Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries...

In this paper, by use of the basic assumptions about human nature and the management, behavior, the ¡®cultural human' hypothesis and the basic viewpoint of the dualistic structure of culture are put forward. A theoretical model of cross-cultural management is constructed from local and foreign...

By elaborating on the notion of linear belief functions (Dempster 1990; Liu 1996), we propose an elementary approach to knowledge representation for expert systems using linear belief functions. We show how to use basic matrices to represent market information and financial knowledge, including...