Global health shifts to local experts with global partners

Environmental Health: From Global to Local

Howard Frumkin has been a leader in expanding the definition of environmental health beyond the effects of toxic chemicals. His eloquence and breadth of understanding are evident in the introductory chapter to this textbook, as well as in his chapter “Nature Contact: a Health Benefit?” The book’s 36 chapters contain highly pertinent insights and information on environmental issues that go beyon...

Global + local = glocal public health.

From Local to Global Consistency* from Local to Global Consistency*

In reasoning tasks involving the maintenance of consistent databases (so called "constraint net­ works") it is customary to enforce local consistency conditions in order to simplify the construc­ tion of a globally coherent model of the data. In this paper we present a relationship between the sizes of the variables' domains and the level of local consistency sufficient to ensure global con­ si...

Mixture of Experts and Local-Global Neural Networks

In this paper we investigate mixture of experts problems in the context of Local-Global Neural Networks. This type of architecture was originaly conceived for functional approximation and interpolation problems. Numerical experiments are presented, showing quite nice solutions. Because of its local characteristics, this type of approach brings the advantage of improving interpretability.

Global health is (local) public health.