We re-run our analysis on human-rights democracy as a function of the Human Development Index (HDI) and cultural values with self-expressive values indicator replacing the emancipative values indicator (for details on emancipative values and self-expressive values indicator see supplementary material S12). Our intention was to test, whether the finding that HDI has a stronger e↵ect on human-rig...

Background and purpose: Health indices, regarding to their role in the development of society, are one of the most important indices at national level. Success of national development programs is largely dependent on the establishment of appropriate goals at the health sector, among which access to healthcare facilities is an essential requirement. The aim of this study was to examine the dispa...

During the development of a hidden Markov modelbased handwriting recognition system, the testing phase takes a non-negligible amount of computation time. This is especially true for real application where the lexicon size is large. In order to shorten the development process we propose an indicator of the system discrimination power. This indicator is calculated during training and its final va...

A hot tear indicator based on the physics of solidification and deformation is presented. This indicator is derived using available data from computer simulation of solidification and solid deformation. Hot tears form when the mushy zone is starved of liquid feeding and deformed in tension. The unfed tensile deformation causes a small additional porosity. A physical model based on a mass balanc...

Product quality, development productivity, and staffing needs are main cost drivers in software development. In particular the tension between productivity and quality makes it difficult to gauge the relative cost-effectiveness of a software development using separate quality and productivity measures. The paper proposes a one-stop cost-effectiveness indicator that resolves the tension between ...

We study the effects of differences in local financial development within an integrated financial market. We construct a new indicator of financial development by estimating a regional effect on the probability that, ceteris paribus, a household is shut off from the credit market. By using this indicator we find that financial development enhances the probability an individual starts his own bu...

There have been few attempts to develop, test or apply sustainability indicators for natural resource management at a farm-level, and even fewer have fully consulted land users from the initiation of this process. While environmental sustainability indicators need to be accurate and reliable, land users also need them to be rapid, cost-effective and easy to use, in addition to being linked to m...

Fermented fish food products have been extensively studied in Asia's fermented food culture. We have attempted to categorize the different types of fermented fish products seen in some of the Asian countries as part of a cultural context indicator analysis. Categorization is available through two cultural context indicators: the macro cultural context indicator and micro cultural context indica...

This paper studies the nature and the importance of the link between macro and micro levels of innovation management in the knowledge society of Denmark, Sweden, USA, India, Russia, and Moldova, suggesting that countries with different levels of knowledge society development have different link types between the macro and micro levels of innovation management. In particular, findings show that ...