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The Poverty of Wealth and Income in the United States [PDF]
, 2011 An alternative poverty rate was calculated using poverty thresholds from the U.S. Census Bureau to assess income poverty and a similar set of thresholds at four months’ of the poverty threshold for annual income to assess wealth (i.e. net worth) poverty.
Feudner, Luke E. G.
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Making tau amyloid models in vitro: a crucial and underestimated challenge
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This review highlights the challenges of producing in vitro amyloid assemblies of the tau protein. We review how accurately the existing protocols mimic tau deposits found in the brain of patients affected with tauopathies. We discuss the important properties that should be considered when forming amyloids and the benchmarks that should be used to ...
Julien Broc, Clara Piersson, Yann Fichou
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Are the Spatial Concentrations of Core-City and Suburban Poverty Converging in the Rust Belt? [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Decades of deindustrialization have led to economic decline and population loss throughout the U.S. Midwest, with the highest national poverty rates found in Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo. This poverty is often confined to core cities themselves, however, as many of their surrounding suburbs continue to prosper.
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Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy [PDF]
, 1990 [Excerpt] Amartya Sen has made fundamental contributions to the study of distributional aspects of economic growth and decline. Among his pathbreaking works are his lectures on the economics of inequality (Sen, 1973), his article on the axiomatics of ...
Bourguignon, Francois, Fields, Gary S
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Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples [PDF]
, 2018 The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program provides universal basic income (UBI) to all residents from investment earnings of a state sovereign wealth fund created from oil rents. This paper evaluates the effect of the PFD to mitigate poverty among
Berman, Matthew
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Venom peptides have shown promise in treating pain. Our study uses computer screening to identify a peptide that targets a sodium channel (NaV1.7) linked to chronic pain. We produced the peptide in the laboratory and refined its design, advancing the search for innovative pain therapies.
Gagan Sharma +8 more
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The Limits of Polycentrism at the City-regional Scale: The case of Luxembourg
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2014 Over the last fifteen years, promoters of the European spatial planning policy have presented polycentrism as the most promising strategy for answering the challenge of a more even spatial development.
Antoine Decoville, Olivier Klein
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Trials, 2017 Background Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a major mental health concern and highly prevalent among children living in poverty-impacted communities.
Mary Acri +5 more
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An illustration of the average exit time measure of poverty [PDF]
, 2002 The goal of the World Bank is 'a world free of poverty' but the most widely used poverty measures do not show when poverty might be eliminated. The 'head-count index' simply counts the poor, while the 'poverty gap index' shows their average shortfall ...
Gibson, John, Olivia, Susan
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In lymphoid organs, antigen recognition and B cell receptor signaling rely on integrins and the cytoskeleton. Integrins act as mechanoreceptors, couple B cell receptor activation to cytoskeletal remodeling, and support immune synapse formation as well as antigen extraction.
Abhishek Pethe, Tanja Nicole Hartmann
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