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Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Assessment of the Energy Sector: Enhancing Social Sustainability of Energy Development in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven.
Asian Development Bank
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Deconstructing the gender-equality paradox.

open access: yesJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
Studies advancing the hypothesis of a “gender-equality paradox” have found that societies with more gender equality demonstrate larger gender differences across a range of phenomena. In doing so, they rely on that practice of predicting an algebraic difference score—calculated from mean scores for men and women across a set of countries—with an index ...
Ville Juhani Ilmarinen   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Single‐Droplet Dual‐Target Quantification of circRNA Biomarkers for Colorectal Cancer Screening

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Circular RNAs are crucial in tumorigenesis. This study identifies circCK1γ3 and circWDR37 as dual plasma biomarkers for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. It is developed Casµchip, a droplet microfluidic chip using Cas13a/b technology to quantify these biomarkers.
Jingsong Xu   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Financing and the Underrepresentation of Women in United States Elected Political Offices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Approaching the 100-year anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, women comprise approximately 51 percent of the American population but hold only 24.8 percent of state legislative seats and 19.4 percent of United States Congressional seats.
Moyer, Libby
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Increasing sedentary time, minimum dietary energy requirements, and food security assessment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We compute corrections for sedentary behavior in physical activity levels (PALs) and incorporate them along with corrections for over estimation of basal metabolic rates (BMRs) into threshold caloric intakes, known as minimum dietary energy requirements (MDERs).
Jacob Michels   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities: Why It Matters for Agricultural Value Chains [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This brief outlines the following key "evidence-based correlations" among gender equality, competitiveness, and empowerment that inform the GATE Project's "Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains: A Handbook"

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