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Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: Progress and Policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
To guide its work toward a "world free of poverty," the World Bank Group in 2013 established two clear goals: end extreme poverty by 2030 and promote shared prosperity.
Bryce Quillin   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Early metastasis is characterized by Gr1+ cell dysregulation and is inhibited by immunomodulatory nanoparticles

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Breast cancer metastasis is associated with myeloid cell dysregulation and the lung‐specific accumulation of tumor‐supportive Gr1+ cells. Gr1+ cells support metastasis, in part, through a CHI3L1‐mediated mechanism, which can be targeted and inhibited with cargo‐free, polymeric nanoparticles.
Jeffrey A. Ma   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Overall Declines in Child Poverty Mask Relatively Stable Rates Across States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this brief, authors Andrew Schaefer, Jessica Carson, and Marybeth Mattingly use Census data released on September 15, 2016, from the American Community Survey--the only regular source for estimating yearly child poverty rates at, and below, the state ...
Carson, Jessica A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Detecting homologous recombination deficiency for breast cancer through integrative analysis of genomic data

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study develops a semi‐supervised classifier integrating multi‐genomic data (1404 training/5893 validation samples) to improve homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) detection in breast cancer. Our method demonstrates prognostic value and predicts chemotherapy/PARP inhibitor sensitivity in HRD+ tumours.
Rong Zhu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do improved lentil varieties affect farmers’ livelihood status in central Bangladesh?

open access: yesHeliyon
Lentil plays a crucial role in ensuring nutritional security for the majority of the people in Bangladesh. Different types of improved lentil varieties (ILVs) are being introduced in Bangladesh to enhance the production, productivity, and area coverage ...
Monira Sultana   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concentrated Poverty Increased in Both Rural and Urban Areas Since 2000, Reversing Declines in the 1990s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this brief, authors Brian Thiede, Hyojung Kim, and Matthew Valasik discuss changes in poverty levels among U.S. counties using data from the 2000 U.S. Decennial Census and the 2005–2009 and 2011-2015 American Community Surveys.
Kim, Hyojung   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Vulnerability to poverty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. Nonetheless, the term 'vulnerability' has been used as a tool to remark that uncertainty and risk do matter. In this paper, we define 'vulnerability to poverty' as the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex- ante, before uncertainty is ...
Cesar Calvo, Stefan Dercon
openaire   +3 more sources

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