Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster, William D. Collins
Abstract A six-member ensemble of twentieth-century simulations with changes to only time-evolving global distributions of black carbon aerosols in a global coupled climate model is analyzed to study the effects of black carbon (BC) aerosols on the Indian monsoon. The BC aerosols act to increase low...
Norihiro Kato, CARDIo GRAMplusCD, LifeLines Cohort Study, Marie Loh et al.
We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South Asian ancestry. We find genetic variants at 12 new loci to be associated with blood pressure (P = 3.9 × 10−11 to 5.0 × 10−21). ...
Gerard Clarke
Abstract Recent donor discourse points to the potential of faith-based organisations (fbos) as ‘agents of transformation’, mobilising the moral energy of faith communities in support of the Millennium Developments Goals (mdgs). This new donor-driven agenda, however, invites scrutiny of complementary...
Charles Dorison, Jennifer S. Lerner, Blake Heller, Alexander J. Rothman et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it mor...
Nicole Legate, Thuy-vy Thi Nguyen, Netta Weinstein, Arlen C. Moller et al.
Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outc...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality from external causes, of all kinds, is an important component of overall mortality on a global basis. However, these deaths, like others in Africa and Asia, are often not counted or documented on an individual basis. Overviews of the state of external cause mortality in Africa ...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. T...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Nurul Alam, Yacouba Compaoré, Clémentine Rossier et al.
BACKGROUND: Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate, population-based information characterising the issues and informing solutions. Population surveillance s...
George T. Wolff, David C. Collins, William R. Rodgers, Monica H. Verma et al.
During the summer of 1988, General Motors Research Laboratories operated a mobile atmospheric research laboratory in Jacksonville, Florida to determine the cause of environmentally- related damage that occurs on automotive finishes In many parts of the U.S. The damage occurs as circular, elliptical,...
Martin Hilmi, Governance Consultant, G Acheampong, M Esposito et al.
The research was conducted to ascertain, assess and diagnose street food vendors' entrepreneurial marketing characteristics and practices in BOP/subsistence marketplaces and what lessons could be leant that may be of use to improve food marketing in BOP/subsistence marketplaces. The research was con...
Tara M. Collins
AbstractWhile the connection between business and human rights is beginning to be elaborated in international affairs, there continues to be a significant lack of understanding and academic analysis about the relationship between business and children. International children's rights are more than a...
Andrew Collins, Marcelino Lucas, M. Sirajul Islam, Lorraine Williams
The origins of cholera incidence in Africa are socio‐economic and environmental. Moreover, the nature of Vibrio cholerae transmission and survival presents a persistent risk of cholera. The Infectious Disease Risk Management Program (IDRM) in Mozambique confronted this in one of the recent most chol...
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
Abstract In this essay the author gives an historical overview of Islam in America from its earliest beginnings in pre‐Columbia America until the present. Details on the origins, growth and spread of the three largest American Muslim groups – African American, Arab and South Asian – are explored as ...
Nicole Fusco, Bradley J. Cosentino, James P. Gibbs, Maximilian L. Allen et al.
Urbanization is a persistent and widespread driver of global environmental change, potentially shaping evolutionary processes due to genetic drift and reduced gene flow in cities induced by habitat fragmentation and small population sizes. We tested this prediction for the eastern grey squirrel (Sci...
Waldemar A. Carlo, Alan Tita, Janet Moore, Musaku Mwenechanya et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2023, the Azithromycin Prevention in Labor Use (A-PLUS) trial showed intrapartum azithromycin reduces maternal sepsis or death in women with planned vaginal delivery in low-resource settings, but whether it reduces maternal infection is unknown. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness ...