1. Overview of Main Issues affecting Women and Environment in Brazil 1.1. Brazilian Women’s Representation in Numbers 1.1.1. Education and Employment 1.1.2. Reproductive Health 1.1.3 Politics 1.2 Women and the Environment: Specific Environmental Issues 1.3 State Reforms: Change in Governmental Practices in Key Sectors 2. The Emergence of a Women's Global Movement on Sustainable Development and ...

We present a user-centric system for visualization and layout for content-based image retrieval and browsing. Image features (visual and/or semantic) are analyzed to display and group retrievals as thumbnails in a 2-D spatial layout which conveys mutual similarities. Moreover, a novel subspace feature weighting technique is proposed and used to modify 2-D layouts in a variety of context-depende...

Shared parking is an effective means to alleviate the shortage of spaces in urban central areas during morning peak hours. Meanwhile, walking time cost and fees are two critical factors affecting shared efficiency. Firstly, based on classic bottleneck model, added then user equilibrium solutions obtained considering choices lots: accessorial parking. Next, taking minimum total social queue as m...

BACKGROUND The importance of complexity in health care policy-making and interventions, as well as research and evaluation is now widely acknowledged, but conceptual confusion reigns and few applications of complexity concepts in research design have been published. Taking user fee exemption policies as an entry point, we explore the methodological consequences of 'complexity' for health policy...