Stephen P. Luby, Amal Halder, Carole Tronchet, Shamima Akhter et al.
Handwashing with soap prevents diarrhea and respiratory disease, but it is rarely practiced in high-need settings. Among 100 randomly selected villages in rural Bangladesh, field workers enrolled 10 households per village and observed and recorded household activities for 5 hours. Field workers obse...
Stephen P. Luby, Shyam Gupta, Md. Arif Sheikh, Richard B. Johnston et al.
AIMS: To measure enteric bacterial contamination of tubewells in three flood prone areas in Bangladesh and the relationship of bacteriological contamination with tubewell sanitary inspection scores. METHODS AND RESULTS: Microbiologists selected 207 tubewells in three flood prone districts, assessed ...
A Hill, Suzanne McFarlane, Karl Mulligan, H. B. Gillespie et al.
Using a validated tetracycline (tet)-regulated MCF7-founder (MCF7F) expression system to modulate expression of CD44 standard form (CD44s), we report the functional importance of CD44s and that of a novel transcriptional target of hyaluronan (HA)/CD44s signaling, EMS1/cortactin, in underpinning brea...
Daren K. Heyland, Elsie Konopad, Thomas Noseworthy, Richard Johnston et al.
Objective To compare the cost and consequences of a policy of continuing to care for patients with a prolonged stay in the ICU with a proposed policy of withdrawing support. Design Economic evaluation using data derived from a prospective cohort study. Setting Adult medical/surgical ICU in a tertiar...
Lisa G. Johnston, Rasheda Khanam, Masud Reza, Sharful Islam Khan et al.
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of respondent driven sampling (RDS) to sample males who have sex with males (MSM) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A major objective for conducting this survey was to determine whether RDS can be a viable sampling method for future routine serologic and behavioral surveil...
R. T. Cunningham, Ian Young, John Winder, Marina O’Kane et al.
A radioimmunoassay has been developed and used to measure serum neurone specific enolase (NSE) concentrations in 24 patients, following cerebral infarction. A significant correlation between cerebral infarct volume and maximum serum NSE concentration was observed (P = 0.047). Serum NSE was also assa...
Uzma Z. Rizvi
Abstract Acknowledgement I would like to thank my colleagues and friends Praveena Gullapalli and Benjamin Porter for the comments and insights that have helped shaped this piece in its initial stages. Additionally, this work has benefited from my conversations with Sandra Scham. I would also like to...
M. M. R. Jahangir, Owen Fenton, Christoph Müller, Rory Harrington et al.
Evaluation of the environmental benefits of constructed wetlands (CWs) requires an understanding of their impacts on the groundwater quality under the wetlands. Empirical mass-balance (nitrogen in/nitrogen out) approaches for estimating nitrogen (N) removal in CWs do not characterise the final fate ...
James B. Gibson, G W Johnston, T T Fulton, H W Rodgers
Journal Article Extrahepatic portal-venous obstruction Get access J B Gibson, J B Gibson The Liver Clinic, Queen's University, and The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Present address: The Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic ...
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...
Catherine Wilson, Timothy R. Wilson, Patrick G. Johnston, Daniel B. Longley et al.
Chemotherapy-induced interleukin-8 (IL-8) signaling reduces the sensitivity of prostate cancer cells to undergo apoptosis. In this study, we investigated how endogenous and drug-induced IL-8 signaling altered the extrinsic apoptosis pathway by determining the sensitivity of LNCaP and PC3 cells to ad...
Stephen P. Luby, Amal Halder, Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Leanne Unicomb et al.
We used a prospective, longitudinal cohort enrolled as part of a program evaluation to assess the relationship between drinking water microbiological quality and child diarrhea. We included 50 villages across rural Bangladesh. Within each village field-workers enrolled a systematic random sample of ...
Suzanne Wait, Emily Kell, Saeed Hamid, David Handojo Muljono et al.
In 2015, the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific gathered leading hepatitis experts from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand to discuss common challenges to the burden posed by hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), to lear...
Rick Johnston
Linda J. Ferrier, Anthony S. Bashir, David L. Meryash, Jennifer L. Johnston et al.
SUMMARY The conversational skills of 18 individuals with fragile‐X syndrome (FXS) were compared with those of two other matched groups with autism and Down syndrome. The FXS group used more eliciting forms in conversation than those with Down syndrome, and also used partial self‐repetition more ofte...