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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and Social Change

, 2022
This chapter discusses the changing place of the peasantry in the Global South and its relation to development. While the world’s urban population surpassed rural population for the first time in 2007, peasants still make up a significant part of ...
Dolcerocca, Antoıne
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SOCIAL CHANGE: THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION* [PDF]

International Economic Review, 2010
In 1900 only 6% of unwed teenage females engaged in premarital sex. Now, three quarters do. The sexual revolution is studied here using an equilibrium matching model, where the costs of premarital sex fall over time due to technological improvement in contraceptives. Individuals differ in their desire for sex.
Greenwood, Jeremy, Guner, Nezih
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Sylvia Cheng, Lucie Lafay‐Cousin, Vanan Issai Magimairajan, Craig Erker, Stéphanie Vairy, Lynette Bowes, Adam Fleming, Donna Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Julie Bennett, Christina Coleman, Laura Wheaton, Shayna Zelcer, Samuele Renzi, Thai Hoa Tran   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to micro-business operators: what are their social and educational needs? [PDF]

, 2004
This paper discusses issues that had been revealed during 15 in-depth interviews and a subsequent questionnaire survey of 91 micro-business (five or fewer employees) operators in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Samujh, Helen
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The Plastic Surgery Workforce and Its Role in Low-income Countries

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2021
Background:. Plastic surgery varies in scope, especially in different settings. This study aimed to quantify the plastic surgery workforce in low-income countries (LICs), understand commonly treated conditions by plastic surgeons working in these ...
Paul Truche, MD, MPH, Ellie Moeller, BS, Taylor Wurdeman, MD, MPH, Kathrin Zimmerman, BA, Norma Cruz, MD, Kiran Nakarmi, MS, MCh, Shankar M. Rai, MBBS, MS, Yegeremu Eado, MD, Laura Pompermaier, MD, PhD, John G. Meara, MD, MBA, D. Scott Corlew, MD, MPH   +10 more
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A critique of the principle of error correction as a theory of social change

Language in society, 2018
This article assesses the historical failures and limits of the dominant ‘error correction’ approach within sociolinguistics. The error correction approach supposes that social change can be achieved when knowledge is shared by researchers with the ...
Mark C. Lewis
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Comparative Drug Response Profiling in Neuroblastoma Cell Lines and Patient‐Derived Tumor Organoids

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT High‐risk neuroblastoma remains a leading cause of pediatric cancer mortality, and improved preclinical models are needed to guide therapeutic developments. We screened seven high‐risk neuroblastoma cell lines and three patient‐derived tumor organoids with 528 compounds alongside bone marrow controls, and compared them with external datasets ...
Krzysztof Wierbiłowicz, Se Whee Sammy Park, Aironas Los, Ernest Liu, Nona Struyf, Tom Erkers, Sören Lehmann, Jan J. Molenaar, Jakob Stenman, Olli Kallioniemi, Päivi Östling, Brinton Seashore‐Ludlow, Kasper Karlsson   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the new field of Communication for Development and Social Change [PDF]

, 2005
All those involved in the analysis and application of Communication for Development and Social Change - or what can broadly be termed "development communication" - would probably agree that in essence communication for social change is the sharing of ...
Servaes, J.E.J., Servaes, Jan
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From digital voices to vaccine choices: increasing female vaccine acceptance in Sudan through social listening

Frontiers in Global Women's Health
The early COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Sudan experienced a gender disparity in vaccine uptake, with women accounting for less than 40% of vaccinations after four months of vaccine access.
Islam Ahmed, Hiba Ali, Sehrish Ali, Simon Van Woerden, Antonio Hanna-Amodio, Katie Chen, Elizabeth Onitolo, Amaya Gillespie   +7 more
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