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Food Security Simulator – Nigeria

, 2023
The Food Security Simulator is an innovative and easy-to-use, MS-Excel-based tool for assessing the potential short-term impacts of food price or household income shocks on food security and people’s diets.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Exploring scenario guided pathways for food assistance in Tuscany

Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2017
A growing number of people in high income countries, also from the segments of population once considered secure, seek food assistance. Diverse food aid initiatives and practices are developed by a range of actors to tackle food poverty; alongside ...
Francesca Galli, Sabrina Arcuri, Fabio Bartolini, Joost Vervoort, Gianluca Brunori   +4 more
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Flow Enabled Target Capture Halbach‐based magnetic enrichment increases circulating tumor cell capture from blood in metastatic cancer patients

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pair‐wise comparison of the CellSearch and FETCH enrichment technologies for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from metastatic breast, prostate, and small cell lung cancer patients shows an increased capture of CTCs using FETCH enrichment. The clinical implementation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) as a predictive tool for therapy efficacy in the ...
Michiel Stevens, Anouk Mentink, Tom Niessink, Frank Coumans, Leonie Mekenkamp, Ruchi Bansal, Jeroen Hiltermann   +6 more
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Making Ends Meet: Private Food Assistance and the Working Poor [PDF]

Concern is growing that large segments of low-income Americans are slipping through, or are not adequately served by, the public food assistance safety net.
P. M. Morris, A. Nichols-Casebolt
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Democracia alimentar para populações em vulnerabilidade social: o caso de cozinhas solidárias em Manaus, Amazonas

Confins
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in collaboration between various public, private and civil organizations. These initiatives include solidarity kitchens, which are based on the principle of the Human Right to ...
Camila Lago Braga, Cristiane Cavalcante Lima   +1 more
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Food assistance is associated with improved body mass index, food security and attendance at clinic in an HIV program in central Haiti: a prospective observational cohort study

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2010
Background Few data are available to guide programmatic solutions to the overlapping problems of undernutrition and HIV infection. We evaluated the impact of food assistance on patient outcomes in a comprehensive HIV program in central Haiti in a ...
Ivers Louise C, Chang Yuchiao, Gregory Jerome J, Freedberg Kenneth A   +3 more
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PAK1 activation drives divergent resistance mechanisms to aromatase inhibition and tamoxifen in a luminal: A breast cancer model

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Breast cancer remains a major cause of cancer death in women, frequently developing endocrine therapy resistance. This study demonstrates that upregulated p21‐activated kinase 1 (PAK1) activity drives resistance to tamoxifen and long‐term estrogen deprivation in ER+ breast cancer models.
Luisa Schwarzmüller, Janina Müller, Efstathios‐Iason Vlachavas, Lukas Beumers, Lena Fleischhacker, Sara Burmester, Angelika Wörner, Sabine Karolus, Dominic Helm, Cindy Körner, Stefan Wiemann   +10 more
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EFFECTS OF FOOD ASSISTANCE AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS ON NUTRITION AND HEALTH: VOLUME 4, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE LITERATURE REVIEW [PDF]

This report provides a summary of a comprehensive review and synthesis of published research on the impact of USDA's domestic food and nutrition assistance programs on participants' nutrition and health outcomes.
Fox, Mary Kay, Lin, Biing-Hwan, Hamilton, William L.   +2 more
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The Folly of Food Waste amidst Food Insecurity in the United States: A Literature Review

Challenges
Food insecurity is an economic and social condition that involves individuals having limited or uncertain access to healthy food. Despite the well-intentioned efforts of both governmental and not-for-profit organizations in addressing food insecurity ...
Michael F. Royer
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Inhibition of cyclin‐dependent kinases 12/13 using CT7439 as a treatment for colorectal cancer with CDK12 upregulation

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The proposed mechanism of action for the CDK12/13 inhibitor and cyclin K degrader, CT7439. CDK12/13 inhibition interrupts transcription elongation, leading to increased DNA damage that results in cell death. This agent is a potentially novel treatment option for patients with colorectal cancer. Created in BioRender. Cyclin‐dependent kinase (CDK) 12 and
Wylie K. Watlington, Divya L. Dayanidhi, Mohammad Zokaasadi, John B. Mantyh, Pelumi D. Olawuni, Gabrielle Rupprecht, Jeremy M. Force, Shannon McCall, Ashwani K. Bahl, David S. Hsu, Jason A. Somarelli   +10 more
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