This paper reviews the changing status of goose populations in Scotland since the 1940s, and the changing policies and management activities employed over that time. The size of all goose populations has risen since the 1940s due to protection measures, changes in agriculture and levels of shooting, in the UK and elsewhere. The development of goose policies in response to public interest and pr...

Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh is a widespread public health hazard. Water sources without high arsenic levels are scarce, affecting people's availability for work and other activities when they have to seek safe water to drink. While children are particularly susceptible to chronic arsenic exposure, limited information and heavy constraints on resources may preclude people ...

Companies’ efforts to manage their information practices to produce transparent privacy policies have yielded mixed results. Web retailers detail such practices in their online privacy policies, but most of the time this information remains invisible to consumers. This paper reports on research undertaken to determine whether a more prominent display of privacy information will cause consumers ...

We conducted the first study to examine rates of sexual activity, sexual risk behaviors, sexual protective behaviors, injection drug use (IDU), needle sharing, and knowledge about HIV/AIDS among outpatients with severe mental illness (SMI) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Using a measure with demonstrated reliability, we found that 42% of 98 patients engaged in vaginal or anal sex within the past thr...

Using a competitive two-country two-commodity monetary model with optimizing agents in which persistent unemployment arises, this paper examines the effects of trade restrictions on consumption and employment in the two countries. When facing unemployment, a country tends to impose an import restriction so that domestic firms will increase production and raise employment. However, this policy i...

In Europe, informal caregiving is frequent and is expected to grow. Caregiving has an impact on caregivers' health, but its effect may vary according to the policies of support that are available to caregivers. The aim of this study was to assess the association between the policies of support to caregivers available in 12 European countries and the health of caregivers, considering separately ...

The radicalisation of young immigrants in Europe is a phenomenon scientific and political relevance. study aimed to analyse the degree consensus on differential influence process various factors (attitudinal, contextual, historical protective), primarily included VERA-2, related multiple socio-demographic categories processes opinion action. Applying Delphi analysis methodology, results point d...

BACKGROUND Despite the known risk of tuberculosis (TB) to health care workers (HCWs), research suggests that many are not fully adherent with local TB infection control policies. The objective of this exploratory study was to identify factors influencing HCWs' adherence to policies for routine tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI). METHODS Sixteen focus grou...

1. Di Saverio S, Tugnoli G, Catena F, Catena G, Ansaloni F, Naidoo N: Trauma Surgery Volume 1: Trauma Management, Trauma Critical Care, Orthopaedic Trauma and Neuro-Trauma. Verlag Italy: Springer; 2014. ISBN 978-88-470-5403-5. 2. Di Saverio S, Tugnoli G, Catena F, Catena G, Ansaloni F, Naidoo N: Trauma Surgery Volume 2: Thoracic and Abdominal Trauma. Verlag Italy: Springer; 2014. ISBN 978-88-47...