Hometown organisations and development practices by Lacroix, T

“…The Berber groups have predominantly remained working-class groups while the Punjabis have enjoyed a better economic integration into multicultural Britain. However, despite their common cultural, religious and historical features, Algerian Kabyles turn out to be far less committed to transnational practices than their Moroccan counterpart. …”

Incidence, risk factors, and health service burden of sequelae of Campylobacter and Non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in England, 2000-2015: a retrospective cohort study using li... by Esan, OB, Perera, R, McCarthy, N, Violato, M, Fanshawe, T

“…We investigated the incidence of sequelae, their association with antibiotics and PPI prescription, and assessed the economic impact on the NHS.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong>&nbsp;Data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink for patients consulting their GP for&nbsp;<em>Campylobacter</em>&nbsp;or NTS infection, during 2000-2015, were linked to hospital, mortality, and Index of Multiple Deprivation data. …”

Dissecting the genomic architecture of resistance to eimeria maxima parasitism in the chicken by Boulton, K, Nolan, M, Wu, Z, Riggio, V, Matika, O, Harman, K, Hocking, P, Bumstead, N, Hesketh, P, Archer, A, Bishop, S, Kaiser, P, Tomley, F, Hume, D, Smith, A, Blake, D, Psifidi, A

“…Coccidiosis in poultry, caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Eimeria, is an intestinal disease with substantial economic impact. With the use of anticoccidial drugs under public and political pressure, and the comparatively higher cost of live-attenuated vaccines, an attractive complementary strategy for control is to breed chickens with increased resistance to Eimeria parasitism. …”

National infrastructure assessment : analysis of options for infrastructure provision in Great Britain. Interim results by Tran, M, Hall, J, Hickford, A, Nicholls, R, Alderson, D, Barr, S, Baruah, P, Beavan, R, Birkin, M, Blainey, S, Byers, E, Chaudry, M, Curtis, T, Ebrahimy, R, Eyre, N, Hiteva, R, Jenkins, N, Jones, C, Kilsby, C, Leathard, A, Manning, L, Otto, A, Oughton, E, Powrie, W, Preston, J

“…In total we have examined 17 different options for infrastructure provision, to be implemented over the coming decades, under a wide range of scenarios of future demographic change, economic growth and climate change. This report presents interim results from that new analysis, helping to evaluate and compare alternative strategies for national infrastructure provision. …”

Jesuit higher educational leadership: a case study of universities in Asia by Lee, B

“…The differences included a contrast between the socio-economic challenge, the environmental challenge, and the political challenge.…”

The business of peace and the politics of inclusion: What role for local 'licit' and 'illicit' business actors in peace mediation? by Kaye, JL

“…This discourse overlaps with the discourse on ‘business for peace’ (B4P), which constructs businesses as economic actors and excludes peace mediation from its definition of ‘peace’. …”

Radiometric measurements of atmospheric temperature by Taylor, F

“…The conclusion is that an extended program of observations with very wide coverage and high accuracy is required, and that only satellite-borne instruments can do this economically. The particular difficulties associated with making accurate measurements at high levels are discussed, and the possibility of employing a number of conventional spectroscopic techniques is considered and finally rejected. …”

Investigation of landslide-induced debris flows by the DEM and CFD by Zhao, T

“…<p>In recent years, the increasing impacts of landslide hazards on human lives and lifeline facilities worldwide has advanced the necessity to find out both economically acceptable and useful techniques to predict the occurrence and destructive power of landslides. …”

The 'Walking for Wellbeing in the West' randomised controlled trial of a pedometer-based walking programme in combination with physical activity consultation with 12 month follow-u... by Fitzsimons, C, Baker, G, Wright, A, Nimmo, M, Ward Thompson, C, Lowry, R, Millington, C, Shaw, R, Fenwick, E, Ogilvie, D, Inchley, J, Foster, C, Mutrie, N

“…A supplementary study undertook an economic evaluation.<br/><br/> <b>Discussion:</b> Data analysis is on-going. …”

Establishing a comprehensive list of mental health-related services and resource use items in Austria: a national-level, cross-sectoral country report for the PECUNIA project by Fischer, C, Mayer, S, Perić, N, Simon, J

“…<p><strong>Background:&nbsp;</strong>A comprehensive, comparable assessment of the economic disease burden and the value of relevant care forms a major challenge in the case of mental diseases. …”

Drawing on local knowledge and attitudes for the conservation of critically endangered rhino rays in Goa, India by Gupta, T, Milner-Gulland, EJ, Dias, A, Karnad, D

“…We investigated their habitat use and seasonality, interaction with fisheries, socio-economic uses and relational values. We also explored attitudes of fishers towards rhino rays and their conservation. …”

Dependency, privilege, and counter-insurgency: a case study of the industrial elite of Hebron in the occupied West Bank by Arafeh, N

“…<p>A central but understudied aspect of the period following the Oslo peace process in 1993 is the rise of a native Palestinian business elite, which have been playing an important role in the political, economic, and social spheres in the West Bank. This thesis focuses on an important group within the indigenous elite—the industrial elite in Hebron, a governorate that has been under-researched despite constituting the industrial and commercial hub of the West Bank. …”

Burden of anemia and its underlying causes in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Safiri, S, Kolahi, A-A, Noori, M, Nejadghaderi, SA, Karamzad, N, Bragazzi, NL, Sullman, MJM, Abdollahi, M, Collins, GS, Kaufman, JS, Grieger, JA

“…Also, the burden of anemia was lower in regions with higher socio-economic development. Globally, most of the prevalent cases were attributable to dietary iron deficiency, as well as hemoglobinopathies and hemolytic anemias. …”

One hypervirulent clone, sequence type 283, accounts for a large proportion of invasive Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from humans and diseased tilapia in Southeast Asia by Barkham, T, Zadoks, R, Azmai, M, Baker, S, Bich, V, Chalker, V, Chau, M, Dance, D, Deepak, R, Van Doorn, H, Gutierrez, R, Holmes, M, Huong, L, Koh, T, Martins, E, Mehershahi, K, Newton, P, Ng, L, Phuoc, N, Sangwichian, O, Sawatwong, P, Surin, U, Tan, T, Tang, W, Thuy, N, Turner, P, Vongsouvath, M, Zhang, D, Whistler, T, Chen, S

“…</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong> GBS ST283 is widespread in Southeast Asia, where it accounts for a large proportion of bacteraemic GBS, and causes disease and economic loss in aquaculture. If human ST283 is fishborne, as in the Singapore outbreak, then GBS sepsis in Thailand and Lao PDR is predominantly a foodborne disease. …”

Essays on labour markets in Russia and Eastern Europe by Bouev, M, Bouev, Maxim

“…It is also shown that labour market imperfections can create a situation when reduction in informality may be detrimental to economic welfare.</p><p> Although the foci of the essays differ, the issues raised therein are closely knit so that many threads can be drawn together. …”

Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief - but who is who in the capitalist economy by Greenhalgh, C

“…The first pivotal problem is that economic decision makers place too high a value on the time of the current generation of workers. …”

A techno-socioeconomic investigation of the Husi kiln complex in the middle Yangtze River Valley by Li, Z

“…By synthesizing the findings from these studies, this thesis offers a holistic understanding of Husi, its role in the ceramic industry, and its impact on the socio-economic and cultural landscape of the region during its period of operation.…”

Studying the effectiveness of activated carbon R95 respirators in reducing the inhalation of combustion by-products in Hanoi, Vietnam: a demonstration study. by Wertheim, H, Ngoc, D, Wolbers, M, Binh, T, Hải, N, Loan, N, Tú, P, Sjodin, A, Romanoff, L, Li, Z, Mueller, J, Kennedy, K, Farrar, J, Stepniewska, K, Horby, P, Fox, A, Bao, N

“… BACKGROUND: Urban air pollution is an increasing health problem, particularly in Asia, where the combustion of fossil fuels has increased rapidly as a result of industrialization and socio-economic development. The adverse health impacts of urban air pollution are well established, but less is known about effective intervention strategies. …”

Does the relative importance of the OxCAP-MH's capability items differ according to mental ill-health experience? by Helter, TM, Kaltenboeck, A, Baumgartner, J, Mayrhofer, F, Heinze, G, Sönnichsen, A, Wancata, J, Simon, J

“…The findings support the future development of preference-based value sets elicited from the general population for comparative economic evaluation purposes.</p>…”

Dress pins from Anglo-Saxon England by Ross, S

“…The final chapter draws a number of conclusions from the study including: (1) Anglo-Saxon pins display a great deal of insularity during all periods, but particularly in the 8th and 9th centuries; (2) while regionalism may have been a feature of 6th century pins, it ceases to be important by the 8th century when many finds from middle Saxon trading sites seem consistently to be the same types, suggesting that in addition to trade between England and the Continent and Scandinavia it is time to evaluate the micro-economic and information exchange networks in Anglo- Saxon England; (3) lastly it notes the problem of dissemination of artefactual analyses and the difficulties to be encountered in using typologies and it puts forward a preliminary proposal for the use of expert systems (computer programs that simulate human performance in specialist task areas) as a tool to distribute this information. …”