Kalpana Balakrishnan, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, No. 1, Ramachandra Nagar, Porur, Chennai 600116, India Douglas Barnes, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), Energy and Water Department, The World Bank Group, 1818 H Street NW, MSN H4-403, Washington DC 20433, USA (not present for evaluations) James A. Bo...

To the Editor: In the editorial Responding to Gender-based Violence in Disasters: Grappling With Research Methods to Clear the Way for Planning, Rosborough et al discuss challenges to measuring and reporting on gender-based violence (GBV) in disasteraffected populations.1 The authors also comment on our research contribution, which documented an increase in GBV among female internally displaced...

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The present investigation aims at studying the effectiveness of alkali-assisted ultrasonication on pretreatment of garden biomass (GB). Dry and powdered GB suspended in 1% NaOH was ultrasonicated for 15, 30 and 60 minutes at a frequency of 25 KHZ. The mode of action and effectiveness of alkali-assisted ultrasonication on GB was established through microscopic, scanning electron microscopic and ...

1 Gender-based violence (GBV) is the most extreme expression of unequal gender relations in society and one of the most widespread violations of human rights. While GBV disproportionally affects women and girls, it also affects men and boys. These abuses take place all over the world in homes, schools, work-places and communities. But GBV is preventable and education and educational institution...

The focus of this article is a school-based respectful relationships (RRs) pilot project involving grade 8 and 9 students. The project sought to develop a primary prevention approach to gender-based violence (GBV) in Australia. Of particular concern is the curriculum delivery component of a whole school approach that was piloted over a 10-week period in four High Schools in Melbourne, Victoria ...

Gianalberto Losapio, Marcelino de la Cruz, Adrián Escudero, Bernhard Schmid, and Christian Schöb Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland Departamento de Bioloǵıa, Geoloǵıa, F́ısica y Qúımica inorgánica, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnológicas, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipán s...

conclusions overall, 4.3% of patients had positive results for gbv-c/hgv and all negative for hiv, hcv and hbv. further studies are needed to elucidate real prevalence, risk factors and characteristics of hgv infection in iranian hemodialysis patients. results in total, 81 males and 57 females were included. the mean age of patients was 62.16 ± 14.86 years. six (4.3%) had positive results for g...

In 49 patients with known Ebola virus disease outcomes during the ongoing outbreak in Sierra Leone, 13 were coinfected with the immunomodulatory pegivirus GB virus C (GBV-C). Fifty-three percent of these GBV-C(+) patients survived; in contrast, only 22% of GBV-C(-) patients survived. Both survival and GBV-C status were associated with age, with older patients having lower survival rates and int...