Md Iqbal Kabir, Md Bayzidur Rahman, Wayne Smith, Mirza Afreen Fatima Lusha et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change (CC). A basic understanding of public perception on vulnerability, attitude and the risk in relation to CC and health will provide strategic directions for government policy, adaptation strategies and development of com...
Wayne R. Thirsk
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Tax Reform in Developing CountriesAuthors/Editors: Wayne ThirskWayne Thirskhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3999-0SectionsAboutPDF (1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:The eight case-study c...
Wayne Chan, Robert R. McCrae, Filip De Fruyt, Lee Jussim et al.
Age trajectories for personality traits are known to be similar across cultures. To address whether stereotypes of age groups reflect these age-related changes in personality, we asked participants in 26 countries (N = 3,323) to rate typical adolescents, adults, and old persons in their own country....
James F. Phillips, Wayne S. Stinson, Shushum Bhatia, Makhlisur Rahman et al.
This paper evaluates the demographic impact of the Family Planning-Health Services Project in Matlab Thana of rural Bangladesh. The project was begun by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh in October 1977. Contraceptive services--including pills, condoms, IUDs, steri...
Anita Krishnan, Marni Jacobs, Shaine A. Morris, Shabnam Peyvandi et al.
BACKGROUND: Prenatal detection (PND) has benefits for infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and transposition of the great arteries (TGA), but associations between sociodemographic and geographic factors with PND have not been sufficiently explored. This study evaluated whether socioec...
James Reilly
Abstract As China expands its development assistance in Southeast Asia, is Chinese aid beginning to emulate international norms and practices or sustaining its own distinct approach to development assistance? This essay argues that China's socialization into international norms varies with the thick...
Md Iqbal Kabir, Md Bayzidur Rahman, Wayne Smith, Mirza Afreen Fatima Lusha et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is facing the unavoidable challenge of adaptation to climate change. However, very little is known in relation to climate change and health. This article provides information on potential climate change impact on health, magnitude of climate-sensitive diseases, and baseline sc...
Bruce Caldwell, John C. Caldwell, Satindra Nath Mitra, Wayne Smith
Searching for an optimum solution to the Bangladesh arsenic crisis: Thirty years ago Bangladesh experienced very high levels of infant and child mortality, much of it due to water-borne disease in deltaic conditions where surface water was highly polluted. In what appeared to be one of the great pub...
Vincent C. Tam, Masato Suzuki, Margaret Coughlin, David E. Saslowsky et al.
ABSTRACT Vibrio cholerae , a Gram-negative facultative pathogen, is the etiologic agent for the diarrheal disease cholera. We previously characterized a clinical isolate, AM-19226, that translocates a type III secretion system (T3SS) effector protein with actin-nucleating activity, VopF, into the ho...
Robert H. Brown, Wayne Mitzner, Elias A. Zerhouni, Carol A. Hirshman
BACKGROUND: Volatile anesthetics are effective at preventing and reversing bronchospasm, but their effects on baseline airway tone are controversial. While tantalum bronchography has been used in the past to measure one-dimensional airway diameter changes, this method has inherent problems associate...
Daniela Rodríguez, Connie Hoe, Elina Dale, M. Hafizur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: The capacity to demand and use research is critical for governments if they are to develop policies that are informed by evidence. Existing tools designed to assess how government officials use evidence in decision-making have significant limitations for low- and middle-income countries ...
S.M. Lutfor Rahman, Wayne A. Mackay, Eiji Nawata, Tetsuo Sakuratani et al.
Effects of water stress on superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities, changes in protein content, leaf water potential (Ψ l ) and growth were studied in drought-sensitive Kyokko (KK) and Ratan (RT), and drought-tolerant TM 0126 (TM) and VF-134-1-2 (VF) cultivars of tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill....
Abul Hasnat Milton, Wayne Smith, Keith Dear, J. C. Ng et al.
Arsenic groundwater contamination in Bangladesh warrants immediate remediation. This randomised controlled intervention trial was conducted to determine the effectiveness of two possible interventions: dug wells and three-pitcher filters. A total of 640 individuals participated with 218 randomised t...
Himani Boury, Wayne Hall, Benedikt Fischer
Canada legalized non-medical cannabis use and supply for adults in 2018. We examined developments and changes associated with the legalization policy reform on key indicators for public health, namely cannabis (including frequent/problematic) use prevalence, cannabis-related hospitalizations, cannab...
Md Iqbal Kabir, Md Bayzidur Rahman, Wayne Smith, Mirza Afreen Fatima Lusha et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. People are getting educated at different levels on how to deal with potential impacts. One such educational mode was the preparation of a school manual, for high school students on climate change and health protection ...