Anne CC Lee, Joanne Katz, Hannah Blencowe, Simon Cousens et al.
BACKGROUND: National estimates for the numbers of babies born small for gestational age and the comorbidity with preterm birth are unavailable. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age (term-SGA and preterm-SGA), and the relation to low birthweigh...
Sarah G. Moxon, Harriet Ruysen, Kate Kerber, Agbessi Amouzou et al.
BACKGROUND: The Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), launched in 2014, aims to end preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths, with national targets of ≤12 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births and ≤12 stillbirths per 1000 total births by 2030. This requires ambitious improvement of the data on care at ...
Roger I. Glass, Stan Becker, M. I. Huq, Barbara J. Stoll et al.
Since 1963, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), formerly the Cholera Research Laboratory, has maintained a field station in Matlab to treat patients from a surveillance population of 240,000 who have cholera and other diarrheal diseases. Since 1966, the au...
Oliver Heiri, Stephen J. Brooks, H. Renssen, Alan Bedford et al.
Comparisons of climate model hindcasts with independent proxy data are essential for assessing model performance in non-analogue situations. However, standardized palaeoclimate data sets for assessing the spatial pattern of past climatic change across continents are lacking for some of the most dyna...
Wayne Chan, Robert R. McCrae, Filip De Fruyt, Lee Jussim et al.
Age trajectories for personality traits are known to be similar across cultures. To address whether stereotypes of age groups reflect these age-related changes in personality, we asked participants in 26 countries (N = 3,323) to rate typical adolescents, adults, and old persons in their own country....
Rana Esmaeilizand, Prakesh S. Shah, Mary Seshia, Wendy Yee et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the duration of antibiotic exposure and development of stage 2 or 3 necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in very preterm neonates. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective case-control study was conducted from Canadian Neonatal Network data for preterm neonates born bef...
Lee Roy Beach, Barbara Smith, James Lundell, Terence R. Mitchell
Abstract Image theory has been proposed as a descriptive model of decision making. The present work examines the sufficiency of a simple counting rule as a theoretical description of the assessment of compatibility, a central construct in the theory. The research was done in the context of executive...
Hannes Gaisberger, Tobias Fremout, Chris J. Kettle, Barbara Vinceti et al.
Tree diversity in Asia's tropical and subtropical forests is central to nature-based solutions. Species vulnerability to multiple threats, which affect provision of ecosystem services, is poorly understood. We conducted a region-wide, spatially explicit assessment of the vulnerability of 63 socioeco...
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 ...
Marjolein J.A. Weerts, Kristina Lanko, Francisco J. Guzmán‐Vega, Adam Jackson et al.
PURPOSE: Pathogenic variants in SETD1B have been associated with a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder including intellectual disability, language delay, and seizures. To date, clinical features have been described for 11 patients with (likely) pathogenic SETD1B sequence variants. This study aims ...
Mark Z. Jacobson, Caroline Draxl, Tony Jimenez, Barbara O’Neill et al.
USAID Bangladesh and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory partnered with the Government of Bangladesh to develop a national wind resource assessment. The assessment used sophisticated resource modeling that was validated by a ground measurement campaign. Results from ...
Paul Kelly, Kelley VanBuskirk, David Coomes, Samer Mouksassi et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an asymptomatic intestinal disorder associated with growth impairment, delayed neurocognitive development, and impaired oral vaccine responses. OBJECTIVES: We set out to develop and validate a histopathologic scoring system on duodenal biopsies ...
Mead Cain, Maithreyi Krishnaraj, Karuna Chanana
Preface - Leela Dube PART ONE: THE CULTURAL MATRIX Introduction - Maithreyi Krishnaraj Differential Socialisation of Boys and Girls in Some Lower Castes or Communities of Ahmedabad - Usha Knahere Gender Creation from Birth to Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh - K M A Aziz Seclusion of Women and the St...
Tara M. Collins
AbstractWhile the connection between business and human rights is beginning to be elaborated in international affairs, there continues to be a significant lack of understanding and academic analysis about the relationship between business and children. International children's rights are more than a...
Barbara F. Danoff, S. Pripstein, Nicholas Croce, Simon Krämer et al.
Radiotherapy plays a major role in the management of pituitary adenomas, either as a surgical adjunct or as the primary form of treatment. Small field precision techniques are utilized. The ability to employ limited field therapy and produce local control rates of 80--90% demands precise tumor local...