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Adolescents’ understanding of the Nepalese version of HLS-CHILD-Q15: qualitative pre-testing in ninth-graders

BMC Public Health
Abstract Introduction Research on health literacy is still at an early stage, lacking a dedicated measurement instrument for assessing children’s and adolescents’ health literacy. Such tools are necessary to generate the evidence required for informed intervention development.
Shanti Prasad Khanal, Chitra Bahadur Budhathoki, Bhimsen Devkota, Torsten Michael Bollweg, Orkan Okan   +4 more
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Impact of public climate change adaptation policies on women's employment and poverty in Burkina Faso

World Development Sustainability
Climate change is expected to bring hotter periods and reduced rainfall to Burkina Faso, decreasing water availability and soil moisture. This will negatively affect agriculture and food production.
Boureima Sawadogo
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Development, Testing and Application of ACRE: An Agro-Economic Production Model on Regional Level [PDF]

ACRE is an Agro-eConomic model for agricultural pRoduction on rEgional level. Based on an extension of Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) this model was developed as a decision tool for politics with respect to questions of global change scenarios ...
Henseler, Martin, Krimly, Tatjana, Wirsig, Alexander   +2 more
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Dynamics of Phosphorus Fertilization and Liming Under Land Tenure Insecurity [PDF]

This article solves and characterizes optimal decision rules to invest in irreversible land improvements conditional on land tenure insecurity. Economic model is a normative dynamic programming model with known parameter for the one period returns and ...
Myyra, Sami, Pietola, Kyosti
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t(12;20)(q15;q11.2) [PDF]

Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology, 2011
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Tenure Insecurity, Transaction Costs in the Land Lease Market and their Implications for Gendered Productivity Differentials [PDF]

This study sets out to assess the link between land leasing behavior and productivity differentials between male and female-headed households. A double-moral hazard model allows us to show that landlord's tenure insecurity leads to sub-optimal level of ...
Bezabih, Mintewab, Holden, Stein T.
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Population Growth and Land Use Dynamics along Urban–Rural Gradient [PDF]

In this study we apply a spatial conditional logit model to determine factors influencing land cover change in three contiguous counties in West Georgia between 1992 and 2001 using point (pixel) based observations of land characteristics.
Polyakov, Maksym, Zhang, Daowei
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Pathogenic sequence variant and microdeletion affecting HMGA2 in Silver–Russell syndrome: case reports and literature review

Clinical Epigenetics
Silver–Russell syndrome (SRS) is a representative imprinting disorder characterized by pre- and postnatal growth failure. We encountered two Japanese SRS cases with a de novo pathogenic frameshift variant of HMGA2 (NM_003483.6:c.138_141delinsCT, p ...
Kaori Yamoto, Hirotomo Saitsu, Yumiko Ohkubo, Masayo Kagami, Tsutomu Ogata   +4 more
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Flood prone risk and amenity values: a spatial hedonic analysis [PDF]

This study examines the impact of flood hazard zone location on residential property values. The study utilises data from over 2,000 private residential property sales occurred during 2006 in North Shore City, New Zealand.
Samarasinghe, Oshadhi, Sharp, Basil M.H.
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Land Distributional and Income Effects of the Chinese Land Rental Market [PDF]

Using panel data of 450 farm households for the period of 1996-2001 in Zhejiang, China, we measured land distributional effect and income effect of the land rental market.
Wu, Ziping
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