Even​ ​with​ ​all​ ​the​ ​progress​ ​women​ ​have​ ​made​ ​in​ ​the​ ​modern​ ​era,​ ​we​ ​wanted​ ​to​ ​see​ ​how​ ​gender inequality​ ​persisted​ ​in​ ​the​ ​educational​ ​sphere,​ ​particularly​ ​when​ ​categorizing​ ​nations​ ​by​ ​development.​ ​To do​ ​this,​ ​we​ ​obtained​ ​data​ ​on​ ​poverty,​ ​literacy​ ​rates​ ​and​ ​GNI​ ​per​ ​capita​ ​and​ ​analyzed​ ​the​ ​correlation​ ​with the...

Gross national income (GNI) per capita is widely regarded as a key determinant of health outcomes. Major donors heavily rely on GNI per capita to allocate development assistance for health (DAH). This article questions this paradigm by analysing the determinants of health outcomes using cross-sectional data from 99 countries in 2012. We use disability-adjusted life years (Group I) per capita as...

introduction: child mortality indices are key element that reflects health status of societies and inform policy makers to take suitable policies to reduce them. this study was performed to examine the main determinants of under-5 mortality rate (u5mr) in oecd countries in two cross-sections, 2010 and 2013, and the results of them was compared. material and methods: this was a cross- sectional ...

BACKGROUND Although theoretically peace affects health, few published evidence for such an association was empirically available. This study aimed to explore the association between peace and life expectancy (LE) among the world countries. METHODS In an ecological study and using random effects regression model, we examined the association between peace and LE among world countries between 20...

The software industry loses billions of dollars annually to software piracy and has raised awareness of the high software piracy rates worldwide, particularly in emerging economies. In this paper, the authors build a general model of software piracy that includes three economic and social factors suggested by the literature, including per capita GNI, the relative size of a country’s IT market, ...

We try to explore the value of aberrant DNA methylation of several cancer-related genes in plasma as non-invasive biomarkers for gastric cancer (GC) and precancerous lesions. By using methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction assay we determined the methylation status of three selected genes ZIC1, HOXD10 and RUNX3 in blood samples from patients with GC and precancerous lesions. We discover...

A sea border provides trading opportunities for nations and enables participation in the world market and therefore economic growth. In this essay sea access is considered a significant limiting factor in the economic success of African countries. Research of this hypothesis illustrates a positive relationship between access to the sea and the economic success of African nations when Gross Nati...

While the concept of economic development has been widely used to understand the health and wealth of countries, it is accepted that the access to the internet for electronic commerce transactions enable generation in income and improvements in lives. However, with the rise of disparities in income within countries, electronic commerce opportunities can be limited to the few with internet acces...