نتایج جستجو برای: gross domestic production

تعداد نتایج: 695658  

Journal: :Journal of experimental psychology. General 2014
Oliver Schweickart Norman R Brown

How do people compare quantitative attributes of real-world objects? (e.g., Which country has the higher per capita GDP, Mauritania or Nepal?). The research literature on this question is divided: Although researchers in the 1970s and 1980s assumed that a 2-stage magnitude comparison process underlies these types of judgments (Banks, 1977), more recent approaches emphasize the role of probabili...

2014
Shi-Xin Wang Yao Yao Yi Zhou

Since the twentieth century, China has been facing various kinds of environmental problems. It is necessary to evaluate and analyze the ecological status of the environment over China, which is of great importance for environmental protection measures. In this article, an Eco-environmental Quality Index (EQI) model is established using national remote sensing land-use data, NDVI data from MODIS...

2005
Janusz Miskiewicz Marcel Ausloos

Different distance matrices are defined and applied to look for correlations between the gross domestic product of G7 countries. Results are illustrated through displays obtained from various graph methods. Significant similarities between results are obtained. A procedure for choosing the best distance function is proposed taking into account the size of the window in which correlation are ave...

Journal: :The Lancet. Oncology 2015
Kathrin Strasser-Weippl Yanin Chavarri-Guerra Cynthia Villarreal-Garza Brittany L Bychkovsky Marcio Debiasi Pedro E R Liedke Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis Don Dizon Eduardo Cazap Gilberto de Lima Lopes Diego Touya Joāo Soares Nunes Jessica St Louis Caroline Vail Alexandra Bukowski Pier Ramos-Elias Karla Unger-Saldaña Denise Froes Brandao Mayra E Ferreyra Silvana Luciani Angelica Nogueira-Rodrigues Aknar Freire de Carvalho Calabrich Marcela G Del Carmen Jose Alejandro Rauh-Hain Kathleen Schmeler Raúl Sala Paul E Goss

Cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, and an increasing threat in low-income and middle-income countries. Our findings in the 2013 Commission in The Lancet Oncology showed several discrepancies between the cancer landscape in Latin America and more developed countries. We reported that funding for health care was a small percentage of national gross domestic product and th...

Journal: :The Journal of pediatrics 2003
Gary L Freed Tammie A Nahra John R C Wheeler

OBJECTIVE To develop a predictive model for projecting the pediatric workforce and retrospectively test its accuracy at different points in time over the past several decades. METHODS We applied a modified version of the physician workforce trend model developed by Cooper et al. We first analyzed and tested the relationship between economic activity and the number of active pediatric medical ...

1992
Suzanne W. Letsch Helen C. Lazenby Katharine R. Levit Cathy A. Cowan

Spending for health care rose to $751.8 billion in 1991, an increase of 11.4 percent from the 1990 level. National health expenditures as a share of gross domestic product increased to 13.2 percent, up from 12.2 percent in 1990. The health care sector exhibited strong growth, despite slow growth in the overall economy. This combination resulted in the largest increase in the share of the Nation...

2005

Nigeria has endured two decades of economic stagnation. Despite the country’s rich natural and human resources, its per capita gross domestic product of $860 (in 2004) is one of the lowest in the world.3 In addition, Nigeria has experienced the deterioration of its democratic institutions, long periods of ethnic and civil war, and a series of military coups. In fact, military rule ended only in...

Journal: :International journal of injury control and safety promotion 2005
T H Law R S Radin Umar S Zulkaurnain S Kulanthayan

In 1997, a Motorcycle Safety Programme (MSP) was introduced to address the motorcycle-related accident problem. The MSP was specifically targeted at motorcyclists. In addition to the MSP, the recent economic recession has significantly contributed to a reduction of traffic-related incidents. This paper examines the effects of the recent economic crisis and the MSP on motorcycle-related accident...

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011
Xi Chen William D Nordhaus

A pervasive issue in social and environmental research has been how to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Given the shortcomings of standard sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights visible from space) as a proxy for standard measures of output (gross domestic product). We compare output and luminosity at the country level and ...

2013
Rick Davis Jason Averill

The total cost of fire in the United States in 2008, as defined by NFPA, is estimated at $310 B, or roughly 2 % of U.S. gross domestic product. Structure fires and fire protection account for $170 B. To reduce the U.S. fire burden, the Fire Risk Reduction in Buildings program focuses on the development and application of measurement science and standards directly on the two largest components o...

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