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Sabotaging public engagement with science: Missing scientific principles in newspaper stories about the Wakefield MMR-Autism controversy

WHITE, Judith MCINTOSH - In: Revista Romana de Jurnalism si Comunicare - Romanian … (2012) 3-4, pp. 79-93

This study examines numbers of stories published about the MMR-autism controversy – and frames those stories employed — by The Times of London and The Daily Mail from 1998-2011. Statistically significant correlations were found between total numbers of related stories published by all...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: China's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Saadat, Seemeen; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

China has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). It reduced maternal deaths from 1,500 per 100,000 live births and over 200 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 1949 to 120 per 100,000 live births and infant deaths to 42 per 1,000 by 1990. Currently China is on track...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Nepal's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Saadat, Seemeen; Cortez, Rafael; Voetberg, Albertus; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Nepal has achieved its targets for MDGs 4 and 5a. Maternal mortality declined from 790 to an estimated 190 deaths per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013 an impressive 76 percent decline. Under-five mortality showed a similarly impressive decline going from 142 to 42 deaths per 1,000...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Bolivia's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Lavadenz, Fernando; Saadat, Seemeen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bolivia is a lower-middle income country, but one of the poorest in South America, with a per capita GNI of US$ 5,750 in 2013 and an average GNI growth rate of 4.4 percent during the last ten years. Nearly 36 percent of its population of 10.6 million (2013) are aged 0 to 14 years and one third...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Egypt's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Sarker, Intissar; Saadat, Seemeen; Cortez, Rafael; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Egypt is a lower-middle-income country with a GNI per capita (PPP) of US$ 5,654 in 2012. Since the Arab Spring, Egypt?s economic growth has slowed to 0.6 percent in 2012. Half of Egypt?s 82.54 million people live in rural areas. Poverty is concentrated in Upper Egypt (the southern region). As of...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Malawi's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Sarker, Intissar; Saadat, Seemeen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Malawi has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). Under-five mortality declined from 244 to 71 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1990 and 2012, and maternal mortality declined from 1,100 to 510 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013. This note...

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The Production of Child Health in Kenya: A Structural Model of Birth Weight

Mwabu, Germano - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

government in the early 1990s. I find that immunization of the mother against tetanus during pregnancy is strongly associated …

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Measuring of bond price sensitivity

Radová, Jarmila - In: Český finanční a účetní časopis 2007 (2007) 3, pp. 41-55

In this article is analyzed duration as a measure of interest risk of bonds. We study significant factors which influence on highness of duration and also price chance of bonds. We discuss different ways to calculate duration and also we try to show its importance to management of bonds portfolio.

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On new immunization strategies under random shocks on the term structure of interest rates

Kondratiuk-Janyska, Alina; Kaluszka, Marek - In: Operations Research and Decisions 1 (2009), pp. 91-101

We introduce new measures of immunization such as exponential duration referring, in particular, to Fong and Vasièek [7 …

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Inverse targeting - an effective immunization strategy

Schneider, C.M.; Mihaljev, T.; Herrmann, H.J. - Department of Management, Technology and Economics …

method considered before. The novelty of our method resides in the way of determining the immunization targets. First we … to the size of the largest connected cluster in the social or a computer network. The immunization process follows the … epidemic spreading. We have applied our immunization strategy to several model networks and two real networks, the Internet and …

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