the interest for the spatial dimensions of agricultural development has been recently increased. this paper aimed at redefining the spatial patterns of agriculture to formulate appropriate strategies based on regional potentials. a composite agricultural development indicator (cadi), which is useful for the identification of spatial structure, has been developed. the developed composite index (...

conclusions human development index is one of the best indicators and predictors to perceive healthcare inequities. worldwide improvement of these indicators, especially the education level, might promote infant life expectancy and decrease infant mortality. background infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) is a vital index to monitor the standard of health and social inequality which is ...

social capital is a concept which has attracted the attention of scientists in various fields including management in recent years. the literature on social capital concept has several dimensions and indicators and their relation with many other variables has been studied. the important point is that although the dimensions and indicators can be analyzed separately, they are not isolated and th...

in order to achieve sustainable development, nowadays, many countries have been paying attention to bottom-up planning and planning for smallest urban :union:s (residential communities). this paper aims to promote sustainability level of sarab and sajjad residential communities and provide appropriate solutions for promoting quality of these communities. the results related to indicators of the...

A No early warning signals for stochastic transitions driven by large but constant strength of stochasticity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 B No early warning signals for stochastic transitions in agent based models driven by large but constant strength of stochasticity. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 C Sensitivity analysis for early warning signals of crashes in DJI. . . . . . . 6 D...

BACKGROUND Health equity is considered as one of the main objectives of health care systems. This study was carried out with the aim of determining health equity indicators in Iran. Through consideration of these indicators, differences in health status of different social groups and different geographical areas can be shown in different periods and based on that, effective interventions can be...

Recently Woeginger [Woeginger, G. H. (2008-a). An axiomatic characterization for the Hirsch-index.Mathematical Social Sciences. An axiomatic analysis of Egghe’s g-index. Journal of Informetrics] introduced a set of axioms for scientific impact measures. These lead to a characterization of the h-index. In this note we consider a slight generalization and check which of Woeginger’s axioms are sat...

Child poverty and child well-being have, in recent decades, increasingly become part of strategies and practices in the field of social policy. 1 Following international (e.g. OECD, 2009; UNICEF, 2007; 2010) and specifically EU developments (e.g. Frazer and Marlier, 2007; EU Task-Force, 2008; TÁRKI-Applica, 2010; European Commission, 2012), in 2007 Hungary adopted the ‘Legyen jobb a gyermekekne...