Sufficiency is an indispensable strategy for sustainable development that gaining growing attention in both the scientific and political sphere. Nevertheless, question of how sufficiency-oriented social change can be shaped by different actors remains unclear. There are many concepts sufficiency all them entail certain notions change. However, these remain mostly implicit. By conducting a semi-...

In this article we investigate the LBB condition for axisymmetric flow problems. Specifically, the sufficiency condition for approximating pairs to satisfy the LBB condition established by Stenberg in the Cartesian coordinate setting is presented for the cylindrical coordinate setting. For the cylindrical coordinate setting, the Taylor-Hood (k = 2) and conforming Crouzeix-Raviart elements are s...

The assumption that preferences are transitive, or, roughly equivalently, that choice behavior satisfies the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference, is at the core of much classical normative decision theory. This paper asks to what degree this restricts the possible outcomes of choice behavior: are there objectives that could not be attained by an agent adhering to WARP that could be attained by ch...

Recent research has slowly corroded a belief that selective attention and consciousness are so tightly entangled that they cannot be individually examined. In this review, we summarize psychophysical and neurophysiological evidence for a dissociation between top-down attention and consciousness. The evidence includes recent findings that show subjects can attend to perceptually invisible object...

PURPOSE Assessing impact of poor accrual on premature trial closure requires a relevant metric. We propose defining accrual sufficiency on apparent ability to address primary endpoints (PE) rather than attaining accrual targets. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN All phase III trials open January 1, 1993, to December 31, 2002, by five U.S. oncology Clinical Trials Cooperative Groups (CTCG) were evaluated fo...

We aimed at quantifying the extent to which agricultural management practices linked to animal production and land use affect environmental outcomes at a larger scale. Two practices closely linked to farm environmental performance at a larger scale are farming intensity, often resulting in greater off-farm environmental impacts (land, non-renewable energy use etc.) associated with the productio...