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Giardia lamblia infection is associated with lower body mass index values

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2010
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Carmen Duran, Glida Hidalgo, William Aguilera, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Carlos Albano, Jackeline Cortez, Sara Jimenez, Marietta Diaz, Renzo Nino Incani   +8 more
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Dynamics of bacterial population growth in biofilms resemble spatial and structural aspects of urbanization

Nature Communications, 2020
Biofilms develop from bacteria bound on surfaces that grow into structured communities (microcolonies). Although surface topography is known to affect bacterial colonization, how multiple individual settlers develop into microcolonies simultaneously ...
A. J. Paula, G. Hwang, H. Koo
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Why market orientation matters for agriculture and fishery workers? Unravelling the association between households’ occupational background and caloric deprivation in India

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Developmental policies in low- and middle-income countries pose immense potential within the agriculture sectors to escalate economic growth and development.
Smita, Sunil Rajpal, Shiau-Yun Lu, William Joe   +3 more
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Association of sleep duration with metabolic syndrome and its components in children and adolescents; a propensity score-matched analysis: the CASPIAN-V study

Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2018
Objective This study aims to evaluate the association of sleep duration with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in a pediatric population.
Zeinab Hemati, Nafiseh Mozafarian, Ramin Heshmat, Zeinab Ahadi, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Hasan Ziaodini, Majzoubeh Taheri, Tahereh Aminaee, Mostafa Qorbani, Roya Kelishadi   +9 more
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Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - A Global Assessment

PLoS ONE, 2015
Coastal zones are exposed to a range of coastal hazards including sea-level rise with its related effects. At the same time, they are more densely populated than the hinterland and exhibit higher rates of population growth and urbanisation. As this trend
B. Neumann, A. Vafeidis, J. Zimmermann, R. Nicholls   +3 more
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Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth for 300+ cities

npj Urban Sustainability, 2022
Global urban populations are projected to increase by 2.5 billion over the next 30 years. Yet, there is limited understanding of how this growth will affect urban land expansion (ULE).
Richa Mahtta, M. Fragkias, Burak Güneralp, Anjali Mahendra, M. Reba, E. Wentz, K. Seto   +6 more
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Understanding and measuring AIDS-related stigma in health care settings: A developing country perspective

SAHARA-J, 2007
AIDS-related stigma and discrimination remain pervasive problems in health care institutions worldwide. This paper reports on stigma-related baseline findings from a study in New Delhi, India to evaluate the impact of a stigma-reduction intervention in ...
Vaishali Sharma Mahendra, Laelia Gilborn, Shalini Bharat, Rupa Jakharia Mudoi, Indrani Gupta, Bitra George, Luke Samson, Celine Costello Daly, Julie Pulerwitz   +8 more
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Epidemiological and demographic drivers of lung cancer mortality from 1990 to 2019: results from the global burden of disease study 2019

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundUnderstanding the effects of demographic drivers on lung cancer mortality trends is critical for lung cancer control. We have examined the drivers of lung cancer mortality at the global, regional, and national levels.MethodsData on lung cancer ...
Yaguang Fan, Yong Jiang, Lei Gong, Ying Wang, Zheng Su, Xuebing Li, Heng Wu, Hongli Pan, Jing Wang, Zhaowei Meng, Qinghua Zhou, Qinghua Zhou, Youlin Qiao, Youlin Qiao   +13 more
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Population, immigration and growth in a Romer endogenous growth model [PDF]

, 2018
Producción CientíficaEndogenous growth theory has not yet consistently incorporated population growth or immigration into its models. As a result, in the present day, there is no universally accepted endogenous growth model explaining the empirical ...
Gutiérrez Díez, Pedro José
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Remittance Flows and the Environmental Degradation–Migration Nexus

The Journal of Population and Sustainability, 2022
The net effect on the environment from migration into developed countries has received little attention in existing literature. Yet, this issue has important policy implications – e.g., nativists’ support of anti-immigration policy for achieving ...
Travis Edwards
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