... individuals, households, nations and international relations.
Additionally, the
UN Conference on Environment and Development (1992) and the World
Conference on Women (1995) have highlighted the principle ... biotechnological revolution on develop-
ing countries’ food systems began from a discussion on lessons learned from the Green Revo-
lution, the present-day revolutionary force is different in one main respect: ...
TRIPS obligations by adopting alternative
modes of protections such as Plant Variety Protections (
UPOV) style legislation based on the
1978 or 1991 Convention (although they may now only join...
... serious mental health
conditions
• Includes a range of conditions, some
of which may not be the focus of
mental health legislation e.g. mental
retardation
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Table 1. Comparison of definitions ... the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination of 1965, Articles 11.1(f) and 12 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against ... to
conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar depression apply equally to other conditions such
as mental retardation, and therefore a broad definition is preferred.
People with mental retardation...
...
Impact of economic crises onmental health
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2. How can we contribute to mental health?
Mental health is determined by socioeconomic and
environmental factors (2).
An economic ... Region, alcohol
consumption is negatively associated with population mental health.
Alcohol consumption plays a considerable role in increasing suicide,
especially among men (14,15).
Mental ... dry seasons? European
Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 7:215–220.
71. Weaver JD. Economic recession and increases in mental health
emergencies. Journal of Mental Health Administration, 1983,...
... from information about risks of not
evacuating and recovery services
Disasters: Impact onMental
Health in an Elderly
Population and Practical
Suggestions for Preparation,
Response, and Recovery
Lisa ... appropriateness of
reactions and normalizes the
experience
• Psycho-educational focus
• Duration of treatment – short-term
Traditional
Crisis Counseling
Pan American Health Organization: Health Library ... informal social networks, or
their personal physician for relief from
their distress.
Evaluation Considerations
When Assessing Those at
Risk
Determine person’s proximity to the
disaster
Learn...
... backoff (conditionally on the event S
i
). We assume that
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both the packet size, defined as P (dimension: [bits]), and the transmission rate, denoted as R (dimension:
[bits/s]), are constant, ... of
additional nodes covered by a new transmission. For example: a transmission from the 1-st node of the first
TD will reach only one additional node (namely, the (n + 1)-th); a transmission from ... retransmission
from the i-th node. Since the per-hop delay is meaningful only if the i-th node decides to retransmit, it is
of interest to study the statistical distribution of D
i
conditioned on S
i
....
... SLAAC ad-
dress configuration time (
¯
T
conf
), by simply consider-
ing the two possible configuration situations: (i) there
is on average multi-hop connectivity between the un-
configured vehicle ... configuration guidelines of the solution de-
pending on the scenario where it is deployed and the
traffic conditions (Section 5). Finally, we conclude
the paper by summarizing the main conclusions of
our ... solution, we performed
the following experiments. We evaluated the config-
uration time
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T
conf
under different traffic conditions
and for different deployment configuration parame-
ters. The traffic conditions...
... rate given
a configuration. In fact, it will be the one which is associated to the highest
conditional probability in the respective configuration column. Further
information about the results ...
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combinations of configurations and bit rate, conditional probabilities of the
form Pr
kj
[BR
k
|CFG
j
] can be calculated. These probabilities are then
organised in conditional probability ... network [13]. The controller performs
this task for different channels in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks based on
the experimental measurements and the environmental conditions, and
eventually...