Collaboration between industry and regulators resulted in the development of a decision tree approach using in vitro or ex vivo assays to replace animal tests when determining the eye irritation potential of antimicrobial cleaning products (AMCPs) under the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs' hazard classification and labeling system. A policy docum...

The UCF driving simulator, housed in the Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation (CATSS) laboratory, is a high fidelity simulator with access to an expansive virtual driving environment. It consists of a Saturn cab, motion base, scenario editor, operators console and Application Programmer Interface (API) for reading real-time data. The data includes driver inputs, namely steering...

We characterize the outcomes of the tertiary education market in a context where borrowing constraints bind, there is a two-tier college system operating under monopolistic competition in which colleges differ by the quality offered and returns to education depend on the quality of the school attended. College quality, tuition prices, acceptance cut-offs and education demand are all determined ...

Clinical practice guidelines attempt to bridge the gap between the generation of scientific evidence and its application. For cardiovascular risk reduction, the implementation of knowledge into practice, both with respect to lifestyle change and pharmacological treatment, has been shown to be poor. There are several reasons for this ‘guidelines gap’, with physician factors including insufficien...

Contemporary conception of information has been studied for decades. Starting from legal viewpoint, purpose of this article is to provide methodological understanding of the conception and classification of information in the domain of law, and the challenge it poses to the traditional legal system. In this article, information is classified into five categories according to the value it has an...

One of the main characteristics of Linked Open Data (LOD) is the exclusive application of standards published and maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium. This strict adherence is kept on all levels, ranging from the identification and transportation (URI, HTTP) to the interpretation (RDF, RDFS, OWL) of resource descriptions. Because these standards are open and accessible to everybody, bro...