Maternal and child malnutrition in low-income and middle-income countries encompasses
both undernutrition and a growing problem with overweight and obesity. Low body-mass …

The bacteria cell envelope is a complex multilayered structure that serves to protect these
organisms from their unpredictable and often hostile environment. The cell envelopes of most …

Early childhood development programmes vary in coordination and quality, with inadequate
and inequitable access, especially for children younger than 3 years. New estimates, based …

Host-mediated lung inflammation is present 1 , and drives mortality 2 , in the critical illness
caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Host genetic variants associated with …

The sequence of TREC conferences has seen the City University Okapi IR system evolve in
several ways. Before TREC-1 it was a very traditional probabilistic system comprising …

Background One third of patients with chronic heart failure have electrocardiographic evidence
of a major intraventricular conduction delay, which may worsen left ventricular systolic …

The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder involves the interplay of common and
rare variants and their impact on hundreds of genes. Using exome sequencing, here we …

Making a city "smart" is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the
urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has sparingly …

Amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) seems to have a central role in the neuropathology of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) 1 . Familial forms of the disease have been linked to mutations in the amyloid …

This article describes the development and initial psychometric evaluation of an instrument
to measure health-promoting life-style. Based on responses from 952 adults in midwestern …