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Background In 2011 Switzerland reported the highest infant mortality rate among Western European countries, as well as the highest percentage of foreign population (23%).
Philippe Wanner, Paola Bollini
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Household Energy Consumption and Its Determinants in Timor-Leste [PDF]
Using data from the 2007 Timor-Leste Living Standards Survey, this paper examines the determinants of household energy choices in Timor-Leste. The majority of households are dependent on dirty fuels such as fuelwood and kerosene for energy.
Dil Bahadur Rahut+2 more
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Technological developments, especially in the financial sector, are slowly changing the financial industry through digitalization towards fintech. The application of fintech has been introduced to Indonesia in the last few years; however, the existence ...
Fathi Rufaidah+3 more
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Toward an Actionable Socioeconomic-Aware HCI [PDF]
Although inequities for individuals in different socioeconomic situations are starting to capture widespread attention, less attention has been given to the socioeconomic inequities that saturate socioeconomic-diverse individuals' user experiences. To enable HCI practitioners to attend to such inequities and avoid unwittingly introducing them, in this ...
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Cataract Surgical Rate and Socioeconomics: A Global Study.
Purpose Cataract is the leading cause of blindness and cataract surgical rate (CSR) is used as a proxy indicator of access to cataract services in a country.
Wei Wang+8 more
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Smallholder Farmers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Adoption of Exotic Bamboo in Southwest Ethiopia
Bamboo is a fast-growing forest resource that offers significant economic potential and can contribute to sustainable development. Farmers' knowledge and attitudes about exotic bamboo influence the successful adoption and effective utilization of the ...
Rusha Begna Wakweya+4 more
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Integrating ancestry, differential methylation analysis, and machine learning, we identified robust epigenetic signature genes (ESGs) and Core‐ESGs in Black and White women with endometrial cancer. Core‐ESGs (namely APOBEC1 and PLEKHG5) methylation levels were significantly associated with survival, with tumors from high African ancestry (THA) showing ...
Huma Asif, J. Julie Kim
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Socioeconomic reorganization of communication and mobility networks in response to external shocks [PDF]
Socioeconomic segregation patterns in networks usually evolve gradually, yet they can change abruptly in response to external shocks. The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent government policies induced several interruptions in societies, potentially disadvantaging the socioeconomically most vulnerable groups.
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Transmigration program is a part of rural development to reduce poverty in which entrepreneurship was also developed. It becomes necessary to explore how the program affects the entrepreneurial aspects of the poor farmers.
Murtisari Amelia+3 more
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ABSTRACT Dietary manipulations like ketogenic diets are established interventions for recalcitrant epilepsy. However, it remains unknown whether specific macronutrient exposure through dietary environments could possibly extend to primary preventive qualities, associated with changes in epilepsy disease burden (prevalence and incidence).
Duan Ni+4 more
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