OBJECTIVE To position the concept of sustainability within the context of food security. DESIGN An overview of the interrelationships between food security and sustainability based on a non-systematic literature review and informed discussions based principally on a quasi-historical approach from meetings and reports. SETTING International and global food security and nutrition. RESULTS T...

OBJECTIVE To investigate inequalities in personal health conditions and in the utilization of healthcare services according in relation to the individual's status in the labor market. METHODS This study was based on 39,925 males aged 15 to 64 years living in 10 Brazilian metropolitan regions, who took part in the 1998 National Household Survey. They were classified as formal labor, informal l...

BACKGROUND Recently, quality is a serious concern in development of organizations. There are various indicators to assess quality and the purpose of this study was to identify the main indicators for quality measurement of Iranian health centers. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted in three stages: first, review of the literature was performed to identify different indicators for qua...

Abstract. To support the needs of practitioners regarding 3D geological modelling and uncertainty quantification in field, particular from mining industry, we propose a Python package called loopUI-0.1 that provides set local global indicators to measure features dissimilarities among an ensemble voxet models. Results are presented survey launched mineral enquiring about their practice needs. I...

We examine the importance of periods high versus low financial uncertainty when forecasting stock market returns with technical predictors. Our results suggest that predictors perform better in and should be avoided due to poor performance heightened uncertainty. In-sample, we report disentangled R2 statistics, out-of-sample show these continue equity risk premium. similar volatility measure a ...