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Iranian hospitality: a hidden treasure [PDF]
, 2007 After making many field trips to the Islamic Republic of Iran Kevin O'Gorman reflects on the origins of Islamic and Iranian hospitality before highlighting some of the operational complexities of running the one of the highest hotels in the ...
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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The American Journal on Addictions, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Objectives Substance use disorders (SUD) among healthcare professionals threaten both patient safety and workforce stability. Professional health programs (PHPs) aim to support recovery and safe practice reentry, yet outcomes for non‐physician professionals remain underexplored. This study assessed return to use and professional
Mubo O. Olufemi +5 more
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Wildfires and Atopic Diseases: A Review
Allergy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wildfire smoke is a major environmental health threat that has increased in frequency and severity in recent years. A hazardous component of wildfire smoke is particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm (PM2.5). There is evidence to suggest that exposure to wildfire PM2.5 may increase the risk of developing or exacerbating atopic diseases, such as asthma ...
Alex Ha, John R. Balmes, Maria L. Wei
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Respiratory parameters at varied altitudes in intermittent mining work [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives: Workers in the mining industry in altitude are subjected to several risk factors, e.g., airborne silica and low barometric pressure. The aim of this study has been to assess the risks for this work category, evaluating single risk factors as ...
Bacaloni, Alessandro +4 more
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Archiving Futurity Within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Crisis
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th‐century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st‐century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter)
Lindsay Martel Montgomery +2 more
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Surprise and the singular plural
American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract Bodymind diversity, disability scholars argue, contributes to community and to ideals of human flourishing. Phenomenologists like Nancy and Arendt, meanwhile, foreground our human pluralism. But what does it mean to inhabit (and invent) a plural “we” across significant bodily difference? And why is the experience of surprise important to it? A
Cheryl Mattingly
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Travel Medicine and Infectious DiseaseBackground: 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 +9 more
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper explores the ethical and creative value of composite fiction as a method for engaging with vulnerable participants in health geography research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Port Talbot, South Wales, it examines how composite fiction can allow for co‐creation, to challenge authorial authority, support the ethical ...
Rosie Knowles
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Obesity as a Conditioning Factor for High-Altitude Diseases
Obesity Facts, 2017 Obesity, a worldwide epidemic, has become a major health burden because it is usually accompanied by an increased risk for insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and even some kinds of cancer.
Rocío San Martin +3 more
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Treatment of acute mountain sickness [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 EDITOR,--Hans-Rudolf Keller and colleagues recommend descent as the treatment of choice for acute mountain sickness but show that both treatment in a portable hyperbaric chamber and administration of dexamethasone (which was the superior treatment) may facilitate descent by improving symptoms.1 Pressurisation produced only short term benefit.
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