“I did as others did and as others had me do”: Postcolonial (Mis)Representations and Perpetrator Trauma in Season 1 of Taboo (2017-) by Dina Pedro

“…This article analyses Taboo as a neo-Victorian postcolonial text that explores the trauma of its protagonist James Delaney, an imperial perpetrator who transported and sold African slaves in the Middle Passage for the East India Company. …”
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The World Health Organization's Disease Outbreak News: A retrospective database. by Colin J Carlson, Matthew R Boyce, Margaret Dunne, Ellie Graeden, Jessica Lin, Yasser Omar Abdellatif, Max A Palys, Munir Pavez, Alexandra L Phelan, Rebecca Katz

“…The World Health Organization (WHO) notifies the global community about disease outbreaks through the Disease Outbreak News (DON). …”
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The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News: A retrospective database by Colin J. Carlson, Matthew R. Boyce, Margaret Dunne, Ellie Graeden, Jessica Lin, Yasser Omar Abdellatif, Max A. Palys, Munir Pavez, Alexandra L. Phelan, Rebecca Katz

“…The World Health Organization (WHO) notifies the global community about disease outbreaks through the Disease Outbreak News (DON). …”
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Post-marketing withdrawal of 462 medicinal products because of adverse drug reactions: a systematic review of the world literature by Onakpoya, IJ, Heneghan, CJ, Aronson, JK

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong> We searched PubMed, Google Scholar, the WHO’s database of drugs, the websites of drug regulatory authorities, and textbooks. …”

Indigenous Agency, Historians’ Agendas, and Imagination in History Writing by Justyna Olko

“…ISBN: 9780813062211.   The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar: And Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico. …”
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Expenditures on sugar-sweetened beverages in Jamaica and its association with household budget allocation by Guillermo Paraje, Fabio S. Gomes

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Whole-genome sequencing for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador: present and future implications by William Calero-Cáceres, Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez, Temmy Sunyoto, Cícero-Armídio Gomes-Dias, Carlos Bastidas-Caldes, Ma. Soledad Ramírez, Anthony D. Harries

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Informal employment, precariousness, and decent work: from research to preventive action by Fernando G Benavides, Michael Silva-Peñaherrera, Alejandra Vives

“…And while in the USA and the EU, informal employment is around 18% and 15% of the occupied labor force, respectively, figures are 53% for Latin America, and 88% and 77% in Africa and Asia (excluding China), respectively. …”
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Self-concept 6 months after traumatic brain injury and its relationship with emotional functioning by Guido Mascialino, Viviana Cañadas, Jorge Valdiviezo-Oña, Alberto Rodríguez-Lorenzana, Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla, Clara Paz

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COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose Acceptance: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Shaimaa Abdelaziz Abdelmoneim, Malik Sallam, Dina Mohamed Hafez, Ehab Elrewany, Hesham Metwalli Mousli, Elsayed Mohamed Hammad, Sally Waheed Elkhadry, Mohammed Fathelrahman Adam, Amr Abdelraouf Ghobashy, Manal Naguib, Ahmed El-Sayed Nour El-Deen, Narjiss Aji, Ramy Mohamed Ghazy

“…The pooled booster dose acceptance in the WHO region of the Americas, which did not include any actual vaccination, was 77% (95% CI: 66–85%, <i>I</i>² = 100%). …”
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17 years of service-dominant logic: Vargo and Lusch’s contributions by Alexander Joseph Ibnu Wibowo, Ujang Sumarwan, Budi Suharjo, Megawati Simanjuntak

“…There are 95 names of authors who have collaborated with V&L, mostly from the Americas and Europe. …”
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Aquinas in the Conceptual Border by Earl Allyson Valdez

“…This is even more evident in those who reflect on the socalled “death of metaphysics” and the “end of philosophy” that Martin Heidegger proclaims. …”
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Screening for pathogenic variants in obese cohort using whole-exome sequencing by WANG Jinghui, ZHANG Hong, ZHANG Rong, PENG Danfeng, YU Hairong, CHEN Xianghui, XUAN Ye, HU Cheng, GU Yunjuan

“…Objective·To screen mutations of key genes in the leptin-melanocyte stimulating hormone (LEP-MSH) pathway by whole-exome sequencing (WES) in the obese cohort.Methods·A total of 119 obese patients aged 17－65 years old with body mass index (BMI)≥34 kg/m2, who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy from January 2011 to July 2019 at Shanghai Sixth People′s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine were collected. …”
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Predictors of changing patterns of adherence to containment measures during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic: an international longitudinal study by Yuen Yu Chong, Wai Tong Chien, Ho Yu Cheng, Demetris Lamnisos, Jeļena Ļubenko, Giovambattista Presti, Valeria Squatrito, Marios Constantinou, Christiana Nicolaou, Savvas Papacostas, Gökçen Aydin, Francisco J. Ruiz, Maria B. Garcia-Martin, Diana P. Obando-Posada, Miguel A. Segura-Vargas, Vasilis S. Vasiliou, Louise McHugh, Stefan Höfer, Adriana Baban, David Dias Neto, Ana Nunes da Silva, Jean-Louis Monestès, Javier Alvarez-Galvez, Marisa Paez Blarrina, Francisco Montesinos, Sonsoles Valdivia Salas, Dorottya Őri, Bartosz Kleszcz, Raimo Lappalainen, Iva Ivanović, David Gosar, Frederick Dionne, Rhonda M. Merwin, Andrew T. Gloster, Angelos P. Kassianos, Maria Karekla

“…Baseline covariates included age, sex, history of COVID-19 infection and geographical regions. Participants who reported adhering to specific containment measures, including physical distancing, avoidance of non-essential travel and hand hygiene, were classified as adherence. …”
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Book Abstract: How to Write an Emergency Plan by David Alexander; Reproduced by Permission by David Alexander

“…Then, as now, many books in this subject are tied to individual systems of public administration, particularly the federal system of the United States of America, which somewhat limits their usefulness in other contexts. …”
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In This Issue: Working on Wicked Problems in Food Systems by Duncan Hilchey

“…The cover image for this issue was supplied by author Jennifer Blecha, who in her paper Regulating Backyard Slaughter: Strategies and Gaps in Municipal Livestock Ordinances identifies five approaches to governing the increasingly contested issue of backyard slaughter. …”
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Quantifying how single dose Ad26.COV2.S vaccine efficacy depends on Spike sequence features by Craig A. Magaret, Li Li, Allan C. deCamp, Morgane Rolland, Michal Juraska, Brian D. Williamson, James Ludwig, Cindy Molitor, David Benkeser, Alex Luedtke, Brian Simpkins, Fei Heng, Yanqing Sun, Lindsay N. Carpp, Hongjun Bai, Bethany L. Dearlove, Elena E. Giorgi, Mandy Jongeneelen, Boerries Brandenburg, Matthew McCallum, John E. Bowen, David Veesler, Jerald Sadoff, Glenda E. Gray, Sanne Roels, An Vandebosch, Daniel J. Stieh, Mathieu Le Gars, Johan Vingerhoets, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Paul A. Goepfert, Leonardo Paiva de Sousa, Mayara Secco Torres Silva, Martin Casapia, Marcelo H. Losso, Susan J. Little, Aditya Gaur, Linda-Gail Bekker, Nigel Garrett, Carla Truyers, Ilse Van Dromme, Edith Swann, Mary A. Marovich, Dean Follmann, Kathleen M. Neuzil, Lawrence Corey, Alexander L. Greninger, Pavitra Roychoudhury, Ollivier Hyrien, Peter B. Gilbert

“…SARS-CoV-2 Spike sequences were determined from 484 vaccine and 1,067 placebo recipients who acquired COVID-19. In this set of prespecified analyses, we show that in Latin America, VE was significantly lower against Lambda vs. …”
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Planning with self‑organised initiatives by Igor Tempels Moreno Pessôa

“…The largest country in South America has jumped from an urban population of 44.67% in 1960 to 84.36% in 2010, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, 2018). …”
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Little Black Fish and Readers: From Passive Reading to Active Dialogue by Fatemeh Taghinejad Rudbaneh, Firooz Fazeli, Mahmoud Ranjbar

“…First, the approach of "reader reaction" in America and the other, the approach of "reception or the Constance school" in Germany (Taslimi, 1388: 108). …”
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Use of Petiveria alliacea Linn as palliative treatment of pulpal pain by Laura Yanet Pita-Labori, Dania Mavis Matos-Cantillo, Carina María Quintero-Lores, Yunia Castillo-Pérez, Ana María Nicó-Navarro

“…Introduction: among the Cuban flora plants with medicinal properties is Petiveria alliacea Linn (anamú), a natural plant from tropical Americas that contains numerous active ingredients and to which multiple properties are attributed. …”
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