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Access to diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: An international survey by the ILAE PNES Task Force
Coraline Hingray,Wissam El-Hage,Rod Duncan,David Gigineishvili,Kousuke Kanemoto,W. Curt LaFrance,Alejandro de Marinis,Ravi Paul,Chrisma Pretorius,Jose F. Tellez-Zenteno,Hannah Wiseman,Markus Reuber +11 more
TL;DR: The PNES Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) carried out 2 surveys to explore the diagnosis and treatment of PNES around the world.
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From the Ground up: Impacts of a Pro-poor Community-driven Development Project in Nigeria
Ephraim Nkonya,Dayo Phillip,Tewodaj Mogues,John Pender,Kuta Yahaya,Gbenga Adebowale,Tunji Arokoyo,Edward Kato +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the impact of the Second Fadama II project on income poverty, access to infrastructure and productive assets, and provision of demand-driven advisory services.
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Do Voluntary Programs Reduce Pollution? Examining ISO 14001's Effectiveness across Countries
Matthew Potoski,Aseem Prakash +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cross-national analysis of the efficacy of ISO 14001, the most widely adopted voluntary environmental program in the world, and examine whether all else equal, the national level uptakes are associated with reductions in air emissions (sulfur dioxide, SO2) and water pollution (biochemical oxygen demand, BOD).
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CO2 emissions in Australia: economic and non-economic drivers in the long-run
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the long-run dynamics of CO2 emissions, economic and population growth along with the effects of globalization tested as contributing factors, finding that economic growth is not emission-intensive in Australia, while energy consumption is emissions intensive.
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Who's Afraid of Foreign Aid? The Donors' Perspective
Alberto Chong,Mark Gradstein +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors affecting support for foreign aid among voters in donor countries, and found that aid is negatively tied to inequality, corruption and taxes, while satisfaction with own government performance and individual relative income were positively related to an individual's willingness to support foreign aid.
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The quality of government
TL;DR: The authors investigated empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries and found that countries that are poor, close to the equator, ethnolinguistically heterogeneous, use French or socialist laws, or have high proportions of Catholics or Muslims exhibit inferior government performance.
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Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts
Matthew K. Nock,Guilherme Borges,Evelyn J. Bromet,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Ronny Bruffaerts,Wai Tat Chiu,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Ron de Graaf,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Yueqin Huang,Elie G. Karam,Ronald C. Kessler,Jean Pierre Lepine,Daphna Levinson,María Elena Medina-Mora,Yutaka Ono,Jose Posada-Villa,David R. Williams +21 more
TL;DR: There is cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behaviours, but strong consistency in the characteristics and risk factors for these behaviours.
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
TL;DR: The End of Poverty: Economic possibilities for our time as discussed by the authors is a book review of the book written by Jeffrey Sacks (2005), an American renounced economist and director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University.
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Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units
Rudolf de Groot,Luke Brander,Sander van der Ploeg,Robert Costanza,Florence Bernard,Leon Braat,Michael Christie,Neville D. Crossman,Andrea Ghermandi,Lars Hein,Salman Hussain,Pushpam Kumar,Alistair McVittie,Rosimeiry Portela,Luis C. Rodriguez,Patrick ten Brink,Pieter van Beukering +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an overview of the value of ecosystem services of 10 main biomes expressed in monetary units and showed that most of this value is outside the market and best considered as nontradable public benefits.
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Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage, Transport Costs, and Trade
Nuno Limão,Anthony J. Venables +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the dependence of transport costs on geography and infrastructure and found that poor infrastructure is an important determinant of transportation costs, especially for landlocked countries.