Abstract As a result of the rapid ageing societies, meeting demands for long-term care has become increasingly difficult. In Netherlands, informal is recognised as key element to compensate cut-backs in formal provision. Formal, and privately paid services, however, are not used equally across socio-economic status (SES) groups whether these inequalities have been reduced or exacerbated over ti...

Abstract In water quality monitoring programs, optimization between information craved and collected involves scrupulous judgment making processes management approaches. The present study explores the few essential aspects of program considering Shannon’s entropy with case studies on a lakes wetlands in North Guwahati, Assam (India). Firstly, loss by traditional indices (WQIs) has been addresse...

The Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, which served as an ideological foundation for the establishment and gradual development of Huayan school, is one most influential Mahāyāna sūtras in East Asian Buddhism. This article shows how exegetical tradition that focused on study this scripture was started by scholar monks Dilun who highly valued Vasubandhu’s commentary Daśabhūmika-sūtra chapter completed during...

This thesis is a Biblical Exegesis of Colossians 3:1-3 investigating its significance for Christians today. It explored: the historical, cultural and literary context of Colossians and the church in Colossae; in depth exegetical analysis to determine authorship and its original meaning, including preliminary analysis, contextual analysis, verbal analysis, literary analysis, an exegetical synthe...

background: improving maternal health is one of the eight millennium development goals (mdgs) aimed at improving maternal healthcare and reducing maternal mortality. the utilization of maternal health services is influenced by several factors that need to be better understood. the objective of this study was to estimate the role of socio-economic position as a determinant of the utilization of ...

Empirical evidence for the U.S. suggests that illicit consumption of opioids increases in association with socio-economic deprivation middle-class. To explore underlying mechanisms, we set up a task-based labor market model endogenous mental health status and care system. The decline tasks were historically performed by middle class associated share mentally distressed workers. Mentally workers...