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Berhane Hewan (\u27Light for Eve\u27): A program to support married and unmarried adolescent girls in rural Amhara Region, Ethiopia

open access: yes, 2006
Berhane Hewan (meaning “Light for Eve” in Amharic) is a program in rural Amhara region designed to assist unmarried girls by imparting the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to avoid child marriage as well as give support to adolescent girls who ...
Population Council
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Teacher Discrimination Reduces School Performance of African American Youth: Role of Gender

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2018
Background: Gender may alter African Americans’ vulnerability to discrimination. The type of outcomes that follow exposure to discrimination may also be gender-specific. Although teacher discrimination is known to deteriorate school performance, it
Shervin Assari   +1 more
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Hyperosmotic stress induces PARP1‐mediated HPF1‐dependent mono(ADP‐ribosyl)ation

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Sorbitol‐induced hyperosmotic stress rapidly induces reversible mono(ADP‐ribosyl)ation (MARylation) on PARP1 without the signs of genotoxic signaling. We show that PARP1 autoMARylation is HPF1 dependent and forms hydroxylamine‐resistant O‐glycosidic linkages.
Anna Georgina Kopasz   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing the Abriendo Oportunidades® Ecosystem: Equipping young mentors with skills and resources to expand girl-centered programming in Belize

open access: yes
Building on the success of the Abriendo Oportunidades® (AO®) program in Guatemala, in 2014 Population Council Guatemala (PC-Guatemala) and Toledo Mayan Women’s Council established the Toledo Adolescent Girls program (TAG), a safe space initiative that ...
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The adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people—Benin 2006

open access: yes, 2009
“The Adolescent Experience In-Depth: Using Data to Identify and Reach the Most Vulnerable Young People: Benin 2006” is part of a series of Population Council guides that draw principally on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to provide ...
Population Council
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Epigenetic blind spots – the role of DNA methylation dynamics in stem cell‐based models of embryogenesis

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Embryo‐like structures (stembryos) are an innovative tool, but they are hindered by experimental variability and limited developmental potential. DNA methylation is crucial for mammalian development, but its status in stembryo models is poorly characterized.
Sara Canil   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating attendance for breast cancer screening in ethnic groups in London. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
BACKGROUND: Breast screening uptake in London is below the Government's target of 70% and we investigate whether ethnicity affects this. Information on the ethnicity for the individual women invited is unavailable, so we use an area-based method similar ...
Jack, Ruth H   +17 more
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The Impact Of Demographic Factors On Social And Economic Development Of Croatia

open access: yesEkonomski Vjesnik, 2012
Demographic factors are relevant factors that define the direction of social and economic develo- pment. This paper aims to specifically analyze the impact of both natural change and migration as demographic indicators of development. This impact will
Maja Lamza Maronić, Ivana Tokić
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The human gut microbiome across the life course

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child marriage briefing: Mozambique

open access: yes, 2005
This brief provides an overview of child marriage as well as the particulars of child marriage in Mozambique. Mozambique, in southeastern Africa, is home to 17.5 million people, with 45 percent of its population under age 15.
Population Council
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