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The predictive nature of diagnostic nerve blocks for lower extremity spasticity management with botulinum toxin and neurotomy: A systematic review

open access: yesPM&R, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction/Objective Diagnostic nerve blocks (DNBs) involve the injection of anesthetic around peripheral nerves to temporarily reduce motor tone. Although they are used clinically to inform spasticity treatment with neurotomy and chemodenervation, there is little research exploring the predictive nature of DNBs.
Katherine Archibold   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Tariffs Shape Trade‐Embodied Emissions in the European Union: Sectoral Heterogeneity in Final Demand

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the environmental implications of tariffs on greenhouse gas emissions embodied in extra‐European Union imports consumed by domestic final demand in the EU. Using a multidimensional country‐sector‐year framework, the study investigates whether tariff changes are associated with variations in trade‐embodied emissions and ...
Hugo Campos‐Romero
wiley   +1 more source

John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment

open access: yesJournal of Modern Philosophy
In the increasingly polemical abolitionist and pro-slavery literature of the eighteenth century, John Locke’s thought was often tokenized. Both sides appealed to him in their respective defenses.
Brian Smith
doaj   +2 more sources

Law, policy, biology, and sex: Critical issues for researchers. [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2022
Sudai M   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainable Development and Structural Bottlenecks in Transition Economies: New Uzbekistan

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assesses the sustainable development of Uzbekistan over 2016–2024. The methodology combines min–max normalization and unweighted aggregation to derive goal‐level composite scores and an overall SDG index, correlation analysis, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to characterize the goals that shape the country's progress; key ...
Khusanboy Abdufattokhov   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liberating Minds: The Intellectual Legacy of Angela Davis and Its Images in Film

open access: yesVista
We propose thinking of Angela Davis's intellectual legacy from a decolonial perspective. We point out that just as the fight for civil rights and the end of racial segregation in the United States helped to consolidate the Black movement in Brazil, the ...
Michelle Sales, Bruno Muniz
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review: Politicisation of Sexual Violence: from Abolitionism to Peacekeeping [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Review of Politicisation of Sexual Violence: from Abolitionism to Peacekeeping by Carol ...
Nzewi, Ogochukwu
core  

Rethinking Punitive Paternalism: Abolitionism, the personal and political [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The utopian impulse that beats within abolitionism requires the (re)imagining and (re)building of a just world. A shift away from punishment necessitates the transformation of existing social relationships. For many feminists and queer activists however,
Malloch, Margaret
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Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
wiley   +1 more source

Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats: Assistance Networks for Fugitive Slaves in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1836-1861

open access: yesCahiers du MIMMOC, 2018
This article analyses the nature of assistance networks for slave refugees absconding from Texas to the Mexican border between 1836 and 1861. It argues that, by contrast with the more densely organized Underground Railroad that connected the US South to ...
Thomas Mareite
doaj   +1 more source

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