urban large-scale projects have always been a controversial topic of debates. these projects are time- and money-consuming and the rejection or approve of their functionality is based on political intentions. in the last hundred years, each of them costed billions of dollars from private or public budgeting, used technical and human resources. these risky-complex creatures are built to fulfill ...

India is one of the most climate-prone countries in world. In last decade, has suffered crop losses almost every year either due to floods or drought frost/extreme temperatures. Agriculture mainstay rural economy and largely carried out by small marginal farmers who have poor access credit, high dependence on rainfall majority whom practice subsistence farming. Despite efforts revise insurance ...

over the past few decades, scientists have paid special attention to studying novel and natural hydrocolloids due to the growing demand for ready meals, public awareness on the importance of natural fibers in daily diets, and their wide range of application, especially in foods, pharmaceuticals and herbal medicine. moreover, natural hydrocolloids are preferred to biotechnologic ones (e.g., gell...

In this paper we present a desaggregate modelling of a public transport network, integrated within a GIS. It is our hope to construct an expressive and friendly user interface for decision making. Accessibility measure and exploratory analysis methods will be applied to the public transport network of the medium sized French city of Besancon (117 000 inhabitants)..

A diverse range of foods has been shown to increase energy and micronutrients intake in the developing countries. It is widely asserted in the literature and development circles that farm household access to irrigation dam can provide a significant improvement of household’s dietary diversity. This study set out to assess the role of Kampe irrigation dam on farm household dietary diversity in K...

Increases in the Number of Medicare Beneficiaries The proportion of the United States population covered by Medicare has increased over time. This has resulted from the normal eligibility age remaining fixed at 65 combined with the aging of the population. The aging of the population is due to both increased life expectancy and decreased fertility. In 1965, 65-year-old retirees could expect to ...

governing includes administrative and political processesand mechanisms which provide the conditions for citizens and socialgroups to discuss their interests reduce the differences and ensure theirrights. in the age of information and communication technologies, inorder to achieve this aim, public institutions are constrained to havedigital portals. these portals must comply with some standards...

It cannot be recommended that either beneficiary status or duration of widowhood be given recognition in the calculation and projection of mortality rates for program cost estimation, based on this study. The significance of beneficiary status is not yet clear, while the effect of duration of widowhood follows no pattern. Widow beneficiaries have higher mortality rates than wife beneficiaries, ...

The distribution of the population in the United States has shifted with considerable rapidity in both the number and proportion of the population 65 years of age or over. This population group has grown and will continue to grow at a rapid rate for the remainder of the 20th century and is expected to increase well into the next century. In the 50-year period 1940-90, the elderly population gre...