Christina Fitzmaurice, Degu Abate, Naghmeh Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar et al.
<h3>Importance</h3> Cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now widely recognized as a threat to global development. The latest United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs reaffirmed this observation and also highlighted the slow progress in meeting the 2011 Political Declaration on the P...
Christopher J L Murray, Ryan M Barber, Kyle J Foreman, Ayşe Abbasoğlu Özgören et al.
Background The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex grou...
The microfinance revolution, begun with independent initiatives in Latin America and South Asia starting in the 1970s, has so far allowed 65 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance. This comprehensive survey of microfinance s...
James B. Kaper, J. Glenn Morris, M. M. Levine
Despite more than a century of study, cholera still presents challenges and surprises to us. Throughout most of the 20th century, cholera was caused by Vibrio cholerae of the O1 serogroup and the disease was largely confined to Asia and Africa. However, the last decade of the 20th century has witnes...
M. A. S. R. Saadi, Alianna Maguire, Neethu Pottackal, Md Shajedul Hoque Thakur et al.
Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained significant attention due to its ability to drive technological development as a sustainable, flexible, and customizable manufacturing scheme. Among the various AM techniques, direct ink writing (DIW) has emerged as the most versatile 3D printing technique for ...
Tahmina Begum
Communication between patients and health professionals is seen as the core clinical function in building a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship, which is the heart and art of the medicine. Patients satisfaction is strongly influenced by the quality of the communication that occurs. Effective co...
Wenju Cai, Lixin Wu, Matthieu Lengaigne, Tim Li et al.
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which originates in the Pacific, is the strongest and most well-known mode of tropical climate variability. Its reach is global, and it can force climate variations of the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans by perturbing the global atmospheric circulation. L...
Ming‐Lang Tseng, Md Shamimul Islam, Noorliza Karıa, Firdaus Ahmad Fauzi et al.
This study aims to review the literature in green supply chain management (GSCM) published from 1998 to 2017 and presenting insights and directions for future research. The study collects data from Scopus and ISI Web of Science databases and objectively selects 880 papers and conducts metadata analy...
Stephen P. Luby, Mahbubur Rahman, Benjamin F. Arnold, Leanne Unicomb et al.
BACKGROUND: Diarrhoea and growth faltering in early childhood are associated with subsequent adverse outcomes. We aimed to assess whether water quality, sanitation, and handwashing interventions alone or combined with nutrition interventions reduced diarrhoea or growth faltering. METHODS: The WASH B...
Shaikh Shamim Hasan, Lin Zhen, Md. Giashuddin Miah, Tofayel Ahamed et al.
Changes in land use and ecosystem services influence each other and such changes have consequences for human wellbeing. In this paper, we review the research literature on how different types of ecosystem services are affected by LUC, and the consequences for human well-being. We begin with a review...
Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan, Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Kaniz Fatema, Nur Mohammad Fahad et al.
Large Language Models (LLMs) recently demonstrated extraordinary capability, including natural language processing (NLP), language translation, text generation, question answering, etc. Moreover, LLMs are a new and essential part of computerized language processing, having the ability to understand ...
Victoria Miller, Andrew Mente, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan et al.
BACKGROUND The association between intake of fruits, vegetables, and legumes with cardiovascular disease and deaths has been investigated extensively in Europe, the USA, Japan, and China, but little or no data are available from the Middle East, South America, Africa, or south Asia. METHODS We did a...
Jason B Harris, Regina C LaRocque, Firdausi Qadri, Edward T Ryan et al.
Cholera is an acute, secretory diarrhoea caused by infection with Vibrio cholerae of the O1 or O139 serogroup. It is endemic in more than 50 countries and also causes large epidemics. Since 1817, seven cholera pandemics have spread from Asia to much of the world. The seventh pandemic began in 1961 a...
G. Balakrish Nair, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Sujit Bhattacharya, Basabjit Dutta et al.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is recognized as a cause of food-borne gastroenteritis, particularly in the Far East, where raw seafood consumption is high. An unusual increase in admissions of V. parahaemolyticus cases was observed at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Calcutta, a city in the northeastern...
Justina X. Caushi, Jiajia Zhang, Zhicheng Ji, Ajay Vaghasia et al.
Abstract PD-1 blockade unleashes CD8 T cells 1 , including those specific for mutation-associated neoantigens (MANA), but factors in the tumour microenvironment can inhibit these T cell responses. Single-cell transcriptomics have revealed global T cell dysfunction programs in tumour-infiltrating lym...