Sálim Ali, Sidney Dillon Ripley, John Henry Dick
1200 species of birds, in 20 orders and numerous families, are known in the Indian subcontinent. This handbook describes their distribution, habits, breeding biology, diet, voice, and other features. Over 100 plates and systematic keys in the text help with identification. Maps show the distribution...
Allan W. Taylor, Dianna M. Blau, Quique Bassat, Dickens Onyango et al.
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015. Vital registration and verbal autopsy data are mainstays for the estimation of leading causes of death, but both are non-specific and focus on a single un...
Dianna M. Blau, Vicky L. Baillie, Toyah Els, Sana Mahtab et al.
BACKGROUND: Lower respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of death in young children, but few studies have collected the specimens needed to define the role of specific causes. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) platform aims to investigate causes of death in ch...
Jan Steffel, Niraj Varma, Michele Robertson, G. André Ng et al.
BACKGROUND: In EchoCRT, a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with a QRS duration of <130 ms and echocardiographic evidence of left ventricular dyssynchrony, the primary outcome (death from any cause or first hospitalization for wo...
Xin Wang, Harry I. Teplitz, Brent M. Smith, Rogier A. Windhorst et al.
Abstract The UltraViolet Imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) survey is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cycle-26 Treasury Program, allocated in total 164 orbits of primary Wide-Field Camera 3 Ultraviolet and VISible light F275W imaging with ...
Sana Mahtab, Zachary J. Madewell, Shabir A. Madhi, Amy Wise et al.
Abstract Background Invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common cause of early-onset neonatal sepsis and is also associated with stillbirth. This study aimed to determine the proportion of stillborn infants and infants who died between 0 and 90 days attributable to GBS using postmortem minimall...
Lucy Cotter, Martin Healy, Michael Buckley, Colm O’Morain et al.
Book reviewed in this article: THE HUTCHINSON HISTORY OF THE WORLD. By J. M. Roberts. GENERAL: History of mankind: cultural and scientihc development, volume v: the nineteenth century, 1775–1905. Edited by Charles Morazé. GENERAL: jules michelet: nature, history and language. By Linda Orr. GENERAL: ...
Nick Huntington‐Klein, Claus C. Pörtner, Yubraj Acharya, Matúš Adamkovič et al.
Luke McDonagh
Kathy Bowrey's illuminating new book pursues a narrative that draws equally from legal history and literary chronicles of the late nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. In so doing, the book makes a salient point: in the field of copyright law, there is no legal history without cultural ...
Arthur M. Eckstein, Thomas N. Bisson, James A. Brundage, John E. Wills et al.
PETER S. WELLS. The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered. Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 335. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Arthur M. Eckstein DAVID ABULAFIA, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History: V: c. 1198–c. 1300. New York: Cambridge University Pres...
Katherine Prior, Douglas M. Peers, Maren Pearson, Greg Bailey et al.
Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. xvi + 297. £12.95. Dirk H. A. Kolff, Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: the Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1850 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990), p...