INTRODUCTION Preventative strategies that focus on addressing the social determinants of health to improve healthy eating and physical activity have become an important strategy in British Columbia and Ontario for combating chronic diseases. What has not yet been examined is the extent to which healthy living initiatives implemented under these new policy frameworks successfully engage with and...

Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profitmaximization models for blenders, refiners, and distillers, we conduct a comparative static analysis to measure the relative magnit...

The forest industry is of great importance to the Nordic countries in terms of exports and employment. Today the industry faces tough challenges related to future higher energy prices, increased competition for wood raw material, and a declining demand for traditional paper products. However, there are also possibilities related to the transition to a bio-based economy. This paper focuses on on...

This article explores how New Labour has attempted to implement its ideas about a ‘third way’ foreign policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Through an examination of British foreign policy practices, we explore whether New Labour has succeeded in finding a ‘third way’ between traditional views of socialism and capitalism in Africa. In particular, the article focuses on New Labour’s attempts to build pe...

This paper uses three case studies to examine the implementation of a policy of biological progress initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s. In discussing the social and scientifi c goals of this research policy, the paper challenges views attributed to the Foundation’s policy a direct impact upon the rise of molecular biology. It also suggests that this policy, conceived around th...

The way we regulate food and agricultural systems is inherently of ethical concern. Thus, we are dealing with issues relevant to moral philosophy. Agricultural ethics is an emerging discipline which is principally concerned with topics involving public policy. Agriculture – ethical approaches contrasts the traditional concept of moral philosophy and applied ethics. When we try to face specific ...

We explore a biologically plausible deep reinforcement learning system by feeding it the human observations of the experiment world. The main hypothesis is that the more similar our learning model with the actual human learning model is, the better the performance should be. We examine this idea by using the AuGMEnT deep neural network which is a bio-plausible reinforcement system with a focus ...

The onset of formulating strategies and policies regarding the bioeconomy can be, at least partly, attributed to the publication of the policy agenda on the bioeconomy by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2009. The aim of this study is to analyze selected national strategies and policies regarding the development of a bioeconomy and to clarify similarities and differe...

Policy, trade, economic, and technological aspects of improving nutrient intake and lifestyles in the European Union Chairs: Jo Hautvast, Ibrahim Elmadfa, Rapporteur: Mike Rayner* 1 Wageningen University, and Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences, The Netherlands 2 University of Vienna, Austria 3 British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of ...