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- Drinking Water Pumping in Morocco
- The wind system installed in Ain Tolba, part of the Niama Commune, near Oujda in Northeast Morocco is a 10 kW Bergey Excel wind turbine that drives a 12-stage electric pump located in the partially buried storage tank just behind the two girls. The systems have performed well and the...
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- Who's Your City?: What Is a Megaregion?
- Forget the best cities to work in. Richard Florida envisions a world in which megaregions -- composed of several cities -- represent a new and powerful economic unit. Adapted from Florida's new book Who's Your City? Today, megaregions range in size from 10...
- Articles 2008-03-19
- Geostatistical Analysis of Disease Data: Estimation of Cancer Mortality Risk From Empirical Frequencies Using Poisson Kriging
- Cancer mortality maps are used by public health officials to identify areas of excess and to guide surveillance and control activities. Quality of decision-making thus relies on an accurate quantification of risks from observed rates which can be very unreliable when computed from sparsely populated geographical units or recorded for...
- White papers 2005-12-14
- Prognosis for Long-Term Survival and Renal Recovery in Critically Ill Patients With Severe Acute Renal Failure: A Population-Based Study
- Severe Acute Renal Failure (sARF) is associated with considerable morbidity, mortality and use of healthcare resources; however, its precise epidemiology and long-term outcomes have not been well described in a non-specified population. Population-based surveillance was conducted among all adult residents of the Calgary Health Region (population 1 million) admitted to...
- White papers 2005-10-25
- Dietary Intake of Fats and Fatty Acids for the United States Population: 1999-2000
- This paper presents dietary intake estimates for fats and fatty acids from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000, for the U.S. population. These include: total fat; total saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fat; individual fatty acids; and cholesterol. Fat intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview. Population...
- White papers 2004-11-08
- The Ageing Population: Implications for the Australian Workforce
- Hudson provides insight into the opportunities and challenges that Australian employers face with respect to the maturing population and its implications for workforce culture. It also canvasses potential solutions and approaches to addressing this issue in their own organisation. This whitepaper was commissioned thus, in seeking to respond to the...
- White papers 2004-07-13
- Recovering Volatility From Option Prices by Evolutionary Optimization
- This paper proposes a probabilistic approach for estimating parameters of an option-pricing model from a set of observed option prices. The approach is based on a stochastic optimization algorithm, which generates a random sample from the set of global minima of the in-sample pricing error and allows for the existence...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Dietary Intake of Selected Minerals for the United States Population: 1999-2000
- This report presents dietary intake estimates for selected minerals from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000, for the U.S. population. These minerals included: calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium, and zinc. Mineral intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview. Population means, medians, and standard...
- White papers 2004-04-27
- Dietary Intake of Selected Vitamins for the United States Population: 1999-2000
- This report presents dietary intake estimates for selected B-vitamins, carotenes, and vitamins A, C, and E from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000, for the U.S. population. Vitamin intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview. Population means, medians, and standard errors of the mean are weighted...
- White papers 2004-03-12
- Hitting the Wall: Credit as an Impediment to Homeownership
- This paper analyzes the changing trends in credit quality for the overall population and demographic subgroups in the United States. The paper discusses the role that poor credit quality plays in limiting household access to homeownership. The paper begins by tracing how the proportion of the overall, minority, and lower-income...
- White papers 2003-11-13
- Dietary Intake of Ten Key Nutrients for Public Health, United States: 1999-2000
- This report presents dietary intake estimates of 10 nutrients for the U.S. population by sex and age groups. Nutrient intakes are estimated from one 24-hour dietary recall interview conducted in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2000. Population means, medians, and standard errors of the mean are weighted to...
- White papers 2003-04-17
- Relationship of Broiler Flock Numbers to Litter Microflora
- Allowing litter to build up in broiler houses is a common practice. This practice is accompanied by changes in the birds' environment, such as increases in ammonia emissions and litter pH. In order to evaluate mechanisms for control of the environment, it is important to understand the microbiological population and...
- White papers 2003-03-07
- Improving the Quality of End-of-Life Care for Californians
- As the elderly population grows and the majority of the dying patients from this population suffer from chronic illness, the quality of end-of-care has become increasingly important for them. This paper describes about optimizing the utilization of expensive resources, reducing unnecessary hospitalization and undesirable life-sustaining interventions to help the elderly...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Improving Quality of Care for Californians With Heart Failure
- Heart failure (HF) is a widespread and costly complex clinical syndrome that primarily affects the elderly. Although mortality has steadily declined, HF remains a progressive and ultimately fatal condition. With nearly 4 million beneficiaries, California is home to 10 percent of the nation's Medicare population. Heart failure is the most...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Rearranging the Life Cycle
- It's no secret that the U.S. population is aging. According to census data, 13 percent of the population is age 65 and older. By 2030, 20 percent of Americans, about 70 million, will be over 65. The population age 85 and above is currently the fastest-growing segment of the older...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Population-Based Health Care: Definitions and Applications
- The terms "population" or "population based" are increasingly coupled with "health," "health care," "medicine," "medical care," or "managed care" to indicate a changing reality in the organization and delivery of health care in the United States. In this brief review, we highlight key elements of this emerging phenomenon and provide...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- Health Outcomes Among Hispanic Subgroups: Data From the National Health Interview Survey, 1992-95
- Within the next 50 years, Hispanics will become the largest minority group in the United States. The largest Hispanic subgroups are those of Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican descent. The Hispanic population is heterogeneous in terms of culture, history, socioeconomic status (SES) and health status. In this paper, various health...
- White papers 2000-02-25
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- NCHS Data on Aging
- Seniors are the fastest growing population group in the United States. The aging of the population has important consequences for the health care system. As the elderly population increases, more services will be required for the treatment and management of chronic and acute health conditions. Providing health care services needed...
- White papers 2004-06-04
- Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2004 Current Population Survey
- This paper examines the status of health insurance coverage in the United States. The data are based primarily on the March 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), with some analysis based on other CPS surveys. The report focuses on the nonelderly population (under age 65) because this group can receive health...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Population Aging, Foreign Direct Investment, And Tax Competition
- This paper studies the role of population aging for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the strategic taxation of capital. Importantly, this theoretical model suggests that the labor market implications of aging differ from the financial market aspects. While population aging may be associated with a lower capital stock in the...
- White papers 2006-05-25
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