As long as population A in Fig. 1 has a total value above this limit this population will be preferable no matter how populous the low quality population Z is (Hurka 1983, Ng 1989; Sider 1991).
In August 2014, we published a manuscript in Environment International that documented the direct benefits of government policies enacted in Taiyuan over ten years (2000-2009) on air quality, population health, and economic measures.
Care management aims to provide cost-effective, coordinated, non-duplicative care to improve care quality, population health, and reduce costs.
The GA evolves a population of candidate solutions, represented by chromosomes, using crossover, mutation, and selection operations in search for a better quality population based on some fitness measure.
The committee met last October to discuss the 66-page report that indicated a transfer would have no impact in several areas, including aesthetics, air quality, population and housing.
Arranged marriage is not related to socio-environmental variables from Binford's comparative hunter-gatherer database [24], such as latitude, temperature, habitat, mobility, dietary quality, population density, or net primary productivity.
An important element in achieving this aim is the availability of high quality population-based cancer statistics.
There have been few high quality, population-based epidemiological surveys of GERD in Asia, particularly in China [ 5].
Importantly, HMRN combines the necessary high quality population-based data collection systems and diagnostic facilities to further investigate the epidemiology of these emerging entities.
Finally, we would advocate greater use of cancer registries to facilitate high quality, population-based investigations of the quality of life of cancer survivors.
1 Consequently, good quality population-level data on iodine status is required to assess population status and design strategies which correct any deficiency but avoid introducing excessive intakes.
