Recently increasing attention has been paid to complementing environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with social aspects. The paper discusses the selection of social impacts and indicators from existing frameworks like Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) and Social Impact Assessment (SIA). Two ongoing case studies, addressing sustainability assessment within decision support, were considered:...

AIMS To compare the relative frequency of eight indicators of problem drug use and potentially adverse social circumstances in drug-using parents and non-parents and to explore whether a profile based on these characteristics differs according to whether or not dependent children live with their drug-using parent. DESIGN The study utilizes a 5 year national UK treatment monitoring system data...

Social and scientific factors are deeply enmeshed in each other within the development and the use of ecological indicators (EI). Yet low research has assessed which factors contribute to selecting ecological indicators on the long-term. This article proposes to study the historical construction of EI by examining ecological, political, and social background of specific places where EI were dev...

INTRODUCTION Social media based indicators or altmetrics have been under scrutiny for the last seven years. Their promise as alternative metrics for measuring scholarly impact (Priem, Piwowar, & Hemminger, 2012) is still far from becoming a reality (Torres-Salinas, Cabezas-Clavijo, & Jiménez-Contreras, 2013). Issues with regard to their meaning (Sud & Thelwall, 2014), potential use as alternati...

BACKGROUND The atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) Pooled Cohort risk equations have shown different calibration across US populations with varied levels of social deprivation. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed the calibration and discrimination of the Pooled Cohort risk equations by social deprivation status among 9066 REGARDS (REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke...

city is consisted of a range of specific activities which are responsive to human needs. it deals with human’s features, thoughts and approaches and struggles to achieve formation of the city depending on his world-view and insight. degree of desirability and quality of the city relates to intellectual space that are prevailing on it. islam as a human insight which is rooted from their worldvie...