Robert F. Massung, Li‐Ing Liu, Jin Qi, Janice C. Knight et al.
We analyzed the 186,102 base pairs (bp) that constitute the entire DNA genome of a highly virulent variola virus isolated from Bangladesh in 1975. The linear, double-stranded molecule has relatively small (725 bp) inverted terminal repeat (ITR) sequences containing three 69-bp direct repeat elements...
Golam Rabbani, Thomas Butler, Joseph A. Knight, S. C. Sanyal et al.
To evaluate the antisecretory activity of berberine sulfate (BS), we studied 165 adult patients with acute diarrhea due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and Vibrio cholerae in randomized controlled trials. In patients with ETEC diarrhea who received 400 mg of BS in a single oral dose, the ...
Thomas Butler, Joseph A. Knight, S. Nath, Peter Speelman et al.
In Bangladesh, clinical records of 323 patients with typhoid fever were reviewed to study the incidence, fatality, and optimal therapy of the complication of intestinal perforation. Fifteen patients (4.6%) developed intestinal perforation. Case-fatality rates were six of nine patients treated medica...
T.S. Hataley, Kim Richard Nossal
Abstract Enthusiasts of human security argue that what is needed in the post‐Cold‐War period is a foreign policy agenda that is more ‘people‐centred’ than the state‐centred focus of security policy during the Cold War period. Among the most enthusiastic proponents of the human security paradigm in t...
Taraprasad Das, Padmaja K Rani, Sobha Sivaprasad, Rajiv Raman
The blue circle is the universal symbol for diabetes mellitus [Fig. 1]. It was introduced in 2006 to give diabetes a common identity. The symbol aims to support all existing efforts to raise awareness about diabetes, inspire new activities, bring diabetes to the attention of the general public, bran...
Joseph A. Micale, Vasuki Shastry
The importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has grown demonstrably over the past several decades for corporations (Ferrell et al., 2016; Eccles et al., 2014), investors (Bansal et al., 2022; Kruger, 2015) and other stakeholders (SEC, 2022; Dmytriyev et al., 2021; Edmans, 2011; Russo and ...
Joseph Fewsmith, Edmund S. K. Fung, Nick Knight, Louise Edwards et al.
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W. G. Lambert, Chester G. Starr, William H. McNeill, Hugh McLeod et al.
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