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Éducation primaire et croissance économique en Afrique subsaharienne : les conditions d'une relation efficace
1995
This article is looking at the causes of the low effectiveness of educational investment in Subsaharan Africa, both at the micro level (effect on labour productivity), and at the macro level (effect on the rate of economic growth). Several recent empirical studies have shown that education impact is systematically weaker in this region than in the rest of the world, and even sometimes negative, as in the case of agricultural productivity. Two series of causes may explain this lack of impact : first, inappropriate economic policies at the macro level which hamper the role of education, either through negative incentives structures, or because of the absence of provision of associated factors…
Additional file 1: of Co-morbidity of malnutrition with falciparum malaria parasitaemia among children under the aged 6â 59Â months in Somalia: a geo…
2018
Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations. (PDF 193 kb)
Additional file 1: of Co-morbidity of malnutrition with falciparum malaria parasitaemia among children under the aged 6â 59Â months in Somalia: a geo…
2018
Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations. (PDF 193 kb)
Spatio-temporal soil drying in southeastern South America: the importance of effective sampling frequency and observational errors on drydown time sc…
2020
The study of the spatio-temporal dynamics of surface soil moisture (SSM) drydowns integrates the soil response to climatic conditions, drainage and land cover and is key to advances in our knowledge of the soil–atmosphere water exchange. SSM drydowns have also been employed to compare soil moisture spatio-temporal behaviour between different data sources such as satellite-derived data and land–surface models, difficult to compare with standard methodologies. However, the errors introduced by satellite effective sampling frequencies (SF) and by different methodologies employed to define a drydown period have until now not been properly addressed in the literature. Here, SSM from microwave re…
Spatio-temporal soil drying in southeastern South America: the importance of effective sampling frequency and observational errors on drydown time sc…
2020
The study of the spatio-temporal dynamics of surface soil moisture (SSM) drydowns integrates the soil response to climatic conditions, drainage and land cover and is key to advances in our knowledge of the soil–atmosphere water exchange. SSM drydowns have also been employed to compare soil moisture spatio-temporal behaviour between different data sources such as satellite-derived data and land–surface models, difficult to compare with standard methodologies. However, the errors introduced by satellite effective sampling frequencies (SF) and by different methodologies employed to define a drydown period have until now not been properly addressed in the literature. Here, SSM from microwave re…
Factors associated with six-year weight change in young and middle-aged adults in the Young Finns Study
2015
Objective. To examine factors associated with weight change and obesity risk in young and middle-aged adults. Subjects/methods. The Young Finns Study with its 923 women and 792 men aged 24–39 years at baseline were followed for six years. Variables associated with the weight change were investigated with regression models. Results. The average weight change was 0.45 kg/year in women and 0.58 kg/year in men. In women, weight change was steady across all ages. In men, weight changes were more pronounced in younger age groups. In women (weight gain > 2 kg, n = 490), medication for anxiety, low occupational status, high baseline BMI (body mass index), high intake of sweet beverages, high chi…
Additional file 2: of Co-morbidity of malnutrition with falciparum malaria parasitaemia among children under the aged 6–59 months in Somalia: a geost…
2018
Table S1. Univariate and multiple variable regression adjusted odds ratio (AOR) and 95% credible interval (CrI) of the effect of covariates on wasting and low-muac among children aged 6–59 months in Somalia. Values in bold typeface are those that don’t contain the value 1 in their 95% CrI and were considered statistically significant. Fig. S1. Flowchart for FSNAU surveys. This diagram was adopted from the ‘Guidelines for emergency nutrition and mortality surveys in Somalia’. The sample size of acute malnutrition and malaria are computed separately depending on the estimated prevalence and the desired precision but the sampling procedure is the same. Fig. S2. Patterns of stunting among child…
Additional file 2: of Co-morbidity of malnutrition with falciparum malaria parasitaemia among children under the aged 6–59 months in Somalia: a geost…
2018
Table S1. Univariate and multiple variable regression adjusted odds ratio (AOR) and 95% credible interval (CrI) of the effect of covariates on wasting and low-muac among children aged 6–59 months in Somalia. Values in bold typeface are those that don’t contain the value 1 in their 95% CrI and were considered statistically significant. Fig. S1. Flowchart for FSNAU surveys. This diagram was adopted from the ‘Guidelines for emergency nutrition and mortality surveys in Somalia’. The sample size of acute malnutrition and malaria are computed separately depending on the estimated prevalence and the desired precision but the sampling procedure is the same. Fig. S2. Patterns of stunting among child…
Chronic diseases and objectively monitored physical activity profile among aged individuals – a cross-sectional twin cohort study
2019
Introduction: High physical activity (PA) at old age indicates good functional capacity enabling independent living. We investigated how different disease conditions are associated with measured PA indicators in old women and men, and whether they recognize this association. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional twin cohort study in Finland comprised 779 individuals (276 complete twin pairs, including 117 monozygotic pairs), who participated in hip-worn accelerometer monitoring of PA and responded to questions on diseases and mobility limitations at mean age of 73 (range 71–75). Results: Of the participants, 23.2% reported having a disease restricting mobility. With sex and age in the…
Chronic diseases and objectively monitored physical activity profile among aged individuals – a cross-sectional twin cohort study
2021
Introduction: High physical activity (PA) at old age indicates good functional capacity enabling independent living. We investigated how different disease conditions are associated with measured PA indicators in old women and men, and whether they recognize this association. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional twin cohort study in Finland comprised 779 individuals (276 complete twin pairs, including 117 monozygotic pairs), who participated in hip-worn accelerometer monitoring of PA and responded to questions on diseases and mobility limitations at mean age of 73 (range 71–75). Results: Of the participants, 23.2% reported having a disease restricting mobility. With sex and age in the…