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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Income inequality and national wealth are strong determinants for health, but few studies have systematically investigated their influence on mortality across the early life-course, particularly outside the high-income world.
Joseph L. Ward, Russell M. Viner
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Shooting High or Low: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities? [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Countries tend to diversify their exports by entering products that are related to their current exports. Yet this average behavior is not representative of every diversification path. In this paper, we introduce a method to identify periods when countries enter unrelated products.
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Machine learning to assess relatedness: the advantage of using firm-level data [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The relatedness between a country or a firm and a product is a measure of the feasibility of that economic activity. As such, it is a driver for investments at a private and institutional level. Traditionally, relatedness is measured using networks derived by country-level co-occurrences of product pairs, that is counting how many countries export both.
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Opportunities in Therapeutic mRNA Stabilization: Sequence, Structure, Adjuvants and Vectors
Advanced Therapeutics, EarlyView.Current mRNA lipid nanoparticles rely on cold storage, which increases the cost and reduces access to the vaccines. As mRNA expands to other clinical opportunities, better methods to stabilize the medicines during shipping, storage, and delivery are needed.
Joshua A. Choe +4 more
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Evaluation of anti-stigma social marketing campaigns in Ghana and Kenya: Time to Change Global
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Launched in 2018, Time to Change Global is a new anti-stigma programme to tackle stigma and discrimination towards people with mental health problems in low- and middle-income countries.
Laura C. Potts, Claire Henderson
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The effects of institutional quality on formal and informal borrowing across high-, middle-, and low-income countries [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 This paper examines the effects of institutional quality on financing choice of individual using a large dataset of 137,160 people from 131 countries. We classify borrowing activities into three categories, including formal, constructive informal, and underground borrowing.
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Efficient R‐CHIP HR‐HPV Screening System: The R‐CHIP system utilizes the RPA/CRISPR method, a hand‐driven centrifugal microfluidic device, a smartphone micro‐imaging system, and the ResNet‐18 deep‐learning algorithm to simplify the sample detection process, ensure accurate results, and reduce costs.
Tao Xu +11 more
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Socioeconomic status and COPD among low- and middle-income countries
International Journal of COPD, 2016 Matthew Grigsby,1,2 Trishul Siddharthan,1 Muhammad AH Chowdhury,3 Ali Siddiquee,3 Adolfo Rubinstein,4 Edgardo Sobrino,4 J Jaime Miranda,5,6 Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz,5 Dewan Alam,7 William Checkley1,2 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of ...
Grigsby M +9 more
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BMC Medicine, 2017 Background Depression in tuberculosis increases the risk for adverse health outcomes. However, little is known about comorbid depression and tuberculosis in the general population.
Ai Koyanagi +7 more
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US employment exposure to domestic and foreign tariff changes under NAFTA
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Literature examining the effects of changes in trade agreements and import competition on US employment and wages has focused primarily on non‐agricultural industries and changes in US import tariffs. We propose a method for measuring worker exposure to changes in agricultural tariffs using a newly developed county‐level dataset of employment ...
Diane E. Charlton +3 more
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