Overweight and Obesity Epidemic in Developing Countries: A Problem with Diet, Physical Activity, or Socioeconomic Status? by Trishnee Bhurosy, Rajesh Jeewon

“…This paper aims to compare the mean body mass index trends in the World Health Organisation- (WHO-) categorised regions since 1980 to 2008 and secondly to appraise how socioeconomic disparities can lead to differences in obesity and physical activity level across developing nations. …”
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MUGABE’S POLICY LEGACIES ON URBAN POVERTY AND INFORMALITY IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE by Logistic MAKONI, Ngoni C. SHERENI, Kevin MEARNS

“…Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980 and had Mugabe as its first black president. …”
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Emerging technologies and language learning: mining the past to transform the future by Hubbard Philip

“…In the second, I review seven challenges that I worked on in CALL, starting in the 1980s. I describe how I came to be aware of the issues involved and how through a combination of reviewing research, collaborating with colleagues, and drawing on my own experience, I came to learn lessons of enduring value. …”
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Resisting Material Binaries: Unpacking persisting dichotomies of building materials in Central Africa by Robby Fivez

“…In the first section, the material preferences of a Belgian architecture firm working in Rwanda in 2012 are related to the binaries of the architecture firms operating in this region in the 1970s and 1980s. In the second section, I discuss how the strong distinction between so-called “local” and “modern” materials is a remnant of the colonial period. …”
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The Role of Renewable Energy, Technological Innovation, and Human Capital on Environmental Quality in Türkiye: Testing the LCC Hypothesis with Smooth Structural Shifts by Muhammet Daştan

“…To achieve this objective, the research operates a novel econometric methodology, namely the "augmented autoregressive distributed lag" (A-ARDL) approach with Fourier terms, to analyze yearly data from 1980 to 2019. The empirical findings substantiate the validation of the LCC hypothesis in Türkiye, both in the short and long term. …”
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Türkiye’de Sosyal Güvenlik Sisteminin Ekonomik Etkileri: Sağlık Harcamaları veBüyümeİlişkisi Üzerine Ampirik Bir Çalışma by Melek Demir, Yunus Kutval

“…Türkiye'de sosyal güvenlik sisteminde son yıllarda artan sağlık harcamaları, sistemin sürdürülebilirliğine dair kaygıları artırmış ve ekonomik büyüme üzerindeki etkilerini araştırmayı gerektirmiştir. Çalışmada, 1980-2022 yılları arasındaki Türkiye verileri kullanılarak sağlık harcamaları ile Gayri Safi Yurtiçi Hâsıla (GSYH) arasındaki ilişkiyi test eden ekonometrik bir model kurulmuş ve ARDL eşbütünleşme testi uygulanmıştır.Araştırma bulguları, Türkiye'de sağlık harcamalarındaki artışın ekonomik büyümeyi olumlu etkilediğini, ancak bu etkinin görece sınırlı olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. …”
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原发性肝癌术后复发的再次外科治疗

“…1980～1990年,作者收治原发性肝癌660例,手术切除124例(18.8％)。术后肝内复发者32例(肝内复发率25.8％),2 年以内复发者占93.8％。…”
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La place de l’histoire sociale : de la recherche à l’enseignement by Frank Noulin, Jean-François Wagniart

“…L’histoire sociale a vu sa place décliner dans le champ universitaire et scolaire durant les dernières décennies, victime notamment de ses impasses heuristiques et du retournement idéologique opéré à partir des années 1980, laissant la place à une « histoire culturelle du social » aux finalités différentes et souvent moins ambitieuses dans l’approche globale de nos sociétés. …”
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Effectiveness of Hydraulic and Hydrologic Parameters in Assessing Storm System Flooding by Basim K. Nile

“…Physically based models, Autodesk Storm and Sanitary Analysis (ASSA) and multiple nonlinear regression (MNLR), were applied. Hydrology data from 1980 to 2013 were inputted and examined over three scenarios. …”
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Language shift in Aceh: The sociolinguistic situation of post-conflict society by Teuku Muhammad Ridha Al-Auwal, Robert Amery, Ian Green

“…Even though there was still a stated pride and high level of ideological identification with Acehnese, a gradual shift away from Acehnese began during the conflict. Since the 1970s and 1980s, an emerging phenomenon of Indonesian intergenerational transmission has emerged. …”
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Searching for the grey zone in Slovak sci-fi literature during the normalisation period by Olha Norba

“…This article analyses the phenomenon of the grey zone as a space for alternative expression in Slovak literature during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. It connects the emergence and expansion of this grey zone to the gradual ideological erosion of the communist system during the late normalisation period. …”
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Stories of strength: a systematic review of the use of narratives in character education of children by Mohamad Alppy Valdez, Anneke de Graaf, Sandy Barasa, Enny Das

“…Eight databases of studies published between January 1980 and March 2018 were searched for narrative interventions that focused on character education aimed at children. …”
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Voice Quality in British English. Its Nature, Functions and Applications by Stephan Wilhelm

“…It also suggests that a number of practical applications can be derived from the study of these functions.Like e.g. Laver (1968; 1980), Sharpe (1970) or Mackenzie-Beck (2005), we take voice quality to refer to the quality of the human voice in the production of language that results from both phonatory (laryngeal) and articulatory (supralaryngeal) adjustments. …”
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Tracking the Economic Benefits Generated by the Hard Clam Aquaculture Industry in Florida by Charles Adams, Leslie Sturmer, Alan Hodges

“…From a cottage industry borne of reductions in commercial wild clam harvests in the Indian River Lagoon during the late 1980s, hard clam aquaculture has now developed into an industry that is rivaled by no other aquaculture food product in Florida. …”
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Semiótica, (hiper)midiatização, circulação e atores/enunciadores: a caminho de um enfoque macro-relacional não antropocêntrico para pensar o futuro? by Mario Carlón

“… Este artigo analisa como uma determinada semiótica (sociossemiótica) de inspiração peirciana foi articulada com uma teoria de mediações nos escritos de Eliseo Verón nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, no âmbito de uma articulação com as noções clássicas da sociologia (atores individuais, coletivos de atores individuais, mídia, instituições) na era da mídia de massa (modernidade e pós-modernidade). …”
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La extrema izquierda armada colombiana representada en los relatos de ficción de la novela y el cuento, décadas de 1970 y 1990 by Dairo Correa Gutiérrez

“…A partir de un ejercicio de lectura comparativa de diez y siete obras literarias colombianas publicadas en las décadas de 1970 y 1980, entre novelas y cuentos, se busca debatir sobre la manera en que fue representada ficcionalmente la extrema izquierda armada en el país. …”
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Whistle blowing in the organization by Rachel Barker, R. Dawood

“…Although the problem of corruption can be traced back to the 1960s in America and the 1980s in South Africa, the concept of whistle blowing has become an important phenomenon in modern organizations in the last decade. …”
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Defining and Diagnosing Obesity in India: A Call for Advocacy and Action by Sanjay Kalra, Nitin Kapoor, Madhur Verma, Shehla Shaikh, Sambit Das, Jubbin Jacob, Rakesh Sahay

“…The prevalence of overweight and obesity has more than doubled since 1980, and it is predicted that around two-thirds of the global burden of the disease will be attributed to chronic non-communicable diseases. …”
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Occupational therapy’s oversight: How science veiled our humanity by Heleen Reid, Clare Hocking, Elizabeth Smythe

“…While these sources of objective knowledge provide a rational, defendable position for practice, they can only explain a portion of what it means to exist as an occupational being.Aims/Objectives This article aims to reveal some of the history of science within occupational therapy and reveal the subjective, ontological nature of doing everyday activities that the profession’s preoccupation with positivist science has obscured.Methods This research used a history of ideas methodology to uncover how occupational therapy perceived people and how practice was conceptualised and conducted between 1800 and 1980s, as depicted in writing of the time.Conclusion Analysis showed that, through history, people were increasingly categorised and delimited. …”
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La paz como proyecto constitucional by Leonardo García Jaramillo

“…A pesar de la históricamente alegada estabilidad democrática de Colombia, se trata de un país que ha oscilado desde hace más de 50 años entre indicadores desfavorables respecto de la violencia y la inestabilidad institucional, en algunas ocasiones particularmente negativos. A finales de 1980 una serie de factores políticos, jurídicos, económicos y sociales, agravados por la confrontación entre el Estado y el cartel de Medellín, así como por el surgimiento de nuevas guerrillas y luego de los paramilitares, confluyeron en la necesidad imperativa de cambiar el texto constitucional. …”
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