Health disparities can be defined as differences in the health status among distinct segments of the population including differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education, income, disability, or living in various geographic localities. When populations are disproportionately...

n the Peruvian jungle, there are two main cocoa marketing channels: the intermediaries and the cooperative. The Acopagro Cooperative, a Peruvian organization, for example, has contributed to the shift from illegal crops like cocoa to an alternative crop like cocoa which gives small scale farmers...

Change-point problems arise in a variety of practical situations including engineering and health science applications. There are generally two approaches for these problems. One is the likelihood approach, and the other is the Bayesian approach. The Bayes-type test statistics, which are derived...

According to the data of questionnaire survey on farmers’ cognition and participation willingness about the New Cooperative in some townships of Guangan and Dazhou Cities of Sichuan Province in the year 2008, farmers’ cognition about the New Rural Cooperative Medical System is...

A society made up of a network of social groups is investigated. Each group is partitioned into two mutually exclusive subsets with the movement of members between the two subsets being modelled via a logistic-like equation. We consider various ways in which the groups in the network may...

The complexity of air traffic flow management has its groundwork at an airport and increases with the number of daily aircraft departures and arrivals. To adequately contribute toward an accelerated air traffic flow management (ATfM), multivariate statistical models were developed based on...

Crop insurance is one of the most useful risk management tools for natural disasters. Jilin as the main soybean production province in China suffers the natural disaster frequently by the global warming. The purpose of this study was to promote the crop insurance management of soybean risk of...