food insecurity, as a multi-faceted problem with far-reaching health and societal consequences, is prevalent among disadvantaged households. household food insecurity has made the notion operationally useful in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies. this study was to investigate the socio-demographic associates contributing to severity of food insecurity among vuln...

Over 1 billion children worldwide are exposed to political violence and armed conflict. The current conclusions are qualified by limited longitudinal research testing sophisticated process-oriented explanatory models for child adjustment outcomes. In this study, consistent with a developmental psychopathology perspective emphasizing the value of process-oriented longitudinal study of child adju...

In this paper, we present a cooperative perception system between wall mounted cameras and sensors on-board a mobile robot to : (i) track and follow a given target person wearing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, and (ii) facilitate navigation in the presence of passers-by during the execution of this mission. We employ a "trackingby-detection" approach within a Particle Filtering st...

Travel and tourism are considered the most popular form of individual enjoyment in the countries of origin of the visitors. Despite this fact, the consequences of the steady growing tourism are often criticised by the citizens of these same countries. The ephemeral nature of the tourism phenomenon is a cause of insecurity; moreover, it is often subject to misleading, emotional and even ideologi...

BACKGROUND Sudden cardiac death is one of the most frequent causes of death in Germany and the third leading cause of death in the industrialized world. Yet, the percentage of people providing first aid in the case of sudden cardiac arrest in Germany is alarmingly low by international comparison. Training Germans or reminding them of the simple but effective steps of resuscitation, so that ever...

Introduction of a pedagogical concept, Kubus, in a problem oriented learning context – analysed within the framework of an activity system – indicates what might happen when offering tools tempting to influence and regulate students‟ learning approach and hereby neglecting the importance of existing habits and values. Introduction of this new approach challenges existing “truisms “. It implies ...