and visitors to affected regions. Although the public health community anticipated that travel-associated cases would be dia...

Nothing has taken place in the realm of sports thus far; the gym has been relatively empty except for that abortion billed as a concert last Friday night. It's a great facility for basketball games but I couldn't understand a word uttered by either group. Probably more of a pain that the concert itself was the hassle to get tickets. The computer hadn't processed my date's student tax card yet a...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of chronic stress exposure on the circadian pattern of cardiovascular responses in mice. Using male C57BL6 mice with carotid arterial catheters, we tested the effect of 7 days of intermittent shaker stress on body weight, food intake, drinking activity, plasma corticosterone, mean arterial pressure (MAP), and heart rate. The stress was del...

We will consider household behavior in some number of periods indexed by t. In each period t, each household i must decide whether to purchase Clorin and, if so, whether to use it in their drinking water. In period t, each household i can decide to purchase Clorin for an exogenous, possibly household-specific offer price pit ∈ (0, R] , where R > 0 is the retail price of Clorin. If the household...