BACKGROUND There is increasing interest globally in the use of more rigorous processes to ensure that maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence use. The purpose of this study was to engage Nigerian MNCH policy-makers and other stakeholders to consider issues around research to policy and practice interface and to assess ...

Concerns regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. In the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...

We consider a supply chain in which a single supplier with fixed capacity sells to several independent retailers or manufacturers. The retailers have private information about their individual markets (e.g., mean market demand), which influences the size of their orders to the supplier. If the sum of all retailer orders exceeds the supplier’s capacity, the supplier uses a pre-declared rule, whi...

This article outlines a theoretical framework for an interactive, research-driven approach to building policy capacities in health promotion. First, it illustrates how two important issues in the recent public health debate, capacity building and linking scientific knowledge to policy action, are connected to each other theoretically. It then introduces an international study on an interactive ...

In this paper, closed-form expressions for the capacities per unit bandwidth (spectrum efficiency) of Weibull fading channels are derived and plotted for (a) Switch and Stay Combining diversity case and (b) no diversity case for adaptation policies like: (i) Optimal Power and Rate Adaptation policy, (ii) Optimal Rate Adaptation with constant transmit power policy, (iii) Channel Inversion with F...

Recent UK government policy on climate change, and wider policy movement within the UNFCCC, emphasise the building of adaptive capacity. But what are the institutional constraints that shape capacity to build adaptive organisations? This paper synthesises theory from social learning and institutional aspects of multi-level environmental governance to help unpack the patterns of individual and c...

This data represents research activities carried out in Co. Offaly and Co. Mayo, Ireland, to identify farm household innovative diversification behavior and policy/institutional actor capacity roles in support. The data sets are overlain with household and agency data from the two study areas to describe levels of innovative diversification capacity by individual socio-economic farm household p...