Abstract Vegetarianism improves human and planetary health in addition to animal welfare. Motivations for meat-reduced diets include health-related ethical reasons, with the latter being main driver eschewing meat. However, evidence on vegetarian happiness is inconclusive results reported are mixed. This constitutes a challenge policy aiming encourage people shift toward plant-based diets. In t...

Global games of regime change—coordination games of incomplete information in which a status quo is abandoned once a sufficiently large fraction of agents attack it— have been used to study crises phenomena such as currency attacks, bank runs, debt crises, and political change. We extend the static benchmark examined in the literature by allowing agents to take actions in many periods and to le...

This study aimed to identify the level of comfort of families of patients in a critical health condition related to the welcoming practices performed by the hospital staff. Interviews were conducted with 250 relatives in hospitals of the state Bahia, using a Likert scale. Data were analyzed as percentages and quartiles. For nine of the 12 statements of the scale, most relatives scored their com...

one of the most popular measures of ecological worldview, predicting environmental attitudes and behaviors is the new ecological paradigm (nep) scale developed by dunlap and van liere has been applied to measure children’s environmental attitudes across cultures. there is however some controversy about the cross-cultural applicability and the relevance of the nep scale items. this article refl...

The worship of Barong Landung as Sasuhunan Prawalen Bhatara Galungan Kuningan is an effort to create a sense security, tranquility, peace and inner outer prosperity in social life. Nowadays, the procession becomes quite interesting phenomenon. reality faced by society that there are still many people who do not understand essence worshiping with various rituals uniqueness contained it. existenc...

Man wants success, since the success of a person in personal, professional, and social life depends on his patterns communication behavior, correction these also plays an essential role achieving success.Success is achieved light man's right easy connection with himself others; Because people are constantly interacting themselves others. being today, amazing development societies, globalization...

A brief review is given of data analysis methods for the identification and quantification of associations between environmental exposures and health events of interest. Data analysis methods are outlined for each of the study designs mentioned, with an emphasis on topics in need of further research. Particularly noted are the need for improved methods for accommodating exposure assessment meas...

What factors explain stakeholders' perceptions of scientists in environmental politics? Questionnaire data are used to examine stakeholders' views of scientific experts in the context of Lake Tahoe environmental policy from 1984 to 2001. Stakeholders' perceptions of scientists have remained the same over time - despite a shift from adversarial to collaborative policymaking and after decades of ...

This paper discusses the principles of study design and related methodologic issues in environmental epidemiology. Emphasis is given to studies aimed at evaluating causal hypotheses regarding exposures to suspected health hazards. Following background sections on the quantitative objectives and methods of population-based research, we present the major types of observational designs used in env...