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The main purpose of this technical brief is to investigate the comparability between two early childhood education and care indicators currently used by the European Commission – namely the Barcelona...

Consumers have the right to know what is in the food they are eating. Accordingly, European and global food regulations require that the provenance of the food can be guaranteed...

Empirical evidence suggests that obese people are discriminated in different social environments, such as the work place. Yet, the degree to which obese people are internalizing...

This chapter gives an overview of common approaches to sensitivity analysis, with an emphasis on sampling methods. It covers variance-based sensitivity indices, Monte Carlo methods for estimating sensitivity...

SIMLAB 4.0 is a comprehensive stand-alone software package for performing global sensitivity analysis. Several sampling strategies and sensitivity measures are available. SIMLAB includes the most...

The present document compiles the main outputs of the environmental sustainability assessment in the framework of the Bioeconomy Observatory as at the end of 2014. The selection includes fourteen environmental sustainability factsheets and a brief...

The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) has received its fair share of criticism lately, including calls for it to retire. We contribute to improving the theory by testing...

Multidimensional measures (often termed composite indicators) are popular tools in the public discourse for assessing the performance of countries on human development, perceived corruption, innovation, competitiveness...

Background: Although there is strong advocacy for uptake of both the arts and creative activities as determinants of individual health conditions, studies evaluating causal influence of attendance at cultural...

This paper proposes a recursive procedure, called the extended local rank factorization (elrf), that characterizes the order of the pole and the coefficients of the Laurent series representation of the inverse of a regular analytic...