The Social Security Administration, in its annual report to the Congress.1 reviews the contribution that the social security programs made to the national economy during the fiscal year 1949 through its provision of basic economic security for the Nation’s gainfully employed persons and their families. It also summarizes the servicesprovided to people who lack security because of personal, fami...

Climate and land cover change are driving a major reorganization of terrestrial biotic communities in tropical ecosystems. In an effort to understand how biodiversity patterns in the tropics will respond to individual and combined effects of these two drivers of environmental change, we use species distribution models (SDMs) calibrated for recent climate and land cover variables and projected t...

Consumption is the principal feature of Iran’s Gross National Production. Therefore, recognizing of factors that influence it is quite crucial. This article, investigates habit formation, durability, relative risk aversion and intertemporal substitution in consumption expenditures of Iranian households. For empirical study, at first, we constructed two weighted portfolio of the main assets re...

Background. The recreational use of urban spaces has increased significantly in recent years, due to a trend towards healthier lifestyles in which regular exercise plays a leading role. Examples include walking, running or biking, activities for which large urban green parks provide excellent conditions. These parks, located within the city, are intended for public use and include landscape fea...

ion time and improved machine coding of narrative text. Other new developments in free text mining include advanced software that uses multiple word combinations and recognizes the context in which a word is used. Such software has already been used by national security agencies and has been adapted for the analysis of aviation mishaps (Dodd R, personal communication, 1 June 2001). i4 Smith www...

The Tobacco Convention was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003. Nikogosian and Kickbusch examine the five potential impacts of the Tobacco Convention and its Protocol on public health. These include the adoption of the Convention would seem to unlock the treaty-making powers of WHO; the impact of the Convention in the global health architecture has been phenomenal globally; t...

With the establishment of the social security system in 1924, Chile started the path towards UHC. A key milestone was the creation of the National Health System in 1952, which offered public subsidized coverage for the poor [1]. Currently, after the partial privatization of social security in 1981 the health system is mixed, both in insurance and in service provision [2], and health insurance r...

In the context of modern social transformations characteristic features manifestation spiritual and moral values in ensuring national security Belarusian society are revealed. The cultural historical prerequisites for formation potential people, risks development statehood, actualization problems individual, his self-realization worldview choice considered.

Ensuring food security is the main issue in solving socio-political problems. The severity and scale of poor-quality nutrition world's population are justified by socio-economic factors, which allows us to understand directions its solution. Uncontrolled production consumption can lead a catastrophe for humanity. In modern conditions high uncertainty on world markets general, particular, intens...