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Global neurosurgery: the need of the hour for developing countries
Romanian Neurosurgery, 2023 Global neurosurgery is relatively a new sub-discipline of global surgery. It is an area of study, research, practice, and advocacy that focuses on enhancing health outcomes and promoting health equity for all individuals around the world who are ...
Ahtesham Khizar, Soha Zahid
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Is a Prestigious Job the same as a Prestigious Country? A Case Study on Multilingual Sentence Embeddings and European Countries [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We study how multilingual sentence representations capture European countries and occupations and how this differs across European languages. We prompt the models with templated sentences that we machine-translate into 12 European languages and analyze the most prominent dimensions in the embeddings.Our analysis reveals that the most prominent feature ...
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The increasing burden associated with low back pain (LBP) is a critical issue. This is a novel analysis of trends in risk factors for LBP aiming to identify risk factors that require further attention or consideration in global policies to reduce the burden of LBP.
Katharine E. Roberts +5 more
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Bringing Financial Literacy and Education to Low and Middle Income Countries: The Need to Review, Adjust, and Extend Current Wisdom [PDF]
This paper presents a World Bank led and Russia trust fund financed work program to measure financial capability and the effectiveness of financial education in low and middle income countries.
Holzmann, Robert
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Fertility care in low- and middle-income countries
Reproduction and FertilityInfertility affects millions worldwide, with significant medical, financial, and emotional challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Willem Ombelet, Federica Lopes
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Measuring Macroeconomic Uncertainty: The Labor Channel of Uncertainty from a Cross-Country Perspective [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 This paper constructs internationally consistent measures of macroeconomic uncertainty. Our econometric framework extracts uncertainty from revisions in data obtained from standardized national accounts. Applying our model to post-WWII real-time data, we estimate macroeconomic uncertainty for 39 countries. The cross-country dimension of our uncertainty
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We estimated incidence rates of avoidable hospitalizations by persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) relative to the general population. Methods We identified individuals meeting a validated case definition for RA based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD‐9‐CM) and ICD‐10‐CA codes in years ...
Dani G. Contreras +6 more
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Current and Future Cornea Chip Models for Advancing Ophthalmic Research and Therapeutics
Advanced Biology, EarlyView.This review analyzes cornea chip technology as an innovative solution to corneal blindness and tissue scarcity. The examination encompasses recent developments in biomaterial design and fabrication methods replicating corneal architecture, highlighting applications in drug screening and disease modeling while addressing key challenges in mimicking ...
Minju Kim +3 more
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Assessing the Ecological Value: Monetizing Process Innovations in Tailored Forming
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This article introduces a method for evaluating the sustainability of innovations, even with limited data. The method is illustrated through an analysis of the “Tailored Forming” technology, which explores the impact of sustainability on economic value added.
Jonas Schneider +4 more
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Bayesian hierarchical analysis of a multifaceted program against extreme poverty [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The evaluation of a multifaceted program against extreme poverty in different developing countries gave encouraging results, but with important heterogeneity between countries. This master thesis proposes to study this heterogeneity with a Bayesian hierarchical analysis.
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