Ruth Vargas Hill, Neha Kumar, Nicholas Magnan, Simrin Makhija et al.
It is widely acknowledged that unmitigated risks provide a disincentive for otherwise optimal investments in modern farm inputs. Index insurance provides a means for managing risk without the burdens of asymmetric information and high transaction costs that plague traditional indemnity-based crop in...
Laura Cleary
Abstract Since the publication of the UK's Strategic Defence Review in 1998, the Ministry of Defence has sought to make a contribution to conflict prevention and post‐conflict recovery through a series of educational programmes, the aim of which has been to promote good governance and management of ...
Rosa Sommer, Elizabeth A. Hill, Joel Ramirez, Roberto Duarte Coello et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: MRI-visible brain perivascular spaces (PVSs) represent an imaging feature of cerebral small vessel disease that is associated with hypertension, diabetes, and poor sleep quality and correlated with cognitive impairment and dementia. Although research shows that sleep apnea...
Jiseon Baek, Hill Kulu, Sarah Christison, Francesca Fiori
BACKGROUNDPrevious studies have investigated immigrant fertility in various European countries, but only a few have compared the fertility rates of women who migrated as children (1.5 Generation), women born in the host society to foreign-born parents (2 Generation), and women born in the host socie...
Fergus Chadwick, Jessica Clark, Shayan Chowdhury, Tasnuva Chowdhury et al.
Diagnostics for COVID-19 detection are limited in many settings. Syndromic surveillance is often the only means to identify cases, but lacks specificity. Rapid antigen testing is inexpensive and easy-to-deploy but concerns remain about sensitivity. We examine how combining these approaches can impro...
Morag Griffin, Ian J. Neilly, Manos Nikolousis, Srinivasan Narayanan et al.
Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare life-threatening disease, with a UK prevalence of 15·9 per million (Hoffbrand et al, 2011). The UK has a nationally commissioned PNH service which works extensively to educate physicians about PNH. European prevalence is reported to be lower, prob...
Fergus Chadwick, Jessica Clark, Shayan Chowdhury, Tasnuva Chowdhury et al.
Background: Diagnostics for COVID-19 detection are limited in many settings. Syndromic surveillance is often the only means to identify cases, despite lack of specificity and asymptomatic cases. Rapid antigen testing is inexpensive and easy-to-deploy but concerns remain about sensitivity. We examine...
Patrick S. Ward, Neha Kumar, Francesca de Nicola, Ruth Vargas Hill et al.
International Development, Risk and Uncertainty, Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Thomas Höfer, Rolf Weingartner, Robeen Dutt, Francesca Escher et al.
Paul Streeten, Frances Stewart, Homa Katouzian, Nigel Harris et al.
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Robert G. Gunderson, Pat Ryan, Marie Hochmuth, Edward B. Partridge et al.
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