Objective Our primary objective was to determine the social and demographic determinants of interpregnancy weight change.A secondary aim is to highlight the novel linkage of two data resources in Northern Ireland (NI) and the potential for transformative research in maternal health.Approach We piloted a process to link two datasets in a safe, legal

BackgroundMosquito-borne Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has recently re-emerged globally.The epidemic East/Central/South African (ECSA) strains have spread for the first time to Asia, which previously only had endemic Asian strains.In Malaysia, the ECSA strain caused an extensive nationwide outbreak in 2008, while the Asian strains only caused limited o

Merapoh, Pahang, is an area rich with limestone karst located within the Lipis National Geopark and home to the Sungai Relau gate of Taman Negara Pahang, a totally protected rainforest in Malaysia.Much of the research conducted here is mainly inside the National Park, with few published faunal records for the Merapoh caves.This study compiled the d

The progressive loss of CD4+ T cell population is the hallmark of HIV-1 infection but the mechanism underlying the slow T cell decline remains unclear.Some recent studies suggested that pyroptosis, a form of programmed cell death triggered during abortive HIV infection, is associated with the release of inflammatory cytokines, which can attract mor

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the construction of ecological civilization demonstration areas (CECDA) on the carbon efficiency (CE) of resource-based cities (RCs) and to understand its mechanism.The CE indicator of 114 prefecture-level RCs in China was measured from 2004 to 2018 using the Slack Based Measure (SBM) model.