OBJECTIVES We previously developed a model for projection of heat-related mortality attributable to climate change. The objective of this paper is to improve the fit and precision of and examine the robustness of the model. METHODS We obtained daily data for number of deaths and maximum temperature from respective governmental organizations of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the USA, and European count...

Drawing on large-scale computational data and methods, this research demonstrates how polarization efforts are influenced by a patterned network of political and financial actors. These dynamics, which have been notoriously difficult to quantify, are illustrated here with a computational analysis of climate change politics in the United States. The comprehensive data include all individual and ...

The effects of climate change on infectious diseases are an important global health concern and necessitate decisions for allocation of resources. Economic tools have been used previously; however, how prioritization results might differ when done using broader considerations identified by local stakeholders has yet to be assessed. A multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach was used to a...

Letter Rhee and colleagues conclude in their recent study [1] that a substantial fraction of the administrative databased rise in the incidence of severe sepsis is due to a decreasing threshold of documentation/coding of several types of organ dysfunction (OD). The conclusion was based mostly on diverging rates of rise in code-based OD versus that based on conservative clinical criteria, being ...

BACKGROUND Primary care reform in Ontario, Canada started with the introduction of new enrollment models, the two largest of which are Family Health Networks (FHNs), a capitation-based model, and Family Health Groups (FHGs), a blended fee-for-service model. The purpose of this study was to evaluate differences in performance between FHNs and FHGs and to compare performance before and after phys...

Amazonia holds the largest continuous area of tropical forests with intense land use change dynamics inducing water, carbon, and energy feedbacks with regional and global impacts. Much of our knowledge of land use change in Amazonia comes from studies of the Brazilian Amazon, which accounts for two thirds of the region. Amazonia outside of Brazil has received less attention because of the diffi...

In this chapter, I look at one form of decentralization that has been gaining popularity since the early 1980s – administrative unit proliferation, or the creation of new administrative units at higher rates than traditional administrative reasons suggest. Existing literature posits a local demand or patronage logic to explain this phenomenon. One overlooked aspect, however, is the effect of re...

This study aims to analyze and examine the meaning of unlawful acts by government officials authority state administrative courts in dealing with cases related officials. was normative legal research using a statutory approach conceptual approach. The primary materials uses this including Indonesian Civil Code (Burgerlijk Wetboek), Supreme Court Regulation (hereinafter PERMA) Number 2 2019 conc...

We study interest groups’ decisions about the policy-making institution in which to press for policy change. Most research about lobbying activities focuses within a single institution (the legislature, the bureaucracy), but groups and lobbyists generally can choose from among multiple venues. Further, some important questions about organized interests and the policy process require studying lo...