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Comparing the Soviet and Chinese Famines: Their Perpetrators, Actors, and Victims
East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2016 The Soviet (1931-33) and Chinese (1958-62) famines were man-made catastrophes that occurred in underdeveloped states with growing populations during peacetime and affected traditional surplus areas.
Lucien Bianco
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Clinical Epigenetics, 2019 Background DNA methylation has recently been identified as a mediator between in utero famine exposure and a range of metabolic and psychiatric traits. However, genome-wide analyses are scarce and cross-sectional analyses are hampered by many potential ...
Yujie He +9 more
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Epigenetic Biomarkers for Environmental Exposures and Personalized Breast Cancer Prevention. [PDF]
, 2020 Environmental and lifestyle factors are believed to account for >80% of breast cancers; however, it is not well understood how and when these factors affect risk and which exposed individuals will actually develop the disease.
Park, Hannah Lui
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CEOs’ early famine experience, managerial discretion and corporate social responsibility
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reflects entrepreneurs’ early life experiences in reality. Based on imprinting theory and upper echelons theory, this paper examines the impact of a CEO’s early famine experience on CSR, analyzes the moderating ...
Zhaocheng Xu
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How Chief Executive Officers’ first-hand experience of the Great Chinese Famine affects risk-taking?
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 To understand the influence of Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs) early life experiences on their firms’ strategic decision-making, here we explore the impacts of CEOs’ experience of the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) on their cognitions and firm risk ...
Dayuan Li, Chen Huang, Ding Wang
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How does early-life famine experience influence household energy transition?
Heliyon, 2023 The transition of households towards cleaner energy is crucial for achieving sustainable development goals. However, the impacts and associated mechanisms of early-life experiences on household energy transition have not been considered.
Feiran Wang +4 more
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Exposure to different severities of famine and subsequent risk of sarcopenia in old age
Journal of Nutritional Oncology. Background. Poor nutritional status is closely related to the development of sarcopenia and possible sarcopenia. Limited articles have evaluated the impact of undernutrition at different stages of life on the development of sarcopenia or possible ...
Miao-Miao Lu, Yu-Wei Zhou, Xi Jin
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 BackgroundAlthough the evidence was still limited, some studies suggested that childhood malnutrition might affect cardiac function and structure in adulthood.
Yu-qin Yan +5 more
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Journal of Diabetes Research, 2020 Background. Emerging studies have explored the association between the famine exposure during early life and the risk of the metabolic syndrome, and the results remain controversial. This meta-analysis was performed to summarize the famine effects on the
Lu-Lu Qin +4 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2022 Background Over the past few decades, more studies have suggested that the age at menarche (AAM) has continued to decline. However, the AAM for women in resource-constrained areas is not clear. Moreover, the association between the Chinese famine and AAM
Xueyan Wu +10 more
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