Background: Post-earthquake studies from around the world have reported that survivors relying on emergency food for prolonged periods of time experienced several dietary related health problems. The present study aimed to quantify the potential nutrient production of urban agricultural vegetables and the resulting nutritional self-sufficiency throughout the year for mitigating post-disaster si...

We give some theorems of bi-Lipschitz or C sufficiency of jets which are expressed by means of transversality with respect to some strata of a stratification satisfying the (L) condition of T. Mostowski. This enables us to prove that the number of metric types of intersection of smooth transversals to a stratum of an (a) regular stratification of a subanalytic set is finite.

This note settles an open problem about cut-generating functions, a concept that has its origin in the work of Gomory and Johnson from the 1970’s and has received renewed attention in recent years.

All countries face challenges in making sufficient supplies of blood and blood products available and sustainable, while also ensuring the quality and safety of these products in the face of known and emerging threats to public health. Since 1975, the World Health Assembly (WHA) has highlighted the global need for blood safety and availability. WHA resolutions 63·12, 58·13 and 28·72, The Melbou...

This online appendix gives a more detailed study of conditions under which the basic method of proof used for the sufficiency results in the main paper can be applied, with an eye to understanding how much the method might potentially be further generalized, and whether the results still hold when the method does not apply. We restrict ourselves to cardinal type spaces and no transfers, as in S...

In (Mennle and Seuken, 2017), we have introduced partial strategyproofness, a new, relaxed notion of strategyproofness, to study the incentive properties of nonstrategyproof assignment mechanisms. In this paper, we present results pertaining to local sufficiency for partial strategyproofness: We show that, for any r P r0, 1s, r-local partial strategyproofness implies r2-partial strategyproofnes...

One year ago, the chief medical officers of the United Kingdom recommended that “All pregnant and breastfeeding women should take a daily supplement containing 10 μg (400 IU) of vitamin D,” to counter the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women. This was aimed at reducing the associated consequences of deficiency, such as rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. In a li...