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The Fatal Failure Of The Regulatory State, W. Kip Viscusi
The Fatal Failure Of The Regulatory State, W. Kip Viscusi
William & Mary Law Review
Although regulatory agencies place high values on the benefits associated with the reduction in mortality risks due to regulations, these same agencies substantially undervalue lives in their enforcement efforts. The disparity between the valuation of prospective risks and fatalities that have occurred is often by several orders of magnitude, diminishing whatever safety incentives the regulations might have generated. A review of the practices by the major federal agencies with responsibility for product safety and occupational safety finds that the value placed on fatalities in agencies’ regulatory analyses can be a factor of 1000 times greater than the magnitude of the …
Only The Human Brain Has The Cognitive Capacity For Jealousy, Donatella Marazziti
Only The Human Brain Has The Cognitive Capacity For Jealousy, Donatella Marazziti
Animal Sentience
Jealousy is exclusively a human phenomenon because nonhuman animals lack the brain structures regulating the higher processes underlying jealousy.
Scenario Of Porcine Cysticercosis And Human Taeniasis In Maharashtra State, India, Vilas Vaidya, Ashish Paturkar, Ravindra Zende, Mukulesh Gatne, Dhananjay Dighe, Rupesh Waghmare, Shilpa Laxmanrao Moon, Sujata Bhave, Priyanka Jadhav, Nilam Wavhal
Scenario Of Porcine Cysticercosis And Human Taeniasis In Maharashtra State, India, Vilas Vaidya, Ashish Paturkar, Ravindra Zende, Mukulesh Gatne, Dhananjay Dighe, Rupesh Waghmare, Shilpa Laxmanrao Moon, Sujata Bhave, Priyanka Jadhav, Nilam Wavhal
Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences
Cysticercosis/taeniasis is one of the neglected parasitic zoonoses in developing countries like India. A study was conducted for a period of 7 years from 2010 to 2017 during which 13,596 pig and 1238 human samples were screened to learn the exact scenario of cysticercosis/taeniasis in the different regions of Maharashtra State. Prevalence of cysticercosis/taeniasis in pigs and humans was recorded using various diagnostic methods such as meat inspection and serological methods involving ELISA. The overall prevalence of cysticercosis in pigs was found to be 0.88% by postmortem examination and 0.9% by PCR assay, whereas prevalence of taeniasis in humans was …