Larry Diamond
The latest volume in this popular series focuses on the best ways to evaluate and improve the quality of new democratic regimes. The essays in part one elaborate and refine several themes of democratic quality: the rule of law, accountability, freedom, equality, and responsiveness. The second part f...
David P. Schmitt, Lidia Alcalay, Melissa Allensworth, Jüri Allïk et al.
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model ...
Y.-G. Liu, Md. Rezwan Miah, R. A. Schmitt
Ashley K. Randall, Gabriel A. León, Emanuele Basili, Tamás Martos et al.
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between ro...
Shawna McCallin, Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Caroline Barretto, Shamima Sultana et al.
Phage therapy has a long tradition in Eastern Europe, where preparations are comprised of complex phage cocktails whose compositions have not been described. We investigated the composition of a phage cocktail from the Russian pharmaceutical company Microgen targeting Escherichia coli/Proteus infect...
Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Juliana D’Andrilli, Jeffrey N. Agar, Mark P. Barrow et al.
Abstract High‐resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) has become a vital tool for dissolved organic matter (DOM) characterization. The upward trend in HRMS analysis of DOM presents challenges in data comparison and interpretation among laboratories operating instruments with differing performance and us...
Rebecca Jordan, Steven Gray, Moira Zellner, Pierre D. Glynn et al.
Abstract Participatory modeling engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representations of reality and has evolved into a field of study as well as a practice. Participatory modeling researchers and practitioners who focus specifically on environme...
Lucy Chai See Lum, Charissa Borja-Tabora, Robert F. Breiman, Timo Vesikari et al.
Children aged 11 to <24 months received 2 intranasal doses of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) or placebo, 35+/-7 days apart. Dose 1 was administered concomitantly with a combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (Priorix). Seroresponses to measles and mumps were similar between groups. C...
Cathrine Axfors, Perrine Janiaud, Andreas M. Schmitt, Janneke van ’t Hooft et al.
Abstract Background Convalescent plasma has been widely used to treat COVID-19 and is under investigation in numerous randomized clinical trials, but results are publicly available only for a small number of trials. The objective of this study was to assess the benefits of convalescent plasma treatm...
Eleanor J. Sterling, Moira Zellner, Karen E. Jenni, Kirsten M. Leong et al.
Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation, due in part to advances in cyberinfrastructure as well as to greater recognition of the importance of engaging a diverse array of stakeholders in decision making. We provide lessons learned, based...
Margaret L. Schmitt, Olivia R. Wood, David Clatworthy, Sabina Faiz Rashid et al.
BACKGROUND: There is growing attention to addressing the menstrual hygiene management (MHM) needs of the over 21 million displaced adolescent girls and women globally. Current approaches to MHM-related humanitarian programming often prioritize the provision of menstrual materials and information. Ho...
Weina Sun, Thomas S. McCrory, Wei Young Khaw, Stephanie R. Petzing et al.
UNLABELLED: Paramyxoviruses and other negative-strand RNA viruses encode matrix proteins that coordinate the virus assembly process. The matrix proteins link the viral glycoproteins and the viral ribonucleoproteins at virus assembly sites and often recruit host machinery that facilitates the budding...
Sucharit Basu Neogi, Boris Koch, Philippe Schmitt‐Kopplin, Christa Pohl et al.
Abstract. Little is known about bacterial dynamics in the oligotrophic ocean, particularly about cultivable bacteria. We examined the abundance of total and cultivable bacteria in relation to changes in biogeochemical conditions in the eastern Atlantic Ocean with special regard to Vibrio spp., a gro...
Ana Carolina Basso Schmitt, Maria Regina Alves Cardoso, Heno Ferreira Lopes, Wendry Maria Paixão Pereira et al.
OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among women aged 35 to 65 years and to identify associated factors. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. We randomly selected 581 women (aged 35-65 y) from among those enrolled in a family health program in...
Nicholas D. Schmitt, Jeffrey N. Agar
Conformational change and modification of proteins are involved in many cellular functions. However, they can also have adverse effects that are implicated in numerous diseases. How structural change promotes disease is generally not well-understood. This perspective illustrates how mass spectrometr...