Using Scanner Data for Food Policy Research: An Economist's Guide is a practitioners’ guide to using and interpreting scanner data obtained from stores and households in policy research. It provides practical advice for using the data, interpreting results, and addressing key methodological issues, such as aggregation and constructing price indices. In addition, the book demonstrates some of the key econometric and statistical applications of the data, including estimating demand systems for policy simulation, tracking changes in purchases and nutrients over time, conducting cost-benefit analysis of food policies, and analyzing the effects of food access on food choices. Explains how scanner data can be adapted to address questions of interest in various stripes of food policy researchDemonstrates how to use scanner data using tools from econometric and statistical analysesResolves key methodological issues related to using the data to facilitate more rapid analysesPresents the key applications of the data for food policy research, including demand system estimation, surveillance of food purchases and health, cost-benefit analysis, and food access researchProvides an overview of published literature as background for designing new studies

Using Scanner Data for Food Policy Research

Business & Money

ZHEN, CHEN

Muth, Mary K.

Okrent, Abigail

Karns, Shawn

Economics

Academic Press

Demands on the construction industry are changing, and it is now virtually essential for environmental management to be considered at all stages of a project. Many construction managers are finding a quantitative approach useful, and this book outlines four quantitative methods which can be applied at different construction stages, and which fit within a comprehensive framework of dynamic Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). These include:  a method to quantitatively evaluate and reduce pollution and hazards levels a method to evaluate the environmental-consciousness of proposed construction plans  a method to reduce on-site construction wastes through an incentive reward programme a method to promote C and D waste exchange in the local construction industry.  With an experimental case study of the application of these methods, this book delivers a comprehensive review of environmental management issues in construction. With regulatory requirements potentially favouring the quantitative approach, this timely guide ensures that contractors will be able to keep pace with environmental management standards.

Environmental Management in Construction: A Quantitative Approach

Heng Li

Taylor&Francis

During the last five years of his life, Chen Zhen expended his energies to create a body of work that poetically articulated his knowledge of traditional Chinese culture and Western avant-garde art. Born in Shanghai in 1955, Chen grew up during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution. When China transitioned out of that era, he became interested in combining traditional Chinese philosophy (forbidden under Maoist rule) and Western practices as an alternative to the government's official cultural ideology. The resulting body of work held as a central theme the creation of harmony through difference, taking the human body, illness and medicine as metaphors, mixing cross-cultural social dynamics before multiculturalism and globalization had ever been articulated. Exploring the intricate and often paradoxical relationship between the material and the spiritual, the community and the individual, interior and exterior, Chen used sound and everyday materials such as candles, beds, chairs, and even chamber pots, linking the physical world to the spiritual, ritualistic one. The result was an aesthetic immersed in the traditional past but aligned with the present. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition held at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in tribute to the artist, who died from a rare medical condition known as autoimmune hemolytic anemia in 2000, in Paris, where he had emigrated as an art student in the mid-80s.

Chen Zhen: A Tribute

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

LES ENTRETIENS

Presses Du Reel

Zhen Chen

History & Criticism

Gli Ori

Artwork by Daniel Buren, Chen Zhen. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

Chen Zhen

Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn

Buren, Daniel

Hopefulmonster

What would happen if we could choose our own fate? Decide where we were going to born, who our mother will be? That is the idea explored in this wonderful children's book written by Miguel Angel Mendo and illustrated with the works of Chinese Conceptual artist Chen Zhen. The story tells, with gentle humor and tenderness, of the mystery of birth, using a simple and poetic language that matches the colors and shapes of Chen's sculptures.

That I Might Be Born

Mendo, Miguel Ángel

SIMPLIFIED AND HIGHLY STABLE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 5)

Science & Math

Chang Shu

Physics

World Scientific Publishing

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