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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Mountain & Alpine Medicine

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin, 2020
The interest in trekking and mountaineering is increasing, and growing numbers of individuals are travelling to high altitude. Following ascent to high altitude, individuals are at risk of developing one of the three forms of acute high-altitude illness:
Berger MM, Schiefer LM, Treff G, Sareban M, Swenson ER, Bärtsch P   +5 more
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Prevalence and time course of acute mountain sickness in older children and adolescents after rapid ascent to 3450 meters

, 2009
OBJECTIVE: Acute mountain sickness is a frequent and debilitating complication of high-altitude exposure, but there is little information on the prevalence and time course of acute mountain sickness in children and adolescents after rapid ascent by ...
Scherrer, Urs, Rimoldi, S.F., Duplain, Hervé, Stuber, Thomas, Sartori, C., Allemann, Y., Scherrer, U., Kriemler, S., Kriemler, Susi, Allemann, Yves, Sartori, Claudio, Bloch, J., Duplain, H., Rimoldi, S. F., Stuber, T., Rimoldi, Stefano F, Bloch, Jonathan, Duplain H, Rimoldi SF, Sartori C, Scherrer U, Stuber T, Bloch J, Rimoldi, Stefano, Kriemler S, Allemann Y   +25 more
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Index measured at an intermediate altitude to predict impending acute mountain sickness [PDF]

, 2011
Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is a neurological disorder that may be unpredictably experienced by subjects ascending at a high altitude. The aim of the present study was to develop a predictive index, measured at an intermediate altitude, to predict the ...
S. Rapi, A. Piperno, ALBERTO PIPERNO, Biggeri, Annibale, R. Paniccia, RITA PANICCIA, Gensini, Gian Franco, P. A. Modesti, R. Abbate, GIULIA ELISA CAMBI, Abbate, Rosanna, G. F. Gensini, MIRIAM REVERA, GIANFRANCO PARATI, G. Bilo, A. Biggeri, P. Agostoni, PIETRO AMEDEO MODESTI, G. Mancia, PIERGIUSEPPE AGOSTONI, A. Rogolino, GIUSEPPE MANCIA, G. Parati, ROSANNA ABBATE, STEFANO RAPI, G. E. Cambi, ANGELA ROGOLINO, M. Revera, Paniccia, Rita, Modesti, Pietro Amedeo, ANNIBALE BIGGERI, GREGORZ BILO, GIAN FRANCO GENSINI   +32 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Acetazolamide for the prophylaxis of acute mountain sickness

, 2012
In 2000, a systematic review concluded that when ascending rapidly to above 4000 m, prophylactic dexamethasone 8-16 mg daily or acetazolamide 750 mg daily both reduced acute mountain sickness.1 However, acetazolamide 500 mg daily was not found be ...
Imray, C. (Chris), imray, chris
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Acetazolamide Prophylaxis in Acute Mountain Sickness

, 2022
Health care providers will likely encounter an increase in patient populations who seek clinical guidance on travel and outdoor recreational activities.
Reese, Zachary R
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Gastrointestinal syndrome encountered during a train voyage to high altitudes: A 14-day survey of 69 passengers in China

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Background: The diagnosis and evaluation of the severity of acute mountain sickness (AMS) continue to be problematic due to a lack of consensus on the inclusion of symptoms in a scoring system.
Yihui Chen, Xiaoqi Tang, Xiong Zeng, Ben Han, Huichao Xie, Wei Wang, Lihua Sun, Mingdong Hu, Yuqi Gao, Weidong Xiao   +9 more
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Peripheral arterial desaturation is further exacerbated by exercise in adolescents with acute mountain sickness

, 2012
Rapid ascent to altitude can result in the development of high altitude illnesses such as acute mountain sickness (AMS). This study aimed to investigate AMS symptoms in adolescents and study basic cardiopulmonary measurements at ...
Imray, C. (Chris), Yeates, Elizabeth, Hogan, Ryan J. K., Major, Sarah A.   +3 more
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