The burdens by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…In this metaphor, my body is like our organisation, and I am wearing this necklace which has beads that represent the challenges of the youth, women and children in Malawi, the burdens. …”
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Health indicators in double burdened urban Maya children and mothers by Hannah J. Wilson

“…Such nutritional double burden is most common in low SES groups of middle-income countries, such as the Maya of Mexico. …”
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Patient burden during appointment-making telephone calls to GP practices by Rein Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe, Jon Symonds

“…We quantified instances of ‘patient burden’ using a coding scheme. Results: We demonstrate how ‘patient burden’ unfolds in two phases of the telephone calls: (i) following an initial rejection of a patient’s request; and (ii) following a receptionist’s initiation of call closing. …”
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Bonus or burden? Care work, inequality, and job satisfaction in eighteen European countries by Naomi Lightman, Anthony Kevins

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Dietetic characteristics of a sample of Mayan dual burden households in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico by Hugo Azcorra, Hannah J. Wilson, Barry Bogin, Maria Ines Varela Silva, Adriana Vazquez-Vazquez, Federico Dickinson

“…The frequencies of consumption were classified in four levels: 1) no consumption, 2) low (1-2 days/week), 3) medium (3-4 days/week), high (5-7 days/week). …”
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Piling on the pressure? Negotiating burden/benefit dynamics in social research during times of crisis by Oliver Hooper, Rachel Sandford, Thomas Quarmby

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Nitrate contamination in drinking water and colorectal cancer: exposure assessment and estimated health burden in New Zealand by Jayne Richards, Tim Chambers, Simon Hales, Mike Joy, Tanja Radu, Alistair Woodward, Alistair Humphrey, Edward Randal, Michael G Baker

“…Given the international epidemiological studies showing an association between cancer and nitrate ingestion from drinking water, this exposure may cause an important burden of preventable CRC cases, deaths, and economic costs. …”
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Identifying priority double-duty actions to tackle the double burden of malnutrition in infants and young children in Peru: assessment and prioritisation of government actions by n... by Violeta Magdalena Rojas Huayta, Rebecca Pradeilles, Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro, Emily Rousham, Doris Delgado, Rossina Pareja, Edwige Landais, Nervo Verdezoto, Emma Haycraft, Michelle Holdsworth

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Magnitude, trends and drivers of the coexistence of maternal overweight/obesity and childhood undernutrition in Ethiopia: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys (2005-2016) by Rebecca Pradeilles, Ana Irache, Tom Norris, Stanley Chitekwe, Arnaud Laillou, Kaleab Baye

“…Ethiopia faces a rising problem of overweight and obesity alongside a high prevalence of undernutrition; a double burden of malnutrition (DBM). This study aimed to quantify the magnitude and trends of household-level DBM—defined as the coexistence of maternal overweight/obesity and child undernutrition (i.e., stunting or anaemia)—in Ethiopia between 2005, 2011 and 2016 and understand the potential drivers influencing DBM and the change in DBM over time. …”
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Four decades of socio-economic inequality and secular change in the physical growth of Guatemalans by Liina Mansukoski, Will Johnson, Katherine Brooke-Wavell, J Andres Galvez-Sobral, Luis Furlán, Tim J Cole, Barry Bogin

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Intergenerational factors that shape the nutritional status of urban Maya households in Merida, Mexico. A 3-generations study. by Hugo Azcorra

“…The specific objectives are: 1) to assess the nutritional status and nutritional dual burden prevalence in participants, 2) to identify the pre and postnatal biosocial and economic factors that relate to the nutritional status of the children, and 3) to assess the intergenerational influences on the growth of participants: from grandmothers to mothers and from grandmothers and mothers to children. …”
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Fat free mass explains the relationship between stunting and energy expenditure in urban Mexican Maya children by Hannah J. Wilson, Federico Dickinson, Daniel J. Hoffman, Paula Griffiths, Barry Bogin, Maria Ines Varela Silva

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"Am I doing it right?": a discursive analysis of cancer narratives by Rosemary Chapman

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Two birds, one stone—reframing cooking energy policies in Africa and Asia by Simon Batchelor, Ed Brown, Nigel Scott, Jon Leary

“…This was said to alleviate the burdens of biomass cooking for three billion people by mitigating emissions, reducing deforestation, alleviating expenditure and collection times on fuels and increasing health outcomes. …”
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I don’t enjoy making the folder: secondary students’ views of portfolios in technology education by Malcolm Welch, David Barlex, Krista Taylor

“…Separate focus group interviews were conducted in England with one group of Year 10 boys in a technology college and one group of Year 10 girls in a technology college. …”
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Practical guidelines for the registration and monitoring of serious traffic injuries, D7.1 of the H2020 project SafetyCube by Katherine Perez, Wendy Weijermars, Emmanuelle Amoros, Robert Bauer, Niels Bos, Emmanuelle Dupont, Ashleigh Filtness, Sjoerd Houwing, Heiko Johannsen, B. Leskovsek, Klaus Machata, Jean-Louis Martin, Nina Nuyttens, M. Olabarria, Lea Pascal, W. Van den Berghe

“…Once one of these three ways is selected, several additional choices need to be made. …”
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Elite female athlete research: stop searching for the ‘magic P’ by Richard Burden, Alexandra L. Shill, Nicolette Bishop

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Neuromechanics of middle-distance running fatigue: a key role of the plantar flexors? by Jasmin Willer, Sam Allen, Richard Burden, Jonathan Folland

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Formation, function and development of the banking system of Ukraine by Aleksey I. Bagriy

“…Financial sector reform has proved to be one of the greatest challenges facing the members of the former Soviet Union in their transition to a market economy. …”
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Influence of vitamin D status on the post-exercise hepcidin and interleukin-6 response in trained athletes: 3134 Board #180 May 31 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM by Alexandra L. Shill, Molly Collinson, Mark Palmer, William D Fraser, Jonathan Tang, Richard Burden, Nicolette Bishop

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The provision of nutritional advice and care for cancer patients: a UK national survey of healthcare professionals by Jane L Murphy, Fehmidah Munir, Fiona Davey, Laura Miller, Ramsey Cutress, Rhys White, Megan Lloyd, Justin Roe, Carol Granger, Sorrel Burden, Lesley Turner

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Addressing malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries with double-duty actions by Rebecca Pradeilles, Kaleab Baye, Michelle Holdsworth

“…Multiple forms of malnutrition co-exist (the double burden) in low- and middle-income countries, but most interventions and policies target only one form. …”
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Musculoskeletal injury or Sports-Related Concussion (SRC) in a season of rugby union does not affect performance on concussion battery testing in university-aged student-athletes by Kerry Glendon, Matthew Pain, Eef Hogervorst, A Belli, Glen Blenkinsop

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Analyzing the effects of metabolic state and perturbations on genetic device performance by metabolomics and 13C-labeled metabolic flux analysis by Lisa A Anderson, Ahsan Islam, Sue Zanne Tan, Kristala LJ Prather

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A ‘crisis of identity’? Palestinian Christian contributions to Amman’s modern urbanity by Annabel Evans

“…Countering these narratives of burden and crises, this paper seeks to reconceptualise the role of migrants in Jordan’s capital as contributing to and participating in the development of Amman as a modern urban centre. …”
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Receding horizon control for aircraft arrival sequencing and scheduling. by Xiao-Bing Hu, Wen-Hua Chen

“…The potential benefits RHC could bring in terms of airborne delay and computational burden are investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. …”
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1986-1999: looking back at politics, art and young artists by Marion Arnold

“…Looking back at the years 1986 -1999, when I served on the National Arts Festival Committee, the extraordinary pressures exerted on South African art reflect the society at large as it suffered the burden of apartheid, the fragile promise of a negotiated transition of political power, and then the upheavals of post-1994 social transformation. …”
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Does Vestibular-Ocular-Motor (VOM) impairment affect time to return to play, symptom severity, neurocognition and academic ability in student-athletes following acute concussion? by Kerry Glendon, Glen Blenkinsop, A Belli, Matthew Pain

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Access the Word - Access the World by Gail Solomans

“…In addition it removes the necessity of having several tutors and alleviates the burden of marking. Although this computer material was only available to the students this semester, I have had positive results from its use and positive feedback from the students and I feel confident that it will continue to be an enormous benefit to my students in helping them to master academic language. …”
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Prospective study with specific re-assessment time points to determine time to recovery following a sports-related concussion in university-aged student-athletes by Kerry Glendon, Glen Blenkinsop, A Belli, Matthew Pain

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Aging of the immune system: Focus on natural killer cells phenotype and functions by Ashley Brauning, Michael Rae, Gina Zhu, Elena Fulton, Tesfahun Dessale Admasu, Alexandra Stolzing, Amit Sharma

“…NK cell dysfunction is therefore implicated in the increasing burden of infection, malignancy, inflammatory disorders, and senescent cells with age. …”
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Progression of cardiovascular risk factors in black Africans: 3 year follow up of the SABPA cohort study by Mark Hamer, Roland von Kanel, Manja Reimann, Nico T. Malan, Alta E. Schutte, Hugo W. Huisman, Leone Malan

“…Blacks demonstrated a substantially higher prevalence of composite CVD burden (defined as history of physician diagnosed heart disease, use of anti-hypertensives, anti-diabetic, or statin medications at either time point) compared to whites (49.1 vs. 32.0%, p ¼ 0.012) respectively. …”
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Life-cycle testing of batteries for solar eCook by Chrispin Mbewe, Gianfranco Claudio, Richard Blanchard

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Country-specific barriers to implementing lean production systems in China by Marc Bollbach

“…As the main method of data collection, I conducted sixty qualitative interviews with Chinese and Western employees during a two month research trip to China. …”
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The effect of quantity and quality of dietary fat intake on subcutaneous white adipose tissue inflammatory responses by Rebecca Dewhurst-Trigg, Carl Hulston, Oonagh Markey

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Recommendations for recruiting and retaining adolescent girls in chronic exercise (training) research studies by Rachel Massie, Brett M. Smith, Keith Tolfrey

“…Extensive challenges are often encountered when recruiting participants to chronic exercise (training) studies. High participant burden during chronic exercise training programmes can result in low uptake to and/or poor compliance with the study. …”
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How green is this paper? by Toby Miller

“…These tendencies are also producing a potentially unsustainable environmental burden that may be increasing, not decreasing, as we move more and more into an online publishing world. …”
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Serious road traffic injuries in Europe, lessons from the EU Research Project SafetyCube by Wendy Weijermars, Niels Bos, Annelies Schoeters, Jean-Christophe Meunier, Nina Nuyttens, Emmanuelle Dupont, Klaus Machata, Robert Bauer, Katherine Perez, Jean-Louis Martin, Heiko Johansson, Ashleigh Filtness, Laurie Brown, Pete Thomas

“…Finally, by means of a literature review, analysis of additional case studies and burden of injury calculations, health impacts of serious road injuries were investigated. …”
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