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Benchmarking the transparency, comprehensiveness and specificity of populatio...
Abstract Background The aim of this study was to assess the commitments of food companies in Malaysia to improving population nutrition using the Business Impact Assessment on... -
Thermo-optic tuning and switching in SOI waveguide Fabry-Perot microcavities
Compact silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide thermo-optically tunable Fabry-Perot microcavities with silicon/air Bragg mirrors are demonstrated. Quality factors of Q=4,584 are... -
Correction to: Isolation and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii in...
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. -
The moderating role of food cue sensitivity in the behavioral response of chi...
Abstract Background Neighborhood food cues have been inconsistently related to residents’ health, possibly due to variations in residents’ sensitivity to such cues. This study... -
The impact of genomic selection on genetic diversity and genetic gain in thre...
Abstract Background In France, implementation of genomic evaluations in dairy cattle breeds started in 2009 and this has modified the breeding schemes drastically. In this... -
Patient-reported quality indicators to evaluate physiotherapy care for hip an...
Abstract Background There is no physiotherapy-specific quality indicator tool available to evaluate physiotherapy care for people with hip and/or knee osteoarthritis (OA). This... -
Acetate metabolic requirement of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli promotes i...
Abstract Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is a facultative intracellular pathogen, and intracellular persistence in macrophages is essential for APEC extraintestinal... -
What helps or hinders the transformation from a major tertiary center to a ma...
Abstract Background Major Trauma Centers (MTCs), as part of a trauma system, improve survival and functional outcomes from injury. Developing such centers from current teaching... -
Geographic health inequalities in Norway: a Gini analysis of cross-county dif...
Abstract Background This study aims at quantifying the level and changes over time of inequality in age-specific mortality and life expectancy between the 19 Norwegian counties... -
Genetic diversity and structure of Chinese grass shrimp, Palaemonetes sinensi...
Abstract Background The Chinese grass shrimp, Palaemonetes sinensis, is an economically important freshwater shrimp in China, and the study of genetic diversity and structure... -
Experts’ recommendations for the management of cardiogenic shock in children
Abstract Cardiogenic shock which corresponds to an acute state of circulatory failure due to impairment of myocardial contractility is a very rare disease in children, even more... -
The role of the built environment in explaining educational inequalities in w...
Abstract Background This study examined whether characteristics of the residential built environment (i.e. population density, level of mixed land use, connectivity,... -
Early gut microbiota signature of aGvHD in children given allogeneic hematopo...
Abstract Background The onset of acute Graft-versus-Host Disease (aGvHD) has been correlated with the gut microbiota (GM) composition, but experimental observations are still... -
Condition-specific promoter activities in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstract Background Saccharomyces cerevisiae is widely studied for production of biofuels and biochemicals. To improve production efficiency under industrially relevant... -
Supporting self-employment and small-scale entrepreneurship: potential progra...
Worldwide, around 55 percent of workers are self-employed, and about three-quarters of these are likely to be subsistence entrepreneurs. These... -
Perspectives of policy-makers and stakeholders about health care waste manage...
Abstract Background In South Africa, a new primary health care (PHC) re-engineering initiative aims to scale up the provision of community-based care (CBC). A central element in... -
Identification of a major Listeria monocytogenes outbreak clone linked to sof...
Abstract Background Molecular subtyping and enhanced surveillance in Lombardy region identified a cluster of possibly related listeriosis cases from 2006 to 2010. This cluster... -
Effects of cyanobacterial toxins on the human gastrointestinal tract and the ...
Abstract Background Cyanobacterial blooms occur with increasing frequency in freshwater ecosystems, posing a hazard to human and environmental health. Exposure of human to... -
Exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) decreases neutrophil migration resp...
Abstract Objective Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant and a known immune suppressant in humans and experimental animal models. Studies on... -
A systematic review of media parenting in the context of childhood obesity re...
Abstract Background We conducted a systematic review to obtain studies on childhood obesity and parenting published between 2009 and 2015, and draw out those studies with a...
