The lack of urgent action to reverse biodiversity loss is partly due the complex nature as a feature our planet. Subsequently, policymakers receive an often-confusing variety narratives on why matters, which makes it difficult link and risks attainment sustainable development. Making this clearer calls for multidimensional perspective reassess what we value, facilitate mainstreaming support nat...

Approaches to indexing and searching feature vectors are an indispensable factor to support similarity search effectively and efficiently. Such feature vectors extracted from real world objects are usually presented in the form of multidimensional data. As a result, many multidimensional data index techniques have been widely introduced to the research community. These index techniques are cate...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper analyses the multidimensional child poverty status and its dynamic changes in China from 1989 to 2009 using the China Health and Nutrition survey data. Built on the Alkire–Foster methodology, the adjusted child poverty headcount ratio is calculated which measures not only the traditional headcount ratio of child poverty but also the average deprivation intensity...

In this paper, we propose a new multidimensional inequality index that satisfies a fundamental set of desired properties. We discuss the case where the social evaluation function of welfare depends simultaneously on unidimensional and multidimensional forms of inequality. We show how this mixed social norm interferes with the most popular axioms conceived specifically for multidimensional indic...

We present a new method for computing temporal aggregation that uses a multi-dimensional index. The novelty of our method lies in mapping the start time and end time of a temporal tuple to a data point in a two-dimensional space to be stored in a two-dimensional index and in calculating the temporal aggregates through a temporal join between the data in the index and the base intervals (defined...

C onsidering the normative nature of the theories of justice, a distinguished theory of justice could be formulated based on the fundamental teachings of Islam. Hence a new set of indexes are required to put this new concept to test. Through detailed study of the Islamic teachings, the research seeks to formulate a comprehensive theory on economic justice (based on various economic rights). In ...

We propose a multidimensional approach to store XML data in relational database systems. In contrast to other efforts we suggest a solution to the problem using established database technology. We present a multidimensional mapping scheme for XML and also thoroughly study the impact of established and commercially available multidimensional index structures (compound B-Trees and UB-Trees) on th...