Rethinking Infant Nutrition Policy Under Changing Socioeconomic Conditions

Rethinking arts marketing in a changing cultural policy context

* This paper investigates recent changes in British cultural policy and their implications for artsmarketing. It first points out the decisive role of the policy in shaping the environment of the nonprofit arts and argues that arts marketing developed as an organisational strategy within the context of marketisation policy since the 1980s. This is followed by an analysis of the current cultural...

Changing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Cumbria.

AIMS To investigate infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93, in relation to individual and community level socioeconomic status. METHODS Retrospective birth cohort study of all 283,668 live births and 4889 infant deaths in Cumbria, 1950-93. Community deprivation (Townsend score) and individual social class were used to estimate socioeconomic status. Logistic regression was used to investigate risk ...

Simulating Deforestation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, under Changing Government Policies and Socioeconomic Conditions

Agricultural expansion is causing deforestation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, converting savanna and tropical dry forest to farmland, and in 2012, Brazil's Forest Code was revised with the government reducing deforestation restrictions. Understanding the effects of policy change on rates and locations of natural ecosystem loss is imperative. In this paper, deforestation in Minas Gerais was simulated...

Value and Liquidity under Changing Market Conditions

Papers studying the liquidity of a market tend to focus on decisions involving the trade-off between the selling price and the time-till-sale for a given set of market conditions. This paper characterizes market conditions using a price-probability locus; a change in market conditions is some combination of changes in the level and/or slope of this locus. I show how the effect of either type of...

Skin Colour Detection Under Changing Lighting Conditions