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Most of Nepal's health care facilities are concentrated in urban areas. Rural health facilities often lack adequate funding. [27] In 2003, Nepal had 10 health centers, 83 hospitals, 700 health posts, and 3,158 "sub-health posts," which serve villages. In addition, there were 1,259 physicians, one for every 18,400 persons. [28]
This is a list of Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) posts in Kansas, United States. The G.A.R., Department of Kansas was established December 7, 1866. It was preceded by an organization known as the Veteran Brotherhood (and Union Brotherhood), State of Kansas organized in December 1865. The Department of Kansas was permanently reorganized on ...
Harry J. Holzer, economist, Professor of Public Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy, fellow at the American Institutes for Research [278] John Hopfield , physicist, Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology emeritus at Princeton University, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024 [ 279 ]
Doctoral conferrals in humanities, social science, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, and in other fields (e.g., business, education, public policy, social work) These four measures were combined using principal component analysis to create two indices of research activity, one representing an aggregate level of ...
Nepal has made great progress in maternal and child health. 95% of children have access to iodised salt, and 86% of children aged 6 – 59 months receive Vitamin A prophylaxis. [281] Stunting, underweight and wasting has been reduced significantly; [ 281 ] malnutrition, at 43% among children under five, is extremely high. [ 282 ]
The US public vastly overestimates the amount spent on foreign aid. [213] In the US, an increase in gross income will never reduce a taxpayer's post-tax earnings by putting them in a higher tax bracket. Tax brackets specify marginal tax rates: only income earned in the higher tax bracket is taxed at the higher rate. [214]
Sikkim (/ ˈ s ɪ k ɪ m / SIK-im; Nepali:) is a state in northeastern India.It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and northeast, Bhutan in the east, Koshi Province of Nepal in the west, and West Bengal in the south.
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the first modern research institution created within the United States Navy, began operations at 1100 on 2 July 1923. The Laboratory's two original divisions – Radio and Sound – performed research in the fields of high-frequency radio and underwater sound propagation.