KH Brown, Black Re, Stan Becker, Shamsun Nahar et al.
Longitudinal studies of the consumption of foods and nutrients by 70 children between 5 and 30 months of age have been completed, during 632 individual days of observation in rural village homes in Bangladesh. Foods and prepared menu items for each child were weighed before serving; leftover food wa...
KH Brown, Robert E. Black, Stan Becker, Aminul Hoque
Longitudinal field studies of the physical growth of 197 children between 6 and 60 months of age have been completed in two rural villages of Bangladesh. The distribution of weights by age indicated that 90% of the village girls and boyd weighed less than the National Center for Health Statistics 5t...
Kenneth H. Brown, R. E. Black, Stan Becker
During longitudinal field studies of the growth, dietary intake, and morbidity from infectious diseases of children between 6 and 60 months of age in two rural villages of Bangladesh, seasonal fluctuations in growth, nutritional status, and the prevalence of malnutrition were observed. The weight, l...
Fyezah Jehan, Sunil Sazawal, Abdullah H Baqui, Muhammad Imran Nisar et al.
Importance: Worldwide, preterm birth (PTB) is the single largest cause of deaths in the perinatal and neonatal period and is associated with increased morbidity in young children. The cause of PTB is multifactorial, and the development of generalizable biological models may enable early detection an...
Stan Becker
Data from the three Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in Bangladesh the Dominican Republic and Zambia were utilized to examine a new definition of unmet need--one that considers only responses regarding prospective fertility desires and intentions to use contraceptives. An unmet need is determine...
Sarah M. Durant, Matthew S. Becker, Scott Creel, Sultana Bashir et al.
Summary In dryland ecosystems, mobility is essential for both wildlife and people to access unpredictable and spatially heterogeneous resources, particularly in the face of climate change. Fences can prevent connectivity vital for this mobility. There are recent calls for large‐scale barrier fencing...
Stan Becker, Alauddin Chowdhury, Henri Léridon
In Bangladesh twice as many births occur in December as in July. This paper examines the seasonal patterns of the risks of conception, fetal loss and return of menses post partum in a longitudinal study of 2,300 women in 14 villages of Matlab, Bangladesh. Life tables were estimated for each month of...
Sang-Wook Park, Zhongquan Liao, Bergoi Ibarlucea, Haoyuan Qi et al.
Abstract Despite the recent progress in the synthesis of crystalline boronate ester covalent organic frameworks (BECOFs) in powder and thin‐film through solvothermal method and on‐solid‐surface synthesis, respectively, their applications in electronics, remain less explored due to the challenges in ...
Rebecca L. Callahan, Stan Becker
Collecting contraceptive-use data by means of calendar methods has become standard practice in large-scale population surveys, yet the reliability of these methods for capturing accurate contraceptive histories over time remains largely unknown. Using data from overlapping contraceptive calendars in...
Raina M. Merchant, Lance B. Becker, Steven C. Brooks, Paul S. Chan et al.
Every 10 years, the American Heart Association (AHA) Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee establishes goals to improve survival from cardiac arrest. These goals align with broader AHA Impact Goals and support the AHA's advocacy efforts and strategic investments in research, education, clinical ca...
Donna Espeut, Stan Becker
BACKGROUND: Maternity histories provide a means of estimating fertility and mortality from surveys. METHODS: The present analysis compares two types of maternity histories-birth histories and pregnancy histories-in three respects: (1) completeness of live birth and infant death reporting; (2) accura...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Jalaluddin Akbar, James F. Phillips, Stan Becker
Research in several Asian societies has suggested that sons are generally preferred over daughters. The implications of gender preferences for actual fertility behavior have not been adequately investigated, however. This analysis examines the effect of the sex composition of surviving children on t...
Kamruzzaman Shaikh, Stan Becker
Summary Using a unique set of birth registration data from the Demographic Surveillance System of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, for the period 1974–77, and socioeconomic information collected in the 1974 census, fertility was studied in relation to occupation,...
Stan Becker
Summary From matched birth and census records in the Matlab area of Bangladesh, monthly fertility rates for the period 1970–74 are studied for seasonal patterns by age and parity. Trigonometric regression techniques are used to summarize and compare the multiple series. Pronounced seasonal patterns ...
Stan Becker
Becker S [International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, GPO Box 128, Dacca-2, Bangladesh]. Seasonality of deaths in Matlab, Bangladesh. International Journal of Epidemiology 1981, 10: 271–280. Deaths registered between 1972 and 1974 in a population of 260 000 in a rural area of B...