Comparing universal kriging and land-use regression for predicting concentrations of gaseous oxides of nitrogen (NOx) for the Multi-Ethnic Study of... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies that assess the health effects of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution are used to inform public policy. These studies rely on exposure models that use data
Induction of parasite growth-inhibitory antibodies by a virosomal formulation of a peptidomimetic of loop I from domain III of <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
Apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA-1) of Plasmodium falciparum is a leading candidate antigen for inclusion in a malaria subunit vaccine. Its ectodomain can be divided into three subdomains, each with dis
Reinfection with <em>Schistosoma haematobium</em> following school-based chemotherapy with praziquantel in four highly endemic villages in Côte... (Publications)
We present the comparative evaluation of school-based chemotherapy with praziquantel on Schistosoma haematobium reinfection patterns, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months after systematic treatment of schoolchildr
Effect of fireworks events on urban background trace metal aerosol concentrations: is the cocktail worth the show? (Publications)
We report on the effect of a major firework event on urban background atmospheric PM(2.5) chemistry, using 24-h data collected over 8 weeks at two sites in Girona, Spain. The firework pollution episod
Bayesian analysis of zero inflated spatiotemporal HIV/TB child mortality data through the INLA and SPDE approaches: applied to data observed between... (Publications)
Longitudinal mortality data with few deaths usually have problems of zero-inflation. This paper presents and applies two Bayesian models which cater for zero-inflation, spatial and temporal random eff
Bisabololoxide derivatives from <em>Artemisia persica</em>, and determination of their absolute configurations by ECD (Publications)
Five antiplasmodial bisabololoxide sesquiterpene diesters were isolated from an EtOAc extract of the aerial parts of Artemisia persica following an HPLC-time-based activity profiling of the extract. S
Impact of a national HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaign on VCT in a rural hospital in Tanzania (Publications)
Summary Objective To evaluate the impact of a national HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaign on presentation to HIV care in a rural population in Tanzania. Methods Retrospective analysi