Diane Reay, Jacqueline Davies, Miriam David, Stephen J. Ball
This paper draws on data from an on-going ESRC project on choice of higher education. It focuses primarily on the experiences of non-traditional applicants to higher education. Although these students are not typical of the entire university entry cohort, their narratives raise important issues in r...
Jayaseelan Murugaiyan, P. Anand Kumar, G. Srinivasa Rao, Katia Iskandar et al.
Antibiotic resistance, and, in a broader perspective, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), continues to evolve and spread beyond all boundaries. As a result, infectious diseases have become more challenging or even impossible to treat, leading to an increase in morbidity and mortality. Despite the failur...
GBD 2017 Child and Adolescent Health Collaborators, Robert C. Reiner, Helen Elizabeth Olsen, Chad Ikeda et al.
Importance: Understanding causes and correlates of health loss among children and adolescents can identify areas of success, stagnation, and emerging threats and thereby facilitate effective improvement strategies. Objective: To estimate mortality and morbidity in children and adolescents from 1990 ...
Dieter B. Wildenauer, Sibylle G. Schwab, Margot Albus, Joachim Hallmayer et al.
In response to reported schizophrenia linkage findings on chromosomes 3, 6 and 8, fourteen research groups genotyped 14 microsatellite markers in an unbiased, collaborative (New) sample of 403-567 informative pedigrees per marker, and in the Original sample which produced each finding (the Johns Hop...
Grace Li, Julia Bielicki, ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Shahidul Islam et al.
OBJECTIVE: To gain an understanding of the variation in available resources and clinical practices between neonatal units (NNUs) in the low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) setting to inform the design of an observational study on the burden of unit-level antimicrobial resistance (AMR). DESIG...
Melanie Kandelaars Polygravia, Mark Smith, Mary Paden, Peter Laban et al.
The importance of groundwater in social and economic development is easily overlooked. Its value in the economy and in economic development is frequently underestimated when policy makers in governments, business investors or local farmers and communities assume that the springs, wells and boreholes...
Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Stefan Stieger, Toivo Aavik et al.
The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - w...
Helle Al-Hakem, Alex Y. Doets, Amro Stino, Sasha Živković et al.
<h3>Objective:</h3> To investigate cerebrospinal fluid findings in relation to clinical and electrodiagnostic subtypes, severity, and outcome of Guillain-Barré syndrome based on 1500 patients in the International GBS Outcome Study. <h3>Methods:</h3> Albuminocytological dissociation was defined as an...
Wim H. van Brakel, Alison Anderson, Stephen G Withington, RICHARD P. CROFT et al.
This study was designed to investigate whether leprosy patients diagnosed with mild sensory impairment have a better prognosis when treated with steroids than similarly impaired patients treated with placebo. A multi-centre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in Nepal a...
Jelena Vujcic, Pavani K. Ram, Faruqe Hussain, Leanne Unicomb et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate household faecal contamination using children's toys among 100 rural Bangladeshi households categorised as 'cleaner' (toilet that reliably separates faeces from the environment and no human faeces in/around living space) or 'less clean' (no toilet or toilet that does not relia...
Samantha J. Bann, Ross D. Ballantine, Stephen A. Cochrane
Tridecaptins are a re-emerging class of non-ribosomal antibacterial peptides (NRAPs) with potent activity against highly problematic strains of Gram-negative bacteria. An intricate mode of action has been reported to explain the bactericidal activity of these NRAPs, wherein they bind selectivity to ...
Viren Swami, Stefan Stieger, Martin Voracek, Toivo Aavik et al.
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset-with data collected between 2020 and 2022 -to as...
Peter Radan, Aleksandar Pavković
Contents: Preface Introduction: what is secession?, Aleksandar Pavkovic and Peter Radan Part I Introduction to Secession: Secession and international order, James Mayall The history of secession: an overview, Bridget L. Coggins Explaining secession, David S. Siroky Changing borders by secession: nor...
Alan J. Kuperman
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments The original version of this article was written in 1997. An initially revised version was presented at the 96th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. August 31–September 3, 2000. That v...
Viren Swami, Ulrich S. Tran, Martin Voracek, Toivo Aavik et al.
Abstract Objectives The 12-item Self-Compassion Scale–Short Form (SCS–SF) is a widely used instrument for the assessment of self-compassion. To date, there have been few examinations of this instrument’s psychometric properties, particularly across nations and languages. Therefore, we used data from...