Ecosystems of the Azerbaijan Republic have a lot unique characteristics that demand special focus in context environmental protection. Taking into account their importance, it is necessary to apply whole potential international cooperation including institutional dimension. The purpose article describe participation activities United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Council Europe and Co...

BACKGROUND Undocumented migrants' access to health care varies across Europe, and entitlements on national levels are often at odds with the rights stated in international human rights law. The aim of this study is to address undocumented migrants' access to health care in Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands from a human rights perspective. METHODS Based on desk research in October 2011, we ...

This work provides a procedure with which to construct and visualize profiles, i.e., groups of individuals similar characteristics, for weighted mixed data by combining two classical multivariate techniques, multidimensional scaling (MDS) the k-prototypes clustering algorithm. The well-known drawback MDS in large datasets is circumvented selecting small random sample dataset, whose are clustere...

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has repeatedly expressed grave concern regarding theworldwide shortage of nurses and the lack of progress in addressing the supply and utilisation of nurses. The factors contributing to the nursing shortage seem to be very similar worldwide, including the ageing workforce, the reduction in student intake, poor workforce planning, the changing work clima...

In addition to decreasing feeding costs, improving the efficiency of utilization of N directly addresses the general concern regarding the environmental footprint of animal production. Excretion of N, especially urinary, may become a potential source of water and air pollution, the latter as N2O, a green-house gas, or as small particulate aerosols having a negative effect on air quality [smog; ...