The invasion of exotic earthworms in previously earthworm-free areas eliminates the forest litter layer, alters the carbon and nitrogen cycles and reduces native plant cover. Humans are the principal agents of invasive earthworm dispersal, spreading worms both inadvertently through the horticulture industry, logging and road travel, and voluntarily through composting and the disposal of earthwo...

OBJECTIVE To define the effectiveness of recent efforts by the Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health, and the Heart Foundation in New Zealand to reduce sodium levels in breads in Australia and New Zealand. DESIGN AND SETTING Data on the sodium contents of packaged sliced bread products sold in Australian and New Zealand supermarkets were collected from the product labels of 1...

Voluntary offsetting of flight-related emissions is an important cornerstone passengers’ individual efforts to contribute climate change mitigation. Hence, many scientific studies have tried assess people’s willingness-to-pay offset their own carbon emissions. Up-to-date, these are overwhelmingly grounded in hypothetical stated-preference approaches, with very limited knowledge about external v...

Tax revenue has an important role in national development. The government continues to pursue various policies improve taxpay-er compliance so that tax revenues can increase. One of the efforts made by is pass Law on Harmonization Regulations. programs contained law voluntary disclosure program (VDP). purpose this research find out effect Voluntary Disclosure Program (VDP) and Sanctions Individ...

M. P. W. Grocott 1,2,3* and R. M. Pearse 4 1 Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe), Joint UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK 2 General Intensive Care Unit, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK 3 NIAA Health Services Research Centre, Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK 4 Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mar...

Genetic counselors and Genomic Counseling in the United Kingdom Anna Middleton, Georgina Hall & Christine Patch Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC), St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom Guys and St Thomas’ NHS ...

^HE four voluntary hospitals of Sheffield?the Royal Hospital, Royal Infirmary, Jessop Hospital for Women and Children's Hospital have joined forces (with the Edgar Allen Institute in the combination) to form a Hospitals Contributing Scheme. The project does not greatly differ from other schemes elsewhere, but it seeks incidentally to make uniform all Sheffield systems of workmen's contributions...