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Fatal accident inquiries into 83 deaths in Scottish prison custody
Sheila M Bird
Nov 09, 2020
BACKGROUND: The only non-legal reference in Lord Cullen's Review of fatal accident inquiry (FAI) Legislation in Scotland (2009) was my audit of FAIs into 97 deaths in prison custody in Scotland, 1999-2003: recommending that...
Bird Evolution
Daniel J Field
Feb 22, 2019
New fossils help pinpoint when some birds started relying on a seed-based diet and reveal that disparate bill shapes evolved repeatedly throughout bird evolutionary history.
Public Health Perspective on UK-identified Victims of Modern Slavery
Links between identified-victims, which occur if escape of one has led to rescue of others (as cluster of victims in single location or controlled-individuals across a network of locations), have implications for how...
Sheila Bird
Oct 18, 2021
Riparian reserves help protect forest bird communities in oil palm dominated landscapes
Conversion of forest to oil palm agriculture is a significant and ongoing threat to tropical biodiversity. Despite this, little is known about the value of riparian reserves in oil palm and how these conservation set‐asides...
Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years.
Marius Somveille, Martin Wikelski, Robert M Beyer, Ana S L Rodrigues, Andrea Manica, Walter Jetz
Mar 25, 2020
Migration is a widespread response of birds to seasonally varying climates. As seasonality is particularly pronounced during interglacial periods, this raises the question of the significance of bird migration during past...
Published by: Nature Communications
The Bird That Flew Backwards
Robin Gow
Jan 01, 0001
The Bird that Flew Backwards examines women poets from literary Modernism in the 1910s and Beat culture in the 1950s. Analyzing these eras in tandem reveals contrasting historical constructions of American womanhood and how...
modernism Beat movement Bohemian Greenwich Village Suffrage women's rights Elise Cowen Mina Loy Diane di Prima American Studies Arts and Humanities Digital Humanities English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years.
Marius Somveille, Martin Wikelski, Robert M Beyer, Ana SL Rodrigues, Andrea Manica, Walter Jetz
Mar 30, 2020
Migration is a widespread response of birds to seasonally varying climates. As seasonality is particularly pronounced during interglacial periods, this raises the question of the significance of bird migration during past...
Risk-factors for methadone-specific deaths in Scotland's methadone-prescription clients between 2009 and 2013.
Lu Gao, Polyxeni Dimitropoulou, J Roy Robertson, Stuart McTaggart, Marion Bennie, Sheila M Bird
Jul 10, 2018
AIM: To quantify gender, age-group and quantity of methadone prescribed as risk factors for drugs-related deaths (DRDs), and for methadone-specific DRDs, in Scotland's methadone-prescription clients. DESIGN: Linkage to...
Age-group Daily-dose Deaths Drugs-related Gender Methadone-specific Prescribed-methadone Quantity Quintiles Risk-factors Adult Age Factors Analgesics Opioid Cause of Death Female Heroin Dependence Humans Male Methadone Middle Aged Opiate substitution treatment Risk Factors Scotland Suicide Young Adult
Effect of initiating drug treatment on the risk of drug-related poisoning death and acquisitive crime among offending heroin users.
Matthias Pierce, Sheila M Bird, Matthew Hickman, John Marsden, Graham Dunn, Toby Seddon, Tim Millar
May 22, 2018
BACKGROUND: A recent Cochrane review of randomised trials identified a lack of evidence for interventions provided to drug-using offenders. We use routine data to address whether contact with treatment services reduces heroin...
Interview with Johann M. McCrackin
Johann M. McCrackin
Jan 01, 0001
Interview with Johann M. McCrackin, 1984 South Carolina Mother of the Year.
Published by: Winthrop University
Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities
Abstract: Roads and their traffic can affect wildlife over large areas and, in regions with dense road networks, may influence a high proportion of the ecological landscape. We assess the abundance of 75 bird species in relation...
Thomas and Bird Tapped for University's Teaching Awards
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Marketing Professor Jane Thomas will receive the Kinard Award for teaching. English Professor John Bird will serve as the Thompson Scholar to help teach critical thinking.
Published by: Winthrop University
Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities
Abstract: Roads and their traffic can affect wildlife over large areas and, in regions with dense road networks, may influence a high proportion of the ecological landscape. We assess the abundance of 75 bird species in relation...
English Professor John Bird Discovers Never-Before-Published Mark Twain Children's Story
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Called "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine," it is the story of a young boy who eats a flower sprouted by a magical seed and gains the ability to talk to animals. Bird said he spotted Twain's notes on the story while...
Published by: Winthrop University
Breast cancer incidence and survival in Scotland by socio-economic deprivation and tumour subtype.
Ines Mesa-Eguiagaray, Sarah H Wild, Sheila M Bird, Linda J Williams, David H Brewster, Peter S Hall, Jonine D Figueroa
Jun 29, 2022
BACKGROUND: Women from socio-economically deprived areas are less likely to develop and then to survive breast cancer (BC). Whether associations between deprivation and BC incidence and survival differ by tumour molecular...
Polymorphism in M(H2PO2)3 (M = V, Al, Ga) compounds with the perovskite-related ReO3 structure.
Hayden A Evans, Zeyu Deng, Ines E Collings, Yue Wu, Jessica L Andrews, Kartik Pilar, Joshua M Tuffnell, Guang Wu, John Wang, Siân E Dutton, Paul D Bristowe, Ram Seshadri, Anthony K Cheetham
Feb 18, 2019
Trivalent metal hypophosphites with the general formula M(H2PO2)3 (M = V, Al, Ga) adopt the ReO3 structure, with each compound displaying two structural polymorphs. High-pressure synchrotron X-ray studies reveal a...
Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities.
Roads and their traffic can affect wildlife over large areas and, in regions with dense road networks, may influence a high proportion of the ecological landscape. We assess the abundance of 75 bird species in relation to roads...
Distinct temporal trends in breast cancer incidence from 1997 to 2016 by molecular subtypes
Ines Mesa-Eguiagaray, Sarah H Wild, Philip S Rosenberg, Sheila M Bird, David H Brewster, Peter S Hall, David A Cameron, David Morrison, Jonine D Figueroa
Jun 19, 2021
BACKGROUND: We describe temporal trends in breast cancer incidence by molecular subtypes in Scotland because public health prevention programmes, diagnostic and therapeutic services are shaped by differences in tumour biology....
Multiple Systems Estimation for Modern Slavery
Performing censuses on stigmatized or vulnerable populations is challenging, however, for such populations partial enumeration is often possible using different lists or sources. If the sources overlap then multiple...
Serveh Sharifi Far, Ruth King, Sheila Bird, Antony Overstall, Hannah Worthington, Nicholas Jewell
Oct 21, 2020
Multiple Systems Estimation for Modern Slavery
Serveh Sharifi Far, Ruth King, Sheila Bird, Antony Overstall, Hannah Worthington, Nicholas Jewell
Oct 18, 2021
Performing censuses on stigmatized or vulnerable populations is challenging, however, for such populations partial enumeration is often possible using different lists or sources. If the sources overlap then multiple systems...
Tracking the incidence and risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection using historical maternal booking serum samples.
Edward Mullins, Ruth McCabe, Sheila M Bird, Paul Randell, Marcus J Pond, Lesley Regan, Eleanor Parker, Myra McClure, Christl A Donnelly
Oct 03, 2022
The early transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK are unknown but their investigation is critical to aid future pandemic planning. We tested over 11,000 anonymised, stored historic antenatal serum samples, given at two...
Mortality cost of sex-specific parasitism in wild bird populations
Jose O. Valdebenito, András Liker, Naerhulan Halimubieke, Jordi Figuerola, Tamas Szekely
Dec 02, 2020
Sex-specific mortality is frequent in animals although the causes of different male versus female mortalities remain poorly understood. Parasitism is ubiquitous in nature with widespread detrimental effects to hosts, making...
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