Predicting rainfall is an important step in generating data for climate impact studies. Rainfall predictions are a key process providing assessments with inputs. A consistent pattern typically good normal plants; nevertheless, too much or little can be disastrous to crops, even deadly. Drought damage plants and lead erosion, while heavy encourage the growth of destructive fungi. Machine Learnin...

INTRODUCTION From 1990-2010, worldwide child mortality declined by 43%, and maternal mortality declined by 40%. This paper compares two sources of progress: improvements in societal coverage of health determinants versus improvements in the impact of health determinants as a result of technical change. METHODS This paper decomposes the progress made by 146 low- and middle-income countries (LM...

The childhood obesity epidemic can be best tackled by means of an integrated approach, which is enabled by integrated public health policies, or Health in All Policies. Integrated policies are developed through intersectoral collaboration between local government policy makers from health and nonhealth sectors. Such intersectoral collaboration has been proved to be difficult. In this study, we ...

Background and aims: Laron syndrome is a disease that treated by Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1). This protein is a single chain and has three disulfide bonds. People with Laron syndrome have low rates of cancer and diabetes, although they appear to be at increased risk of casual death due to their stature. IGF-1 is synthesized by many tissues and is secreted from liver as an endocrine hor...

Hippocrates wrote about the relationship between environmental conditions and health status in Airs, waters and places in about 460 BC, where he identified environmental factors affecting human health that “doctors must know to pursue their calling”. Working across different sectors in public health is therefore not a new idea. The routes through which people are exposed to environmental hazard...