DOES IT MATTER WHERE I LIVE? COMPARING THE IMPACT OF HOUSING QUALITY ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN SLUM AND NON-SLUM AREAS IN GHANA

DOES IT MATTER WHERE I LIVE? COMPARING THE IMPACT OF HOUSING QUALITY ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN SLUM AND NON-SLUM AREAS IN GHANA

Deteriorating physical characteristics and limited access to social services are said to typify a substantial number of the housing types in Ghana.The impact of these on vulnerable groups such as children remains largely unresearched.This paper comparesthe quality of houses in a slum (Old Fadama) and a non-slum (Asylum Down) community and its impac

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Quantitative Single-letter Sequencing: a method for simultaneously monitoring numerous known allelic variants in single DNA samples

Abstract Background Pathogens such as fungi, bacteria and especially viruses, are highly variable even within an individual host, intensifying the difficulty of distinguishing and accurately quantifying numerous allelic variants co-existing in a single nucleic acid sample.The majority of currently available techniques are based on real-time PCR or

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Measuring resilience and assessing vulnerability of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change in South America.

Climate change has been identified as the primary threat Watch Bands to the integrity and functioning of ecosystems in this century, although there is still much uncertainty about its effects and the degree of vulnerability for different ecosystems to this threat.Here we propose a new methodological approach capable of measuring and mapping the res

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