Jennifer Luedtke, Janice Chanson, Kelsey Neam, Louise Hobin et al.
Abstract Systematic assessments of species extinction risk at regular intervals are necessary for informing conservation action 1,2 . Ongoing developments in taxonomy, threatening processes and research further underscore the need for reassessment 3,4 . Here we report the findings of the second Glob...
CARDIoGRAMplusC4D, Joanna M. M. Howson, EPIC-CVD, Wei Zhao et al.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although 58 genomic regions have been associated with CAD thus far, most of the heritability is unexplained, indicating that additional susceptibility loci await identification. An efficient discovery strategy may...
Ashley K. Randall, Gabriel A. León, Emanuele Basili, Tamás Martos et al.
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between ro...
Robert E. Black, Carl E. Taylor, Shobha Arole, Abhay Bang et al.
BACKGROUND: The contributions that community-based primary health care (CBPHC) and engaging with communities as valued partners can make to the improvement of maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) is not widely appreciated. This unfortunate reality is one of the reasons why so few priority coun...
Allan W. Taylor, Dianna M. Blau, Quique Bassat, Dickens Onyango et al.
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015. Vital registration and verbal autopsy data are mainstays for the estimation of leading causes of death, but both are non-specific and focus on a single un...
Eugenie Regan, Luca Santini, Lisa Ingwall‐King, Michael Hoffmann et al.
Abstract Biodiversity is declining, with direct and indirect effects on ecosystem functions and services that are poorly quantified. Here, we develop the first global assessment of trends in pollinators, focusing on pollinating birds and mammals. A Red List Index for these species shows that, overal...
James Reilly
Abstract As China expands its development assistance in Southeast Asia, is Chinese aid beginning to emulate international norms and practices or sustaining its own distinct approach to development assistance? This essay argues that China's socialization into international norms varies with the thick...
Martin Beal, Maria P. Dias, Richard A. Phillips, Steffen Oppel et al.
Migratory marine species cross political borders and enter the high seas, where the lack of an effective global management framework for biodiversity leaves them vulnerable to threats. Here, we combine 10,108 tracks from 5775 individual birds at 87 sites with data on breeding population sizes to est...
Axel Hochkirch, Melanie Bilz, Catarina Ferreira, Anja Danielczak et al.
Biodiversity loss is a major global challenge and minimizing extinction rates is the goal of several multilateral environmental agreements. Policy decisions require comprehensive, spatially explicit information on species' distributions and threats. We present an analysis of the conservation status ...
Andrea K. Gerlak, Margaret Wilder
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Austria P. Martinez and P. van Hofwegen, eds., Synthesis of the 4th World Water Forum (Mexico City: Comisión Nacional de Agua, 2006), 24. 2. UNICEF, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (NY: UNICEF, 2010). 3. For example, some First Nations ...
Andrea Gramegna, C. Addy, Lorna Allen, Egil Bakkeheim et al.
This is the final of four papers updating standards for the care of people with CF. That this paper "Planning a longer life" was considered necessary, highlights how much CF care has progressed over the past decade. Several factors underpin this progress, notably increased numbers of people with CF ...
Meer T. Alam, Carla Mavian, Taylor K. Paisie, Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte et al.
Cholera causes substantial illness and death in Africa. We analyzed 24 toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated in 2015-2017 from patients in the Great Lakes region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Strains originating in southern Asia appeared to be part of the T10 introduction event in...
Trevor Duke
Identifying the causes of acute lower respiratory infections is challenging in most clinical settings, especially so in hospitals in low-income and middle-income countries where bacteriology and other diagnostic services are scarce. The diseases encompassed within WHO's clinical definition of pneumo...
Jeffrey Engstrom
Abstract The participation of East Asian militaries (Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea) in international disaster relief is a relatively new phenomenon having many implications that will shape the global landscape of the 21st century. This article looks at the historical record of these operatio...
N. Gerald Barrier
Abstract The events surrounding the 1947 partition and the attack on Sikhs in the Golden Temple and Delhi continue to affect Sikhs today. Memory of the specifics and related issues plays a major role in politics both in India and within the diaspora. This paper explores the literature on the events ...
Abdul Nurunnabi, A. H. M. Rahmatullah Imon, Mohammed Nasser
In linear regression it is a common practice of measuring influence of an observation is to delete the case from the analysis and to investigate the change in the parameters or in the vector of forecasts resulting from this deletion. Pena (2005 Pena , D. ( 2005 ). A new statistic for influence in li...
Lena Maier‐Hein, Matthias Eisenmann, Carolin Feldmann, Hubertus Feußner et al.
Surgical data science is a scientific discipline with the objective of improving the quality of interventional healthcare and its value through capturing, organization, analysis, and modeling of data. The goal of the 1st workshop on Surgical Data Science was to bring together researchers working on ...
Will S. Jeyasingham, Scott A. Taylor, Carlos B. Zavalaga, Alejandro Simeone et al.
Recent research has shown that tropical seabirds specialized to feed on cold water upwellings exhibit low population genetic differentiation and high gene flow across large geographic distances. This pattern is opposite to the general pattern of differentiation reported for tropical seabirds, and le...
Michela Pacifici, Andrea Cristiano, María Lumbierres, Mauro Lucherini et al.
The global decline of terrestrial species is largely due to the degradation, loss and fragmentation of their habitats. The conversion of natural ecosystems for cropland, rangeland, forest products and human infrastructure are the primary causes of habitat deterioration. Due to the paucity of data on...
Carlo Carboni, Francesco Orazi
The book is a cross-section of the over all Italian development. Italy can be considered a microcosm that contains all the imbalances and territorial differences that can be observed in the European macro-areas. Its north can now be considred integrated with the more developed European continental s...