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BACKGROUND:Global health research is essential for development. A major issue is the inequitable distribution of research efforts and funds directed towards populations suffering the world's greatest health problems. This imbalance is fostering major attempts at redirecting research to the health…

Purpose: The international literature suggests that disabled people may be at increased risk for HIV infection. There is a growing increasing recognition of this in South Africa, although there remains a paucity of literature on how disabled people are affected…

El autor aborda la fitotoponimia de una zona rural del Estado Mérida (Venezuela),
conocida como parroquia o micro-región Mucurubá, territorio en el que tal categoría está representada por numerosos nombres geográficos. Se analiza la significación social de los fitotopónimos, específicamente…

Since its discovery shortly after the International Geophysical Year, the terrestrial magnetosphere has been under intensive study with satellites and ground-based instrumentation. We have a fairly good picture of its main structural features and the dynamic behavior of its multiple…

References on historical and recent earthquakes in Oaxaca City, or that have caused in other localities of the Oaxaca state from 1542 until 1988, are reviewed. Macroseismic data are used to define sets of similar earthquakes. On the basis of…

The paper investigates the pricing of derivative securities with calendar-time maturities.

In the presence of moral hazard, received agency theory predicts the Marshallian inefficiency of agricultural tenancy contracts, meaning that inputs per hectare on sharecropped land will differ from that on owned land. in this paper, we test for the presence…

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