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...
Marc Monot, Nadine Honoré, Thierry Garnier, Nora Zidane et al.
Reductive evolution and massive pseudogene formation have shaped the 3.31-Mb genome of Mycobacterium leprae, an unculturable obligate pathogen that causes leprosy in humans. The complete genome sequence of M. leprae strain Br4923 from Brazil was obtained by conventional methods (6x coverage), and Il...
Benjamin F. Arnold, Clair Null, Stephen P. Luby, Leanne Unicomb et al.
INTRODUCTION: Enteric infections are common during the first years of life in low-income countries and contribute to growth faltering with long-term impairment of health and development. Water quality, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions can independently reduce enteric infections ...
Sheela Sinharoy, Thomas Clasen, Reynaldo Martorell
Child linear growth impairment, particularly stunting, remains a global health challenge. Stunting is defined as a height-for-age Z-score more than two SDs below the WHO child growth standards reference median for age and sex. The number of children younger than 5 years who are stunted was 59 millio...
Jeffrey K Aronson, Eric Barends, Robert F. Boruch, Marnie Brennan et al.
Kar Hau Chong, Thomas Suesse, Penny Cross, Sarah T. Ryan et al.
Importance: The prevalence estimates of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep (collectively known as movement behaviors) in 3- and 4-year-old children worldwide remains uncertain. Objective: To report the proportion of 3- and 4-year-old children who met the World Health Organization guide...
Eddy Fan, William Checkley, Thomas E. Stewart, John Muscedere et al.
BACKGROUND: There are limited data on the safety and efficacy of recruitment maneuvers (RMs) in acute lung injury (ALI) patients. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the frequency, timing, and risk factors for complications from RMs in adult ALI patients. METHODS: Secondary analysis of data from a randomized con...
Galen Aymar, Tobias Becker, Stewart Boogert, M. Borghesi et al.
Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications alternating-gradient accelerator (FFA). This will allow experiments to be carried out in vitro and in vivo with proton beam energies of up to 127 MeV. In addition, ion beams with energies up to 33.4 MeV per nucleon will be available for in vi...
Chitta Saha, M. Nazmul Huda, Asim Mumtaz, Anjan Debnath et al.
Significant technical progress is currently ongoing in the field of energy harvesting technologies. This paper presents a study of both photovoltaic (PV) and thermo-electric energy harvesting techniques in the context of mobile phone applications. The paper includes performance analysis of a macro s...
Dan Schwarz, David Duong, Chase Adam, John Koku Awoonor‐Williams et al.
Background: Forty years after Alma Ata, there is renewed commitment to strengthen primary health care as a foundation for achieving universal health coverage, but there is limited consensus on how to build strong primary health care systems to achieve these goals. Methods: We convened a diverse grou...
P.J.H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, J. Bouma, Roy Brouwer
List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. The economics of ecosystem services and poverty Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, Jetske Bouma and Roy Brouwer Part I. Biodiversity-related Ecosystem Services Jetske Bouma: 2. Park-people conflicts, rhino conservation and poverty alleviation in...
James W. Frey
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. This article presents research conducted in 1995–1997, funded in part by the History Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The original version of this article first was presented at the Conference on Indian Military Histo...
Sarah Kreps
Abstract Observers of United States (US) interventions have almost universally characterized the 1994 Haiti intervention as multilateral, a model for how international cooperation can achieve common security goals. A closer analysis of the intervention reveals that the planning and execution of the ...
Jai Sidpra, Sniya Sudhakar, Asthik Biswas, Flavia Massey et al.
Inherited glycosylphosphatidylinositol deficiency disorders (IGDs) are a group of rare multisystem disorders arising from pathogenic variants in glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor pathway (GPI-AP) genes. Despite associating 24 of at least 31 GPI-AP genes with human neurogenetic disease, prior repor...
Gerald E. Marti, Guy B. Faguet, Carleton C. Stewart, P. Branham et al.
Natalie Pawlak, Christine Dart, Hernan Sacoto Aguilar, Emmanuel A. Ameh et al.
Academic global surgery is a rapidly growing field that aims to improve access to safe surgical care worldwide. However, no universally accepted competencies exist to inform this developing field. A consensus-based approach, with input from a diverse group of experts, is needed to identify essential...
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity....
Alex Caveen, Bryce D. Stewart, Cameron Moffat, Daniel J. Skerritt et al.
‘Blue foods’ are derived from aquatic species that are caught or cultivated and are amongst the most globally traded commodities. Growing emphasis is being placed on blue foods in future transitions to sustainable food systems. However, recent international events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, UK-E...
Peter Davis
In 2007 I led a team of researchers in conducting 293 life history interviews in eight districts of rural Bangladesh. While life history research is relatively new to Bangladesh, it is well established for poverty research in other countries (reviewed in Camfield and Roelen 2013). It also draws on a...
David G. Haglund, Joshua D. Kertzer
Abstract There has been much controversy over the role that ethnic diasporas (sometimes called “lobbies”) do or should play in shaping American foreign policy. This article looks at one particular ethnic group, American Jews, with a view to assessing the claim made by some authors, to the effect tha...