While citizen science is gaining attention of late, for those of us involved in community-based public health research, community/citizen involvement in research has steadily increased over the past 50 years. Community Health Workers (CHWs), also known as Promotores de Salud in the Latino community, are critical to reaching underserved populations, where health disparities are more prevalent. C...

Global health scholarship has failed to adequately consider the “BRIC” cluster of nations—Brazil, Russia, India and China—particularly in the aggregate. An article search with the keywords “BRIC” and “public health” yields just one publication. But these countries have a unique role to play in the global health enterprise by addressing global health problems as they build their own health syste...

Financial liberalisation has offered global investors with new investment opportunities via international portfolio diversification. Proper investment planning as well as portfolio diversification and rebalancing require low correlations between the assets under consideration. In general, correlations between countries have increased during the global financial crisis due to contagion, interdep...

Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) includes a group of infrequent genetic diseases with autosomal recessive heredity, characterized by intrahepatic cholestasis, usually in childhood and in adolescence. It is caused by defective bile salt secretion and other bile components. The progression leading to liver failure and cirrhosis usually appears in the first few decades of life....

Many agriculturally, evolutionarily, and medically important characters vary in a quantitative fashion. Unfortunately, the genes and sequence variants accounting for this variation remain largely unknown due to a variety of biological and technical challenges. Drosophila melanogaster contains high levels of sequence variation and low linkage disequilibrium, allowing us to dissect the effects of...

Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC or Byler disease) is a rare autosomal recessive form of severe and fatal cholestatic liver disease. A locus for PFIC has recently been mapped to chromosome 18q21-q22 in the original Byler pedigree. This region harbours the locus for a related phenotype, benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC), suggesting that these traits are allelic....

The paper is aimed to analyse the most recent and relevant research on boards of directors in BRIC. Existent reviews board do not focus BRIC consider specifics their corporate governance model. Therefore, current review fills this gap by analysing 111 papers from Scopus/Web Science published between 2015 2020. Firstly, we provide a content analysis abstracts find frequent topics compare them de...

It is well known that in all G-7 countries inflation has been low and rather stable for almost twenty years. During this period, we have seen the emergence of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China)—especially China—as a producer of low-cost manufacturing goods. Many economic commentators have suggested a causal link between the two. In particular, it is conjectured that the resul...

BRIC (BRain Injury Criterion) and RIC (Rotational Injury Criterion) have been proposed as Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) predictors. Both predictors had been verified with football players' head impact data. This study employed two human brain Finite Element (FE) models of THUMS ver.3 and SIMon ver.4 to find out correlations between the MTBI predictors and FE-based brain injury predictors s...