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Seeing poverty from space, how much can it be tuned? [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Since the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015, numerous universities, NGOs and other organizations have attempted to develop tools for monitoring worldwide progress in achieving them. Led by advancements in the fields of earth observation techniques, data sciences and the emergence of artificial intelligence, a ...
arxiv  

Reducing Poverty in California…Permanently [PDF]

, 2015
If California were to seriously commit to equalizing opportunity and reducing poverty, how might that commitment best be realized? This is of course a hypothetical question, as there is no evidence that California is poised to make such a serious ...
Coddou, Marion, Collis, Conway, Cumberworth, Erin, Fisher, Jonathan, Furuta, Jared, Grusky, David, Hill, Jasmine, Kimberlin, Sara, King, Molly M., Kucheva, Yana, Leupp, Ryan, Matosantos, Ana, Powers, Courtney, Rodriguez, Natassia, Sanchez, Sandra, Wright, Rachel   +15 more
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DNA methylation and socioeconomic status in a Mexican-American birth cohort. [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Maternal social environmental stressors during pregnancy are associated with adverse birth and child developmental outcomes, and epigenetics has been proposed as a possible mechanism for such relationships.
Coker, Eric, Eskenazi, Brenda, Gunier, Robert, HOLLAND, Nina, Huen, Karen   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Refining the NaV1.7 pharmacophore of a class of venom‐derived peptide inhibitors via a combination of in silico screening and rational engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Venom peptides have shown promise in treating pain. Our study uses computer screening to identify a peptide that targets a sodium channel (NaV1.7) linked to chronic pain. We produced the peptide in the laboratory and refined its design, advancing the search for innovative pain therapies.
Gagan Sharma, Jennifer R. Deuis, Xinying Jia, Theo Crawford, Sassan Rahnama, Eivind A. B. Undheim, Irina Vetter, Yanni K. ‐Y. Chin, Mehdi Mobli   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the impact of rising child poverty on the unprecedented rise in infant mortality in England, 2000–2017: time trend analysis

BMJ Open, 2019
Objective To determine whether there were inequalities in the sustained rise in infant mortality in England in recent years and the contribution of rising child poverty to these trends.
D. Taylor-Robinson, E. Lai, S. Wickham, Tanith C. Rose, P. Norman, C. Bambra, M. Whitehead, B. Barr   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prices and Poverty in Urban Ethiopia1 [PDF]

Journal of African Economies, 2007
Poverty is an ongoing issue in Ethiopia. The identification of policy options to address the problem requires that poverty be measured accurately. One of the most important ingredients in the measurement of poverty is price. The magnitude of poverty is affected by how cost of living differences across time and regions are adjusted. This paper derives a
Gebremedhin, Tesfaye, Whelan, Stephen
openaire   +4 more sources

Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Long-Term Outcomes in ≥1 Year Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors: A CIBMTR Analysis. [PDF]

, 2023
Racial/ethnic minorities have demonstrated worse survival after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) compared to whites. Whether the racial disparity in HCT outcomes persists in long-term survivors and possibly may be even exacerbated in ...
Abid, Muhammad, Agrawal, Vaibhav, Arai, Yasuyuki, Arnold, Staci, Badawy, Sherif, Ballen, Karen, Beattie, Sara, Beitinjaneh, Amer, Bhatt, Neel, Blue, Brandon, Brazauskas, Ruta, Chen, Karen, Farhadfar, Nosha, Freytes, César, Ganguly, Siddhartha, Hashem, Hasan, Hashmi, Shahrukh, Kelkar, Amar, Knight, Jennifer, Kwok, Janette, Lad, Deepesh, Lazarus, Hillard, Lehmann, Leslie, Liu, Hongtao, Majhail, Navneet, Page, Kristin, Patel, Jinalben, Perez, Miguel, Preussler, Jaime, Rangarajan, Hemalatha, Rotz, Seth, Saber, Wael, Seo, Sachiko, Sharma, Akshay, Steinberg, Amir, Szwajcer, David, Winestone, Lena, Wingard, John, Wirk, Baldeep, Wood, William, Zeidan, Amer   +40 more
core   +1 more source

The cytoskeletal control of B cell receptor and integrin signaling in normal B cells and chronic lymphocytic leukemia

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In lymphoid organs, antigen recognition and B cell receptor signaling rely on integrins and the cytoskeleton. Integrins act as mechanoreceptors, couple B cell receptor activation to cytoskeletal remodeling, and support immune synapse formation as well as antigen extraction.
Abhishek Pethe, Tanja Nicole Hartmann
wiley   +1 more source

Expanded child support grant eligibility and later-life mortality among mothers in rural South Africa

Global Public Health
The South African Child Support Grant (CSG) may be associated with mother’s mortality via pathways linked to CSG spending, however, this relationship remains uncertain.
Rishika Chakraborty, Erika T. Beidelman, Maria Klein, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Katherine Eyal, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Molly Rosenberg   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Poverty chains and global capitalism

Competition & Change, 2018
The proliferation of global value chains is portrayed in academic and policy circles as representing new development opportunities for firms and regions in the global south.
B. Selwyn
semanticscholar   +1 more source