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The contribution of the foreign population to the high level of infant mortality in Switzerland: a demographic analysis

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

Household Energy Consumption and Its Determinants in Timor-Leste [PDF]

open access: yesAsian Development Review, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

A Review of the Implementation of Financial Technology (Fintech) in the Indonesian Agricultural Sector: Issues, Access, and Challenges

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Toward an Actionable Socioeconomic-Aware HCI [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
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 ...
arxiv  

Cataract Surgical Rate and Socioeconomics: A Global Study.

open access: yesInvestigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 2017
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Smallholder Farmers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Adoption of Exotic Bamboo in Southwest Ethiopia

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues
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
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing self‐reported race and genetic ancestry for identifying potential differentially methylated sites in endometrial cancer: insights from African ancestry proportions using machine learning models

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic reorganization of communication and mobility networks in response to external shocks [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
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.
arxiv  

Do poor farmers have entrepreneurship skill, intention, and competence? Lessons from transmigration program in rural Gorontalo Province, Indonesia

open access: yesOpen Agriculture, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

High‐Fat and Low‐Carbohydrate Dietary Environments Are Linked to Reduced Idiopathic Epilepsy Incidence and Prevalence

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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