Lisa Thompson, Chris Tapscott
This authoritative title redresses the predominantly Northern/Western bias in social movement literature with case study material from movements for change in Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
Gauthamie Poolokasingham, Lisa B. Spanierman, Sela Kleiman, Sara Houshmand
The present study sought to examine South Asian Canadian undergraduate students’ (N 7) experiences with racial microaggressions at a research-intensive Canadian university. Participants ranged in age from 19–23 years and comprised various ethnic groups (e.g., Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, and Tam...
Mercedes Bustamante, Joyashree Roy, Daniel Ospina, Ploy Achakulwisut et al.
Abstract Non-technical summary We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability and implications of overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for a rapid and managed fossil ...
Lisa Connolly, Colin S. Thompson, Simon A. Haughey, Imelda M. Traynor et al.
An assay based on optical biosensor technology has been developed to detect a broad range of nitroimidazole drug residues and their metabolites (dimetridazole (DMZ), metronidazole (MNZ), ronidazole (RNZ), hydroxymetronidazole (HO-MNZ) and hydroxydimetridazole (HO-DMZ)) in chicken muscle. The detecti...
Serban Radian, Yoan Diekmann, Plamena Gabrovska, Brendan J. Holland et al.
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein (AIP) founder mutation R304* (or p.R304*; NM_003977.3:c.910C>T, p.Arg304Ter) identified in Northern Ireland (NI) predisposes to acromegaly/gigantism; its population health impact remains unexplored. We measured R304* carrier frequency in 936 Mid Ulst...
Lisa M. Thompson, Renée Asteria-Peñaloza, K. Stormfields, R. Kooistra et al.
BACKGROUND: Timely detection of neurodevelopmental impairments in children can prompt referral for critical services that may prevent permanent disability. However, screening of impairments is a significant challenge in low-resource countries. We adapted and validated the rapid neurodevelopmental as...
Lisa M. Thompson, Guinevere Valencia-Moscoso, Renée Asteria-Peñaloza, Anaité Díaz Artiga et al.
BackgroundWorldwide, 3 billion people are exposed to household air pollution from cooking fires. One of the top two risk factors among neonates, household air pollution greatly affects neonatal morbidity and mortality. In low-resource countries, neurodevelopmental impairments are often not identifie...
Viviane Valdes, Eileen Sullivan, Fahmida Tofail, Lisa M. Thompson et al.
Background: Over a third of children globally do not meet their developmental potential, and children living in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are most vulnerable. Understanding the contextual factors that influence cognitive development for children in LMICs is crucial to inform and develo...
Terence J. Byres, Raymond E. Wiest, Frank Dikötter, Chris Bramall et al.
Abstract The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Nanchilnadu, 1880–1939, by M.S.S. Pandian. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1990. Pp.192. Rs 175 (hardback). ISBN 0 8039 9642X (US); 81 7036 183 4 (India) Agrarian Relations and Accumulation: The ‘Mode of Production’ Debate in India, edited by Utsa Pat...
Asghar Khan
INTRODUCTION Heart failure (HF) is caused the structural and functional changes leading inadequate blood flow to the tissues. (Mcmahon et al., 2024). Approximately 31.89 million cases of heart failure (HF) has been estimated in 2019. The South Asia which consists of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Siri...
Rina Das, Andrew Baldi, Sant‐Rayn Pasricha, Lisa M. Thompson et al.
The early-life composition and maturation of the upper respiratory microbiome, and their associations with environmental exposures and respiratory health, remain poorly characterized. We collected nasopharyngeal (NP) and oropharyngeal (OP) samples (n = 257) from a cohort of 114 Guatemalan infants at...
Lisa Martin
How I'm Disrupting the Video games Market in Bangladesh\n\nI am just a Bangladeshi video game creator and I am disrupting the gaming industry in Bangladesh.\n\nI'm currently working on two game titles - the first is a cards video game as well as the other is definitely an RPG. The greeting cards gam...
Sanjeev Sharma, S. C. Sharma, P. D. Byrne, J. B. Lyons et al.
Roxana Ng, Dorothy E. Smith, Stephen G. Peitchinis
Lisa Gilad, Ginger and Salt: Yemeni Jewish Women in an Israeli Town. Boulder D.W. Attwood and B.S. Baviskar (eds.), Who Shares? Co‐operatives and Rural Development Francis Robinson (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and The Maldives Richard C. ...