This study investigates the joint impact of information communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, financial development (FD), and trade openness (TO) on economic growth (EG). includes two contrasting countries that differ from each other based income level consider total sample size 85 (including 27 low- 58 high-income countries) for period 2000–2019. We framed various hypotheses then app...

The Harvard University Asia Center hosted a symposium in October 2010 focused on sex work and sexually transmitted infections in Asia, engaging a biosocial approach to promote sexual health in this region. Asia has an estimated 151 million cases of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs; eg, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia) each year, with commercial sex interactions playing a large role ...

OBJECTIVES Surveillance data frequently indicate that young men and women experience high-yet considerably different-reported rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including bacterial infections such as chlamydia. We examined how several sex-based (eg, biological) and gender-based (eg, sociocultural) factors may interact to influence STI surveillance data trends. METHODS Employing ...

An assay technique, homogeneous enzyme immunoassay, is described for the quantitative determination of morphine derivatives in biological fluids. An enzyme is labeled with morphine. When the enzymelabeled morphine is bound by antimorphine antibodies, the enzyme is rendered inactive. Free morphine competes with enzyme-morphine for antibody binding sites preventing inhibition of enzyme activity. ...

OBJECTIVE Traumatic life histories are highly prevalent in people living with HIV/AIDS and predict sexual risk behaviors, medication adherence, and all-cause mortality. Yet the causal pathways explaining these relationships remain poorly understood. We sought to quantify the association of trauma with negative behavioral and health outcomes and to assess whether those associations were explaine...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We examined the 20-or-more-year survival and functional levels of 148 stroke survivors and 148 age- and sex-matched control subjects from the Framingham Study Cohort, whom we originally studied in 1972-1974 to ascertain the survival and disability status of stroke survivors compared with that of controls. METHODS This long-term evaluation was done with use of data from ...

OBJECTIVE Target organ damage (TOD) evaluation in patients with arterial hypertension is necessary in order to estimate cardiovascular risk (CVR) and plan treatment. Increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), an index of TOD, represents the diffuse vascular atheromatosis. The integrity of endothelial glycocalyx (EG) plays a vital role in vascular permeability, inflammation and elasticity a...

In light of increasing concerns about the efficacy environmental governance (EG) to address global sustainability challenges Anthropocene era, more integrative, transversal, and far-reaching approaches, referred here as (SG), are gaining ground both in praxis research. Empirical methodological emerge from this conceptual analytical cleavage between EG SG. Through a combination bibliometric netw...