The European health report 2005 : public health action for healthier children and populations / / book design, Sven Lund

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781233003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Copenhagen, Denmark : , : World Health Organization, , 2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 1-280-26860-3; 9786610268603; 92-890-1402-4; 1-4237-4427-6; 92-890-1376-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, graphs, tables
• Disciplina: 362.1094
• Soggetti: Health status indicators - Europe; Child welfare - Europe; Health care reform - Europe; Medical policy - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Foreword: putting knowledge at the service of a healthier future -- Executive summary -- Part 1. Introduction -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework of the report -- References -- Part 2. The general public health perspective -- Overview -- Major causes of the burden of disease -- Major preventable risk factors -- References -- Part 3. Child and adolescent health and development -- Rationale for the focus on children -- Major causes of the burden of disease -- Children's health determinants and policy responses -- Main factors in successful implementation of policies and interventions -- References -- Annex. Statistical tables -- Note on estimates of the burden of disease in countries -- Table 1. Population of the WHO European Region, 1990 to 2015 (projected) -- Table 2. Basic public health indicators in the WHO European Region -- Table 3. Level and distribution of income in the WHO European Region -- Table ; 4. Deaths and DALYs attributable to the 10 leading causes in the WHO European Region, 2002 -- Table 5. Shares of total deaths and DALYs attributable to 10 leading risk factors in the WHO European Region, 2002 -- Table 6. Basic indicators of the status and determinants of child health in the WHO European Region, 2002 or latest available year -- Table 7. Burden of disease from seven leading conditions in children aged 0-14 years (DALYs per 1000) in the WHO European Region, 2002 -- Definitions of the indicators included in the tables.
• Sommario/riassunto: A synthesis of evidence and analyses from WHO and other sources, the report identifies both noncommunicable diseases as the main cause of the burden of disease on the European Region, and communicable diseases as an additional burden on eastern countries, caused by poverty and underfunded health services. It shows that using well-known, comprehensive interventions to tackle the seven leading risk factors - tobacco, alcohol, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, overweight, low fruit and vegetable intake, and physical inactivity - would largely prevent the seven leading conditions - ischaemic heart disease, unipolar depressive disorders, cerebrovascular disease, alcohol-use disorders, chronic pulmonary disease, lung cancer and road traffic injury. This creates a compelling argument for action.

Counter-Terrorism Technologies : A Critical Assessment / / by Peter Lehr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910338023003321
• Autore: Lehr Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-319-90924-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VII, 217 p.)
• Collana: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications, , 2363-9466
• Disciplina: 303.625
• Soggetti: Terrorism; Political violence; Security systems; Financial risk management; Crime—Sociological aspects; Terrorism and Political Violence; Security Science and Technology; Risk Management; Crime and Society
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Terrorism as a Threat to Open Societies -- Part 1: Barbarians at the Gates: ‘Sinful’ Cities -- Actions: The Return of Urban Guerillas -- Reactions: The New (Para-) Military Urbanism -- Consequences: The Urban Space as a (Limited) Battlespace. Part 2: ‘Our Silicon Will Win’: The Role of Technology in Urban Counter-Terrorism -- Identification: Biometrics, or a Real-Time 'Who is Who' -- Prediction and Postdiction: Real-Time Data Mining and Data Analytics -- Detection: Scanning and 'Sniffing' Technologies -- Surveillance and Observation: The All-Seeing Eye of Big Brother -- Protection: Defensible Spaces -- Threat Displacement Instead of Threat Eradication: Come Concluding Caveats -- Part 3: Brave New Cities: The Law of Unintended Consequences -- The Quest for Silver Bullets: Implications for our Construction of Citizenship -- Archipelagos of ; Fear: CT Technology and the Securitization of Everyday Life -- Undemocratic Means: The Rise of the Surveillance State -- Democracy Transfigured: The Dawn of the 'Umpire State' -- Outlook: The Need for 'Critical' Critical Infrastructure Studies.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book critically discusses the role of technology for counter-terrorism in general, and for securing our vulnerable open societies in particular. It is set against the backdrop of the terrorist threat posed by the combined forces of Al Qaeda and ISIS/Daesh in the foreseeable future. The book commences by illuminating current and foreseeable tactics and weapons used by these implacable enemies – weapons that may well include chemical, biological, radiological and potentially even nuclear (CBRN) devices. In a second part, it introduces technologies already available or in development that promise an increase in safety and security when it comes to the dangers posed by these terrorists. This part also includes a critical discussion of advantages and disadvantages of such technologies that are, quite often, sold as a ‘silver bullet’ approach in the fight against terrorism. Controversies such as those triggered by the abuse of millimeter wave scanners deployed at several Western European airports will demonstrate that there are costs involved with regard to human rights. The third, analytical part takes the critical discussion further by arguing that the uncritical fielding of new surveillance and control technologies in parallel with the on-going outsourcing and privatization of key services of the state could well lead to dystopias as envisaged in a rather prescient way by the so-called cyperpunk novels of the 1980s. The book concludes with the question that any liberal democracy should ask itself: how far can we go with regard to hardening our societies against terrorist threats?

Approximation with Positive Linear Operators and Linear Combinations / / by Vijay Gupta, Gancho Tachev

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254280603321
• Autore: Gupta Vijay
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• ISBN: 3-319-58795-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 186 p. 2 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Developments in Mathematics, , 2197-795X ; ; 50
• Disciplina: 511.4
• Soggetti: Approximation theory; Numerical analysis; Functional analysis; Approximations and Expansions; Numerical Analysis; Functional Analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Moments and Linear Combinations of Positive Linear Operators -- 2. Direct Estimates for Approximation by Linear Combinations -- 3. Inverse Estimates and Saturation Results for Linear Combinations -- 4. Voronovskaja Type Estimates -- 5. Pointwise Estimates for Linear Combinations -- 6. Voronovskaja's Theorem in Terms of Weighted Modulus of Continuity -- 7. Direct Estimates for Some New Operators -- 8. Convergence for Operators Based on Pǎltǎanea Basis -- Bibliography -- Index. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a systematic overview of approximation by linear combinations of positive linear operators, a useful tool used to increase the order of approximation. Fundamental and recent results from the past decade are described with their corresponding proofs. The volume consists of eight chapters that provide detailed insight into the representation of monomials of the operators Ln , direct and inverse estimates for a broad class of positive linear operators, and case studies involving finite and unbounded intervals of real and complex functions. Strong converse inequalities of Type A in terminology of ; Ditzian–Ivanov for linear combinations of Bernstein and Bernstein–Kantorovich operators and various Voronovskaja-type estimates for some linear combinations are analyzed and explained. Graduate students and researchers in approximation theory will find the list of open problems in approximation of linear combinations useful. The book serves as a reference for graduate and postgraduate courses as well as a basis for future study and development. .