Firstly, Jharkhand and Orissa, which have a high proportion of marginalised tribes, are among a cluster of poor states which, between them, account for the lion's share of India's one million infant deaths and 78,000 maternal deaths per year, according to Unicef.
Another possibility is a "cohort effect" in which a generation of women who engaged in risky health practices is now in the 20 to 44 age grouping, resulting in a clustering of poor health practices in this age group.
Saba al-Asfour, running for a seat from a cluster of small, poorer villages north of Manama, the capital, invited constituents to her house.
Part of his job is to oversee the distribution of a small monthly payment to a cluster of ultra-poor households.
A fourth mutation could not be confirmed by dideoxysequencing: extensive low or zero-coverage and/or a small cluster of poor quality SNP calls in AS-30CQ, (also in AS-15MF [ 29] but not in AS-50S/P [ 30] strongly suggested a ~1 kb deletion on chr05 occurring first in AS-3CQ or AS-15CQ (i.e. during CQ selection, Figure 1A).
A female Google employee stood on the sidewalk one afternoon this week, a block from Twitter HQ, distributing free hot dogs and watermelon to a cluster of homeless and poor people.
These would include a cluster of secondary schools in the country's poorest districts.
The city planner, Oriol Bohigas, brought intelligent redevelopment to its poorest squares, while a cluster of bright young architects shone through with the design of enticing new bars, clubs and restaurants.
Our study confirmed a clustering of alcohol, smoking and poor fruit/vegetable intake, but more strongly for males than for females.
Furthermore, this model included a random effect for GP practice to control for clustering of poor access at the practice level.
As Caroline Brothers reported in The Times recently, clusters of poor people wait for darkness and a high-risk chance to crawl inside or beneath a truck to cross to a country that needs and welcomes their labor but refuses to legally recognize their presence.
