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Gender Differences in Multidimensional Poverty in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the growing demand for gender‐disaggregated statistics on poverty, there is hardly any cross‐country evidence of gender disparities in poverty. The paper contributes to filling this gap, by using two novel individual‐level indices of multidimensional poverty.
Francesco Burchi, Daniele Malerba
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Gastroduodenal Ulcerative Colitis in Association with Ulcerative Pancolitis
Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, 2021 Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, traditionally regarded as being limited to the colorectum. Although several gastroduodenal lesions have been reported in cases of UC, in general, duodenal lesions in UC are believed to be ...
Khin San Aye +5 more
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Variation in Specificity of HIV Rapid Diagnostic Tests over Place and Time: An Analysis of Discordancy Data Using a Bayesian Approach [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND Recent trends to earlier access to anti-retroviral treatment underline the importance of accurate HIV diagnosis. The WHO HIV testing strategy recommends the use of two or three rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) combined in an algorithm and assume ...
Glass, Kathryn +5 more
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JSFA reports, EarlyView.Abstract Background Dried fish is a popular protein‐rich food in Bangladesh, yet its safety and quality vary based on its origin, processing, and storage conditions. This study evaluated the sensory, proximate, and microbiological qualities of five commercially important dry fish available in Bangladeshi markets, including both native (Bangladesh) and ...
Nur Nahar Sohe +2 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2017 Objectives: To determine the distribution of Plasmodium (P) species including Plasmodium knowlesi and to compare the specificity and sensitivity of microscopy with nested PCR in malaria diagnosis.
Thu Zar Han +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is the etiological agent of enzootic bovine leukosis, which is the most common neoplastic disease of cattle. BLV infects cattle worldwide and causes serious problems for the cattle industry.
K. Moe +6 more
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Democratic dawn? : Civil society and elections in Myanmar 2010 – 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 While the general elections in Myanmar in November 2010 were widely condemned, both national and international actors approached the by-elections of April 2012 as a political rite-de-passage to improve relations between the government and the opposition ...
Lidauer, Michael
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Nutritional deficiencies are a major problem among developing countries including Myanmar. They can occur in all age groups, but the impact is more severe among children age 6–23 months as this period is critical for child development, and irreversible ...
Kyaw Swa Mya, A. Kyaw, T. Tun
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Sharing the Spoils: Winners and Losers in the Belt and Road Initiative in Myanmar
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2020 This article studies the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on economic actors in Myanmar. It hypothesizes that the BRI has strong transformative potential, because Chinese projects are likely to transform Myanmar’s economy on different ...
SiuSue Mark +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Soil conditions are critical factors shaping forest structure and tree species composition in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs); however, few studies have evaluated edaphic effects in Cambodia's unique lowland forest landscape, where different forest types coexist under similar climatic conditions.
Thav Sopheak +4 more
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