An insufficient amount of available domestic water can lead to an increase in the occurrence water-related diseases. No LCIA consensus has been reached on how model potential impacts human health resulting from use implying deprivation. Building Boulay et al. (2011), this research work provides updated and revisited characterization factors assessing impact induced along pathway. This consolida...

Children are disproportionately represented among the income-poor, many suffer from severe deprivation, and their poverty and vulnerability have cumulative and long-term consequences. This article provides a comparative examination of the poverty-reduction effectiveness of cash transfer programmes targeting children, focusing on three types of such programmes: the Child Support Grant in South A...

1 SLEEP AND MEMORY ARE STRONGLY INTERLINKED. SLEEP IS VITAL TO MEMORY CONSOLIDATION1-3 AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION RESULTS IN THE IMPAIRMENT OF short-term as well as long-term memory.4 In theory, the impact of sleep deprivation on memory might be reduced by directly influencing its component processes, encoding, consolidation and retrieval, or indirectly by enhancing arousal and/or attention. The bes...