Burden of tobacco-related cancers in urban, semi-urban and rural setting of Nepal: Findings from population-based cancer registries 2019. by Uma Kafle Dahal, Meghnath Dhimal, Atul Budukh, Kopila Khadka, Sudha Poudel, Gehanath Baral, Pradip Gyanwali, Anjani Kumar Jha, Sandhya Chapagain

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The data were collected by population-based cancer registry conducted in nine districts by Nepal Health Research Council. The districts were categorized in urban, semi-urban and rural regions on the basis of geographical locations and facilities available in the regions. …”
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Dynamic Impact-Based Heavy Rainfall Warning with Multi-classification Machine Learning Approaches by Anand Shankar

“…Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN), and Naive Bayes are some of the machine learning methods used in the study to find out how dynamically vulnerable affected districts are to flooding in different compound scenarios. …”
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The impact of public hearings on decision making on the merger of municipalities in the Moscow region by E. P. Shitova

“…Statistical data on the average number of participants in public hearings on the transformation of municipal districts into urban districts, time to prepare for them in the scale of 20 municipalities of the Moscow region, the results of citizens ’voting, the presence of representatives of state authorities and some other characteristics have provided. …”
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Cervical Cancer Visual Screening Experience in the Republic of Tajikistan by Nilufar Muhsinzoda, Alex Bingjie Yuan, Rustam Tursunov

“…Gafurov Districts who underwent visual screening. The total study population was 72,574 out of which 68,391 (94.3%) visited primary healthcare facilities for visual inspection with Lugol’s Iodine (VILI). …”
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La décentralisation en Afrique de l’Ouest : une révolution dans les gouvernances locales ? by Jérôme Marie, Eric Idelman

“…The creation of new regions with a measure of autonomy was realized in diverse ways : sometimes existing administrative districts were used, sometimes not. The peoples were involved in the choices made to various degrees, but the question of land demarcation was always by-passed.Within these new territorial frames, the representatives of the State now operate side by side with traditional supervising structures and the new local elected representatives. …”
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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GENERALIZED INTEGRAL INDICATOR OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by L. Davletshina, T. Pershina

“…Ranking of regions by federal districts, as well as clustering of the country’s subjects according to the selected indicators, allows more accurately determining developing and lagging regions.…”
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Les migrants de Beyrouth by Agnès Deboulet, Marie-Antoinette Hily

“…Many try to join the mixed, full of conflicts environment of peripheral districts, in which it is easier to find housing. Using fieldwork they have been conducting in the Borj-Hamoud suburb, in the east of Beirut, and Jnah and Ouzaï, in the south, the authors describe migratory situations which, although they cannot be applied generally, are nevertheless a good example of the place held by these immigrant…”
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Homicídios e desorganização social: o caso de Belo Horizonte by Rafael Augusto Reis da Mata, Alexandre M. A. Diniz, Antônio Hot Pereira de Faria

“…This article investigates the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics of the population of Belo Horizonte, taken from the demographic indicators of the 2010 census, and homicide crimes recorded in the same year, in addition to counting on the districts of the municipality as a spatial clipping for the analysis. …”
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Digital archive for high-end craftsmanship processes. Comparing research paths in Italy and China by Gabriele Goretti, Margherita Tufarelli, Qian Xiaobo

“… This article approaches the digitisation of the Intangible Heritage preserved by the traditional craft processes of SME manufacturing districts through a comparison of two case studies. …”
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Serum Level Alteration of IL-6, IL-1β, and IFN-γ in Groups of Healthy Adults with Oxidative DNA Damage in Najaf Governorate by Dhuha S. Saleh, Hayder S. Hussain, Hasan N. Al-Haidari, Samia K. Abbas, Ayaid K. Zgair, Seenaa M. Ali

“…Group 1 (G1; n, 29) inhabitants of Al-Ansar, Al-Abbaseyeh, and Al-Manathera districts, Group 2 (G2; n, 27) inhabitants of 22 different scattered districts of the governorate, Group 3 (G3; n, 32) inhabitants of Kufa city and center districts in the old Najaf city. …”
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Exploration of Wild Edible Plants Used as Food by Gaddis-A Tribal Community of the Western Himalaya by Arti Thakur, Somvir Singh, Sunil Puri

“…A survey of wild edible plants of Gaddi tribes of Himachal Pradesh was carried out in Chamba and Kangra districts of Himachal Pradesh located in Western Himalayas. …”
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The colonial policy of Morocco and Mauritania in Western Sahara: geopolitical and military aspects by M. S. Novikov, S. V. Novikov

“…But the collapse of the colonial system led to the emergence of not only neo-colonialism, but also the colonial aspirations of the colonial system of states restored or created during the collapse. There are several districts on the world map where the national elite, which has gained state sovereignty, pursues a colonial policy in territories inhabited by peoples who do not consider themselves to be citizens of the newly created state. …”
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Design strategies for urban and building adaptation in environmental multi-risk scenarios by Mario Losasso, Sara Verde

“…It prefigures project actions aimed at reducing the damage resulting from the current condition of overlapping risks, identifying in the crisis new opportunities for an ecological transition of urban districts as a long-term goal for sustainable development.…”
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Micro-Credit Institutions’ Services and Sustainability of Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises During Covid-19 Pandemic in Kigezi Region, South Western Uganda. by Agaba, Moses, Kaaya, Siraj, Nafiu, Lukman Abiodun

“…The region has six (6) districts namely: Kabale, Kisoro, Kanungu, Rukungiri, Rubanda and Rukiga. …”
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Factors Associated with High Prevalence of Multibacillary Leprosy in West Bengal: A Case–Control Study by Dipta Kanti Mukhopadhyay, Tarun Kumar Sarkar, Supantha Chatterjee, Soumalya Ray, Pritam Roy, Asit Kumar Biswas

“…Materials and Methods: This case–control study was conducted from August 2020 to December 2022 in three high-endemic districts (annual new case detection rate ≥10/lakh) of West Bengal. …”
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Level of tuberculosis-related stigma and associated factors in Ugandan communities. by Derrick Kimuli, Florence Nakaggwa, Norah Namuwenge, Vincent Kamara, Mabel Nakawooya, Geofrey Amanya, Philip Tumwesigye, Daniel Mwehire, Deus Lukoye, Miriam Murungi, Seyoum Dejene, Jaffer Byawaka, Norbert Mubiru, Stavia Turyahabwe, Barbara Amuron, Daraus Bukenya

“…We used the 2021/22 Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) data from a sample of 33,349 participants across 77 districts, to measure TB stigma determine factors associated. …”
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Attrition in serum anti-DENV antibodies correlates with high anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG levels and low DENV positivity in mosquito vectors-Findings from a state-wide cluster-randomized co... by Sivaprakasam T Selvavinayagam, Sathish Sankar, Yean K Yong, Abdul R Anshad, Samudi Chandramathi, Anavarathan Somasundaram, Sampath Palani, Parthipan Kumarasamy, Roshini Azhaguvel, Ajith B Kumar, Sudharshini Subramaniam, Manickam Malathi, Venkatachalam Vijayalakshmi, Manivannan Rajeshkumar, Anandhazhvar Kumaresan, Ramendra P Pandey, Nagarajan Muruganandam, Natarajan Gopalan, Meganathan Kannan, Amudhan Murugesan, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Siddappa N Byrareddy, Aditya P Dash, Vijayakumar Velu, Marie Larsson, Esaki M Shankar, Sivadoss Raju

“…Results implicate that both anti-DENV IgM and IgG seroprevalence and DENV positivity in mosquito pools were reduced across all the districts. A total of 13464 mosquito pools and 5577 human serum samples from 186 clusters were collected. …”
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Ethnobotany of stinging nettle (Urtica simensis Hochst. ex. A. Rich.) in the Oromia region of central and southeastern highlands of Ethiopia by Tigist Tadesse Shonte, Kebede Woldetsadik

“…Results Pearson’s chi-square analysis showed that there is a significant association (P < 0.05) between zones and districts in the ethnobotanical knowledge of use categories. …”
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Cowpea cropping systems, traits preference and production constraints in the upper west region of Ghana: farmers' consultation and implications for breeding by Benjamin Karikari, Margaret Delle Maale, Ebenezer Anning, Daniel Brain Akakpo, Afishata Mohammed Abujaja, Isaac Kwahene Addai

“…A total of 306 farming households were sampled from the 3 chosen districts. Questionnaires and interviews were used for data collection. …”
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Ungdoms engstelse for vold omfang, årsaker og konsekvenser by Heidi Gautun

“…Youths living in rural districts feel more safe. The majority of respondents without a recent experience of violence reported that they were anxious due to the frequent media-coverage of violence-episodes. …”
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