■ There are not enough “before and after” studies in the literature to be certain of impacts in different circumstances and over time, and particularly in terms of town centres. Better town centre and retail monitoring would deliver benchmarking for assessing impacts and changes. Literature review: policies adopted to support a healthy retail sector and retail led regeneration and the impact of...

Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa (P.S.F., B.R.) Division of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland (H.G., H.S., A.J.) Synexa Life Sciences, Montague Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa (P.J.D.) Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and H...

Richard N van Zyl-Smit, Anke Binder, Richard Meldau, Patricia L Semple, Alicia Evans, Peter Smith, Eric D Bateman, Keertan Dheda Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & UCT Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Division of Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Department of Infection, University ...

In order to understand aright the epidemiology of enteric fever and cholera in Hamburg, it is necessary to have a clear picture in one's mind, not only of the topography of the town, but also of the topographical arrangement of the surrounding district; tor the reason that the particular conditions of our locality are in a special manner favourable to the diffusion of enteric fever and cholera ...

a Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa b Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa c Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa d Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK, e The Francis Crick Institute,...

objective: citizenship identity as it is understood from the component words is a kind of distinction and recognition of intimates from outsiders which has a historical background. meaning of citizenship holds the concepts such as rights, responsibilities and duties, as well as a sense of belonging that in accordance with others and executive agencies will be meaningful and indicates a kind of ...

There is increasing number of people suffering from “Sick-building Syndrome” in Japan. Therefore, we started “Chemi-less Town Project”, building a model town in which buildings are constructed with fewer chemicals. In this paper, we introduce the background, concept and current situation of the project. We made the key word, “Chemi-less”, which means “fewer” chemicals. In the model town, there ...

My interest in the relationship between fear and city building was sparked while doing research on the French new town of Jouy-leMoutier 15 years ago. This new town was an experiment in neotraditional urbanism (or the ‘new urbanism’), an effort to build a new town which looks and functions something like an old town. I wanted to discover whether or not this was a good strategy for city building...

Introduction: The World Health Organization estimates occupational health risks as the tenth leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The burden of disease from selected occupational risk factors amounts to 1.5% of the global burden in terms of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY). The World Health Report 2002, has reported that occupational risk factors account for a number of morbid conditi...