Role of Sex Hormones in the Development and Progression of Hepatitis B Virus-Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Maurizio Montella, Giovanni D’Arena, Anna Crispo, Mario Capunzo, Flavia Nocerino, Maria Grimaldi, Antonio Barbieri, Anna Maria D’Ursi, Mario Felice Tecce, Alfonso Amore, Massimiliano Galdiero, Gennaro Ciliberto, Aldo Giudice

“…Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in developed countries. Epidemiological reports indicate that the incidence of HBV-related HCC is higher in males and postmenopausal females than other females. …”
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Adapting a Database of Text Messages to a Mobile-Based Weight Loss Program: The Case of the Middle East by Selma Limam Mansar, Shashank Jariwala, Nawal Behih, Maahd Shahzad, Aysha Anggraini

“…Qatar, a rapidly developing country in the Middle East, has seen a sharp increase in the prevalence of obesity. …”
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The Impacts of Educational Asthma Interventions in Schools: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Ana Carla Carvalho Coelho, Laís Souza Barretto Cardoso, Carolina de Souza-Machado, Adelmir Souza-Machado

“…Seventeen articles were selected (N=5,879 subjects). 94% of the interventions (16 of 17 studies) were applied in developed countries that were led by health professionals and most of them targeted asthmatics. …”
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Unraveling employee life satisfaction: exploring the impact of psychological contract breach, self-efficacy, mental health, and abusive supervision, with work engagement and job sa... by Md. Abu Issa Gazi, Abdullah Al Masud, Md. Abdul Kaium, Mohammad Bin Amin, Prince Mahmud, Abdul Rahman bin S Senathirajah, Masuk Abdullah

“…The study investigates these factors in a developing country’s corporate sector. Employees’ work engagement, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction can be improved by improving self-efficacy, mental health, and psychological contract breaches. …”
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Ethnocentrism, Trust, and the Willingness to Pay of Chinese Consumers for Organic Labels from Different Countries and Certifiers by Shijiu Yin, Fei Han, Yiqin Wang, Wuyang Hu, Shanshan Lv

“…Chinese consumers generally preferred organic labels from developed countries (or US-invested organic certifiers). …”
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Governance: A Source to Increase Tax Revenue in Pakistan by Muhammad Shahid Hassan, Haider Mahmood, Muhammad Naveed Tahir, Tarek Tawfik Yousef Alkhateeb, Ayesha Wajid

“…Hence, it is vital to investigate the relationship between governance and tax revenue collection in any developing country. Therefore, we aim to investigate the impact of governance on tax revenue in Pakistan using control variables inflation and industrial value-added. …”
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Impact of socioeconomic and political stressors on mental health: a cross-sectional study on university students in Lebanon by Zeina M. Al-Khalil, Walaa G. El Sheikh, Ghena H. Lababidi, Elissa O. Shehayeb, Pia Maria Ghanime, Farid R. Talih, Hani Tamim, Bilal R. Kaafarani

“…Abstract A cross-sectional study was conducted investigating the association between exposure to financial, political, academic and social stressors, and symptoms of depression, anxiety and burnout among university students in Lebanon. Lebanon is a developing country experiencing a financial crisis and sociopolitical turmoil with poorly characterized impacts on the mental health of residents. …”
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Pattern of Blood Pressure Indices among the Residents of a Rural Community in South East Nigeria by B. J. C. Onwubere, E. C. Ejim, C. I. Okafor, A. Emehel, A. U. Mbah, U. Onyia, S. Mendis

“…Despite the high level of awareness of its presence in the developed countries, the level of control is still poor. …”
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A Study of Deep Neural Network Controller-Based Power Quality Improvement of Hybrid PV/Wind Systems by Using Smart Inverter by Adel Ab-BelKhair, Javad Rahebi, Abdulbaset Abdulhamed Mohamed Nureddin

“…Nowadays, most of the developed countries are concentrating on developing alternative resources; consequently, they did huge investments in research and development. …”
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SPOP Inhibition of Endometrial Carcinoma and Its Clinicopathological Relationship by Qing Zhu, Guanghui Zhang, Mingyang Tang, Rumin Zheng, Huaiyong Gan

“…Endometrial carcinoma (EC) ranks first in the incidence of female genital malignancies in developed countries. SPOP (speckle-type POZ protein) has changed in EC with a statistically high frequency. …”
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One Year Obstetric Experience with Extreme Complications in a Tertiary Center in Somalia by Recep Erin, Zeina Ahmed

“… Objective: The maternal mortality rate is very high in Sub-Saharan African countries with extreme complications not seen in developed countries. We aimed to analyze and compile data on obstetric emergencies and complications in a tertiary center in Somalia. …”
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Pandemic mitigation: Bringing it home by Tom Reichert

“…The general decline in the baseline of age-specific excess mortality in economically developed countries is characterized and its importance assessed.   …”
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Management lag: can social management keep up with high technologies? by K. V. Isaeva

“…The functioning of E-Government platforms as one of the innovations examples in social governance in the world is considered in the article through the prism of government programmes of a number of developed countries and relevant statistical data. The Russian and foreign statistical agencies materials, major organisations electronic databases, keeping high-tech development records: Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Boston Consulting Group, United Nations, World Bank, Russian Government, etc., were used for the analysis. …”
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Uric acid levels and their relation to incapacities in acute cerebrovascular disease by Julio López Argüelles, Joan Rojas Fuentes, Ricardo Verdecia Fraga

“…<strong>Background</strong>: cerebrovascular disease and ischemic cardiopathy can be considered as an epidemic and constitute the first cause of incapacities in developed countries. Multiple studies have shown the association between uric acid levels and cerebrovascular diseases. …”
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Hib Vaccines: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives by Adi Essam Zarei, Hussein A. Almehdar, Elrashdy M. Redwan

“…Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) causes many severe diseases, including epiglottitis, pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis. In developed countries, the annual incidence of meningitis caused by bacteria is approximately 5–10 cases per population of 100,000. …”
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The dark side of being a pathologist: Unravelling the health hazards by Saima Khan

“…Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in a developing country, Northern India, using a standard online 50-item questionnaire enquiring about routine practices. 450 participants were enrolled consisting of 360 pathologists and 90 residents of pathology. …”
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Rethinking the role of the media in South Africa by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“… The main purpose of this article is to stimulate and contribute to the debate about the role of the media in South Africa as a developing country. Against the background of an overview of the relationship between the government of apartheid and the media, and the similarity of this relationship to the conflict between the African National Congress (ANC) government and the media in 2000 and the early part of 2001, it is argued that there is a need to rethink the role of the media in South Africa. …”
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Clinical and Laboratory Findings of 12 Children with Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit by Eylem Kiral, Ayse Filiz Yetimakman

“…Routine use of meningococcal vaccines during childhood would be a better strategy for controlling IMD in both developing and developed countries.…”
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PERFORMANCES OF INSURANCE MARKET IN MONTENEGRO IN CONDITIONS OF FINANCIAL CRISIS by Miljana Novićević, Vladimir Kašćelan, Julija Cerović

“… Insurance market of Southeast European countries is characterized by significant changes due to uneven economic growth and development. At markets of developed countries, life insurance premium has the leading position in total insurance premium. …”
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Marketing in the food trade by Ewa Bąk-Filipek, Urszula Tetwejer

“…Although sales dominated the market for grocery storefront, there is also developed outside the storefront sale. In highly developed countries rapidly develop modern forms of selling food products, resulting in overall sales growth outside the storefront. …”
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