Christopher Troeger, Ibrahim A. Khalil, Puja C Rao, Shujin Cao et al.
Importance: Rotavirus infection is the global leading cause of diarrhea-associated morbidity and mortality among children younger than 5 years. Objectives: To examine the extent of rotavirus infection among children younger than 5 years by country and the number of deaths averted because of the rota...
Warish Ahmed, Stuart L. Simpson, Paul M. Bertsch, Kyle Bibby et al.
Wastewater surveillance for pathogens using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is an effective and resource-efficient tool for gathering community-level public health information, including the incidence of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Surveillance of Severe Acute Respira...
Mark Scott, Iain White, Christian Kuhlicke, Annett Steinführer et al.
The flooding of parts of New York in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 provided dramatic images of a global city and world financial centre struggling to cope with a natural disaster.At times, many neighbourhoods, particularly in Manhattan, seemed to struggle to function.This moved be...
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...
Eric Thompson
Abstract Transnational mobility affects both high‐status and low‐income workers, disrupting traditional assumptions of the boundedness of communities. There is a need to reconfigure our most basic theoretical and analytical constructs. In this article I engage in this task by illustrating a complex ...
Nigar Nargis, Mary E. Thompson, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen et al.
BACKGROUND: Smoking and passive smoking are collectively the biggest preventable cause of death in Bangladesh, with major public health burden of morbidity, disability, mortality and community costs. The available studies of tobacco use in Bangladesh, however, do not necessarily employ nationally re...
Mark R. Thompson
t is striking how often, over the last decade-and-a-half, women have led successful popular uprisings against dictatorships in Asia. Corazon C. Aquino in the Philippines (1986), Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan (1988), Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed in Bangladesh (1990) and Megawati Sukarnoputri in I...
Shannon Gravely, Pete Driezen, Janine Ouimet, Anne C K Quah et al.
AIMS: This paper presents updated prevalence estimates of awareness, ever-use, and current use of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) from 14 International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project) countries that have varying regulations governing NVP sales and marketing. DESIGN, SETTING, ...
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...
von Grebmer, Klaus; Ringler, Claudia; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; Wiesmann, Doris; Fritschel, Heidi; Badiane, Ousmane; Torero, Maximo; Yohannes, Yisehac; Thompson, Jennifer; von Oppeln, Constanze; Rahall, Joseph, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-3400 Badiane, Ousmane; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3591-000X Fritschel, Heidi; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6371-6127 Rosegrant, Mark; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4863-3371 Torero, Maximo; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6908-5773 von Grebmer, K.; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1269-4041 Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7932-1816 Yohannes, Yisehac
World hunger, according to the 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI), has declined somewhat since 1990 but remains “serious.” The global average masks dramatic differences among regions and countries. Regionally, the highest GHI scores are in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. South Asia reduced its GHI sc...
Nigar S. Shahid, Mark C. Steinhoff, Eliza Roy, Tahmina Begum et al.
We evaluated the strategy of maternal immunization with Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) vaccine in Asian mothers, to assess potential protection of infants, including by breast milk. One hundred and fifty-seven women in the third trimester were randomized to receive a single dose of the polysaccharide N...
Nikki J. Marks, C. Shaw, Aaron G. Maule, John P. Davis et al.
Numerous FMRFamide-related peptides (FaRPs) have been isolated and sequenced from extracts of free-living and parasitic nematodes. The most abundant FaRP identified in ethanolic/methanolic extracts of the parasitic forms, Ascaris suum and Haemonchus contortus and from the free-living nematode, Panag...
Marcia Friesen
Abstract Canada increasingly relies on immigrant engineers to address engineering labour market shortages. However, immigrants identify formal recognition of foreign credentials, barriers to professional licensing and obtaining professional work experience as key challenges to their successful integ...
Md Anwar Hossain, Benjamin S. Thompson, Gawsia Wahidunnessa Chowdhury, Samiul Mohsanin et al.
Abstract Sawfish are among the world's most threatened and understudied marine fishes. There are few studies on sawfish from outside Australian and USA waters ‐ a significant knowledge gap considering their circumtropical distribution and migratory nature. This paper presents the first assessment of...
Mercedes Bustamante, Joyashree Roy, Daniel Ospina, Ploy Achakulwisut et al.
Abstract Non-technical summary We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability and implications of overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for a rapid and managed fossil ...