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Andrew Weeks

- Verified email at unimelb.edu.au - Cited by 10101

Andrew Weeks

- Verified email at liv.ac.uk - Cited by 9020

Active versus expectant management for women in the third stage of labour

CM Begley, GML Gyte, D Devane… - Cochrane database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Active management of the third stage of labour involves giving a prophylactic
uterotonic, early cord clamping and controlled cord traction to deliver the placenta. With …

Oral misoprostol for induction of labour

Z Alfirevic, A Weeks - Cochrane database of systematic …, 2006 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Misoprostol is an orally active prostaglandin. In most countries misoprostol is
not licensed for labour induction, but its use is common because it is cheap and heat stable …

Pelvic girdle pain and low back pain in pregnancy: a review

E Vermani, R Mittal, A Weeks - Pain Practice, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Pregnancy‐related pelvic girdle pain (PGP) and pregnancy‐related low back pain (PLBP)
are common problems with significant physical, psychological, and socioeconomic …

Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in changing environments: a genetic perspective

AR Weeks, CM Sgro, AG Young… - Evolutionary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Translocations are being increasingly proposed as a way of conserving biodiversity,
particularly in the management of threatened and keystone species, with the aims of …

[HTML][HTML] From Parasite to Mutualist: Rapid Evolution of Wolbachia in Natural Populations of Drosophila

AR Weeks, M Turelli, WR Harcombe, KT Reynolds… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that commonly spread through host populations
by causing cytoplasmic incompatibility, often expressed as reduced egg hatch when …

A Rapid Shift in a Classic Clinal Pattern in Drosophila Reflecting Climate Change

PA Umina, AR Weeks, MR Kearney, SW McKechnie… - Science, 2005 - science.org
Geographical clines in genetic polymorphisms are widely used as evidence of climatic
selection and are expected to shift with climate change. We show that the classic latitudinal …

[HTML][HTML] Randomized trial of early detection and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage

I Gallos, A Devall, J Martin, L Middleton… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Delays in the detection or treatment of postpartum hemorrhage can result in
complications or death. A blood-collection drape can help provide objective, accurate, and …

Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world's coral reefs

MJH Van Oppen, RD Gates, LL Blackall… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Many ecosystems around the world are rapidly deteriorating due to both local and global
pressures, and perhaps none so precipitously as coral reefs. Management of coral reefs …

Incidence of a new sex–ratio–distorting endosymbiotic bacterium among arthropods

AR Weeks, R Velten… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many intracellular micro–organisms are now known to cause reproductive abnormalities
and other phenomena in their hosts. The endosymbiont Wolbachia is the best known of …

Conservation genetics as a management tool: The five best-supported paradigms to assist the management of threatened species

Y Willi, TN Kristensen, CM Sgrò… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
About 50 y ago, Crow and Kimura [An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory (1970)]
and Ohta and Kimura [Genet. Res. 22, 201–204 (1973)] laid the foundations of conservation …