Joshua A Welsh, Deborah C. I. Goberdhan, Lorraine O’Driscoll, Edit I. Buzás et al.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), through their complex cargo, can reflect the state of their cell of origin and change the functions and phenotypes of other cells. These features indicate strong biomarker and therapeutic potential and have generated broad interest, as evidenced by the steady year-on-ye...
Uta Erdbrügger, Charles J. Blijdorp, Irene V. Bijnsdorp, Francesc E. Borràs et al.
Abstract Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast‐growing scientific field. In the last decade urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs) were shown to mirror molecular processes as well as physiological...
Shams El Arifeen, Kenneth Hill, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Kanta Jamil et al.
Background Bangladesh is one of the only nine Countdown countries that are on track to achieve the primary target of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015. It is also the only low-income or middle-income country with two large, nationally-representative, high-quality household surveys focused ...
Kenneth Hill
OBJECTIVE: A reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is one of six health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, there is no consensus about how to measure MMR in the many countries that do not have complete registration of deaths and accurate ascertainment of cause of death. ...
Noreen Kamal, Oscar Benavente, Karl Boyle, Brian Buck et al.
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Saifuddin Ahmed, Kenneth Hill
OBJECTIVE: To provide a model-based method of estimating maternal mortality at the subnational level and illustrate its use in estimating maternal mortality rates (MMrates) and maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) in all 64 districts of Bangladesh. METHODS: Knowing that mortality is more pronounced amon...
Paul Stolee, Carrie McAiney, Loretta M. Hillier, Diane Harris et al.
This article explores facilitators and barriers to the impact and sustainability of a learning initiative to increase capacity of long-term care (LTC) homes to manage the mental health needs of older persons, through development of in-house Psychogeriatric Resource Persons (PRPs). Twenty interviews ...
Harsh V. Pant
Abstract It is almost a conventional wisdom now that the centre of gravity of global politics has shifted from Europe to the Asia–Pacific in recent years with the rise of China and India, gradual assertion by Japan of its military profile, and a significant shift in the US global force posture in fa...
Kenneth Hill
Summary A range of indirect techniques has been developed for mortality estimation in societies lacking adequate vital registration records. Information on orphanhood has been widely used as an estimator of adult mortality, with generally plausible results. Doubts have remained, however, about poten...
Sarah Kreps
Abstract Observers of United States (US) interventions have almost universally characterized the 1994 Haiti intervention as multilateral, a model for how international cooperation can achieve common security goals. A closer analysis of the intervention reveals that the planning and execution of the ...
Shams El Arifeen, Kenneth Hill, Karar Zunaid Ahsan, Kanta Jamil et al.
According to the Countdown to 2015 for maternal, newborn, and child survival, only 9 of the 75 Countdown countries will reach the Millennium Development Goal 5 target to reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) by 75% by 2015. Bangladesh is 1 country on track to reach this goal. This study was unde...
Cynthia J. Burrows, Shu Wang, Hyun Jae Kim, Gerald J. Meyer et al.
The research community faces unprecedented disruption from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Some researchers are beginning to return to lab work after a hiatus, but others continue to work as best as they can from home, including ourselves. The global editorial, support, and production staff of ACS jou...
Kenneth VanBik
Hakha Lai is mainly spoken in Hakha and Thantlang areas, and their vicinities in Chin State, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). It is also spoken in the adjacent areas of India and Bangladesh. Lai speakers are about 100,000 people. Lai is also used extensively as a second language by speakers of oth...
Alison M. El Ayadi, Kenneth Hill, Ana Langer, S.V. Subramanian et al.
OBJECTIVE: To compare sociodemographic and pregnancy characteristics of pregnancy-related deaths identified by the direct sisterhood and the verbal autopsy with household mortality (HHVA) methods. METHODS: Nationally representative data for 1997-2001 were obtained from the household, verbal autopsy,...
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: ...