The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975. IFPRI is one of 15 agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). IFPRI's research, capacity strengthening, and comm...

This open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, analysis, model building.

A Concurrent Kleene Algebra offers two composition operators, related by a weak version of an exchange law: when applied in a trace model of program semantics, one of them stands for sequential execution and the other for concurrent execution of program components. After introducing this motivating concrete application, we investigate its abstract background in terms of a primitive independence...

This article provides a transcultural, “transversal” investigation. It starts from the philosophical problem of knowing non-knowing. In chapters 1 and 2, first expressions this by Confucius Socrates are considered. Against background, new transcultural working concepts developed. A key term to be established here is that an “implicate logic”. refers reflection unity difference therefore very co...

To address complexity of modeling the world’s processes, over the years in different scientific disciplines separation assumptions have been made to isolate parts of processes, and in some disciplines they have turned out quite useful. It can be questioned whether such assumptions are adequate to address complexity of integrated human mental and social processes and their interactions. In this ...

Public policy aimed at addressing the socio-economic disadvantage of Aboriginal Australians over the past three decades has largely failed. Much research has focused on this policy failure and the historical circumstances that created the socio-economic marginalisation of Aboriginal peoples. This essay revisits these two areas with the intention of offering a fresh perspective. Firstly, it is p...

In the case of using pile technology in construction and reconstruction buildings structures, issue assessing settlement foundations arises quite sharp-ly. Modern regulatory documents do not reflect reliable methods for calculating pile-raft foundations, especially if short piles are used (with a length 3-10 m). The ar-ticle provides calculation methodology that makes it possible to assess taki...