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The correlation between sanction adjustments and drunk-driving violations and related outcomes in Taiwan: A nationwide interrupted time series analysis. [PDF]

Addiction
Abstract Background and aims Drunk‐driving accounts for a significant portion of traffic crashes in Taiwan. From 2008 to 2013, both the Taiwan Legislative Yuan and the federal administrative agencies collaborated to increase drunk‐driving penalties.
Kuo LW, Liao CA, Cheng CT, Liao CH, Hsu CP, Fu CY, Kang SC, Olin B, Yang CS, Huang JF.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Shifting Tides: A Decade of Business Climate Adaptation and Resilience Research (2013–2023)

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is causing significant disruptions to the socio‐ecological systems in which organizations operate, presenting unprecedented challenges for businesses across sectors in adapting to shifting environmental conditions and building resilience to extreme weather events.
Domenico Villano, Laura Colli, Federico Martellozzo, Sara Lombardi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Administration of Insurance Rate Regulatory Laws [PDF]

, 1950
microRNAs (miRNAs) are key posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression. In the present study, regulation of tumor-suppressor gene D-glucuronyl C5-epimerase (GLCE) by miRNA-218 was investigated. Significant downregulation of miRNA-218 expression was
Ernberg, Ingemar, Grigorieva, Elvira V, Kashuba, Vladimir I, Mostovich, Luydmila A, Prudnikova, Tatiana Y, Zabarovsky, Eugene R   +5 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

One-Year Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures Among Patients with Clinically Significant Mitral Regurgitation in Taiwan

Cardiology and Therapy, 2022
Introduction Mitral regurgitation (MR) is characterized by systolic blood flow reversal from the left ventricle to the left atrium. A 2019 study indicated that in the USA, clinically significant MR (sMR) is associated with a substantial healthcare cost ...
Ching-Hu Chung, Yu-Jen Wang, Chia-Ying Lee   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Personal Injury Litigation in School Cases [PDF]

, 1955
With rapidly increasing traffic demand, it is expected that ultra-dense wireless access networks are deployed in many buildings in a near future. Performance evaluation of in-building ultra-dens networks is thus of profound importance.
Miller, Vernon X.
core   +4 more sources

Prototype as query for few shot semantic segmentation

Complex & Intelligent Systems
Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) was proposed to segment unseen classes in a query image, referring to only a few annotated examples named support images. One of the characteristics of FSS is spatial inconsistency between query and support targets, e.
Leilei Cao, Yibo Guo, Ye Yuan, Qiangguo Jin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Palisades Fire of Los Angeles: Lessons to Be Learned

Fire
In 1961, Los Angeles experienced the disastrous Bel Air fire, which swept through an affluent neighborhood situated in a hilly, WUI (wildland–urban interface) location.
Vytenis Babrauskas
doaj   +1 more source