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Quantifying the impact of weather extremes on global food security: A spatial bio-economic approach
Weather and Climate Extremes, 2014 This study uses a spatial bio-economic modelling framework to estimate the impact of the 2012 weather extreme in the USA on food security in the developing world.
Sika Gbegbelegbe +4 more
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Embedding School Health into School Improvement Policy [PDF]
International Journal of School Health, 2014 Context: No one seriously argues against the common sense notion that physical and mental health problems can profoundly affect learning and performance.
Howard S Adelman, Linda Taylor
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Networking to Improve Nutrition Policy Research [PDF]
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2015 Effective nutrition and obesity policies that improve the food environments in which Americans live, work, and play can have positive effects on the quality of human diets. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN) conducts transdisciplinary practice-based policy ...
Kim, Sonia A. +3 more
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2018 Background Health Information Organizations (HIOs) are third party organizations that facilitate electronic health information exchange (HIE) between providers in a geographic area.
Sunny C. Lin, Julia Adler-Milstein
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Improvement of innovative policy in agriculture
Новые технологии, 2019 The introduction of innovations in the agro-industrial complex is one of the effective and accelerated development opportunities that will ensure the food security of the country. To ensure economic growth in agriculture and increase its competitiveness,
M. K. Ashinova +2 more
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On- and Off-Policy Monotonic Policy Improvement
, 2017 Monotonic policy improvement and off-policy learning are two main desirable properties for reinforcement learning algorithms. In this paper, by lower bounding the performance difference of two policies, we show that the monotonic policy improvement is guaranteed from on- and off-policy mixture samples.
Iwaki, Ryo, Asada, Minoru
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BMC Medical EducationBackground Coaching programs in graduate medical education have the potential to impact trainee development across multiple core competencies but require rigorous program evaluation to ensure effectiveness.
Rachel M. Jensen +7 more
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Does smartphone use encourage farmers to participate in centralized household waste disposal?
HeliyonThe centralization of household waste disposal represents a significant stride toward achieving ecological viability in rural China. This initiative can substantially alleviate the grassroots government's burden of managing rural household waste.
Zhongan Wu +2 more
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Factors Affecting Voluntary Blood Donations among Adults in Metro Manila, Philippines, as a Basis for Policy Improvement on Donor Recruitment. [PDF]
Acta Med Philipp, 2023 Mappala ACA +5 more
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Confounding-Robust Policy Improvement
, 2018 We study the problem of learning personalized decision policies from observational data while accounting for possible unobserved confounding. Previous approaches, which assume unconfoundedness, i.e., that no unobserved confounders affect both the treatment assignment as well as outcome, can lead to policies that introduce harm rather than benefit when ...
Kallus, Nathan, Zhou, Angela
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