Mercedes de Onís, Adelheid W. Onyango, Elaine Borghi, Cutberto Garza et al.
OBJECTIVES: To compare growth patterns and estimates of malnutrition based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards ('the WHO standards') and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO international growth reference ('the NCHS reference'), and discuss implications for ...
* Foreword Susan V. Berresford. * Introduction Amrita Basu. Asia * Discovering the Positive Within the Negative: The Womens Movement in a Changing China Naihua Zhang with Wu Xu. * From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Womens Movement Radha Kumar. * Men in Seclusion, Women in Public: Rokeyas D...
John T. Hollin, R. A. Warrick, Elaine Barrow, T. M. L. Wigley
Part I. Overview: 1. Climate and sea level change: a synthesis Part II. Data: 2. Mean sea level changes in the recent past 3. Recent global sea levels and land levels 4. Improving sea level data 5. Global absolute sea level: the Hawaiian and US Atlantic coast-Bermuda regional networks 6. Long-term c...
Sheila Aikman, Elaine Unterhalter
Introduction Part One: The Challenges for Gender Equality in Education: Fragmented frameworks? Researching women, gender, education, and development Ensuring a fair chance for girls Measuring gender equality in education Part Two:Transforming Action - Changing Policy through Practice: Educating girl...
Lorna Murphy, Lynnette Leidy Sievert, Khurshida Begum, Taniya Sharmeen et al.
OBJECTIVES: To assess how different variables experienced across the life course, but particularly during early life, might affect age at menopause among 174 Bangladeshi migrants to London by comparing them to 157 nonmigrant sedentees and 154 women of European descent in London. METHODS: Participant...
KIM ANTHONY, Andrew Procter, Ann Marisa Silverman, Elaine Murphy
A prospective case-controlled study was carried out to evaluate the effect of an enforced move of elderly dementia sufferers from a large psychiatric hospital to smaller units in two general district hospitals. Changes in behaviour and nursing dependency, and mortality rate were used as outcome vari...
Timothy Hoff, Gary J. Young, Elaine Xiang, Eli Raver
Physician satisfaction is an important issue, yet we know less about it than we should. This narrative review updates our knowledge about U.S. physician satisfaction and proposes new foci for understanding and studying the topic that align better with the evolving U.S. healthcare delivery system, ph...
Kasia Stepniewska, Elizabeth Allen, Georgina Humphreys, Eugenie Poirot et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended single low-dose (SLD, 0.25 mg/kg) primaquine to be added as a Plasmodium (P.) falciparum gametocytocide to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) without glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) testing, to accelerate malaria ...
Mónika Koós, Léna Nagy, Shane W. Kraus, Zsolt Demetrovics et al.
= 12.37), enabled us to thoroughly evaluate the dimensionality, validity, and reliability of the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS), leading to the development of the more concise PUMS-8 short scale. Additionally, language-, nationality-, gender-, and sexual-orientation-based measurement invar...
Candace Schlein, Elaine Chan
This article discusses the findings of a study examining the challenges and opportunities of supporting Muslim students in secular public schools. Education is explored as a multifaceted interplay between home and family life, community resources, school programs and policies, and classroom lessons ...
Elaine Unterhalter, Jake Ross, Md. Mahmudul Alam
This paper considers the relationship between knowledge production and primary education policy making in Bangladesh. It investigates the form of discussions and dialogues that have taken place between policy makers and researchers and considers how these have shaped the nature of the evidence polic...
Grace J. Yoo, Elaine Musselman, Yeon-Shim Lee, Darlene Yee-Melichar
Within the umbrella term, Asian American, exist multiple cultures and varied disease prevalence. Addressing disparities in care means we must use culturally and linguistically appropriate measures to educate the various sub-groups.In 2012, an estimated 18.9 million Asian Americans lived in the Unite...
Renate Strehlau, Louise Kuhn, Elaine J. Abrams, Ashraf Coovadia
CONTEXT: HIV infection in infancy may influence the developing brain, leading to adverse neurodevelopmental consequences. OBJECTIVE: We aim to describe neurodevelopmental characteristics of a cohort of HIV-infected infants and young children prior to antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and after...
Barbara Soule, Elaine Larson, Gary A. Preston
The Host * The Microbiologic Environment * The Physical Environment * The Social Environment * Patient Care Practices and Medical Devices * Barrier Precautions * Antisepsis, Disinfection, and Sterilization * Chemotherapeutics * Education and Behavior Change in the Prevention and Control of Infection...
Sol-Carolina Costa, Mahbuba Jannat, Edemar Morsch Filho, Tasnim Ahmed et al.
The transition to sustainable materials and technologies is vital for meeting global environmental and economic targets. Shape-stabilised phase change materials (SSPCMs) offer a promising solution for efficient thermal energy management, addressing key limitations of conventional phase change materi...