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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: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: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: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: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:The Scientist (Vol. 19, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIn Singapore, we have found the best of both worlds. Two years ago, Novartis established a public-private partnership called the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) in this Southeast Asian island-state. The...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 83, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective More than 10 million children die each year mostly from preventable causes and particularly in developing countries. WHO guidelines for the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCl) are intended to...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 83, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedObjective This study aimed to assess whether randomized controlled trials conducted in Africa with collaborators from outside Africa were more closely associated with health conditions that have a burden of disease that...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 114, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedConsecutive outbreaks of acute aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004 and 2005 caused > 150 deaths. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization convened a workgroup of...
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From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 27, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAFTER GIVING billions of dollars in loans and pursuing countless anti-poverty programs, the World Bank has failed to reduce overall poverty in developing countries in the past 10 years, and has even seen a slip in...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 83, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn some developing countries health agencies and donors do not know how many people are dying or what the causes of death are. But with increased donor demands for transparency and performance measurement, countries are...
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From:International Trade Forum (Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSmall businesses are the backbone for sustainable growth and jobs in developing countries. Access to credit for business start-up and development, however, remains difficult for most. Banks and other financial service...
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From:International Trade Forum (Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedServices players in several developing countries are setting up coalitions for collaboration to boost the sector. Just a few years ago, services coalitions were mainly located in developed economies such as Hong Kong...
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From:Parameters (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPillage, plunder, and theft have long been a part of war. Barbarian armies and marauding bandits used these tactics prolifically. The campaigns of Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great are archetypes of mass armies using...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 82, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedCardiovascular diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes--usually associated with wealthy, developed countries--have become far more prevalent in poorer, less developed countries than previously thought,...