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Burden of severe maternal morbidity and association with adverse birth outcomes in sub–Saharan Africa and south Asia: protocol for a prospective cohort study.
(Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2016)OBJECTIVES: The AMANHI morbidity study aims to quantify and describe severe maternal morbidities and assess their associations with adverse maternal, fetal and newborn outcomes in predominantly rural areas of nine sites ... -
Burden of smoking on cause-specific mortality: application to the Nurses’ Health Study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2010)Objective The burden of smoking on six causes of death in women was evaluated using various novel modelling approaches.Design A prospective US-based nationwide cohort study.Participants 102 635 women in the Nurses' Health ... -
Burdens of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Economic Perspective
(University of Chicago Press, 1997)Burden of proof rules, which require a specified party to produce evidence on a contested issue, are central to the adversary system. In this article, we model burden of proof rules as a device for minimizing the costs of ... -
Bureaucracy and Dissent: East German Subjectivity and Socialist Realism in the Context of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
(2016-09-15)This dissertation analyzes the central role of interior monologue and subjectivity in the GDR’s discourse of Socialist Realism. It argues that these stylistic elements, often associated with modernism, were central to the ... -
The Bureaucracy of Honor. The Habsburg Consular Service and the History of Emotions
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)I use the personnel files of three consuls in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service to consider the ways Habsburg bureaucracy recorded the emotional lives of civil servants. Consuls were expected to interact with Habsburg ... -
Bureaucrats or Politicians? Part I: A Single Policy Task
(American Economic Association, 2007-03-01)This paper investigates the normative criteria that guide the allocation of a policy task to an elected politician versus an independent bureaucrat. The bureaucrat is preferable for technical tasks for which ability is ... -
Buried Barrett's Epithelium Following Photodynamic Therapy Shows Reduced Crypt Proliferation and Absence of DNA Content Abnormalities
(Springer Nature, 2008)OBJECTIVES: Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is increasingly used for the treatment of patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE) with dysplasia or early carcinoma. Post-PDT, some patients show residual BE either exposed to the ... -
Buried by bad decisions
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Buried Nanoantenna Arrays: Versatile Antireflection Coating
(American Chemical Society, 2013)Reflection is usually a detrimental phenomenon in many applications such as flat-panel-displays, solar cells, photodetectors, infrared sensors, and lenses. Thus far, to control and suppress the reflection from a substrate, ... -
Burkean Minimalism
(Michigan Law Review, 2006)Burkean minimalism has long played an important role in constitutional law. Like other judicial minimalists, Burkeans believe in rulings that are at once narrow and theoretically unambitious; what Burkeans add is an ... -
Burkholderia spp. Alter Pseudomonas aeruginosa Physiology through Iron Sequestration
(American Society for Microbiology, 2004)Pseudomonas aeruginosa and members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex often coexist in both the soil and the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. To gain an understanding of how these different species affect each other's ... -
Burkholderia Xenovorans LB400 Harbors a Multi-Replicon, 9.73-Mbp Genome Shaped for Versatility
(National Academy of Sciences, 2006)<i>Burkholderia xenovorans</i> LB400 (LB400), a well studied, effective polychlorinated biphenyl-degrader, has one of the two largest known bacterial genomes and is the first nonpathogenic <i>Burkholderia</i> isolate ... -
Burn injury differentially alters whole-blood and organ glutathione synthesis rates: An experimental model
(BioMed Central, 2013)Previous studies from our laboratories revealed a reduced rate of whole-blood (WB) glutathione (GSH) synthesis in severely burned patients. To determine whether WB GSH metabolism is an indicator of the status of GSH ... -
Burn Injury Reduces Neutrophil Directional Migration Speed in Microfluidic Devices
(Public Library of Science, 2010)Thermal injury triggers a fulminant inflammatory cascade that heralds shock, end-organ failure, and ultimately sepsis and death. Emerging evidence points to a critical role for the innate immune system, and several studies ... -
Burning Cold: Involvement of TRPA1 in Noxious Cold Sensation
(The Rockefeller University Press, 2009)Soon after its discovery ten years ago, the ion channel TRPA1 was proposed as a sensor of noxious cold. Evidence for its activation by painfully cold temperatures (below ~15° C) has been mixed, however. Some groups found ... -
BURRITO: Wrapping Your Lab Notebook in Computational Infrastructure
(USENIX Association, 2012)Researchers in fields such as bioinformatics, CS, finance, and applied math have trouble managing the numerous code and data files generated by their computational experiments, comparing the results of trials executed with ... -
Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
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Bush Goes to Marrakech
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Bush v. Gore through the Lens of Constitutional History
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Business as Mission in North Korea: The Need for Contextual Understanding of Autocratic Regimes
(2022-04-20)This thesis aims to assess the extent to which Business as Mission (BAM) can be viable in an autocratic setting like North Korea. By understanding the country’s frame of reference and cultural values, BAM seeks to acquire ...