Bang Lin Li, Magdiel Inggrid Setyawati, Hao Zou, Jiang Xue Dong et al.
Following research on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), zero-dimensional (0D) TMDs nanostructures have also garnered some attention due to their unique properties; exploitable for new applications. The 0D TMDs nanostructures stand distinct from their larger 2D TMDs cousin...
Sara von Bahr, Ingemar Björkhem, Ferdinand van’t Hooft, Gunvor Alvélius et al.
Mutations in the sterol 27-hydroxylase gene (CYP27A1) cause the disease cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) characterized by accumulation of cholesterol and cholestanol in tendons, brain and other tissues (1). In the absence of adequate sterol 27-hydroxylase, the normal oxidation of the steroid sid...
Mary K. Shenk, Mary C. Towner, Emily A. Voss, Nurul Alam
This paper uses the framework of intensive and extensive kinship systems to organize and understand a large body of research on consanguineous marriage across cultures, particularly studies in demography and development that document decreasing consanguineous marriage with market integration. We arg...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Theresa Thompson Chaudhry, Julia Brown, Tetyana Zelenska et al.
The effects of marriage between biological relatives on the incidence of childhood genetic illness and mortality are of major policy significance, as rates of consanguinity exceed 50% in various countries. Empirical research on this question is complicated by the fact that consanguinity is often cor...
Myrtle Hill
Abstract Focusing on the archives of Irish Protestant missionary societies, this article aims to contribute to the growing feminist literature on a female missionary subculture which provided unique opportunities for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Stressing diversity of ...
Kevin M. Manz, Andrew G. Baxley, Zack Zurawski, Heidi E. Hamm et al.
Complex circuit interactions within the nucleus accumbens (NAc) facilitate goal-directed behavior. Medium spiny neurons (MSNs) mediate NAc output by projecting to functionally divergent brain regions, a property conferred, in part, by the differential projection patterns of D1- and D2 dopamine recep...
Dayana A. Delgado, Chenan Zhang, Kevin J. Gleason, Kathryn Demanelis et al.
Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a heritable trait with two potential sources of heritability (h2): inherited variation in non-telomeric regions (e.g., SNPs that influence telomere maintenance) and variability in the lengths of telomeres in gametes that produce offspring zygotes (i.e., “direct” in...
Khalid Yunis, Reem El Rafei, Ghina R. Mumtaz
Consanguinity is defined as the marriage between individuals who have a common ancestor. Many epidemiologic studies have examined consanguineous marriages and their health impact on offspring. Because related individuals share genes from a common ancestor, homozygosity is favored, and their progeny ...
Md. Zahurul Islam, Md. Kudrat‐E‐Zahan, Md. Abdul Alim Al‐Bari
The novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has kept the whole world in tenterhooks due to its severe life-threatening infectious disease, COVID-19. The virus is distinct from its cousins, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV in terms of severity of the infection. The obligat...
Andrew Harding, Julie Doherty, Laura Bavelaar, Catherine Walshe et al.
BACKGROUND: Where it has been determined that a resident in a nursing home living with dementia loses decisional capacity, nursing home staff must deliver care that is in the person's best interests. Ideally, decisions should be made involving those close to the person, typically a family carer and ...
Benjamin J. Brown, M. Cousins
Abstract It is argued that the concept of discursive formation presented by Foucault provides the means whereby conventional treatments of ‘discourse’ can be criticized. These would include historical, linguistic and epistemological forms of investigation. But it is also argued that Foucault does no...
Md. Sanwar Siraj
The Human Organ Transplantation Act came into officially force in Bangladesh on April 13, 1999, allowing organ donations from both living and brain-dead donors. The Act was amended by the Parliament on January 8, 2018, with the changes coming into effect shortly afterwards on January 28. The Act was...
Harshini Suresh, Safayet Jamil, Bijaya Kumar Padhi, Md. Jamal Hossain
Thalassemia, an inherited condition of hemoglobin, has become a global public health concern due to rapid globalization.1 It is noted that 23% of the world's population lives in South Asia, a region plagued by hemoglobinopathies.2 Each year, about 500,000 infants are born with significant hemoglobin...
Bashir Ishaku Yakubu, S. M. Quamrul Hassan, Sallau Osisiemo Asiribo
Rapid urbanization rates impact significantly on the nature of Land Cover patterns of the environment, which has been evident in the depletion of vegetal reserves and in general modifying the human climatic systems (Henderson, et al., 2017; Kumar, Masago, Mishra, & Fukushi, 2018; Luo and Lau, 20...
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
AbstractThis study of gendered migration from the Indian subcontinent to Cape Town focuses on women who did travel and those who did not. It identifies the split-household as being the dominant household formation in the first half of the twentieth century, a matter of preference of Indian male migr...