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Population Health MetricsBackground Accurate measurement of children’s anthropometry is of central importance for the assessment of nutritional status as well as for the evaluation of nutrition-specific interventions.
Günther Fink +4 more
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Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2022 Designing survey questions that clearly and precisely communicate the question's intent and elicit responses based on the intended interpretation is critical but often undervalued.
Sattvika Ashok +5 more
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Prosperity Threatened: Perspectives on Childhood Poverty in California [PDF]
, 2013 By the official measure, 6.1 million Californians are living in poverty -- more than at any point since the US Census started tracking state poverty. California has the highest sheer number of people living in poverty of any state in the nation and is ...
Ann O'Leary, James Barba, Rey Fuentes
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This article argues that, since war expends resources that can be used to alleviate poverty at home or abroad, poverty can render war unjust. More specifically, it argues that states which spend money on war rather than poverty risk violating two traditional just war theory conditions: proportionality and last resort.
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Subpar reporting of pre‐analytical variables in RNA‐focused blood plasma studies
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Pre‐analytical variables strongly influence the analysis of extracellular RNA (cell‐free RNA; exRNA) derived from blood plasma. Their reporting is essential to allow interpretation and replication of results. By evaluating 200 exRNA studies, we pinpoint a lack of reporting pre‐analytical variables associated with blood collection, plasma preparation ...
Céleste Van Der Schueren +16 more
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Poverty Matters: It's Now 50/50, Chicago Region Poverty Growth is a Suburban Story [PDF]
, 2013 Nationwide, the number of people in poverty in the suburbs has now surpassed the number of people in poverty in central cities. Cities have long been thought to be home to the most and worst poverty. However, in the past several decades, the suburbs have
Amy Terpstra +2 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink +6 more
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Technical efficiency of combine harvester user boro rice farmers in Haor ecosystem of Bangladesh
Discover AgricultureRice Combine Harvester (RCH) has a crucial role in accelerating the rice production and technical efficiency of rice farmers around the world through reducing the harvesting time and effort.
Sharif Ahammad +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Handwashing prevalence in schools in Kenya is low due to lack of access to water and soap and lack of drive for handwashing. Soapy water made from detergent powder is an inexpensive alternative to bar soap and disgust and social norms change ...
Wit Wichaidit +8 more
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Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2023 Low coverage of effective nutrition interventions in many high‐burden countries, due to service provision and demand factors, result in poor uptake of recommended practices and nutrition outcomes. We examined the factors that influence maternal nutrition
Sunny S. Kim +6 more
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