Silvia de Sanjosé, Wim Quint, Laia Alemany, D.T. Geraets et al.
Background Knowledge about the distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in invasive cervical cancer is crucial to guide the introduction of prophylactic vaccines. We aimed to provide novel and comprehensive data about the worldwide genotype distribution in patients with invasive cervical...
David M. Reimers, Stephan Thernstrom
Groups and Definitions Acadians Marietta M. LeBreton Afghans David C. Champagne Africans Afro-Americans Thomas C. Holt Albanians Aleuts Dorothy M. Jones Alsatians Frederick C. Luebke American Indians Edward H. Spicer Amish John A. Hostetler Anglo-American Anglo-Saxon Appalachians Dwight Billings and...
Linda Valeri, Maitreyi Mazumdar, Jennifer F. Bobb, Birgit Claus Henn et al.
BACKGROUND: Exposure to chemical mixtures is recognized as the real-life scenario in all populations, needing new statistical methods that can assess their complex effects. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess the joint effect of in utero exposure to arsenic, manganese, and lead on children's neurodevelop...
Timothy Russell, Nick Golding, Joel Hellewell, Sam Abbott et al.
BACKGROUND: Asymptomatic or subclinical SARS-CoV-2 infections are often unreported, which means that confirmed case counts may not accurately reflect underlying epidemic dynamics. Understanding the level of ascertainment (the ratio of confirmed symptomatic cases to the true number of symptomatic ind...
AAS Dunlop, ED Wright, S. A Howlader, I Nazrul et al.
Suppurative keratitis is an important preventable cause of blindness, particularly in the developing world. This study analyses 142 cases of suppurative keratitis referred to Chittagong Eye Infirmary Bangladesh. Some 53.5% of cases were bacterial and 35.9% were fungal. The five most common pathogens...
Ema Rodrigues, David C. Bellinger, Linda Valeri, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan et al.
BACKGROUND: The people of Bangladesh are currently exposed to high concentrations of arsenic and manganese in drinking water, as well as elevated lead in many regions. The objective of this study was to investigate associations between environmental exposure to these contaminants and neurodevelopmen...
Ruth Pearson
Abstract Though there is now a great deal of attention to the question of women workers and Corporate Social Responsibility (csr), a more far reaching analysis, which is informed by feminist economics approaches, stresses the importance of the gendered nature of the institutional context in which va...
Adrian Leftwich
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...
Helena Wright, Sonja Vermeulen, Gernot Laganda, Max Olupot et al.
Climate change creates widespread risks for food production. As climate impacts are often locally specific, it is imperative that large-scale initiatives to support smallholder farmers consider local priorities and integrate lessons from successful autonomous adaptation efforts. This article explore...
Sarah Lamb
Intimacy in a Transnational Era:The Remaking of Aging among Indian Americans1 Sarah Lamb (bio) Sarah Lamb Brandeis University Sarah Lamb Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North Indi...
Sophie E. Moore, Andrew M. Prentice, W. Andy Coward, Antony Wright et al.
Background The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding until age 6 mo. Studies relying on mothers' self-reported behaviors have shown that lactation counseling increases both the rate and duration of exclusive breastfeeding. Objective We aimed to validate reported infant feeding...
Lindsay M. Jaacks, Nancy Diao, Antonia M. Calafat, María Ospina et al.
BACKGROUND: Pesticide exposure during pregnancy is thought to adversely affect fetal growth, which in turn may impact child growth, but results have been inconsistent across studies and few have explored these effects in developing countries. OBJECTIVES: To quantify urinary concentrations of pestici...
Lesley Fairley, Báltica Cabieses, Neil Small, Emily Petherick et al.
BACKGROUND: Almost all studies in health research control or investigate socioeconomic position (SEP) as exposure or confounder. Different measures of SEP capture different aspects of the underlying construct, so efficient methodologies to combine them are needed. SEP and ethnicity are strongly asso...
John Ο’Loughlin, Gearo ́id O ́ Tuathail, Vladimir Kolossov
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes This research is supported by a grant, number 0203087, from the US National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Programme. The authors thank Dr. Elena Petrenko of the Foundation of Public Opinion in Moscow who worked close...
Timothy Russell, Nick Golding, Joel Hellewell, Sam Abbott et al.
Abstract Background Asymptomatic or subclinical SARS-CoV-2 infections are often unreported, which means that confirmed case counts may not accurately reflect underlying epidemic dynamics. Understanding the level of ascertainment (the ratio of confirmed symptomatic cases to the true number of symptom...