were taller) compared with their rural counterparts. The exception was in high-income countries, where the urban height advantage was either negligible (<1.2 cm for age-standardized mean height; posterior probability (PP) for children living in urban areas being taller ranging from 0.51...
The UAE occupies an area of 83,600 sq km along the south-eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. To the west is Qatar, Oman is located to the north and east with Saudi Arabia to the south and west. The capital and the largest city is Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi and Dubai are the two cent...
The need to identify, implement and evaluate policies and programmes that improve growth and development outcomes is particularly relevant as the increase in poverty and the cost of food, especially of nutrient-rich foods, as a result of the macroeconomic changes resulting from the COVID-19 ...
Being the largest democracy, the Indian elections in 2019 is expected to cost nearly $7 billion. As an NRI, and more importantly an Indian, I hope the elections would be free and fair for obvious reasons. The one element that ...
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back in the 80’s, managed a resort in Boracay and Puerto Galera for 3 years in the 90’s, worked as executive assistant in 5 different international chained hotels in Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and Qatar. Currently working as executive housekeeper with an international chained hotelin Boston...
Peregrine falcons in Dubai can cost between US $ 8,000 to 12,000. India exports nearly 13 million live birds at an average of 1.85 million birds annually. It was banned in 1983. Birds of Indian origin are generally smuggled from Kathmandu to European countries. ...
For example, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among university students was relatively high in Malaysia (15.9% and 5.2%) [34], India (26.8% and 10.7%) [35], Egypt (36.9% and 12.5%) [36], and Oman (26.7% and 1.5%) [37], respectively. In Saudi Arabia, along with other ...
In 2015, the national health expenditure direct cost for diabetes amounted to 2,063,000,000 USD in Trinidad and Tobago [11]. Diabetes is usually associated with several other major complications due to high levels of glucose. Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a common and serious complication of...