He says, "The mind is what the brain does; specifically, the brain processes information, and thinking is a kind of computation" – excluding the felt experience of thinking, with all its diverse burdens and colorations.
The challenge of assessing vulnerability under environmental change may benefit tremendously from this methodology by easing the complexity and burden of diverse data (Eppler and Mengis 2004).
Both groups faced considerable burden in diverse areas of daily living related to activity, work, and social and emotional functioning as a result of the illness.
Particulate matter (PM) air pollution, measuring less than 2.5 μm, has been the focus of international concern due to its diverse contribution to the global burden of disease.
These sites were selected because of their high neonatal mortality burden, and were diverse in terms of literacy levels, infrastructure, and health care utilization (Table 1).
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently developed an approach for comparative risk assessment that has been applied to estimate the current and future disease burden from 25 diverse risk factors, including climate change, in a comparable and transparent manner (Ezzati et al. 2002, 2004; Murray and Lopez 1997; WHO 2002).
Its practice may be more uneven, with research in men's anti-violence groups in the USA, for example, finding two problems: definitions of accountability often were absent or diverse or unclear, and the burden of policing men's sexist behaviour typically fell to women (Macomber 2012).
Methods have been developed, field tested, and implemented to detect and define health symptoms and outcomes; new exposure technology has been developed to assess environmental exposures and body burden in a diverse array of biospecimens; and creative approaches to reaching and retaining traditionally "hard to follow" socioeconomic groups have been implemented with community input.
These burdens are multiple, diverse and partly invisible [1].
