in this paper we emphasize the importance of questioning the global validity of significant concepts underpinning global health policy. this implies questioning the concept of global health as such and accepting that there is no global definition of the global. further, we draw attention to ‘quality’ and ‘empowerment’ as examples of world-forming concepts. these concepts are exemplary for the g...

Color, texture, and shape act as important information for images in human recognition. For content-based image retrieval, many studies have combined color, features to improve the retrieval performance. However, there not been powerful methods combining all features. This study proposes a method that uses local global of shape. The color are extracted from autocorrelogram; texture magnitude co...

Satellite altimetric height was combined with approximately 1,000,000 in situ temperature profiles to produce global estimates of upper-ocean heat content, temperature and thermosteric sea-level variability on interannual time scales. Maps of these quantities from mid-1993 through mid-2003 were calculated using the technique developed by Willis et al. [2003]. The time series of globally average...