Factors affecting adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 infections in the first year of the pandemic in the UK

Autor: Melinda C Mills, Xuejie Ding, David M Brazel

Publikováno v: BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 10 (2021)

Objective Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including wearing face covering/masks, social distancing and working from home, have been introduced to control SARS-CoV-2 infections. We provide individual-level empirical evidence of whether adhere

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Capturing single cell genomes of active polysaccharide degraders: an unexpected contribution of Verrucomicrobia.

Autor: Manuel Martinez-Garcia, David M Brazel, Brandon K Swan, Carol Arnosti, Patrick S G Chain, Krista G Reitenga, Gary Xie, Nicole J Poulton, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell E D Masland, Brian Thompson, Wendy K Bellows, Kai Ziervogel, Chien-Chi Lo, Sanaa Ahmed, Cheryl D Gleasner, Chris J Detter, Ramunas Stepanauskas

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 4, p e35314 (2012)

Microbial hydrolysis of polysaccharides is critical to ecosystem functioning and is of great interest in diverse biotechnological applications, such as biofuel production and bioremediation. Here we demonstrate the use of a new, efficient approach to

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Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19

Autor: Liliana Andriano, Per Block, Melinda Mills, Xuejie Ding, Jennifer Beam Dowd, David M. Brazel, Valentina Rotondi, Yan Liu

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Governments around the world must rapidly mobilize and make difficult policy decisions to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Because deaths have been concentrated at older ages, we highlight the important role of demography, p

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004911117

Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales

Autor: Melinda Mills, Jennifer Beam Dowd, David M. Brazel, Ilya Kashnitsky, Mark D. Verhagen

Publikováno v: BMC Medicine, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020)
Verhagen, M D, Brazel, D M, Dowd, J B, Kashnitsky, I & Mills, M C 2020, ' Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales ', BMC Medicine, vol. 18, 203 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01646-2
BMC Medicine

Background COVID-19 poses one of the most profound public health crises for a hundred years. As of mid-May 2020, across the world, almost 300,000 deaths and over 4 million confirmed cases were registered. Reaching over 30,000 deaths by early May, the

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01646-2

Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus

Autor: Ahmad Vaez, Felix R. Day, Iain Mathieson, Harold Snieder, Bárbara Domingues Bitarello, Melinda Mills, van Zuydam N, Nicola Barban, Ken K. Ong, den Hoed M, Perry, Felix C. Tropf, David M. Brazel

Identifying genetic determinants of reproductive success may highlight mechanisms underlying fertility and also identify alleles under present-day selection. Using data in 785,604 individuals of European ancestry, we identify 43 genomic loci associat

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https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.19.104455