Paul Kingston, Gilles Kepel, Olivier Roy, Natana J. DeLong‐Bas
THE WAR FOR MUSLIM MINDS Islam and the West Gilles Kepel Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 336pp, US$23.95 cloth (ISBN 0-674-01575-4)GLOBALIZED ISLAM The Search for New Ummah Olivier Roy New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xii, 351pp, US$29.50 cloth (ISBN 0-231-13498-3)WAHHABI IS...
Stije J. Leopold, Siribha Apinan, Aniruddha Ghose, Hugh W. F. Kingston et al.
Amino acid derangements are common in severe falciparum malaria and have been associated with endothelial dysfunction (L-arginine), metabolic acidosis (alanine and lactate), and disease severity (phenylalanine and tryptophan metabolites). Whether these amino acid perturbations reflect isolated patho...
Stije J. Leopold, Aniruddha Ghose, Katherine Plewes, Subash Mazumder et al.
INTRODUCTION: Patients with severe malaria or sepsis are at risk of developing life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The objective of this study was to evaluate point-of-care lung ultrasound as a novel tool to determine the prevalence and early signs of ARDS in a resource-limi...
Hugh W. F. Kingston, Mosharraf Hossain, Stije J. Leopold, Tippawan Anantatat et al.
We conducted a yearlong prospective study of febrile patients admitted to a tertiary referral hospital in Chittagong, Bangladesh, to assess the proportion of patients with rickettsial illnesses and identify the causative pathogens, strain genotypes, and associated seasonality patterns. We diagnosed ...
Bettina von Lieres, Laurence Piper
Introduction: The Crucial Role of Mediators in Relations between States and Citizens Laurence Piper and Bettina von Lieres PART I: MEDIATING THE CITY 1. Mediation and the Contradictions of Representing the Urban Poor in South Africa: The Case of Sanco Leaders in Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town, South Afr...
Hugh Kingston, Aniruddha Ghose, Katherine Plewes, Haruhiko Ishioka et al.
Patients presenting with severe falciparum malaria in a Bangladeshi tertiary hospital had higher total parasite burden, estimated by parasitemia and plasma PfHRP2, than uncomplicated malaria patients despite shorter fever duration. This suggests that higher parasite multiplication rates (PMR) contri...
Sheilagh Sanders, Shaun Purcell, M. SILVA, Stephanie Palerme et al.
Menorrhagia is the most common bleeding manifestation in women with inherited bleeding disorders. There is little known about whether the management of menorrhagia is altered in specific bleeding disorders. Optimizing treatment strategies for each specific diagnosis may improve quality of life in th...
Sharon Huws, Joan E. Edwards, Wanchang Lin, Francesco Rubino et al.
Sharon Huws, Joan E. Edwards, Wanchang Lin, Francesco Rubino et al.
Abstract Background Gut microbiomes, such as the rumen, greatly influence host nutrition due to their feed energy-harvesting capacity. We investigated temporal ecological interactions facilitating energy-harvesting at the fresh perennial ryegrass (PRG)-biofilm interface in the rumen using an in sacc...
Sujay Paul, Partha Sarathi Banerjee, M Alam, Mgm Khan et al.
An.vagus is medically important vector and is associated with the transmission of malaria in some places of north east India and Bangladesh. Studies on the cytogenetics of An.vagus mosquitoes have been extended through the observation of banding and puffing pattern of polytene chromosome. Cytologica...
Md Ashraf Ul Hasan, Tania Akhter, Paul J. J. Bates, Tigga Kingston
Abstract Forty-two species of tube-nosed bat, genus Murina , are distributed across Asia but none has hitherto been reported from Bangladesh. Here we document the first record of Murina from Bangladesh, based on an adult male specimen captured in Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, in July 2023, using ...
Paul Akpomuje, Adesoji Babalola, Milka Njoroge, Katherine McKittrick
This conversation began in Winter 2023, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. At the time we were collectively studying Black geographies. As faculty and students who are part of the Black diaspora yet have very different experiences of displacement, our discussions revolved around the...
Julian Schofield, Benjamin Zyla
AbstractInitially, recognition of the vital role played by regional diplomacy did not accompany NATO’s substantial commitment to economic and political development in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. Pakistan in particular had a major influence on the conduct of reconstruction efforts and NATO’s effor...
Shirin M. Rai, Sudarshan Sathianathan, Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy, Stanley A. Kochanek et al.
The Fearful State: Power, People and Internal War in South Asia by S. Mahmud Ali (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993, pp.266, £32.95 hb, £13.95 pb). India: Facing the Twenty‐First Century by Barbara Crossette (Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 154, £20). Islam and In...
Olufẹmi Vaughan, Paul Nugent, Richard Crook, Katabaro Miti et al.
The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria edited by Adebayo O. Olukoshi (London: James Currey, 1993, pp.192, £35 hb, £9.95 pb). The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982–1991 by Jeffrey Herbst (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1993, pp.xii + 180, £40). African Eldora...