With the recent trend of growing poverty in South Korea, low-income households, particularly elderlyand singleheaded households, are at high risk of experiencing material hardship and depression. However, less is known about the association between material hardship and depression by household type in Korea. Using data (N = 2,913) from the Korean Welfare Panel Study and employing several method...

In recent papers [8, 9], we gave explicit description of some new Moishezon twistor spaces. In this paper, generalizing the method in the papers, we explicitly give projective models of a number of new Moishezon twistor spaces, as conic bundles over some rational surfaces (called minitwistor spaces). These include the twistor spaces studied in the papers as very special cases. Our source of the...

Cite this article: Caroline W Kabiru, Chimaraoke O Izugbara, Joyce Wairimu, Djesika Amendah, Alex C Ezeh. Strengthening local health research capacity in Africa: The African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Program. Pan Afr Med J. 2014;17(Supp 1):1

The Joyce Foundation's Shifting Gears initiative was launched in 2007 as a state policy change effort in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The goal is to strengthen state postsecondary, adult basic education, and skills-development systems so that more low-skilled workers gain the education, skills and credentials needed to advance and succeed in our changing economy....