Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Ashkan Afshin, Lily Alexander, H Ross Anderson et al.
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease. By providing national and subnational assessments spanning the past 25 years, this study can inform debat...
Theo Vos, Ryan M Barber, Brad Bell, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa et al.
Background Up-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), we estimated these quantities f...
Christopher J L Murray, Ryan M Barber, Kyle J Foreman, Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören et al.
Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex grou...
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...
Martin Beal, Maria P. Dias, Richard A. Phillips, Steffen Oppel et al.
Migratory marine species cross political borders and enter the high seas, where the lack of an effective global management framework for biodiversity leaves them vulnerable to threats. Here, we combine 10,108 tracks from 5775 individual birds at 87 sites with data on breeding population sizes to est...
Douwe van Schie, Karen E. McNamara, Merewalesi Yee, A. Mirza et al.
Anthropogenic climate change is causing widespread losses and damages to what people value. To date, non-economic loss and damage assessments are commonly guided by predefined ‘types’ of non-economic losses, similar to those proposed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Inst...
Willard R. Chappell, Charles O. Abernathy, Rebecca L. Calderon
Occurrence & Exposure. Groundwater arsenic exposure in India (D. Chakraborti, M.K. Sengupta et al.). Groundwater arsenic contamination in Nepal: A new challenge for water supply sector (R.R. Shrestha, M.P. Shrestha et al.). Environmental impacts, exposure assessment and health effects related to ars...
S Alam, Mohammad Rakibul Islam Bhuiyan, Somaya Tabassum, Md. Tariqul Islam et al.
This research is aimed to identify factors affecting users’ Intention to Use (ITU) Social Networking Sites (SNSs) with moderating role of social networking satisfaction. There are considerable research works regarding factors influencing the Intention to Use (ITU) Social Networking Sites (SNSs), but...
Douwe van Schie, A. Mirza, Rawnak Jahan Khan Ranon, Maliha Masfiqua Malek et al.
Lucia Sideli, Monica Aas, Diego Quattrone, Daniele La Barbera et al.
This study investigated if the association between childhood maltreatment and cognition among psychosis patients and community controls was partially accounted for by genetic liability for psychosis. Patients with first-episode psychosis (N = 755) and unaffected controls (N = 1219) from the EU-GEI s...
Christi Linardich, Gina M. Ralph, Kent E. Carpenter, Neil A. Cox et al.
The greater Caribbean biogeographic region covered in this report (representing 38 countries and territories) encompasses an outstanding marine bony shorefish richness of approximately 1,360 species, with many (53%) being endemic. This report provides an overview of the conservat...
Md. Hasan Sharif, A. B. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Most. Rumpa Khatun, Sukrana Pervin et al.
The purpose of the study was to identify the mobility problem of aged people in selected old homes. The ages of the respondents are 60 plus age, which is clustered into 3 age groups 60-69 years, 70-79 years, and 80 plus age. This study established among 100% respondents 89.3% have self-bathing capac...
Allen G. Ross, Farhana Khanam, Md Taufiqul Islam, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
•Acute enteropathogens are a common cause of gastrointestinal illness in travelers•Initial clinical assessment is critical in determining the severity of disease•Diagnosis typically comprises culture, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, or polymerase chain reaction•Management depends on the severity ...
Shamim Syed, Asifa Afrin Jamim, Asifa Jamim, D Aaker et al.
In Bangladesh, the carbonated soft drinks industry is characterized by some domestic and a few global brands. In recent years, the purchasing tendency of carbonated soft drinks products by young adults has elevated significantly. Considering the underlying issue, this study has gone to significant l...
Mahmuda Khatun Mukta, Rajib Hossain, Farhana Faria, Shahajul Islam et al.
Ascorbic acid (AA) has been reported for the management of diarrhea. The anti-diarrheal potential and modulatory activities of AA on some commonly used anti-diarrheal drugs were investigated. For this purpose, the activities of AA on castor oil-induced diarrhea in Swiss mice were examined. As standa...