Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüç‐Kunt, Jonathan Morduch
In April 2007, Banco Compartamos of Mexico held a public offering of its stock in which insiders sold 30 percent of their holdings. The sale was over-subscribed by 13 times, and Compartamos was soon worth $1.6 billion (for details of the story, see Rosenberg, 2007; Malkin, 2008; Accion International...
V. Spike Peterson
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments I am grateful to Georgina Waylen for her generosity in sharing prepublication work with me; and to Drucilla Barker, Jen Cohen, Deb Figart, Ellen Mutari, Julie Nelson, Paulette Olsen and Ara Wilson for conference discussions reg...
Hemang Parikh, Zhaoming Wang, Kerry A. Pettigrew, Jinping Jia et al.
Measurements of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) protein levels form the basis for a widely used test to screen men for prostate cancer. Germline variants in the gene that encodes the PSA protein (KLK3) have been shown to be associated with both serum PSA levels and prostate cancer. Based on a ...
Monica Lakhanpaul, Deborah Bird, Lorraine Culley, Nicky Hudson et al.
Background Asthma is one of the most common chronic childhood illnesses in the UK. South Asian children are more likely to suffer from their asthma and be admitted to hospital. While this inequality needs to be addressed, standard behaviour-change interventions are known to be less successful in min...
Nicky Hudson, Lorraine Culley, Mark Johnson, Melanie McFeeters et al.
BACKGROUND: In the UK, people of South Asian origin with asthma experience excess morbidity, with hospitalisation rates three times those of the majority White population and evidence suggests that South Asian children with asthma are more likely to suffer uncontrolled symptoms and hospital admissio...
Ronald C. R. Robertson, Ian Parsons
Synopsis The Ben Loyal syenite has steep outward dipping contacts on its N. and W. sides and a gentle outward dip towards the SE., with extensive thermal alteration and veining of overlying country rock. Magnetic anomalies suggest that the Cnoc nan Cullean intrusion is not connected to the Ben Loyal...
Shankar P. Mondal, David Tardif-Douglin, Robert Ryan-Silva, Rich Magnani
To the Editor: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus is a deadly zoonotic pathogen. Since 2003, HPAI infections have been reported in millions of poultry and wild birds from 63 countries (1) and in 598 humans, among whom there have been 352 reported deaths in 15 countries (2). HPAI ...
Peter Yeates, Adriano Maluf, Ruth Kinston, Natalie Cope et al.
INTRODUCTION: Whilst rarely researched, the authenticity with which Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) simulate practice is arguably critical to making valid judgements about candidates' preparedness to progress in their training. We studied how and why an OSCE gave rise to different experi...
Sarah B Welch, Dinushi Amanda Kulasekere, P. V. Vara Prasad, Charles B. Moss et al.
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 transmission rates in South Asia initially were under control when governments implemented health policies aimed at controlling the pandemic such as quarantines, travel bans, and border, business, and school closures. Governments have since relaxed public health restrictions, wh...
Andrew Johnston, Jeroen Veldman, Robert G. Eccles, Simon Deakin et al.
The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock buybacks, ...
Peter Yeates, Adriano Maluf, Gareth McCray, Ruth Kinston et al.
INTRODUCTION: Ensuring equivalence in high-stakes performance exams is important for patient safety and candidate fairness. We compared inter-school examiner differences within a shared OSCE and resulting impact on students' pass/fail categorisation. METHODS: The same 6 station formative OSCE ran as...
Kazi Mehetazul Islam, Md. Siddiqul Islam, Gitaindro Nath Adhikary, Khandoker Mohammad Mozaffor Hossain et al.
T he livestock population in Bangladesh is currently es- timated to comprise 26.828 million cattle, 0.78 million buffalo, 30.242 million goat and 1.221 million sheep (BBS, 2010) which plays an important role in the rural economy (Kamaruddin, 2003).Livestock sub-sector contributed approximately 6.5% ...
James K. Boyce, Keith Griffin
Contents: Introduction James K. Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Robert Pollin A Witness of Two Revolutions Keith B. Griffin PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE DEVELOPMENT 1. The Fall in Chinese Poverty: Issues of Measurement, Incidence and Cause Carl Riskin 2. The Rural-Urban Divid...
Oorbessy Gaju, Keith J. Bloomfield, Anna Clarissa A. Negrini, Andrew F. Bowerman et al.
An approach to improving radiation use efficiency (RUE) in wheat is to screen for variability in rates of leaf respiration in darkness (Rdark). We used a high-throughput system to quantify variation in Rdark among a diverse range of spring wheat genotypes (301 lines) grown in two countries (Mexico a...
Andrew Bowie, D. Owens, P. Collins, Alan Johnson et al.