Sentences with phrase «several developing countries including»

Published by Helen Picot, Kiran Sura and Christopher Webb, it takes stock of efforts already underway in several developing countries including India that together account for 9 % of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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The biggest potential for growth in the iron - ore industry lies with countries in the «Next 20», which refers to the 20 growing non-Bric bloc developing economies, including Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Philippines, and several sub-Saharan African nations, including Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and South Africa.

«Testing of new rice varieties that have the SPIKE gene is under way in multilocation trials across several developing countries in Asia, including Indonesia.

Additional reasons for deciding not to breastfeed can include concern about the quality and quantity of breast milk, and partner and family support, which are common across developed and developing countries.10, 11 Women who decide not to breastfeed are also more likely to have smoked during their pregnancy, be primiparous mothers (i.e., having their first child), and to have a child born low birth weight or with complex health issues such as cystic fibrosis.9, 12 Prenatal and post-natal stressful experiences may also reduce the duration of breastfeeding.13 Finally, several studies suggest that mother's who return to work within the first 6 months postpartum or anticipate an early return to full - time employment, are less likely to breastfeed.

My qualitative postdoctoral research project is focusing on the role of private biotechnology companies in addressing local health needs in developing countries; it will involve travel to several countries, including China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.

Due to the recent immigration order, several prominent scientists, including a Sudanese scientist who is to be recognized for her excellent work in developing countries, may not be present for her award.

He has been a member of several delegations focused on water problems in developing countries, including the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Namibia.

Natalie has developed an interest in global health, which led her to study and work in several countries including: South Africa, India, Kuwait, and remote parts of Canada.

Stephen Ira worked as an inventor for a small manufacturing company where he developed several patents that included Velcro ® brand products which led to his founding of Hook and Loop in 1989, distributing Velcro ® brand fasteners across the country.

Her history includes creating dozens of successful programs, including arts education programming for underserved youth and families in Los Angeles, developing award - winning after school programs for youth in Arizona, and working for several years in fundraising and program management with United Way of Southern Nevada and United Way of the Wine Country.

For several years now I've been trying to understand ways to reduce vulnerabilities to earthquakes in big cities in developing countries, including Istanbul.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

VAWI was developed in collaboration with several networks and expert groups and was based partly on the original6 and revised Conflict Tactics Scales, 7 as well as on work that originated from its critics.8 Extensive pretesting, independent back translations and piloting of the questionnaire were conducted.9 The prevalence rates from the ten countries included in the Multi-country Study vary greatly, with lifetime estimates ranging between 20 % and 75 % for psychological violence, 13 — 61 % for physical violence and 6 — 59 % for sexual violence.5 Since the Multi-country Study was performed, VAWI has been used in several more countries.10 — 15

Interestingly, however, several other disorders were even stronger predictors of suicide attempts in developing countries, including: conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, and PTSD.