Publications by authors named "S Rajaratnam"
Gender equality and women's empowerment have been increasingly emphasised in food production systems, including fisheries and aquaculture. Accurate assessment and understanding of the state, progress and changes in women's empowerment in the sub-sectors is required. We applied the project level Women's Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (pro-WEFI), which is based on the project-level women's empowerment in agriculture index (pro-WEAI) to standardize the measurement of women's agency and empowerment in fisheries and aquaculture.
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- - This study investigates how irregular sleep patterns affect the risk of major cardiovascular events (MACE) among adults aged 40-79, using data from wrist-worn accelerometers to measure sleep regularity.
- - Results from over 72,000 participants show that those with irregular sleep are at a significantly higher risk of MACE, with the risk increasing as sleep regularity decreases.
- - Importantly, while adequate sleep duration can reduce MACE risk for moderately irregular sleepers, it doesn't offset the high risk for those with irregular sleep, highlighting the need to consider sleep regularity in health guidelines.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, caregiving responsibilities may have been associated with increased substance use. To characterize substance use to cope with stress and willingness to seek help among (i) parents, (ii) unpaid caregivers of adults, and (iii) parent-caregivers. Data were analyzed for 10,444 non-probabilistic internet-based survey respondents of the COVID-19 Outbreak Public Evaluation (COPE) initiative (5227 females, 5217 males).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate whether recruit paramedics adapt their sleep behaviour during the first 12-months of shift work and to identify sleep behaviours that are associated with better shift work tolerance (SWT) after 12-months of shift work.
Methods: Recruit paramedics (n = 105; M = 25.81 years; 51.