Abstract In den Sozialwissenschaften wird vermehrt auf den Begriff der „Prekarität“ zurückgegriffen, um die Transformation der Arbeitsgesellschaft und ihre Auswirkungen auf die sozialen Arrangements von Erwerbsarbeit zu analysieren. In diesem Beitrag wird dafür plädiert,...

During the last few decades, climate change has increased air pollutant concentrations with a direct and serious effect on population health in urban areas. This research introduces a hybrid computational intelligence approach, employing unsupervised machine learning (UML), in an effort to model...

The use of chemical pesticides, although the most effective method for controlling insects, may in the long-term result in pest resistance development as well as it may impact on food quality, the environment and human health. Therefore, the botanical insecticides are interesting alternatives to...

Abstract The study of dementia risk factors is complicated by the competing risk of dying. The standard approaches are the cause-specific Cox proportional hazard model with deaths treated as censoring events (and removed from the risk set) and the Fine and Gray sub-distribution hazard model in...

This study examines the impact of pharmaceutical innovation and other factors on the survival of U.S. cancer patients during the period 1992-2003. In particular, it investigates whether cancer survival rates increased more for those cancer sites that had the largest increases in the proportion...

Summary Relevant publications discuss the relation between the demographic process and per-capita health care expenditures (HCE) in a controversial manner. This concerns theory as well as the results of empirical research. Therefore, this paper discusses the influence of an ageing population on...

This paper directs attention to the use of Instagram by political parties in the Swedish national elections in 2014. It investigates how political parties made use of Instagram – a platform centered around images – when engaging in interaction with their followers on the platform. Therefore,...