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The Role of Physical Activity in the Prevention and Management of Obesity: A Position Statement From the World Obesity Federation

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This position statement is intended to synthesize and interpret current consensus and salient developments regarding the relationship between obesity and physical activity. It draws from the latest evidence and guidelines to update and share the World Obesity Federation's stance with policymakers, healthcare professionals, public health ...
Zoe Gowers   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Transportation Planning and Public Policy: Towards Multimodal Demand Modeling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This report examines existing methods of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) in two areas, transportation policy and transportation planning, and suggests ways of modifying these methods to account for travel within a multimodal system. Although the planning and
Holian, Matthew, McLaughlin, Ralph
core   +1 more source

Social Equity Through Women's Empowerment: Women's Participation in Local Politics, Budgeting and Decision‐Making in Bangladesh

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper explores the gender dimensions of social equity and social equity budgeting (SEB) by investigating women's inclusion in local politics, budgeting and decision‐making in Bangladesh. Quotas for women representatives are reserved at each successive level of local government in Bangladesh, and their active participation in local politics
Md Salah Uddin Rajib   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Livability: How Sustainability Planning Threatens the American Dream [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This report posits that sustainability plans are infringing on people's rights and preventing them from securing the type of housing they ...
Randal O'Toole
core  

Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deepening Economic Development Through Market Access: Evidence From Navigational Channel Regulation Works

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Inland waterways are vital for facilitating market access and promoting economic development worldwide. This paper explores this relationship by examining the impact of navigational channel regulation works on the Yangtze River mainstream, China's longest inland waterway.
Yufei Peng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
wiley   +1 more source

The Retinex enhancement algorithm for low‐light intensity image based on improved illumination map

open access: yesIET Image Processing
Taken in low‐light intensity conditions, image with low brightness affects processing precision. In this article, the Gamma Function based on the brightness average and weighted fusion method according to gray entropy is proposed, which is combined with ...
Ruidi Weng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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