Charles W. L. Hill
Part One-Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: Globalization Case: Who Makes the Apple iPhone? Part Two-Country Differences Chapter 2: National Differences in Political Economy Chapter 3: Political Economy and Economic Development Chapter 4: Differences in Culture Chapter 5: Ethics in International B...
Uta Erdbrügger, Charles J. Blijdorp, Irene V. Bijnsdorp, Francesc E. Borràs et al.
Abstract Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast‐growing scientific field. In the last decade urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs) were shown to mirror molecular processes as well as physiological...
Syed Azizur Rahman, Tara Kielmann, Barbara McPake, Charles Normand
Despite the wealth of studies on health and healthcare-seeking behaviour among the Bengali population in Bangladesh, relatively few studies have focused specifically on the tribal groups in the country. This study aimed at exploring the context, reasons, and choices in patterns of healthcare-seeking...
Rachel Zeig‐Owens, Ankura Singh, Thomas K. Aldrich, Charles B. Hall et al.
Abstract Rationale Rescue/recovery work at the World Trade Center disaster site (WTC) caused a proximate decline in lung function in Fire Department of the City of New York firefighters. A subset of this cohort experienced an accelerated rate of lung function decline over 15 years of post–September ...
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Benedict Lin
This handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the delivery of EMI in diverse contexts across the world. The ...
Nita A. Limdi, Todd M. Brown, Aditi Shendre, Nianjun Liu et al.
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated whether percent time in target range (PTTR), risk of over-anticoagulation [international normalized ratio (INR)>4], and risk of hemorrhage differ by race. As PTTR is a strong predictor of hemorrhage risk, we also determined the influence of PTTR on the risk of hemorrhage by r...
Sarah Kreps
Abstract Observers of United States (US) interventions have almost universally characterized the 1994 Haiti intervention as multilateral, a model for how international cooperation can achieve common security goals. A closer analysis of the intervention reveals that the planning and execution of the ...
Zhihao Zhang, Qian Yu, Yanxia Chen, Liye Zou et al.
Mireia Félez-Nóbrega, Jeffrey L. Foster, Anna Puig‐Ribera, Christopher Draheim et al.
Working memory plays a key role in cognition as it is a major predictor of a wide range of higher order abilities and behaviors typical to daily life. Shorter versions of the complex span tasks (CSTs) have been recently developed, allowing for the reduction of test administration time without affect...
Achraf Haddad
AbstractThe continuing emergence of sudden financial crises and the bankruptcy of Big banks audited by the ‘Big Four’ auditors confirms that the external audit quality (EAQ) always remains insufficient compared to the desired quality. The quality weakness is due either to the bad audit company choic...
Anthony De Soyza, T. F. Saunders, Georgina Wild, Phil Mawson et al.
Background Bronchiectasis is associated with psychological comorbidity and poor quality of life (QoL), yet guidelines lack focus on psychological morbidity. Using data obtained from the BronchUK database (1341 patients), we examined the link between anxiety/depression and physical disease severity, ...
Kabita Chakma, Glen Hill
At 7:30 am, on the chilly winter morning of 6 October 1987, a group of 72 indigenous children from the remote Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh who had been living in refugee camps in India disembarked from Air France Flight no 189 and entered Charles de Gaulle Airport. Their journey from I...
Betty Kirkwood, Lisa Hurt, Seeba Amenga‐Etego, Charlotte Tawiah et al.
A randomized controlled trial in Nepal suggested that supplementation with vitamin A or beta carotene before, during, and after pregnancy reduced maternal deaths by over 40% in a population of rural women with severe vitamin A deficiency. However, 2 trials in similar populations, one in Bangladesh a...
David G. Haglund, Joshua D. Kertzer
Abstract There has been much controversy over the role that ethnic diasporas (sometimes called “lobbies”) do or should play in shaping American foreign policy. This article looks at one particular ethnic group, American Jews, with a view to assessing the claim made by some authors, to the effect tha...
Book reviewed in this article: THE HUTCHINSON HISTORY OF THE WORLD. By J. M. Roberts. GENERAL: History of mankind: cultural and scientihc development, volume v: the nineteenth century, 1775–1905. Edited by Charles Morazé. GENERAL: jules michelet: nature, history and language. By Linda Orr. GENERAL: ...