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Dash-peonage: the contradictions of debt bondage in the colonial plantations of Fernando Pó
(2017)
Dash in pidgin English means an ancillary gift to an exchange. What happened when the dash became attached to the indentured labour contracts that the Spanish Empire brought from Cuba to their last colony, Spanish Guinea? ...
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Levels and trends of childhood undernutrition by wealth and education according to a Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure: evidence from 146 Demographic and Health Surveys from 39 countries
(2017)
Background
Governments have endorsed global targets to reduce childhood undernutrition as part of
the Sustainable Development Goals. Understanding the socioeconomic differences in childhood undernutrition has the potential ...
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Antenatal care services and its implications for vital and health outcomes of children: evidence from 193 surveys in 69 low-income and middle-income countries.
(2017)
OBJECTIVES: Antenatal care (ANC) is an essential part of primary healthcare and its provision has expanded worldwide. There is limited evidence of large-scale cross-country studies on the impact of ANC offered to pregnant ...
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Gain-of-Function (GOF) Mutant p53 as Actionable Therapeutic Target
(2018)
p53 missense mutant alleles are present in nearly 40% of all human tumors. Such mutated alleles generate aberrant proteins that not only lose their tumor-suppressive functions but also frequently act as driver oncogenes, ...
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Drosophila Ror is a nervous system-specific co-receptor for Wnt ligands
(2018)
Wnt ligands are secreted glycoproteins that control many developmental processes and are crucial for homeostasis of numerous tissues in the adult organism. Signal transduction of Wnts involves the binding of Wnts to receptor ...
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How socioeconomic status moderates the stunting-age relationship in low-income and middle-income countries
(2019)
Introduction Reducing stunting is an important part of the global health agenda. Despite likely changes in risk factors as children age, determinants of stunting are typically analysed without taking into account age-related ...
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Health system performance for people with diabetes in 28 low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional study of nationally representative surveys
(2019)
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes is increasing rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), urgently requiring detailed evidence to guide the response of health systems to this epidemic. In an effort to ...
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Linking Arable Crop Occurrence with Site Conditions by the Use of Highly Resolved Spatial Data
(2019)
Agricultural land use is influenced in different ways by local factors such as soil conditions, water supply, and socioeconomic structure. We investigated at regional and field scale how strong the relationship of arable ...
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Hypertension screening, awareness, treatment, and control in India: A nationally representative cross-sectional study among individuals aged 15 to 49 years
(2019)
BACKGROUND:
Evidence on where in the hypertension care process individuals are lost to care, and how this varies among states and population groups in a country as large as India, is essential for the design of targeted ...
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Public provision of emergency obstetric care: a case study in two districts of Pakistan
(2019)
Objectives Pakistan is one out of five countries where together half of the global neonatal deaths occur. As the provision of services and facilities is one of the key elements vital to reducing this rate as well as the ...