Success in developing regions: World records evolution through a geopolitical prism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Guillaume, Marion ^a   El Helou, Nour ^a,b   Nassif, Hala ^a,b   Berthelot, Geoffroy ^a   Len, Stéphane ^a   Thibault, Valérie ^a   Tafflet, Muriel ^a,c   Quinquis, Laurent ^a   Desgorces, François ^b   Hermine, Olivier ^b,d   Tossaint, Jean François ^a,b,e  

^a Université Sorbonne Paris Cité   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^e HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL PERIOD; NORTH AMERICA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRISM; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; ATHLETE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATHLETES; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 70449558829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007573     Document Type: Article

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