Jack Stone, Hannah Fraser, Aaron G. Lim, Josephine G. Walker et al.
BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) experience a high prevalence of incarceration and might be at high risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection during or after incarceration. We aimed to assess whether incarceration history elevates HIV or HCV acquisition risk among PWID. METHODS: st...
Crystal Weagle, Graydon Snider, Chi Li, Aaron van Donkelaar et al.
Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a leading risk factor for the global burden of disease. However, uncertainty remains about PM2.5 sources. We use a global chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem) simulation for 2014, constrained by satellite-based estimates of PM2.5 to interpret gl...
Sabine Braat, Katherine Fielding, Jiru Han, Victoria E. Jackson et al.
BACKGROUND: Detection of anaemia is crucial for clinical medicine and public health. Current WHO anaemia definitions are based on statistical thresholds (fifth centiles) set more than 50 years ago. We sought to establish evidence for the statistical haemoglobin thresholds for anaemia that can be app...
Shahbaz Mushtaq, Duc-Anh An-Vo, Mandy Christopher, Bangyou Zheng et al.
Frost, during reproductive developmental stages, especially post head emergence frost (PHEF), can result in catastrophic yield loss for wheat producers. Breeding for improved PHEF tolerance may allow greater yield to be achieved, by (i) reducing direct frost damage and (ii) facilitating earlier crop...
Tasnuva Yasmin, Chisty Husna, R Ali, F Azim et al.
Although women’s participation in the workforce has increased remarkably in recent times but women are still lagging behind because of the traditional thinking and attitudes of their families in the context of Bangladesh. The purpose of the current study was to explore the role of the family in shap...
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
Abstract In this essay the author gives an historical overview of Islam in America from its earliest beginnings in pre‐Columbia America until the present. Details on the origins, growth and spread of the three largest American Muslim groups – African American, Arab and South Asian – are explored as ...
Eiji Niwa, Yumiko Matsu-ura, Alam AKM Nowsad, Satoshi Kanoh
Species-specificity of suwari gel-formability was examined on the pastes from various fish fleshes, in which transglutaminase (TGase) was inactivated. The gels were prepared by setting the pastes withand without adding polyol (4% sucrose-4% sorbitol) and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) at 35°C for 1.5 and3 h...
Eskild Petersen, Ziad A. Memish, David S.C. Hui, Alessandra Scagliarini et al.
epidemics, avian influenza, H5N1, highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI epidemics, avian influenza, H5N1, highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI In 1996, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus was first isolated from a domestic goose in Guangdong province, China.[1] Since then, it...
James Horncastle
AbstractThe limited studies that focus on the weaponization of refugees typically emphasize how liberal democracies and states with restricted carrying capacity are vulnerable to this tactic. The declining number of liberal democracies globally, the Russian-Ukraine War demonstrating states' true car...
Jürgen Matthäus, Martin Shaw, Omer Bartov, Doris L. Bergen et al.
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The views presented here are my own; they do not represent the opinions of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. On the latter, see Timothy Snyder, ‘The coming age of slaughter: will global warming unleash genocide?’, The New Republic, 28 Oc...
Jack L. Stone, H. S. Ullal
NREL personnel team with the Indian and US governments and an Indian NGO to bring photovoltaic electricity to rural residents of the Sundarbans in India. India is the world's second most populous country, quickly approaching one billion people. Although it has a well-developed electricity grid, many...
W. G. Lambert, Chester G. Starr, William H. McNeill, Hugh McLeod et al.
PAUL-ALAIN BEAULIEU. The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556–539 B.C. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 270. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by W.G. Lambert. M.A. DANDAMAEV. A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire, trans. W.J. Vogelsang. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989. Pp. xv, 373...