The concept of food security has been defined on numerous occasions by the international community and it has evolved considerably over time. One of the most fundamental shifts has been the change from an initial concept in which food security was considered equivalent to the reliable availability of food towards the contemporary notion in which food is one of the elements of a complex social c...

Metadata descriptions of database contents are required to build and use systems that access and deliver data in response to user requests. When numerous heterogeneous databases are brought together in a single system, their various metadata formalizations must be homogenized and integrated in order to support the access planning and delivery system. This integration is a tedious process that r...

Abstract Definitions of animal welfare often invoke consciousness or sentience. Marian Stamp Dawkins has argued that to define this way is a mistake. In Dawkins’s alternative view, an with good one healthy and “has what it wants.” The dispute highlights source strain on the concept welfare: consciousness-involving definitions are better able capture normative significance welfare, whereas consc...

OBJECTIVE To develop definitions of bloodstream infections in the newborn that would enable clinicians to identify infection early, so patients can be enrolled in clinical trials. The definitions should be useful for surveillance and epidemiologic purposes. METHOD Search of EMBASE, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library using age and English language limited key words sepsis, septicemia, and shock. Ex...