The U.S. is experiencing unprecedented movement away from coal and, to a lesser degree, oil. Burdened low-income communities and people of color could experience health benefits from reductions in air and water pollution, yet these same groups could suffer harm if transitions lack broad public input or if policies prioritize elite or corporate interests. This paper highlights how U.S. energy tr...

Children’s rights include the right to participation in decisions made about them. For looked after children, this right is enshrined in the Children Act, 1989. This article reports the results of a study of children’s views about their experience of being looked after and the degree of power they felt they had to influence decision making. Their main areas of criticism were frequent changes of...

Romanian Society of Ophthalmology (RSO) and its Partner, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) are empowering education for Romanian Ophthalmologists by online clinical education resources. There have already been 2 years since RSO signed a partnership with AAO in order to provide access to ONE Network for every Romanian ophthalmologist, this opportunity being welcomed by our members, and...

Human pigmentation varies considerably within and among populations and is a function of both variation in exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and the type and quantity of melanin produced in melanocytes (1). We examined the genetic basis of blond hair in Solomon Islanders, a population that differs from the general trend of darker skin and hair pigmentation near the equator where there is ...

Recent work has shown that several cryptographic protocols for the protection of free-roaming mobile agents are vulnerable by means of protocol interleaving attacks. This paper presents equivalent protocols meant to be robust against this type of attack. Moreover, it describes the required processes and data structures at a level of detail that can be translated to an implementation in a straig...

The present scenario of global change caused by unprecedented habitat loss, species declines, climate warming, and pollution with culminating in an environmental crisis that needs to be addressed with innovative and radical solutions. At least some failures of conservation can be attributed to poor involvement of women. To improve the role of women in conservation, we need to better understand ...

Once the service satisfaction of medical personnel is reduced and the enthusiasm cannot be acquired from work, the turnover rate would be increased to further affect medical manpower. Not only is the quality of services influenced, but patient safety would also be seriously affected further to harm the operation of a hospital. Aiming at Kaohsiung Municipal Min-Sheng Hospital, the medical person...