OBJECTIVE Stomach cancer is a leading cause of cancer death, especially in developing countries. Incidence has been associated with poverty and is also reported to disproportionately affect indigenous peoples, many of whom live in poor socioeconomic circumstances and experience lower standards of health. In this comprehensive assessment, we explore the burden of stomach cancer among indigenous ...

BACKGROUND An ecological approach to health and health promotion targets individuals and the environmental determinants of their health as a means of more effectively influencing health outcomes. The approach has potential value as a means to more accurately capture the holistic nature of Australian First Peoples' health programs and the way in which they seek to influence environmental, includ...

Using the methods of philosophical analysis and concepts from moral and political philosophy Indigenous Peoples’ human right to control access to their cultural information is defended. The concept of a “right” is delineated and different types of rights are differentiated. The method of an “overlapping consensus” is used. In attempting to articulate the moral foundation for Indigenous Peoples’...

Despite some progress in the struggle of aboriginal peoples for their right to influence the development of their historic lands, there still exist various conflicts of interest and collisions between traditional ways of life and industrial civilization. The issue of the legal status of indigenous peoples of the Far North cannot be considered outside the context of global ecological, social and...

This paper contributes to an expanding body of research within Health Geography that focuses on the role of therapeutic landscapes in shaping health. Therapeutic landscapes demonstrate the importance of places for maintaining physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Meanings of place and the relationship between place and health have culturally specific dimensions, yet these tend to be...

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An adaptive beam former is a device, which is able to steers and modifies an array's beam pattern in order to enhance the reception of a desired signal, while simultaneously suppressing interfering signals through complex weight selection. However, the weight selection is a critical task to get the low Side Lobe Level (SLL) and Low Beam Width. It needs to have a low SLL and low beam width to re...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the success of the Litterman prior in VAR forecasting is not due to the realism of the prior, but rather because the prior conveniently reduces forecast error variance in common cases of misspecification. Specifically, it is shown that the imposition of a random walk prior reduces forecast error variance in misspecifications involving (1) time-va...

A trajectory following method for solving optimization problems is based on the idea of solving ordinary differential equations whose equilibrium solutions satisfy the necessary conditions for a minimum. The method is “trajectory following” in the sense that an initial guess for the solution is moved along a trajectory generated by the differential equations to a solution point. With the advent...