The Keele Economics Department produces this series of research papers in order to stimulate discussion and invite feedback. Copyright remains with the authors. All papers in the kerp series are available for downloading from the Keele Economics website, via Abstract This paper establishes a theoretical framework to characterise the optimal behaviour of individuals who receive income periodical...

Address correspondence to: Cristina Palacios, Nutrition Program, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, PO Box 365067, San Juan, PR 00936-5067. Email: [email protected] Objective: College students often use different strategies, such as consuming alcohol and smoking, to cope with stress. We examined the associations between self-perceived ac...

Grate bar is an industrial part which is used in the indurating furnace of an iron ore pelletizing plant. Steel part ofthe grate bars are expected to have high resistance to atmospheric oxidation because of its contact with hot gases(up to 920 °C) during the normal operation of the process. In this study, different samples from several sections ofused grate bars with apparent ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present paper is to assess the relationship between food insecurity and food consumption patterns, anthropometric measures and serum micronutrient levels in rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. DESIGN A population-based cross-sectional study was carried out between March and May of 2005. SETTING Rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. SUBJECTS Analysis was restricted to 1014 adu...

background dyslipidemia is a major risk for cardiovascular diseases. the aim of this study is to review the effects of nutraceuticals to modify lipid disorders in children. materials and methods the literature research was conducted in embase, medline, pubmed, scopus, isi web of science, and cochrane library from 2002 until january 2015. the following keywords were used: dyslipidemia, hyperlipi...

Steel consumption is a critical factor affecting pricing decisions and a key element to achieve sustainable industrial development. Forecasting future trends of steel consumption based on analysis of nonlinear patterns using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques is the main purpose of this paper. Because there are several features affecting target variable which make the analysis of relations...