We conducted a content analysis of newspaper and television news coverage in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grantee locations from June 2011 through May 2013. After searching 2 databases for news stories related to overweight or obesity, we coded and analyzed stories for valence (how the author/reporter framed overweight and obesity control strategies), descriptors, causes and...

BACKGROUND Displacing the use of polluting and inefficient cookstoves in developing countries is necessary to achieve the potential health and environmental benefits sought through clean cooking solutions. Yet little quantitative context has been provided on how much displacement of traditional technologies is needed to achieve targets for household air pollutant concentrations or fuel savings....

introduction quality of urban life is known as one of the major elements of urban development. thus, evaluation urban environmental quality has much importance in the planning of urban development. cities are complex ecosystems affected by social, economic, environmental, and cultural factors. inefficient urban planning and management and lack of coherent environmental policies have led to many...

introduction by the rise of new industrial and technological age, modern industries and services developed mainly in large cities and these cities absorbed massive flows of migrants from towns and villages. this trend caused population growth more thanthe existingservice capacities and,thus, the environmental qualitiesof the cities were gradually undermined. continuing this situation for some d...

Natural environment is the premise of survival and development human society. With sustainable society, proposal national green strategy, implementation government environmental protection measures, people's awareness gradually improved, development, monitoring have become focus world. In work protection, it very important to strengthen quality management monitoring. This mainly carried out by ...

Often, the information is sensitive or private in nature and these sensitive data when mined violates the privacy of the individuals. Privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) mines the data but intends to preserve the privacy of susceptible data without ever actually seeing it. This paper recaps the important techniques in PPDM like anonymization, perturbation and cryptography. Nowadays, data mini...