BACKGROUND Waste treatment plants release toxic emissions into the environment which affect neighboring towns. OBJECTIVES To investigate whether there might be excess cancer mortality in towns situated in the vicinity of Spanish-based incinerators and installations for the recovery or disposal of hazardous waste, according to the different categories of industrial activity. METHODS An ecolo...

job networking, that permits job-related information to be sent between programming system components operating on computing systems that are attached to a communications network. The capabilities of the programs that implement this facility are described along with the events that led to its development, the value of the facility to the user, and ways in which it can be extended to work with o...

In April 1997, the United States Army announced that savings had finally overtaken costs in closing or realigning 803 of its installations worldwide. This milestone occurred in the ninth year of a 13-year program approved by Congress and Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. The cost of this program is $5.3 billion, and when complete, the army expects annual savings of $996 million in perpetuit...

The success of alternative energy policies is usually measured in terms of energy capacity. By this metric, statelevel policies to promote solar installations in New Jersey and Massachusetts have been a success. To fully evaluate these policies, however, it is necessary to consider how these policy programs are structured and funded, who participates in these programs, and the complete life-cyc...

Objectives: Child Restraint System (CRS) misuse is common. We characterized caregivers’ use of child passenger safety informational and instructional resources and determined whether there were differences in the quality of CRS installations associated with prior exposure to specific resources as evaluated in a standardized CRS installation environment. Methods: Caregivers completed self-report...