“working but poor” or “laboring for less,” thereby recognizing its main characteristics as earned-income insufficiency (e.g., “low-income workers,”“economic hardship,”“the bottom of the income distribution”), poor job quality (e.g., “low-paid,”“unrewarding,”“most vulnerable wo...
Race became seen as biologically natural and based on visible physical characteristics such as skin color and other facial and bodily features. In the 19th century, scientists thought that the races had different kinds of blood, so hospitals segregated blood supplies. Twentieth-century scientists ...
There has been significant progress in the methods used to assess connectivity in recent decades; however, connectivity varies greatly depending on the abundance and density of individuals, species and habitat characteristics, and the temporal and spatial scale of studies [57], which poses challenges ...
Table 2 Baseline clinical characteristics of the cohort stratified by primary outcome status. Full size table Table 3 Baseline LqSOFA scores and host biomarker concentrations of the cohort, stratified by primary outcome status. Full size table Ang-2, sFlt-1, and IL-8 improve discrimination of the...
Accordingly, the characteristics of the urban form, the ways these characteristics were transformed, and the problems and strategies encountered within different periods are decoded. This decoding employed a combined methodology, including historical interpretation and case study researc...
Individual level drivers of emergence relate to the human characteristics and behaviours that bring humans into contact with the natural hosts and vectors of the parasite [7]. Gaining an understanding of the breadth and clinical severity of infection fromP. knowlesiis hampered by the need for mole...
et al. Seasonality, annual trends, and characteristics of dengue among ill returned travelers, 1997–2006. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 14, 1081–1088 (2008). 38. Loutan, L. Malaria: still a threat to travellers. Int. J. Antimicrob. Agents 21, 158–163 (2003). 39. Mackenzie, J. S., ...
Students perception of the role and characteristics of a good problem-based learning (PBL) facilitator were assessed in the same study in which students were exposed to the Flying a Kite Approach to PBL. A pre-tested anonymous questionnaire addressed the good qualities of a facilitator as well ...
This paper outlines the characteristics of the S&P 500 ESG Index that have appealed to investors, including: - The easy-to-understand methodology behind the index; - The historically similar risk-adjusted performance profiles of the S&P 500 ESG Index and the S&P 500; ...
have higher expectations for inhaled generic equivalents than for oral generics.119 Clinical characteristics of COPD in people of low SES Both biomass and tobacco smoke are generated from the com- bustion of plant materials, which produce complex carbon- based particles and organic compounds such as...