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Seasonality of scabies and its association with climatic factors in Rohingya refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar: a retrospective observational study, 2021–2023

open access: yesBMJ Open
Background Scabies is a common skin condition and poses a substantial disease burden in resource-poor tropical settings. The Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh represent one of the world’s largest and most protracted humanitarian crises ...
Charls Erik Halder   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unlocking migration politics: researching beyond biases and gaps in migration studies and comparative politics

open access: yes, 2019
International audienceThe focus of research in contemporary international migration and integration politics has long been immigration to Western democracies and their related migration corridors, often defined by colonial history. Just like in any field
Thiollet, Hélène
core   +4 more sources

Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Abstract We conducted a randomized trial in Indonesia to study how information about labor intermediary quality shapes migration behavior. All else equal, intermediary-specific quality disclosure reduces the migration rate, cutting use of low-quality providers.
Bazzi, Samuel   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Religion and international migration

open access: yes, 2021
This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Kaya, Ayhan (2021). “Religion and International migration," In Jeffrey Haynes (ed.), Handbook on Religion and International Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 156-170. The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private ...
openaire   +2 more sources

On the Economic Geography of International Migration [PDF]

open access: yesThe World Economy, 2015
AbstractWe exploit the bilateral and skill dimensions from recent data sets of international migration to test for the existence of Zipf's and Gibrat's laws in the context of aggregate and high‐skilled international immigration and emigration using graphical, parametric and non‐parametric analysis.
Ozden, Caglar, Parsons, Christopher
openaire   +5 more sources

Exploring the use of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests among displaced populations in Iraq: findings from a pilot project in four IDP camps

open access: yesConflict and Health
Background IOM piloted the use of Ag RDTs for COVID-19 in Iraq, in collaboration with FIND, the Global Alliance for Diagnostics, to facilitate access to testing and understand barriers and opportunities for testing in a displacement context.
Lara Abou Ammar   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epigenetic reprogramming of lineage switching in cancer

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Cancer cells rarely commit to a single identity. Epigenetic mechanisms and tumor microenvironment cues push epithelial cells toward flexible, hybrid states that can shift into mesenchymal, neuroendocrine, or stem‐like fates, driving metastasis, drug resistance, and tumor heterogeneity. Targeting the epigenetic regulators behind these transitions, using
Ezgi Boyvatlı   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Summary report on the MIPEX health strand and country reports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) Health strand is a questionnaire designed to supplement the existing seven strands of the MIPEX, which in its latest edition (2015) monitors policies affecting migrant integration in 38 different countries ...
International Organization for Migration   +1 more
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Partial depletion of plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 decreases subcutaneous fat cell hypertrophy and liver cholesterol in high‐fat‐fed female mice

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
Claudia E. Ramirez Bustamante   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Mechanisms Underlying Network Effects in Mexico-U.S. Migration

open access: yes, 2017
Scholars have long noted how migration streams, once initiated, obtain a self-feeding character. Studies have attributed this phenomenon, called the cumulative causation of migration, to expanding social networks that connect migrants in destination to ...
Filiz Garip, Asad, Asad Lugman
core   +6 more sources

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