Emerging hybrid technologies have better potential than conventional technology for diversifying the desalination industry, which is presently being dominated by thermal and membrane-based desalination. Notwithstanding technological maturity of processes, they remain highly energy-intensive processes certain disadvantages. Therefore, hybridization membrane holds great attention to mitigate limi...

although researchers in this decade have proposed several answers concerning the association between socio-economic levels of health, still one question is not well understood: whether in school or domestic environments, low and high socio-economic status may influence asthma and respiratory symptoms on primary school students. the aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which primar...

It is obvious from the study of literature that university-industry (U-I) relationships and their subsequent knowledge transfers are topics of high political, economical, managerial and academic interest. Indeed, technological knowledge is seen as a major source of long-term economic growth and its transfer to the firm is critical since it acts as a significant innovation factor. In order to ac...

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We then ask how models with search improve our understanding of these data. Our results are mixed. Search ...

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of foreign aid transfers in a small open recipient economy. The focus, however, is not on the impact of foreign aid per se but rather on aid’s influence conditional upon the different budgetary financing policies under the discretion of the recipient government. We compare the effects of an aid transfer tied to investment in a public good from a pur...

Policy narratives in OECD nations are now starting to stress the importance of ‘innovation’ as a public sector objective. On one level, this reflects efforts to align thinking with a wider discourse on innovation, arguably in an effort not to be left out of the picture. For example, Geoff Mulgan3 has argued persuasively that, contrary to some common assumptions, the public sector has a longer h...

b a ckground:  food insecurity has an impact on social-emotional development, school attendance, and  academic  performance. it  is  critical  to  understand  the impact of food insecurity on academic standing and its relationship with socio- economic status on adolescent health outcomes. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between food insecurity and socio-economic status,...

background: to investigate the association between socio-economic status and obesity in non-menopause women aged 15-49 years in tehran, iran. methods: this study was based on iran national health survey conducted in 1999. obesity is defined as a body mass in­dex over ≥30. constructed area (per-person), educational level and job are considered as factors indicating the socioeconomic status. the ...

PURPOSE In the context of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Quality Indicators Project, a set of quality indicators for diabetes care was developed, to be used for benchmarking the performance of health care systems. BACKGROUND Diabetes complications markedly reduce quality and length of life and are also responsible for enormous health care costs. A large body ...