world population has already exceeded 6.5 billion, out of which about 850 million (13 percent) are undernourished. with the current growth rate, the world community faces even a greater challenge of hunger and food security as the estimated the population will catch 9 billion by the year 2050 with doubled needs for food. at the same time, preservation of biodiversity, stopping deforestation and...

The mapping of populations socio-economic well-being is highly constrained by the logistics of censuses and surveys. Consequently, spatially detailed changes across scales of days, weeks, or months, or even year to year, are difficult to assess; thus the speed of which policies can be designed and evaluated is limited. However, recent studies have shown the value of mobile phone data as an enab...

BACKGROUND Patients with end-stage renal diseases (ESRD) have an increased risk of sleep-disordered breathing. With regard to this disorder, controversy persists about prevalence, cost-effective assessment and socio-economical relevance. METHODS Therefore, we performed, for the first time, overnight ambulatory oximetry in combination with a sleep questionnaire in 38 unselected patients with E...

Today Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is known as one of the most important tools for decision makers in the construction of civil and industrial projects towards sustainable development. In the past, projects were evaluated based on cost and benefit analysis regardless of the physical and biological environmental effects and its socio-economical impacts. According to the Department of En...