Heléne Norder, Anne‐Marie Couroucé, Pierre Coursaget, José Manuel Echevarría et al.
Sequences of 234 complete genomes and 631 hepatitis B surface antigen genes were used to assess the worldwide diversity of hepatitis B virus (HBV). Apart from the described two subgenotypes each for A and F, also B, C, and D divided into four subgenotypes each in the analysis of complete genomes sup...
Michael D. Lepech, Victor C. Li, Richard E. Robertson, Gregory A. Keoleian
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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...
Axel Hochkirch, Melanie Bilz, Catarina Ferreira, Anja Danielczak et al.
Biodiversity loss is a major global challenge and minimizing extinction rates is the goal of several multilateral environmental agreements. Policy decisions require comprehensive, spatially explicit information on species' distributions and threats. We present an analysis of the conservation status ...
Nathan Skillen, Helen Daly, Lan Lan, Meshal Aljohani et al.
Photocatalytic reforming of biomass has emerged as an area of significant interest within the last decade. The number of papers published in the literature has been steadily increasing with keywords such as 'hydrogen' and 'visible' becoming prominent research topics. There are likely two primary dri...
Pallab Kumar Biswas, Helen Roberts, Rosalind H. Whiting
Purpose Based on the socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective and agency theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the introduction of the 2006 Corporate Governance (CG) Guidelines and family governance affected the level of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting of non-financi...
Pallab Kumar Biswas, Helen Roberts, Rosalind H. Whiting
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of female director affiliations to governing families on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures in the context of Bangladeshi firms. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a quantitative empirical research method grounded in Socioemot...
Mahnoor Sattar, Pallab Kumar Biswas, Helen Roberts
We investigate the effect of board gender diversity on private firm risk. Using a sample of 26,045 UK private firms for the period 2005-2017, we report a negative association between board gender diversity and firm risk. Lower director busyness in gender diverse boards is the channel that enables fe...
P. D. Roberts, Helen James, Aviva Petrie, J. O. Morgan et al.
Haemoglobin, serum vitamin B(12), and serum and red cell folate levels have been measured in 322 pregnant immigrant women in London at their first booking and in a proportion at 34 weeks of gestation and postnatally. The Indian, East-African Indian, and Pakistani and Bangladeshi patients showed sign...
Dia Soilemezi, Ana María Palmar Santos, María Victoria Navarta‐Sánchez, Helen C. Roberts et al.
BACKGROUND: Health and social care systems face difficulties in managing multimorbidity, disease burden and complex needs in long-term conditions such as Parkinson's disease. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to develop a European understanding of how health and social care professionals can collaborate w...
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...
Stefani Du Toit, Katharina Haag, Sarah Skeen, Lorraine Sherr et al.
Adolescents exposed to high levels of adversity are vulnerable to developing mental health challenges, with long-lasting adverse consequences. Promoting the psychological well-being of adolescents and protecting them from adverse experiences is crucial for their quality of life. There is a need for ...
Tove Lise Nielsen, Naja Benigna Kruse, Anita Haahr, Ellen Gabrielsen Hjelle et al.
People with Parkinson's disease (PD) may find it difficult to identify and access the wide number of services they need and are entitled to along their complex PD journey. As part of the project OPTIM-PARK - Optimisation of community resources and systems of support to enhance the process of living ...
Núria Roura‐Pascual, Wolf‐Christian Saul, Cristian Pérez‐Granados, Lucas Rutting et al.
Future dynamics of biological invasions are highly uncertain because they depend on multiple social–ecological drivers. We used a scenario‐based approach to explore potential management options for invasive species in Europe. During two workshops involving a multidisciplinary team of experts, we dev...
Shamser Sinha, Katherine Curtis, Amanda Jayakody, Russell Viner et al.
The Minister for Children has recently suggested on the basis of research evidence that parents need to talk more to their children about sex in order to encourage them to start sex later and improve contraceptive use, with a view to reducing teenage conceptions. We report here on a mixed-methods pr...
Zachary Coleman, E. Jacques, Carin L. Roberts-Wollmann
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William B. Karesh, Tiggy Grillo, Catherine Machalaba, Helen Roberts et al.
Wildlife trade for commercial and subsistence purposes has a long history and economic, cultural and religious value, but also presents potential trade-offs, including for human and animal (domestic and wild) health, animal welfare, species conservation, and ecosystems. Understanding and balancing t...
José F. Muñoz, Chandni Balachandran, A. Shastry, R Mulcahy et al.
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Joanna Merckx, Shaun K. Morris, Ari Bitnun, Peter J. Gill et al.
Age is the most important determinant of COVID-19 severity. Infectious disease severity by age is typically J-shaped, with infants and the elderly carrying a high burden of disease. We report on the comparative disease severity between infants and older children in a multicenter retrospective cohort...
Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Adnan Čustović, A. Deschildre, James E. Gern et al.
Monitoring is a major component of asthma management in children. Regular monitoring allows for diagnosis confirmation, treatment optimization and natural history review. Numerous factors that may affect disease activity and patient wellbeing need to be monitored: response and adherence to treatment...