Antibiotics seemed to open the body to more serious Candida infections, as did new methods to treat cancers and the development of transplantation. Regional fungal infections in North America came to the fore due to the economic development of certain regions, where population movement brought in non-immune groups who were vulnerable to endemic mycoses
We discuss each disease in relation to developing medical knowledge and practices, and to social changes associated with ‘modernity’. Thus, mass schooling provided ideal conditions for the spread of ringworm of the scalp in children, and the rise of college sports and improvement of personal hygiene led to the spread of athlete’s foot.
When the war was over in 1945, Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the country were covered in rubble, with no clean drinking water, electricity, or gas. Hospitals overflowed with patients, but were short of beds, medicines, and medical personnel
Here we present a summary of a methodological proposal for the participatory building of local strategies for adaptation to climate change (ELACCs, by its Spanish acronym) based on the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) (Flora, 2004
"The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Education will present the state of the art of the place and role of translation in educational contexts worldwide. It lays a sound foundation for the future interdisciplinary cooperation between Translation Studies and Educational Linguistics. By adopting a transdisciplinary perspective, the handbook will bring together the various fields of scholarly…
oceanography, climate change, reefs, marine science, marine conservation, marine research
The first phase of federalism in post-war Yugoslavia can be named ‘administrative federalism’ by borrowing Tito’s own definition of the federal units as having only an ‘administrative character’
Many athletes strategically adopt a deliberate ‘look’—a ‘game face’, in sport parlance—for the purpose of gaining an edge in competition. Indeed, individual athletes in many sports often intentionally ‘stare down’ opponents, or, conversely, seek to appear carefree, even smiling at an opponent.
This essay approaches some of the literary features of the Qur’an in formal comparison with those of the Babylonian Talmud, the foundational text of rabbinic Judaism which consists of the foundational law code, called “Mishna” and its secondary commentary, called the “Gemara.”
The free movement of services, one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union's (EU) internal market, allows companies to post their employees to other EU Member States. In Slovenia, the concept of cross-border posting became relevant after the country joined the EU in 2004. The number of posted workers in Slovenia has been growing steadily since then and is among the highest in the…