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From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAfter 20 years of stagnation, plans to use nuclear power for electricity generation are being revived around the world, usually for the following reasons: * Nuclear-generated electricity contributes little, on a...
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From:Research-Technology Management (Vol. 56, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAbout a billion people live beyond the reach of modern technology, without reliable power or clean water. Most live in the 96 countries the United Nations classifies as the developing world. The world's top technology...
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From:Journal of Developing Areas (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
The development process of rural informal industries in developing countries: the case of Bangladesh
While the role of rural informal industrial clusters in generating income and employment opportunities for the rural poor is widely acknowledged, studies seldom examine the growth process of informal industries in... -
From:Future Oncology (Vol. 9, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Trijn Israels 1 , Mhamed Harif 2 , Kathy Pritchard-Jones [*] 3 Keywords * Africa; low-income countries; nephroblastoma; Wilms tumor Wilms tumor is a relatively common and curable childhood renal...
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From:African Journal of Paediatric Surgery (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Vikas. Goyal, Ajay. Kumar, Monica. Gupta, Harinder. Sandhu, Shashikant. Dhir Background: To evaluate the effectiveness of surgical intervention in managing empyema thoracis in children. Patients and Methods:...
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhat is the origin of the norm that international institutions should support the economic development of poorer countries? It is commonly argued that the norm of international development was pioneered by US president...
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From:Journal of Medical Investigations and Practice (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: A. Pakkala, A. Bajentri, C. Ganashree, T. Raghavendra Health manpower is an important aspect of health care services. Like most of the countries in the world our country lacks resources for health care, hence...
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From:Education for Health (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Trung. Tran, Albert. Scherpbier, Jan. van Dalen, Dung. van Do, E. Wright Background: Eight skills laboratories (skillslabs) were established by consensus of Vietnamese medical universities, with international...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 93, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedWHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) plan to set up a new fund to boost the participation of developing and transition economy countries in setting international food standards....
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 90, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedDespite considerable investments in research and development (R&D) and the availability of powerful scientific and technological tools, innovation in the pharmaceutical industry has declined drastically in the last...
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From:Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (Vol. 62, Issue 10)Byline: Ezegwui Hyginus, Nwogu-Ikojo Eric, Ikeako Lawrence and Nweze Sylvester Abstract Objective: To determine the morbidity and mortality associated with multiple (four and higher order) caesarean section....
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From:Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology (Vol. 63, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedU organizaciji Tajlandskog drustva toksikologije (Thai Society of Toxicology -- TST) te pod pokroviteljstvom Medunarodnog udruzenja toksikologije (International Union of Toxicology -- IUTOX) odrzan je osmi po redu...
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From:Library Philosophy and PracticePeer-ReviewedThe paper describes the digitization of library collections at the Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in response to the contemporary global trends. The digitization process, one of the...
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From:Atlantic Economic Journal (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIndustrial concentration is broadly defined as a few firms controlling a substantial share of assets or sales of the market. In the multinational industrial sector, this paper shows that the largest 50 and 100 in the...
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From:Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Subhash C Arya [**] 1 , Agarwal Nirmala 2 Keywords : antivector measures; chikungunya; disease notification; mosquitoes; rapid diagnosis; virus detection To the editor The characteristics of a...
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From:Journal of Global Information Management (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStudies summarized by the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development show that companies in developing countries face problems executing e-commerce strategies. To determine which barriers might be transitional...
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From:The Botanical Review (Vol. 77, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNon-timber forest products (NTFPs) derived from palms and other plants are economically and culturally important to a large part of the more than 240 million people who live in the forest areas of developing countries....
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 88, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed
Swimming upstream: why sanitation, hygiene and water are so important to mothers and their daughters
So many things impact the health and well-being of women as they navigate their childbearing years. The most under-recognized of these are water, sanitation and hygiene, yet the benefits of these basic interventions are... -
From:Library Philosophy and PracticePeer-ReviewedIntroduction In the past, librarians were not always categorized as faculty or academics. Presently, librarians in many universities world-wide are academics and are subjected to the same promotion criteria as their...
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From:Nigerian Medical Journal (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Akindele. Mukadas, Uba. Misbau Background:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been major problem in the developed and developing countries and its burden in these countries is overwhelming. There is a dearth of...