Trends in the global distribution of income, 1960-1990. by Tan Siew Hwee Alice

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Development of Conceptual Flexibility in Intuitive Biology: Effects of Environment and Experience by Nicole Betz, John D. Coley

“…Availability of ecological relations, as well as conceptual flexibility, increased with age, and was higher among children living in more rural environments. …”
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Unmet healthcare needs and health inequalities in people with spinal cord injury: a direct regression inequality decomposition by Ana Oña, Kyriakides Athanasios, Piotr Tederko, Reuben Escorpizo, Mohit Arora, Christian Sturm, Shujuan Yang, Diana Pacheco Barzallo

“…Highlights • Better health status is evident among high-income groups, which is reflected in pro-rich inequalities. • Age at the time of the injury is the most important factor to explain inequalities in years living with the injury. • Unmet health care needs are the most important factor to explain inequalities in comorbidities. • The inequality in health varies by country dependent upon socioeconomic factors.…”
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the common sea slater, <it>Ligia oceanica </it>(Crustacea, Isopoda) bears a novel gene order and unusual control region features by Podsiadlowski Lars, Kilpert Fabian

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Sequence data and other characters from mitochondrial genomes (gene translocations, secondary structure of RNA molecules) are useful in phylogenetic studies among metazoan animals from population to phylum level. …”
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Inequalities in access to services, basis for policies to reduce the health gap by Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Ileana Heredia-Pi, María Isidra Hernández-Serrato, Blanca Estela Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Pilar Torres-Pereda, Hortensia Reyes-Morales

“…To estimate inequalities in access to health services among Mexican population living in localities of 100 000 or less inhabitants. …”
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Does Flavanol Intake Influence Mortality from Nitric Oxide-Dependent Processes? Ischemic Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cancer in Panama by Vicente Bayard, Fermina Chamorro, Jorge Motta, Norman K. Hollenberg

“…Cocoa is the richest source of flavonoids, but current processing reduces the content substantially. The Kuna living in the San Blas drink a flavanol-rich cocoa as their main beverage, contributing more than 900 mg/day and thus probably have the most flavonoid-rich diet of any population. …”
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Inequities in under-five child malnutrition in South Africa by McIntyre Diane, Zere Eyob

“…The highest pro-rich inequalities in stunting and underweight are found among Coloured children and metropolitan areas. …”
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Megacity Skeleton by Tomohiko Amemiya, Akiko Okabe, Akira Suzuki, Evawani Ellisa, Achmad Hery Fuad

“…Although this kind of area is always at risk of slum clearance owing to its poor hygiene and environmental conditions, it has fostered attractive lifestyles with a low global environmental load and rich co‐help systems among the intimate community over time. …”
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Review of Remediation Technologies for Cadmium in soil by Tang Xin, Ni Yuqin

“…Heavy metal pollution in soil has seriously affected the living environment of human beings. Among all heavy metal pollution, cadmium (Cd) is one of the most difficult to migrate pollutants in soil. …”
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Pre-, Pro-, Synbiotics and Human Health by Stig Bengmark

“…Among these are avoiding such processed foods that are known to be rich in pro-inflammatory molecules, and also eating substantial amounts of foods with documented anti-inflammatory effects such as turmeric/curcumin, molecules which might be included in future synbiotic compositions.…”
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The potential of Tourism in border destinations: A study of Jammu and Kashmir by Hafizullah Dar

“…There is thus a huge need to promote tourism education among the locals and also to develop a rudimentary tourism infrastructure in the respective areas of J&K.…”
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La negativa incidencia de las controversias de Gibraltar en el medio ambiente en la Bahía de Algeciras/Gibraltar by Jesús Verdú Baeza

“…The different controversies about the central dispute about Gibraltar, manifesting themselves in various legal and political levels, pose a set of environmental incidents affecting the rich ecosystems of the Bay of Gibraltar, the relationship among territories and the quality of life of the inhabitants on the zone. …”
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STOLAC FROM A HAMLET TO AN OTTOMAN TOWN AND ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA by Machiel KIEL

“…This contribution discusses changes among the typical settlements of the Balkans during the 15th century when Ottomans ruled the region. …”
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Microbial Carbonic Anhydrases in Biomimetic Carbon Sequestration for Mitigating Global Warming: Prospects and Perspectives by Himadri Bose, Tulasi Satyanarayana

“…The extreme environments on earth harbor a variety of polyextremophilic microbes that are rich sources of thermo-alkali-stable CAs. CAs are the fastest among the known enzymes, which are of six basic types with no apparent sequence homology, thus represent an elegant example of convergent evolution. …”
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Socioeconomic and urban-rural inequalities in the population-level double burden of child malnutrition in the East and Southern African Region by Rishi Caleyachetty, Niraj S. Kumar, Hana Bekele, Semira Manaseki-Holland

“…Regional stunting and wasting prevalence were higher among children living in the poorest households, with mothers with the lowest educational level and in rural areas. …”
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Georgians of Turkey: the Problem of Identity Searching in the Conditions of the Kurdish-Turkish Conflict by Tamaz Putkaradze

“…In particular, the positions of Georgians living here differ from each other. Despite these trends, the multiethnic population of Turkey has gained a rich experience of living together with the Turkish people, which needs to be effectively used in order to protect the interests of ethnic mobilization and the preservation of national identity…”
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Multilevel Modeling on the Anemia status of Women in Ethiopia by Kindu Kebede Gebre, Million Wesenu Demissie

“…In determining the potential factors associated with anemia status of women, the study indicated that women who use improved source of drinking water (OR=1.98, 95%CI=1.05, 3.72), being in middle wealth index (OR=0.25, 95%CI=0.10, 0.63), being in rich wealth index (OR=0.42, 95%CI=0.19, 0.94), having age at 1st birth in 20-24 years(OR=0.24, 95%CI=0.11, 0.53), having number of living children 1-2(OR=3.68, 95%CI=3.48, 4.98), having number of living children 3-4(OR=3.03, 95%CI=2.48, 4.05)and used government place of delivery(OR=0.96, 95%CI=0.22, 1.70) were significantly related to anemia status of women at 5 % level of significance. …”
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Study of Morphological Features and Determination of the Fatty Acid Composition of the Microalgae Lipid Complex by Vyacheslav Dolganyuk, Anna Andreeva, Ekaterina Budenkova, Stanislav Sukhikh, Olga Babich, Svetlana Ivanova, Alexander Prosekov, Elena Ulrikh

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Income distribution and health: What do we know from Chinese data? by Shi Ting, Wenbin Zang, Chen Chen, Dapeng Chen

“…By utilizing data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1989 to 2015, our empirical findings show that self-reported health (SRH), activities of daily living (ADLs), and diabetes mellitus appear to be negatively related to the income share of rich people when average income is equalized among counties, which indicates that individuals’ health will deteriorate as the income share of rich people increases. …”
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Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations by Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg

“…As a botanist, zoologist, ethnographer and linguist, during his jour­neys he recorded information not only about the environment but also about the peoples he met and their political and social organisation, as well as ethnographic data. Falck’s rich and detailed travelogue was published posthumously and soon forgotten, while the rich data remained unat­tended for almost two centuries. …”
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