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Income and Population Growth [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this study we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960–2007, we interact changes in international oil prices with countries’ average ...
Schwandt, Hannes, Brückner, Markus
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Associations between elementary and middle school teachers’ physical activity promoting practices and teacher- and school-level factors

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2021
Background Few studies have evaluated teacher- and school-level characteristics associated with implementation of recommended physical activity (PA) promoting practices.
Ann Pulling Kuhn, Edward Kim, Hannah G. Lane, Yan Wang, Rachel Deitch, Lindsey Turner, Erin R. Hager, Elizabeth A. Parker   +7 more
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Improving nutrition budgeting in health sector plans: Evidence from India's anaemia control strategy

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2022
In India, 15 nutrition interventions are delivered and financed through the National Health Mission (NHM). Programmatic know‐how, however, on tracking nutrition budgets in health sector plans is limited.
Avi Saini, Ritwik Shukla, William Joe, Avani Kapur   +3 more
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NECESSITY DETERMINATION OF RELOCATING THE CAPITAL CITY WITH A DEFENSIVE PLANNING APPROACH [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2022
This study evaluates the necessity of moving the capital city of Iran within a defensive planning approach and its impact on the national economic, social, and environmental aspects.
Nader Zali, Mir Najaf MOUSAVI, Hasan HEKMATNIA, Issa EBRAHIMZADEH, Ali BAGHERI KASHKOLI   +4 more
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Population growth modeling of rose‌-‌grain aphid, Metopolophium dirhodum (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on wheat in field condition [PDF]

نامه انجمن حشره‌شناسی ایران, 2021
The rose-grain aphid, Metopolophium dirhodum is one of the most important species among wheat and barley aphids and its population trajectory in field is characterized by rapid boom. In the present study, three datasets from M.
M. Amir-Maafi, Shahram Shahrokhi, M. R. Jamshidi   +2 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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Laws of population growth [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
An important issue in the study of cities is defining a metropolitan area, because different definitions affect conclusions regarding the statistical distribution of urban activity. A commonly employed method of defining a metropolitan area is the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), based on rules attempting to capture the notion of city as a ...
Hernán D. Rozenfeld, Diego Rybski, José S. Andrade, Michael Batty, Hernán A. Makse, H. Eugene Stanley   +5 more
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Population growth makes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic differences.

Molecular biology and evolution, 1992
Episodes of population growth and decline leave characteristic signatures in the distribution of nucleotide (or restriction) site differences between pairs of individuals. These signatures appear in histograms showing the relative frequencies of pairs of
A. Rogers, H. Harpending
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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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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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