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SMEs respond to climate change: Evidence from developing countries [PDF]

, 2022
Given the concerns stemming from climate change, it is important to investigate whether SMEs could become innovative (and thereby invest in technologies mitigating climate change) because of heightened climate change risk.
Abbasi, K, Min Du, A., Yazdifar, H, Yazdifar, H., Rahman, M., Abbasi, K., Rahman, Mahfuzur, Du, Anna Min, Yazdifar, Hassan, Anna, D, Abbasi, Kaleemullah, Rahman, M, Alam, Ashraful, Du, A., Alam, A., Alam, A   +15 more
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Fertility in Developing Countries [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers and children, child human capital, and savings.
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ADHD in developing countries [PDF]

British Journal of Psychiatry, 2004
It is with much interest that we read the editorial on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by Paul McArdle ([2004][1]). The argument regarding culture and ADHD was of particular interest to us. ADHD is a condition that was unheard of in developing countries a few decades ago. However,
K A L A, Kuruppuarachchi, L T, Wijeratne
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Economic Significance of Tourism in The Lesser Antilles

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2006
The objective of the article is an attempt to assess the economic significance of tourism in chosen islands of the Lesser Antilles. Diversification of the significance of tourism in economy between particular islands of the Lesser Antilles is very ...
Piraszewska Katarzyna
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Governance for Sustainable Remediation of Polluted Soil in Developing Countries

, 2020
Environmental governance is a challenge for many developing countries, and soil pollution is typically overlooked by authorities in the Global South.
Haller, Henrik,, Henrik Haller, Anders Jonsson, Ginnette Flores-Carmenate, Flores-Carmenate, Ginnette,, Jonsson, Anders,   +5 more
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Yellow fever in plain sight: assessing disease surveillance officers’ knowledge and self-efficacy in identification and reporting in Kwara State, Nigeria

BMC Public Health
Introduction Yellow fever (YF) poses a significant threat to public health in Nigeria, which bears the highest burden of the disease. Timely identification and reporting by disease surveillance officers are critical in preventing and controlling ...
Oladayo D. Awoyale, Magbagbeola D. Dairo, Adeniyi F. Fagbamigbe, Simiat Adeogun, Oluwatosin E. Fakayode, Olufunmilayo Fawole   +5 more
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Outbreak of Chikungunya in the Republic of Congo and the global picture

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
Chikungunya fever is a crippling disease caused by an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) transmitted to humans through mosquitoes.  Although Chikungunya virus is not often associated with mortality, the effects of virus outbreaks are often devastating ...
Alyson Ann Kelvin
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Bioethics in Developing Countries: Ethics of Scarcity and Sacrifice

, 1994
Contemporary issues such as euthanasia, surrogate motherhood, organ transplantation and gene therapy, which occupy the minds of ethicists in the industrialized countries are, for the moment, irrelevant in most developing countries.
Olweny, Charles
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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The what, who and how of socio-ecological justice: Tailoring a new justice model for earth system law

Earth System Governance, 2021
Since modernity, the mechanistic paradigm has determined how Western and Westernised societies live, produce knowledge, and regulate their interactions and institutions, profoundly influencing law and undermining ecological integrity. This paradigm's key
Kamila Pope, Michelle Bonatti, Stefan Sieber   +2 more
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