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Revista Ambiente & Água, 2014 Rural hospitals in developing countries often lack appropriate water treatments to assure their water needs. In these facilities, due to water different uses and its use with medical equipment, water quality problems can cause very hazardous situations ...
Riccardo Bigoni +3 more
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Economic Growth [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This study re-examines the impact of natural disasters on economic growth in the perspective of developed and developing countries. Based on panel data consisting of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2019 and using different statistical techniques we find that i) Developing countries agricultural growth impacted twice as much ...
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The Impact of Services on Economic Complexity: Service Sophistication as Route for Economic Growth [PDF]
PLoS ONE 11(8) 2016, 2016 Economic complexity reflects the amount of knowledge that is embedded in the productive structure of an economy. By combining tools from network science and econometrics, a robust and stable relationship between a country's productive structure and its economic growth has been established.
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Delays in Breast Cancer Detection and Treatment in Developing Countries
Breast cancer : basic and clinical research, 2018 Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in both developed and developing countries and the second most common cancer in the world. Developing countries are increasingly adopting a Western lifestyle, such as changes in diet and delayed first ...
Monica M. Rivera-Franco +1 more
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 We develop an equilibrium wage-posting model with heterogeneous firms that decide to locate in the formal or the informal sector and workers who search randomly on and off the job. We estimate the model on Brazilian labor force survey data. In equilibrium, firms of equal productivity locate in different sectors, a fact observed in the data.
Costas Meghir +2 more
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Geospatial Health, 2006 Geographic information system (GIS)-based modeling of an intermediate host snail species’ environmental requirements using known occurrence records can provide estimates of its spatial distribution.
A.S. Stensgaard +4 more
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Trials, 2022 There is stark global inequity in health research in terms of where studies happen, who leads the research and the ultimate beneficiaries of the results generated.
Samuel Driver +9 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Low‐density lipoprotein receptor‐related protein 6 (LRP6) is a key receptor for the Wnt antagonist Dickkopf1 (DKK1). DKK1 protein expression is induced in a bleomycin (BLM)‐induced lung injury model. We show that DKK1 induces proinflammatory and profibrotic genes in lung fibroblasts.
Eun‐Ah Sung +6 more
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Agriculture, 2020 This study investigates the factors that affect farmers’ access to agricultural credit and its role in adopting improved agricultural technologies in the rain-fed zone of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Using logistic models, we assess and compare the
Ayat Ullah +3 more
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Cell‐free and extracellular vesicle microRNAs with clinical utility for solid tumors
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Cell‐free microRNAs (cfmiRs) are small‐RNA circulating molecules detectable in almost all body biofluids. Innovative technologies have improved the application of cfmiRs to oncology, with a focus on clinical needs for different solid tumors, but with emphasis on diagnosis, prognosis, cancer recurrence, as well as treatment monitoring.
Yoshinori Hayashi +6 more
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