Daniel J Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 143883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel J Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9904-0568 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The relationship between total energy expenditure and physical activity level in women living in an impoverished Brazilian urban area
These results suggest that the relationship between TEE and PAL is weak and it is not completely linear in women living in an impoverished Brazilian urban area
Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories
BACKGROUND: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on the SDG aim of "leaving no one behind", it is increasingly important to examine the health-related SDGs beyond national-level estimates. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2…
Microbiome, growth retardation and metabolism
CONTEXT: Despite an improvement in food security and the delivery of nutritional supplements to children living in impoverished parts of the world, poor growth is still highly prevalent. Given that the microbiome is related to both nutrient absorption, as well as overweight/obesity, it may play a central role in limiting or modifying normal growth processes while contributing to chronic disease risks. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to …
Human growth and the microbiome
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale), 1990–2015
BACKGROUND: Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform assessments of epidemiological patterns and health system performance, help to prioritise investments in research and development, and monitor progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We aimed to provide updated HALE and DALYs for geographies worldwide and evaluate ho…
Consumption of ultra-processed food products and its effects on children's lipid profiles
Maternal fat mass at mid-pregnancy and birth weight in Brazilian women
In this small sample of normal and overweight/obese women, maternal FM at mid-pregnancy is associated with neonatal BW and foetal growth
Changes in nutritional status among displaced North Korean children living in South Korea
Even a short exposure to food affluent environments improved the nutritional status among children, but linear growth deficits are slow to recover as overall nutritional status remains poor compared to peers without exposures to food insecurity
Consumption of a high-fat soup preload leads to differences in short-term energy and fat intake between PROP non-taster and super-taster women
The Impact of Food and Economic Crises on Diet and Nutrition
The conventional view is that inelastic demand makes consumption of staple foods resilient to major price and income shocks. We explore the dietary and nutritional implications of a major shock in Bulgaria in the mid-1990s with data from before, during and after the shock. While demand for foodstuffs may remain relatively unchanging in environments characterised by stable food prices and incomes, economic crises and significant price spikes appea…
Growth in transitional countries
CONTEXT: Despite significant economic development in many parts of the world, upwards of 150 million children are short for their age. Epidemiologic and clinical data suggest that stunting increases the risk for nutrition-related chronic diseases (NRCD), a particular problem for transitional countries as dietary and environmental shifts that accompany development are also reported to increase the risk for NRCD. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: This paper r…
Estimating total body fat using a skinfold prediction equation in Brazilian children
The PE was more valid for Brazilian children that existing equations, but further studies are needed to assess the validity of this PE in other populations
Fat free mass explains the relationship between stunting and energy expenditure in urban Mexican Maya children
The hypothesis that stunting reduces total energy expenditure (resting + active) in children is not supported. Rather, children with shorter stature and less lean body mass have lower total energy expenditure. Complex interactions between body size, body composition, and metabolic activity appear to elevate the risk for later life obesity in these Maya children
Violence, Just in Time
The recent war in Sierra Leone and Liberia is connected in both the scholarly literature and the popular imaginary to the global economy via the diamond trade. Yet there is another way to think the connection between war and work. In this article, I ask what it would mean to think of the violence young men in the region's militia movements performed as a mode of post-Fordism. This stands in sharp contrast to recent writing on conflict in Africa, …
Waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for children with risk factors for cardiovascular disease
The data support the use of a 0.5 cut-off value for WHtR to predict cardiovascular risk factors among pre-school children and suggest that using WHtR is comparable to both BMI and WC
Prevalence of obesity and overweight among urban adults in Bulgaria
Objective The prevalence of obesity is increasing in transitional countries, but extensive data on some countries, such as Bulgaria, are still lacking. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity, relative to gender and income, among adults in Sofia, Bulgaria. Design Cross-sectional survey to collect data on diet, health, BMI and income using a brief questionnaire on diet and income. Data…
Debate on the paper by Sichieri & Souza
The thorough and insightful review by Sichieri & Souza clearly describes the complexity of strategies used to prevent or reverse the trend of childhood obesity.The most salient aspect of the review was the sheer variety of programs that have been attempted and the remarkably few that were successful, even in the short term.This observation was remarked upon quite well by the authors and illustrates the problem with solving this dilemma once it ha…
The meaning of a militia
This article is an adapted, narrative version of an expert witness report the author wrote for the Defence of one of the accused before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The case against the Civil Defence Forces militia was predicated in part on the argument that the CDF was a military organization with military-style command and control. Based on a close reading of the Prosecution's military expert witness report and the author's ethnographic …
Lack of association between iron status at birth and growth of preterm infants
OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between iron status at birth and growth of preterm infants. METHODS: Ninety-five premature babies (26 to 36 weeks of gestational age) born from July 2000 to May 2001 in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, were followed up for six months, corrected by gestational age. Iron measurements at birth were available for 82 mothers and 78 children: hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume a…
The civilian target in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Journal Article The civilian target in Sierra Leone and Liberia: Political power, military strategy, and humanitarian intervention Get access Danny Hoffman Danny Hoffman Danny Hoffman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. He is currently researching the kamajor militia and their role in the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. For their input to various versions of this article, he wishe…
Combattants irréguliers et discours international des droits de l'homme dans les guerres civiles africaines
En analysant le code éthique des milices de chasseurs, cet article remet en cause une croyance commune sur la capacité plus grande des forces irrégulières à perpétrer des atrocités par rapport aux armées nationales. Cette analyse souligne cependant la possibilité de ces miliciens de radicaliser leur comportement guerrier en fonction du discours international tenu sur les crimes de guerre dans la région
Why are nutritionally stunted children at increased risk of obesity? Studies of metabolic rate and fat oxidation in shantytown children from São Paulo, Brazil
Kids Out of Place
In Brazil, a poor, ragged kid running along an unpaved road in a favela or playing in a field of sugar cane is just a kid. That same child, transposed to the main streets and plazas of town, is a threat, a potentially dangerous “street kid.”
Toetsopstelling met behulp van item- en toetsinligtingskrommes
Itemresponsteorie bied (in teorie) oplossings vir probleme wat nie met behulp van die klassieke toetsteoriemodel opgelos kan word nie, byvoorbeeld die probleem van steekproefafhanklike tellings. Begrippe wat deur itemresponsteorie ontstaan het, is onder andere dié van item-en toetsinligting en in die plek van betroubaarheid word van die begrip relatiewe doeltreffendheid gebruik gemaak. Die data is verkry van 'n itemontledingstoepassing in Septemb…
Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe is the exploration by a distinguished American poet and critic of his own lifelong fascination with the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Examining Poe's achievement as poet, as aesthetician, as inventor of the modern detective and science fiction genres, and as master of the psychological tale of terror, Hoffman revels in his subject. The result is a comprehensive, arresting interpretation of the oeuvre and a compassionate, pe…
Violence, Just in Time
The recent war in Sierra Leone and Liberia is connected in both the scholarly literature and the popular imaginary to the global economy via the diamond trade. Yet there is another way to think the connection between war and work. In this article, I ask what it would mean to think of the violence young men in the region's militia movements performed as a mode of post-Fordism. This stands in sharp contrast to recent writing on conflict in Africa, …
The civilian target in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Journal Article The civilian target in Sierra Leone and Liberia: Political power, military strategy, and humanitarian intervention Get access Danny Hoffman Danny Hoffman Danny Hoffman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. He is currently researching the kamajor militia and their role in the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. For their input to various versions of this article, he wishe…
The meaning of a militia
This article is an adapted, narrative version of an expert witness report the author wrote for the Defence of one of the accused before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The case against the Civil Defence Forces militia was predicated in part on the argument that the CDF was a military organization with military-style command and control. Based on a close reading of the Prosecution's military expert witness report and the author's ethnographic …
Combattants irréguliers et discours international des droits de l'homme dans les guerres civiles africaines
En analysant le code éthique des milices de chasseurs, cet article remet en cause une croyance commune sur la capacité plus grande des forces irrégulières à perpétrer des atrocités par rapport aux armées nationales. Cette analyse souligne cependant la possibilité de ces miliciens de radicaliser leur comportement guerrier en fonction du discours international tenu sur les crimes de guerre dans la région
Toetsopstelling met behulp van item- en toetsinligtingskrommes
Itemresponsteorie bied (in teorie) oplossings vir probleme wat nie met behulp van die klassieke toetsteoriemodel opgelos kan word nie, byvoorbeeld die probleem van steekproefafhanklike tellings. Begrippe wat deur itemresponsteorie ontstaan het, is onder andere dié van item-en toetsinligting en in die plek van betroubaarheid word van die begrip relatiewe doeltreffendheid gebruik gemaak. Die data is verkry van 'n itemontledingstoepassing in Septemb…
Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe is the exploration by a distinguished American poet and critic of his own lifelong fascination with the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Examining Poe's achievement as poet, as aesthetician, as inventor of the modern detective and science fiction genres, and as master of the psychological tale of terror, Hoffman revels in his subject. The result is a comprehensive, arresting interpretation of the oeuvre and a compassionate, pe…
Toetsopstelling met behulp van item- en toetsinligtingskrommes
Itemresponsteorie bied (in teorie) oplossings vir probleme wat nie met behulp van die klassieke toetsteoriemodel opgelos kan word nie, byvoorbeeld die probleem van steekproefafhanklike tellings. Begrippe wat deur itemresponsteorie ontstaan het, is onder andere dié van item-en toetsinligting en in die plek van betroubaarheid word van die begrip relatiewe doeltreffendheid gebruik gemaak. Die data is verkry van 'n itemontledingstoepassing in Septemb…
Kids Out of Place
In Brazil, a poor, ragged kid running along an unpaved road in a favela or playing in a field of sugar cane is just a kid. That same child, transposed to the main streets and plazas of town, is a threat, a potentially dangerous “street kid.”
Why are nutritionally stunted children at increased risk of obesity? Studies of metabolic rate and fat oxidation in shantytown children from São Paulo, Brazil
Combattants irréguliers et discours international des droits de l'homme dans les guerres civiles africaines
En analysant le code éthique des milices de chasseurs, cet article remet en cause une croyance commune sur la capacité plus grande des forces irrégulières à perpétrer des atrocités par rapport aux armées nationales. Cette analyse souligne cependant la possibilité de ces miliciens de radicaliser leur comportement guerrier en fonction du discours international tenu sur les crimes de guerre dans la région
The civilian target in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Journal Article The civilian target in Sierra Leone and Liberia: Political power, military strategy, and humanitarian intervention Get access Danny Hoffman Danny Hoffman Danny Hoffman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. He is currently researching the kamajor militia and their role in the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. For their input to various versions of this article, he wishe…
Lack of association between iron status at birth and growth of preterm infants
OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between iron status at birth and growth of preterm infants. METHODS: Ninety-five premature babies (26 to 36 weeks of gestational age) born from July 2000 to May 2001 in a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, were followed up for six months, corrected by gestational age. Iron measurements at birth were available for 82 mothers and 78 children: hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume a…
The meaning of a militia
This article is an adapted, narrative version of an expert witness report the author wrote for the Defence of one of the accused before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The case against the Civil Defence Forces militia was predicated in part on the argument that the CDF was a military organization with military-style command and control. Based on a close reading of the Prosecution's military expert witness report and the author's ethnographic …
Prevalence of obesity and overweight among urban adults in Bulgaria
Objective The prevalence of obesity is increasing in transitional countries, but extensive data on some countries, such as Bulgaria, are still lacking. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity, relative to gender and income, among adults in Sofia, Bulgaria. Design Cross-sectional survey to collect data on diet, health, BMI and income using a brief questionnaire on diet and income. Data…
Debate on the paper by Sichieri & Souza
The thorough and insightful review by Sichieri & Souza clearly describes the complexity of strategies used to prevent or reverse the trend of childhood obesity.The most salient aspect of the review was the sheer variety of programs that have been attempted and the remarkably few that were successful, even in the short term.This observation was remarked upon quite well by the authors and illustrates the problem with solving this dilemma once it ha…
Waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for children with risk factors for cardiovascular disease
The data support the use of a 0.5 cut-off value for WHtR to predict cardiovascular risk factors among pre-school children and suggest that using WHtR is comparable to both BMI and WC
Violence, Just in Time
The recent war in Sierra Leone and Liberia is connected in both the scholarly literature and the popular imaginary to the global economy via the diamond trade. Yet there is another way to think the connection between war and work. In this article, I ask what it would mean to think of the violence young men in the region's militia movements performed as a mode of post-Fordism. This stands in sharp contrast to recent writing on conflict in Africa, …
Growth in transitional countries
CONTEXT: Despite significant economic development in many parts of the world, upwards of 150 million children are short for their age. Epidemiologic and clinical data suggest that stunting increases the risk for nutrition-related chronic diseases (NRCD), a particular problem for transitional countries as dietary and environmental shifts that accompany development are also reported to increase the risk for NRCD. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: This paper r…
Estimating total body fat using a skinfold prediction equation in Brazilian children
The PE was more valid for Brazilian children that existing equations, but further studies are needed to assess the validity of this PE in other populations
Fat free mass explains the relationship between stunting and energy expenditure in urban Mexican Maya children
The hypothesis that stunting reduces total energy expenditure (resting + active) in children is not supported. Rather, children with shorter stature and less lean body mass have lower total energy expenditure. Complex interactions between body size, body composition, and metabolic activity appear to elevate the risk for later life obesity in these Maya children
The Impact of Food and Economic Crises on Diet and Nutrition
The conventional view is that inelastic demand makes consumption of staple foods resilient to major price and income shocks. We explore the dietary and nutritional implications of a major shock in Bulgaria in the mid-1990s with data from before, during and after the shock. While demand for foodstuffs may remain relatively unchanging in environments characterised by stable food prices and incomes, economic crises and significant price spikes appea…
Consumption of ultra-processed food products and its effects on children's lipid profiles
Maternal fat mass at mid-pregnancy and birth weight in Brazilian women
In this small sample of normal and overweight/obese women, maternal FM at mid-pregnancy is associated with neonatal BW and foetal growth
Changes in nutritional status among displaced North Korean children living in South Korea
Even a short exposure to food affluent environments improved the nutritional status among children, but linear growth deficits are slow to recover as overall nutritional status remains poor compared to peers without exposures to food insecurity
Consumption of a high-fat soup preload leads to differences in short-term energy and fat intake between PROP non-taster and super-taster women
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale), 1990–2015
BACKGROUND: Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform assessments of epidemiological patterns and health system performance, help to prioritise investments in research and development, and monitor progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We aimed to provide updated HALE and DALYs for geographies worldwide and evaluate ho…
Microbiome, growth retardation and metabolism
CONTEXT: Despite an improvement in food security and the delivery of nutritional supplements to children living in impoverished parts of the world, poor growth is still highly prevalent. Given that the microbiome is related to both nutrient absorption, as well as overweight/obesity, it may play a central role in limiting or modifying normal growth processes while contributing to chronic disease risks. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to …
Human growth and the microbiome
Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories
BACKGROUND: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on the SDG aim of "leaving no one behind", it is increasingly important to examine the health-related SDGs beyond national-level estimates. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2…
The relationship between total energy expenditure and physical activity level in women living in an impoverished Brazilian urban area
These results suggest that the relationship between TEE and PAL is weak and it is not completely linear in women living in an impoverished Brazilian urban area
Medicine (16 works) · Demography (9 works) · Internal Medicine (8 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (7 works) · Obesity (7 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 works) · Overweight (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Endocrinology (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works)