Here, we determine rest-break requirements for the farmworkers of the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in southern California, which have a high poverty rate and the highest heat-illness rates in California. We used high-resolution outputs from a validated Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF...
At the same time, the South Asia’s GDP was only slightly higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa [43], suggesting that the high levels in these regions are likely due to poverty and malnutrition. Therefore, effectively addressing issues such as malnutrition and exposure to air pollution may ...
The graph above represents the latest update; updates are usually made within the first week of every month. Contrary to some reports, the satellite measurements are not calibrated in any way with the global surface-based thermometer records of temperature. They instead use their own on-board pre...
The real problem is that the global trends are working against us. Developing countries like India and China are becoming more affluent as people there escape from poverty. More people are buying cars and aspiring to the same kind of lifestyle that people enjoy in the United States and Europe...
High-quality regional development requires coupling of socioeconomic and natural domains, but it remains unclear how to effectively integrate the regional economy with river basin ecosystems. Here we establish a developmental perspective of 65 river econ
(at a proportional rate). The AI model also has a 54% difference between mean F1 scores in the lowest-scoring continent (South America, F1 = 0.21) and the highest-scoring continent (Southwest Pacific: F1 = 0.46), which is due mostly to a large increase in skill in the ...
The growth rate of mobile sources accelerated particularly after 2003 (Report of the Smog Commission 2018) (Graph 1). Download: Download high-res image (329KB) Download: Download full-size image Graph 1. Vehicle population in Punjab from 2008 to 2016 (Report of the Smog Commission 2018). ...
architecture and high poverty levels create life-course threats to kidney health, with a particular impact on pregnancy and childhood. Fragile and underfunded health systems struggle to cope with the burden of kidney disease, leading to high and increasing mortality. Regional variations in the ...
rate in the last few years and the victims of that recent cash grab have been whitesandblacks. What this means is that relatively wealthy white populations are becoming poorer and the predominantly non-white ‘global south’ is sliding into extreme poverty, with all the inherent dangers which ...
Some other cross-country macroeconomic research has examined the association between girl child marriage rates and conflict intensity, controlling for GDP per capita, poverty, female secondary gross enrollment ratios, and rural population (Singh et al.,2022), finding a positive association between girl...