Gendered determinants of food insecurity in ongoing regional conflicts, North and South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
food insecurity. Results The poorest households were five times more likely to be food insecure (OR = 5.66, 95% CI 3.74–8.55). Women’s participation in decision-making about resource allocation decreased
Prominence of symptoms and level of stigma among depressed patients in Calcutta (Publications)
Calcutta, and met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-IV criteria for a major depressive episode. Only 5 patients (17.2%) identified sadness as the most troubling problem, and 48.3% specified pains and other
The Eukaryotic Promoter Database EPD: the impact of in silico primer extension (Publications)
The underlying experimental evidence comes from journal articles and, starting from release 73, from 5' ESTs of full-length cDNA clones used for so-called in silico primer extension. Access to promoter sequences
Evidence of an 'invitation' effect in feeding sylvatic <em>Stegomyia albopicta</em> from Cambodia (Publications)
the arms and legs. Landings recorded within three minutes of each other on a collector were about 2.5 times more likely to be on the same body part than on a random body part, weighted for landing site
The timing of complementary feeding of infants in Switzerland: Compliance with the Swiss and the WHO guidelines (Publications)
analysis of data collected were conducted.Results: Introduction of solids mainly occurred between the 5th and 6th months. Five per cent of the mothers introduced complementary food before the age of 4 mo
Renaissance remedies: antiplasmodial protostane triterpenoids from <em>Alisma plantago-aquatica</em> L. (Alismataceae) (Publications)
te, alisol B 23-monoacetate, and alisol G. Their IC(50)s against Plasmodium falciparum ranged from 5.4 to 13.8muM. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report of antiplasmodial activity from protostanes tri
Gammaglobulin and selenium status in healthy neonatal dairy calves in Switzerland (Publications)
calves with suboptimal colostrum administration (p < 0.004). The median Se concentration was 26.8 and 36.5 µg/L for the calves and dams, respectively. A high correlation was observed between the Se concentration
Myeloperoxidase, but not oxidized LDL, is associated with leisure-time physical activity: results from the MONICA/KORA Augsburg Studies 1984-1995 (Publications)
high leisure-time PA (124.2 mug/ml; 95%-CI, 116.8-132.0) compared to the inactive reference group (133.5 mug/ml; 95%-CI, 127.6-139.6) (P(trend) across PA levels: 0.007). No significant association between
Influence of <em>M. tuberculosis</em> lineage variability within a clinical trial for pulmonary tuberculosis (Publications)
belonged to the Euro-American lineage, with sublineage 724 predominating at African sites (99/192, 51.5%), and the Euro-American strains other than 724 predominating at non-African sites (89/114, 78.1%).
Putative compensatory mutations in the <em>rpoC</em> gene of rifampicin-resistant <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> are associated with ongoing... (Publications)
tuberculosis. Sequencing of a portion of the RpoA-RpoC interaction region of the rpoC gene revealed that 23.5% of all rifampicin-resistant isolates tested carried a non-synonymous mutation in this region. These