US AND EU FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICIES TO CONTROL TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, AND UNHEALTHY FOOD AND DRINKS: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS.

BackgroundIdentifying and tackling the factors that undermine regulation of unhealthy commodities is an essential component of effective noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention.Unhealthy commodity producers may use rules in US and EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) to challenge policies targeting their products.We aimed to test whether there was a st

Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across social and biological sciences.One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction defectors, classical behavioral experiments suggest that cooperation can take root.Overlooked from standard experiment

In this paper, the partial replacement of volcanic pumice powder (VPP) was investigated for use as a supplementary cementitious material.High-strength concrete (HSC) was prepared using two sets of VPP (10% and 20%) incorporated with three sets of polypropylene fiber (PF) (0.20%, 0.35%, and 0.50%) to produce different concrete mixtures.Several tests

In this compendium, the wide scope of all intermolecular interactions ever known has been revisited, in particular giving emphasis the capability of much of the elements of the periodic table to form non-covalent contacts.Either hydrogen bonds, dihydrogen bonds, halogen bonds, pnictogen bonds, chalcogen bonds, triel bonds, tetrel bonds, regium bond

Using benzenediamine and benzenedithiol molecular junctions as benchmarks, we investigate the widespread analysis of the quantum transport conductance in terms of the projected density of states (PDOS) onto molecular orbitals (MOs).We first consider two different methods for identifying the relevant MOs: (1) diagonalization of the Hamiltonian Night