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The Effects of the War in Iraq on Nutrition and Health: An Analysis Using Anthropometric Outcomes of Children
Guerrero Serdan, Gabriela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …, leading to very similar results. Estimates indicate that children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are 0.8 cm … shorter than children born in low violence provinces. These results are robust to several specifications. Furthermore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031398
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Ground Water Pollution and Emerging Environmental Challenges of Industrial Effluent Irrigation: A Case Study of Mettupalayam Taluk, Tamilnadu
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Nelliyat, Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Industrial disposal of effluents on land and the subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands – is a relatively new area of research. The environmental and socioeconomic aspects of industrial effluent irrigation have not been studied as extensively as domestic sewage...
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Le Statut Nutritionnel des Elèves de L'École Polytechnique
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Abstract: Examines the Physical Stature of The elite students attending the École Polytechnique military academy in the Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age.
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Nutrition and Economic Development in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina: an Anthropometric Approach
Komlos, John; Coclanis, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the height of students who attended The Citadel, the military academy in Charleston in the late-19th and the first half of the 20th century. Shows a long stagnation in the biological standard of living in this part of the South until the 1910s, when it began to increase substantially.
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The Nutritional Status of French Students
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the Physical Stature of The elite students attending the École Polytechnique military academy in the Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403933
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Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Standard of Living and Economic Development
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the height of Habsburg Soldiers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and argues that the society was facing a Malthusian crisis, which induced the Monarch to enact many institutional changes in order to save the society from disaster. While living standards declined, the...
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Empirical approach of absolute poverty in Greece: the needs for housing, nutrition, clothing, footwear, transport
Labrinidis, George; Maniatis, Thanasis; Bassiakos, Yannis; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Η έρευνα αυτή αποτελεί μια αντικειμενική αποτύπωση της σύγχρονης κοινωνικής πραγματικότητας αλλά και ένα χρήσιμο εργαλείο για τους σύγχρονους και μελλοντικούς...
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Urban Agriculture, Price Volatility.Drought ,And Food Security In Developing Countries.
Jatta, Sylvester - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Abstract Urban agriculture may have an important role to play in addressing food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly vital with the secular trends towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing countries. Our understanding of the importance, and food...
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Food and Nutrition Scenario of Kenya
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Government of the country is trying to reduce poverty. The country is developing in food security and nutrition since the last … taken here to discuss the food and nutrition situation of Kenya to build a healthy nation. …
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The Linkage Between Fitness, Nutrition and Mind for our Well-being, Abundance and Health
Feldman, Anat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the linkage between Fitness, Nutrition and Mind for our Well-being, Abundance …-out", nutrition-"eating smart" and mind- "work-in" mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The work, a product of more than ten years … fitness-nutrition-mind studies formed the grounds of this work, along with studies of the subconscious mind such as NLP, EFT …
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