This research measured the effects of Michigan’s compulsory safety belt use law on traffic crashes and injuries of various severities. Using time-series methods, the authors analyzed monthly frequencies of crash-induced injuries and fatalities from January 1978 through December 1987. Exposure to risk of occupant injury was controlled statistically by including aggregate frequency of crashes as ...

Public damage abatement and compensation programs may be used to alter private incentives for damage abatement and habitat provision. A model is developed that explains the economic logic behind prevalent characteristics of public wildlife damage programs. The model is supported with an examination of a broad cross-section of wildlife agency policy and law. The model can be used by wildlife man...

Several authors ([1, 2] among others) have proposed mechanical models to predict long term tooth movement considering both the tooth and its surrounding bone tissue as isotropic linear elastic materials coupled to an “adaptative elasticity” behavior [3, 4]. However, tooth movements obtained through orthodontic appliances result from a complex biochemical process of bone structure and density ad...

This article analyzes the development of international legislation, as well legislation individual states regarding legal regulation compensation for environmental damage. The authors identified and analyzed two levels regulation. first level is international; it includes acts adopted or approved by a group states. second national; regulations conclusion about existence general rules in various...

The article is devoted to the disclosure of features criminal liability for intentional destructionor damage property provided in Art. 194 Criminal Code Ukraine. elements this composition offense, which are necessary qualification according specified law on liability, have been analyzed. author reveals problematic issues qualifying destruction or property, namely, commission crime by arson, exp...