BACKGROUND Comprehensive evaluation of dietary interventions depends on effective and efficient measurement to quantify behavior change. To date, little is known regarding which self-reported measure of dietary intake is most feasible and acceptable for use in evaluation of the effectiveness of diet intervention studies among underserved populations. OBJECTIVE This research focused on evaluat...

Certain social preference models have been proposed to explain fairness behavior in experimental games. Existing bodies of research on evolutionary games, however, explain the evolution of fairness merely through the self-interest agents. This paper attempts to analyze the ultimatum game's evolution on complex networks when a number of agents display social preference. Agents' social preference...

2 Is cooperative action modern or old fashioned? Why should policymakers pursue it in development strategies? In what way are cooperatives different in terms of economic theory and organisation theory? And if there are differences in organisation, human resource management practices, property rights and forms of collective action, what are the governance issues to be addressed so as to allow co...

Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder’s ex-ante features in terms of likely e...

Abstract—Linear programming has been used widely in practice with noticeable success for formulating optimum livestock diets. Diet formulated by linear programming is based on the assumption of linearity between animal yield and nutrient ingredients included in the diet. To overcome the drawback of linear approximation of objective function for diet formulation, there is a need to look for tech...

This letter presents an analysis of Stochastic Diffusion Search that derives the minimum acceptable match resulting in a stable convergence based on a general noise parameter. The applicability of SDS can therefore be assessed for a given problem.

We study decentralized agent coordination with performance guarantees by developing a primitive for mustering teams of agents of minimum acceptable team sizes for StarCraft using randomization to accurately estimate the

According to the guiding principles of FAO/WHO, sustainable healthy diets are dietary patterns that promote all dimensions individuals’ health and wellbeing; have low environmental pressure impact; accessible, affordable, safe, equitable; culturally acceptable. The goal a diet is prevent forms malnutrition (undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight, obesity) reduce risk diet-relate...

In contemporary Western culture, fatness and singlehood are constructed as requiring change: from fat to thin, single coupled. Makeover shows with a dating theme that focus on both aspects in connection each other have become increasingly widespread, aiming for the makeover of one’s life relationship status through body. I analyze show Fat Chance theoretical context rites passage applying conce...