OBJECTIVE To study the effect of various types of inoculation message treatments on resistance to persuasive and potentially deceptive health- and nutrition-related (HNR) content claims of commercial food advertisers. METHODS A three-phase experiment was conducted among 145 students from a Midwestern U.S. university. Quantitative statistical analyses were used to interpret the results. RESU...

The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred title III of the bill (H.R. 9) to create jobs, enhance wages, strengthen property rights, maintain certain economic liberties, decentralize and reduce the power of the Federal Government with respect to the States, localities, and citizens of the United States, and to increase the accountability of Federal officials, having considered the same, re...

Administrative agencies frequently use guidance documents to set policy broadly and prospectively in areas ranging from Department of Education Title IX enforcement to Food and Drug Administration regulation of direct-to- consumer pharmaceutical advertising. In form, these guidances often closely resemble the policies agencies issue in ordinary notice-and-comment rulemaking. However, guidances ...

Old and environmentally damaging industries often lobby effectively for less stringent regulations and are slow to adopt new and cleaner technologies. This paper explains the lobbying success of these industries in terms of the strategic role of investment as a credible commitment device. It is demonstrated that if governments are predisposed to special interest groups, underinvestment in new t...

Codes of forest practice are sets of regulations or guidelines developed by governments or other organisations to assist forest managers select practices to be followed when carrying out forest management and utilisation operations. These practices, when correctly applied, should meet standards for sustainable forest management (Dykstra 1996; Dykstra and Heinrich 1996). A code of practice is al...

Society today expects the physician of the future to concern himself increasingly with social justice, the environment and government regulations. However, when attempts are made to deal with these subjects they usually focus on the 'here and now' and not the historical underpinning. The student, practitioner and public, often through the media, marvel at the contemporary medical scene with its...

In 1982, the Cities ofHickcny, Newtan and Conover, and Catawba County, North Carolina formed a Consortium to p v i d e centraked facilities for the dtsposal of their c o m b d muniqal wastewater biosolids. At the time, these local governments were primarily land applying their wastewater biosolids. Recogwing potential problems with their current biosolids dqnsal methods, rising e n m a t a l re...