Demographic Changes and Their Spatial-Settlement Consequences: Lessons from East Germany and Hungary by Tibor Kovács

“…Demographic shrinkage has created ‘new’ challenges in the spatial and urban development of the developed world and its semi periphery for nearly three and a half decades and it requires a different way of thinking and different solutions as well compared to previous development practices. …”
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Specific therapeutic options for transthyretin amyloidosis by Zoltán Pozsonyi

“…While light-chain amyloidosis remains a rare disease with a stable incidence, chronic inflammatory disease associated amyloidosis (AA) is diagnosed less frequently, the incidence of the mutational and wild-type forms of ransthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) has increased dramatically in the developed world. This pectacular increase can be explained by increased diagnostic awareness due to the emergence of new multi-targeted drugs and the spread of simpler, more easily accessible diagnostic methods. …”
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New Strategies and In Vivo Monitoring Methods for Stem Cell-Based Anticancer Therapies by Ping Wang, Aitor Aguirre

“…Cancer is a devastating disease and the second cause of death in the developed world. Despite significant advances in recent years, such as the introduction of targeted therapies such as receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immunotherapy, current approaches are insufficient to stop the advance of the disease and many cancer types remain largely intractable. …”
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Managing Cancer Pain - Simple Rules, Major Benefits by Dwight E Moulin

“…In the developed world, approximately one in three individuals will be diagnosed with cancer and one-half of those will die of progressive disease (1). …”
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INTEGRATION OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE, AND BUSINESS: CURRENT INSTITUTIONAL SOLUTIONS by V. S. SHEINBAUM, O. V. BUDZINSKAYA

“…For the purposes to develop recommendations, proven forms of integration based on international practices are reviewed and applied to Gubkin University. In developed world economies, integration of science and education is associated with technologization, the transition to knowledge-based industry embodied in the form of advanced structural amalgamations, such as Silicon Valley entities – clusters, technology parks and business incubators. …”
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mRNA vaccine politics: responsible governance coordination for vaccine innovation in times of urgency by Katerina Sideri

“…COVID-19 crisis reaffirmed the power of a few companies to scale up production for mRNA vaccines, which created injustice as a few nations in the developed world benefited first from available vaccines, while LMICs waited at the back of the queue. …”
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No Little Feet: Managing Pseudocyesis in a Homeless, Acutely Manic Patient with Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type by Talitha West, Omotola Ajibade, Anthony Fontanetta, Samreen Munir

“…Pseudocyesis is more common in developing countries than in the developed world, possibly due to the importance that traditional societies attach to childbearing and the low social status that these societies assign to women who are unable to produce children. …”
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The Fight to Bear Arms: Challenging the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution as a Sacred Text by John McNamara

“…And, secondly, a precise hermeneutical deference to those Founding Fathers - in law - that is largely unmatched in the developed world.…”
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Management of Early Stage, High-Risk Endometrial Carcinoma: Preoperative and Surgical Considerations by Sareena Singh, Shandhini Raidoo, Gaetan Pettigrew, Robert DeBernardo

“…Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the developed world. Most cases are diagnosed at an early stage and have low-grade histology, portending an overall excellent prognosis. …”
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“Where Does My Hope Come From?”: P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) as a Christian Dystopia in the Context of the Late 20th Century Demographic Crisis by Suzanne Bray

“…One result was the appearance of several “demodystopias” or fictions concerned with the demographic crisis which was causing increasing concern in the developed world at the time. Although P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992) has been compared with other demodystopias like The Handmaid’s Tale (1986) and Zoe Fairburns’ Benefits (1979) and described as a feminist work, it is far more of a Christian fable and contains echoes of Christian writers from Dostoevsky to T.S. …”
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Hyponatremia and Congestive Heart Failure: A Marker of Increased Mortality and a Target for Therapy by Adam Romanovsky, Sean Bagshaw, Mitchell H. Rosner

“…Heart failure is one of the most common chronic medical conditions in the developed world. It is characterized by neurohormonal activation of multiple systems that can lead to clinical deterioration and significant morbidity and mortality. …”
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Anterior Segment Findings in Vitamin A Deficiency: A Case Series by Pierangela Rubino, Paolo Mora, Nicola Ungaro, Stefano A. Gandolfi, Jelka G. Orsoni

“…Vitamin A deficiency is a rare but vision threatening disorder in the developed world, which can lead to blindness for severe keratomalacia with cornea scarring and perforation or night blindness due to impaired dark adaptation. …”
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Dysphagia and trismus: an unusual case of tetanus by Antonio Villa, Marianna Gregorio, Francesca Bassi, Alessandra Perego, Maria Francesca Donato, Vilma Galimberti, Maria Grazia Bellotti, Antonella Cheldi

“…Tetanus is a life-threatening infection that is rare in the developed world; it is more frequent in the elderly people and immunocompromised patients. …”
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Kawasaki Disease: A Clinician’s Update by Nathan Jamieson, Davinder Singh-Grewal

“…Kawasaki disease is an acute systemic vasculitis and is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children in the developed world. This review aims to synthesise recent insights into the disease and provide an update for clinicians on diagnostic and treatment practices. …”
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Humanization through Contemplation A Critique and Review on the Book Thought and Thinking by Reza Nasiri Hamed

“…To this end, he uses the past intellectual heritage try to suggest a link between thought and action that serves humanization and, in a sense in a dynamic and, of course, the endless process in which, in his opinion, even the so-called developed world countries are in the middle of that. The present paper, while reflecting on the above work, discusses some of the questions that arise from the author's concerns. …”
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Could Proteomic Research Deliver the Next Generation of Treatments for Pneumococcal Meningitis? by U. R. Goonetilleke, S. A. Ward, S. B. Gordon

“…Despite optimal antibiotic therapy and supportive care, the mortality of this condition remains very high at 20–30% in the developed world and over 60% in under-resourced hospitals. …”
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Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan by Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Tadanori Nabeshima

“…Japan stands out as the most aged country in the developed world, and while the need for palliative care for older adults with dementia has been noted, there has been reluctance to openly address VAE and PAS. …”
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REVIEW OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH OUTPUTS IN NIGERIA: TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE by Obuks Augustine EJOHWOMU, Olalekan Shamsideen OSHODI

“…Besides a call for paradigm shift in present day research activities, the concept of sustainability, which has become a dominant policy in the developed world, needs to be enshrined. In other words, there is a need to really examine the extent to which current policies and activities pertai ning to sustainability in the construction industry is been integrated into built environment plann ing and development in Nigeria …”
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Public policy training in Latin America: Current status and challenges for political science by Nicolás Bentancur, Germán Bidegain, Rodrigo Martínez

“…In all countries -although in a different degree in each case- , the process of building a “science of policy” is hampered by the straightforward and indiscriminating adaptation of theoretical models and frameworks originally produced in and for countries in the developed world, as well as for the still scarce referencing of local intellectual production and/or of Latin American sources. …”
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Targeting Inflammation in Emerging Therapies for Genetic Retinal Disease by Ishaq A. Viringipurampeer, Abu E. Bashar, Cheryl Y. Gregory-Evans, Orson L. Moritz, Kevin Gregory-Evans

“…Genetic retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and monogenic diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa account for some of the commonest causes of blindness in the developed world. Diverse genetic abnormalities and environmental causes have been implicated in triggering multiple pathological mechanisms such as oxidative stress, lipofuscin deposits, neovascularisation, and programmed cell death. …”
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