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Vitamin C Alimentation via SLC Solute Carriers

Although mortality rates from pneumonia and sepsis are decreasing in many parts of the world, the incidence of these conditions continues to rise, likely due to an increasingly ageing population. Case reports and observational studies indicate a strong association between vitamin C status and infectious conditions, with vitamin C deficiency predisposing individuals to infections, and conversely…

Chapter 4 The toll of totalising masculinities in prison

Gender relations implicate power and male privilege. Prisons largely house underprivileged men. How then do incarcerated men negotiate masculinities when gender relations in society-at-large, power relations inside prisons, and masculine ideas and ideals continue to change? Drawing on a semi-ethnographic study in a men’s prison in Ukraine, I detail how the dynamic nature of gender normative i…

Chapter 1 From Precarious Work to Sustainable Livelihoods

This volume further anchors often abstracted, global ideas like “universal decent work” within local situations, everyday work practices, and lived experiences. Relatedly, a historical strength of I/O psychology has been its focus on the diversity of sociocultural values and norms in the workplace, including at national, organizational, and individual levels (for a review, see Carr, 2013). …

Chapter 4 Compassion in primary and community healthcare

Compassion is an attribute of a person’s affective understanding, which aims to enable, so far as possible, shared experiences of the world’s ills and some alleviation of those ills’ effects. Such an attribute is thus of great value within healthcare institutions such as general practices and other primary and community healthcare settings. It may characterise the people who participate i…

Chapter 4 Applications of Monte Carlo Simulation in Modelling of Biochemical …

The biochemical models describing complex and dynamic metabolic systems are typically multi-parametric and non-linear, thus the identification of their parameters requires nonlinear regression analysis of the experimental data. The stochastic nature of the experimental samples poses the necessity to estimate not only the values fitting best to the model, but also the distribution of the paramet…

Arteriovenous Fistulas

Arteriovenous fistulas are shunts between arteries and veins that can be found in many organs of the human body such as the brain, skin, eye and lung. These lesions can be symptomatic by causing ischemia, through the process of the steal phenomenon, or vascular congestion and subsequent hemorrhage, eg. intracerebral hemorrhage of a ruptured dural arteriovenous fistula. The etiology of these les…

Aspects of Pacemakers

Outstanding steps forward were made in the last decades in terms of identification of endogenous pacemakers and the exploration of their controllability. New "artifical" devices were developed and are now able to do much more than solely pacemaking of the heart. In this book different aspects of pacemaker - functions and interactions, in various organ systems were examined. In addition, various…

A Meeting of Minds: In Recognition of the Contributions of Randall J. Cohrs

Volume ini merupakan kumpulan esai ilmiah dan wawasan kritis yang disusun sebagai bentuk penghormatan (tribute) atas dedikasi dan kontribusi luar biasa Randall J. Cohrs dalam bidang virologi, khususnya penelitian mengenai virus herpes manusia. Karya ini mempertemukan para ilmuwan terkemuka dunia untuk merefleksikan terobosan-terobosan ilmiah yang dipelopori oleh Cohrs selama masa kariernya. Tuj…

Alberta's Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond

Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta's Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives tha…