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Women\u27s Postponement of Marriage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study examines factors that explain the rising median age of women at first marriage from 1960 to 2011. We estimate the median age of women at first marriage as a function of women’s income relative to men’s, women’s education relative to men’s, and
Dixon, Bryanna, Grant, Kara
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A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Urban population now exceeds rural population globally, and 60–80% of global energy consumption by households, businesses, transportation, and industry occurs in urban areas.
Friedl, Mark A   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Geography of Homelessness, Part 4: Examining Urban Homelessness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
While homelessness exists in all places, a majority of people experiencing homelessness are experiencing it in urban areas. Approximately 77 percent of the U.S.

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Cellular Snowballing: Cell Adhesion and Migration Drive the Self‐Assembly of Cell‐Microgel Biohybrid Spheroids

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
A new class of biohybrid spheroids is engineered through the self‐assembly of adherent cells and extracellular matrix‐mimetic hydrogel microparticles (microgels). By mimicking a snowballing effect, this approach enables scalable formation of porous, millimeter‐scale spheroids with enhanced cell viability and molecular diffusion.
Zaman Ataie   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing the rural-urban variation in obesity prevalence among Indian men: Evidences from the National Family Health Survey

open access: yesDiscover Public Health
Background The rising prevalence of obesity has become a critical global health concern, contributing to the rising burden of non-communicable diseases and a decline in quality of life.
Manish Mamgai, Kunal Keshri
doaj   +1 more source

Factors influencing selection of manual toothbrush among an urban population in Chennai City, India: A cross-sectional study

open access: yesJournal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2017
Introduction: Toothbrush and toothpaste remain the mainstay of oral health measure. There are numerous factors that influence the choice of consumers to trade their toothbrush.
Arthi Balasubramaniam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Increasing Misalignment Between Crop Distribution and Environmental Resources Under Climate Change in China

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus among urban sikh population of Amritsar

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine, 2016
Context: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) refers to a group of common metabolic disorders that share the phenotype of Hyperglycemia. More than 60% of the world’s population with diabetes comes from Asia.
Amrinder Singh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urbanization and health in Africa : exploring the interconnections between poverty, inequality and the burden of disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
There are few changes in the history of human existence comparable to urbanization in scope and potential to bring about biologic change. The transition in the developed world from an agricultural to an industrial-urban society has already produced ...
Songsore, Jacob
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