Robert J. Johnston, Kevin Boyle, Wiktor Adamowicz, Jeff Bennett et al.
This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference (SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulate body of peer-reviewed literature. These recommendations consider the use of SP methods to estimate both use and non-use (passive-use) values,...
Sergei Põlme, Kessy Abarenkov, R. Henrik Nilsson, Björn D. Lindahl et al.
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Seema A. Bhat, Helen G. Coleman, Foad Yousef, B. T. Johnston et al.
BACKGROUND: Barrett's esophagus (BE) is a premalignant lesion that predisposes to esophageal adenocarcinoma. However, the reported incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma in patients with BE varies widely. We examined the risk of malignant progression in patients with BE using data from the Northern ...
Sara V. Flanagan, Richard B. Johnston, Yan Zheng
A national drinking water quality survey conducted in 2009 furnished data that were used to make an updated estimate of chronic arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. About 20 million and 45 million people were found to be exposed to concentrations above the national standard of 50 µg/L and the World Healt...
Mary Ann McColl, Diane Davies, Peter M. Carlson, Jane Johnston et al.
Objective To present a new measure of community integration, the Community Integration Measure (CIM), and to offer preliminary information about its psychometric properties. Design Validation study. Setting Community. Participants Ninety-two participants placed in 3 subgroups (brain injury survivors...
Stephen P. Luby, Amal Halder, Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Leanne Unicomb et al.
BACKGROUND: Standard public health interventions to improve hand hygiene in communities with high levels of child mortality encourage community residents to wash their hands with soap at five separate key times, a recommendation that would require mothers living in impoverished households to typical...
Kathleen B. Bamford, J Bickley, J. S. A. Collins, B. T. Johnston et al.
Although a high prevalence of antibodies to Helicobacter pylori has been documented within families, culture and DNA typing of strains from infected children and their parents has not been evaluated. This study aimed to analyse H pylori infection within family groups. Endoscopy, gastric biopsy, and ...
Intza Garin, Emma L. Edghill, İldem Akerman, Oscar Rubio‐Cabezas et al.
Heterozygous coding mutations in the INS gene that encodes preproinsulin were recently shown to be an important cause of permanent neonatal diabetes. These dominantly acting mutations prevent normal folding of proinsulin, which leads to beta-cell death through endoplasmic reticulum stress and apopto...
P Maxwell, Ryan S. Gallagher, Angela Seaton, Catherine Wilson et al.
Hypoxic cancer cells are resistant to treatment, leading to the selection of cells with a more malignant phenotype. The expression of interleukin-8 (IL-8) plays an important role in the tumorigenesis and metastasis of solid tumors including prostate cancer. Recently, we detected elevated expression ...
Mary Ann McColl, Peter M. Carlson, Jane Johnston, Patricia Minnes et al.
Despite considerable attention to community integration and related topics in the past decades, a clear definition of community integration continues to elude researchers and service providers. Common to most discussions of the topic, however, are three ideas: that integration involves relationships...
Joanne Elliott, Oonagh T. Lynch, Yvonne Suessmuth, Ping Qian et al.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection causes bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants. RSV has a linear single-stranded RNA genome encoding 11 proteins, 2 of which are nonstructural (NS1 and NS2). RSV specifically downregulates STAT2 protein expression, thus enabling the virus to evade the host ...
Gerard Clarke
Abstract Recent donor discourse points to the potential of faith-based organisations (fbos) as ‘agents of transformation’, mobilising the moral energy of faith communities in support of the Millennium Developments Goals (mdgs). This new donor-driven agenda, however, invites scrutiny of complementary...
Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Leanne Unicomb, Richard B. Johnston, Amal Halder et al.
Started in 2007, the Sanitation Hygiene Education and Water Supply in Bangladesh (SHEWA-B) project aims to improve the hygiene, sanitation and water supply for 20 million people in Bangladesh, and thus reduce disease among this population. This paper assesses the effectiveness of SHEWA-B on changing...
Chad W. Johnston, Michael A. Skinnider, Morgan A. Wyatt, Xiang Li et al.
Bacterial natural products are a diverse and valuable group of small molecules, and genome sequencing indicates that the vast majority remain undiscovered. The prediction of natural product structures from biosynthetic assembly lines can facilitate their discovery, but highly automated, accurate, an...
Amal Halder, Carole Tronchet, Shamima Akhter, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
BACKGROUND: We analyzed data from the baseline assessment of a large intervention project to describe typical handwashing practices in rural Bangladesh, and compare measures of hand cleanliness with household characteristics. METHODS: We randomly selected 100 villages from 36 districts in rural Bang...