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Nutrition in Sri Lanka has traditionally been assigned to the medical profession. After the recent 2001 elections, the government elevated nutrition to a ministerial level and created the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition (MOH). Several departments are involved with nutrition in this ministry: the Nutrition Coordination Division, Directorate of Nutrition, Family Health Bureau, Medical Resear...

This paper examines the role of Saudi Arabia’s economic sectors in creating or rather transforming into a knowledge-based economy. It determines major enablers that could support process. Judgments and opinions are used to make some general recommendations for shift from an oil-based economy long term. As main finding, it identifies four areas contributing most transformation: changes private s...

AIM To investigate how students in Croatia perceive causes of poverty and to examine the differences in attributions of poverty between students of social work, economics, and agriculture. METHODS The study included 365 participants, students of social work (n=143), economics (n=137), and agriculture (n=82). We used the newly developed Attribution of Poverty Scale, consisting of 4 factors, as...

Researchers, administrators, and policy makers need valid and reliable information about teaching practices. The Postsecondary Instructional Practices Survey (PIPS) is designed to measure the instructional practices of postsecondary instructors from any discipline. The PIPS has 24 instructional practice statements and nine demographic questions. Users calculate PIPS scores by an intuitive propo...

OBJECTIVE To develop a list of 5 tests or treatments used in rheumatology that have evidence indicating that they may be unnecessary and thus should be reevaluated by rheumatology healthcare providers and patients. METHODS Using the Delphi method, a committee of 16 rheumatologists from across Canada and an allied health professional generated a list of tests, procedures, or treatments in rheu...

Since the 90s of last century, there is a substantial increase of the Chinese equity market and M&A market. In order to explain the phenomenon of the rapid development of Chinese M&A market, the paper introduced EMD method to divide the data into a number of cycle terms, and tried to use the stock market volatility information to explain the factors of Chinese M&A market. Specifically, M&A mark...

We consider an economy with one seller and m selfish buyers. The seller has n indivisible heterogeneous items to sell and each buyer wants at most one of those items. Buyers have private, independent and known value on the items. We propose an exact Vickrey-Dutch auction, where prices of appropriate items are decreased by unity in each iteration. This auction converges to Vickrey payoff point e...