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Shedding light on quality of care: a study protocol for a randomized trial evaluating the impact of the Solar Suitcase in rural health facilities on maternal and newborn care quality in Uganda

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background Continued progress in reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in low-income countries requires a renewed focus on quality of delivery care.
Slawa Rokicki   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Speaking Truth To Power: Why Energy Distribution, More Than Generation, Is Africa's Poverty Reduction Challenge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper revisits the roles that energy plays in poverty reduction. First, while energy does not reduce poverty itself, it delivers energy services.
Ilmi Granoff, Ryan Hogarth
core  

Exploration of heterogeneity and recurrence signatures in hepatocellular carcinoma

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study leveraged public datasets and integrative bioinformatic analysis to dissect malignant cell heterogeneity between relapsed and primary HCC, focusing on intercellular communication, differentiation status, metabolic activity, and transcriptomic profiles.
Wen‐Jing Wu   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recurrent child mortality risks and parity transition in Nigeria

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2019
Background Fertility rates remain persistently high in Nigeria, with little difference across socioeconomic groups. While the desire for large family size is culturally rooted, there is little understanding of how repeated child mortality experiences ...
Abiodun Idowu Adanikin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Poverty and Casino Gambling in Buffalo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Buffalo Creek Casino will exacerbate Buffalo’s poverty. Casinos, especially urban casinos, attract many gamblers living at or near the poverty line, and problem or pathological gamblers often fall from the middle class into poverty.
Magavern, Sam, Mulé, Elaina
core   +1 more source

Law's Poverty

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2015
This article adopts an analysis that explicitly politicises poverty and relates it to the concrete history of racialised capitalism and structural inequality that defined colonialism and apartheid and continues to persist and intensify in "post"-apartheid South Africa.
openaire   +6 more sources

Comparing self‐reported race and genetic ancestry for identifying potential differentially methylated sites in endometrial cancer: insights from African ancestry proportions using machine learning models

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Integrating ancestry, differential methylation analysis, and machine learning, we identified robust epigenetic signature genes (ESGs) and Core‐ESGs in Black and White women with endometrial cancer. Core‐ESGs (namely APOBEC1 and PLEKHG5) methylation levels were significantly associated with survival, with tumors from high African ancestry (THA) showing ...
Huma Asif, J. Julie Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Poverty Eradication Dilemma: Understanding Poverty Dynamics in Nebbi District, Uganda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper addresses a current methodological gap in poverty measurement, which stems from acknowledging the multi-dimensionality of poverty, on the one hand, and using an income/consumption measurement of poverty as thenorm, on the ...
Alfred Lakwo
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The Welfare State and anti-poverty policy in rich countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of this lecture is to highlight some key aspects of recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications.
Olivera, Javier
core   +1 more source

A large‐scale retrospective study in metastatic breast cancer patients using circulating tumour DNA and machine learning to predict treatment outcome and progression‐free survival

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
There is an unmet need in metastatic breast cancer patients to monitor therapy response in real time. In this study, we show how a noninvasive and affordable strategy based on sequencing of plasma samples with longitudinal tracking of tumour fraction paired with a statistical model provides valuable information on treatment response in advance of the ...
Emma J. Beddowes   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

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