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Tobacco use among adults in Cambodia: evidence for a tobacco epidemic among women

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2009
OBJECTIVE: To identify the demographic characteristics of current tobacco users in Cambodia, particularly women, and to explore the reasons for current tobacco use in demographic subgroups of the Cambodian population.
Pramil N Singh, Daravuth Yel, Sovann Sin, Sothy Khieng, Jaime Lopez, Jayakaran Job, Linda Ferry, Synnove Knutsen   +7 more
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Human resource allocation for humanitarian organizations: a systemic perspective

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Human resource allocation appears to be one of the important factors toward effective humanitarian relief operations. Particularly in developing countries, the role of volunteers which is mostly managed by humanitarian organizations has become prominent.
Sopha Bertha Maya, Asih Anna Maria Sri
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Subsidies to the Rescue. The funding of poor relief in Flemish village communities during the crisis of the 1840s, a comparative analysis

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2019
This article questions changes in the funding of local poor relief during the 1845- 1848 food crisis in Flemish village communities. This will be studied comparatively between three distinct regions in Flanders: inner-Flanders, coastal Flanders, and the ...
Esther Beeckaert
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Addressing the Global Tragedy of Needless Pain: Rethinking the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [PDF]

, 2007
The lack of medical availability of effective pain medication is an enduring and expanding global health calamity. Despite important medical advances, pain remains severely under-treated worldwide, particularly in developing countries.
Allyn L. Taylor, Birnie, Chayes, Cole, De Lima, Farmer, Foley, Joranson, Raustiala, Scholten, Szasz, Taylor   +11 more
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Metformin promotes mitochondrial integrity through AMPK‐signaling in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Metformin mediates mitochondrial quality control in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) fibroblasts carrying mtDNA mutations. At therapeutic levels, metformin activates AMPK signaling to restore mitochondrial dynamics by promoting fusion and restraining fission, while preserving mitochondrial mass, enhancing autophagy/mitophagy and biogenesis ...
Chatnapa Panusatid, Rapasviranda Soiyangsuk, Maneeluck Tanadjindarat, Chayanon Peerapittayamongkol   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Refugee Status: Challenge and Response [PDF]

, 1956
What do executives do, and how do their actions impact on the company’s results? Questions such as these are constantly targeted in leadership research.
Robbins, Richard
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Herbert Hoover and the Organization of the American Relief Effort in Poland (1919-1923)

European Journal of American Studies, 2009
Poland, recreated after the armistice of 1918, was confronted at its rebirth with four very severe challenges: welding together the separate sections of the dissected country, which for many decades had been under the rule of Prussia-Germany, Austria and
Matthew Lloyd Adams
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Natural Products as Geroprotective Modulators in Diabetic Nephropathy: A Mechanistic Framework Integrating Aging Hallmarks and the AMPK–SIRT1–Nrf2 Axis

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Natural products target the aging kidney in diabetic nephropathy by restoring the AMPK–SIRT1–Nrf2 axis, reducing oxidative stress, inflammation, fibrosis, and cellular senescence while enhancing mitochondrial biogenesis and antioxidant defenses.
Sherif Hamidu, Latif Adams, Eunice Ampem‐Danso, Justice Kumi, Abigail Aning, Fatima Hamidu, Mustapha Abdul Mumin Mohammed, Ayuba Nii Darku Ankrah, Seth Kwabena Amponsah   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

An assessment approach for non-governmental organizations in humanitarian relief logistics and an application in Turkey

Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2018
The ever-increasing natural disasters have been causing the loss of lives, properties and resources. By the preparedness and response ability of non-governmental organizations, it is aimed to minimize these losses.
Erkan Celik, Alev Taskin Gumus
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Organizing Debt Relief: The Need for a New Institution [PDF]

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990
In March 1989, the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Nicholas Brady, endorsed a change in strategy for dealing with developing country debt, calling for a three-year waiver of clauses in existing loan agreements that stand in the way of debt reduction “to accelerate sharply the pace of debt reduction and pass the benefits directly to the debtor ...
openaire   +1 more source