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Cardiovascular Plasticity and Adaptation of High‐Altitude Birds and Mammals

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This schematic depicts the cardiovascular adaptations of mammals and birds to high‐altitude hypoxia. It highlights key phenotypic changes in oxygen transport and cardiac responses, driven by molecular mechanisms including transcriptional regulation and genetic modifications.
Huishang She, Yanhua Qu
wiley   +1 more source

Global Policy Entrepreneurs as Agenda‐Keepers: The UN Secretary‐General's Climate Action During the COVID‐19 Crisis

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Crises tend to redirect political attention toward urgent relief efforts, often sidelining long‐term policy priorities. This article examines the role of agenda‐keepers—policy entrepreneurs who work to preserve attention to existing issues when crises threaten to displace them.
Luis Rivera‐Velez, Lucile Maertens
wiley   +1 more source

Hypoxia-induced acute mountain sickness is associated with intracellular cerebral edema: a 3 T magnetic resonance imaging study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Acute mountain sickness is common among not acclimatized persons ascending to high altitude; the underlying mechanism is unknown, but may be related to cerebral edema.
Dydak, Ulrike   +20 more
core   +1 more source

When psychedelic discourse meets local narrative: Selective uptake of psychedelic meanings surrounding mad honey in Nepal

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims ‘Mad honey’ is produced when bees collect nectar from Rhododendron species containing grayanotoxins, naturally occurring diterpenoid toxins that can produce dose‐dependent intoxication. It has long been embedded in Nepalese medicinal and ritual practices but has recently become part of global psychedelic discourse. This study examined how
Sharon R. Sznitman, Surendra Tiwari
wiley   +1 more source

High-Altitude Illness: Acute Mountain Sickness, HACE, and HAPE

open access: yes
High-Altitude Illness: Acute Mountain Sickness, HACE, and HAPE covers prevention, recognition, and management of acute altitude illness, including ascent history, symptom progression, oxygen and medication use, descent decisions, monitoring, and ...
Casey C. Sears
core   +1 more source

When Humans Need Gods and Gods Need Humans: Prophetic Authority and Ritual Negotiation in Himachal Pradesh

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Himachal Pradesh, India, village deities act as political figures who play an active role in communal affairs, especially during periods of social change. Bakhan, an annual divination ritual in which these deities speak through human mediums, is a public event that offers forecasts and instructions. I argue that the bakhan is a social arena
Asaf Sharabi
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐Alzheimer Aβ deposits in the human CNS: Implications with hypoxia and related conditions

open access: yesBrain Pathology, EarlyView.
An Aβ deposit in a non‐Alzheimer's brain from an individual who experienced hypoxia/energy failure. Abstract We recently reported the deposition of Aβ in the frontal cortex of individuals who died of acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), or who did not have COVID‐19 but had respiratory distress, or infants with severe cardiac malformations.
Esma Karlovich   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

HIGH-ALTITUDE ILLNESS

open access: yesJurnal Kesehatan Andalas, 2015
AbstrakHigh-altitude illness (HAI) merupakan sekumpulan gejala paru dan otak yang terjadi pada orang yang baru pertama kali mendaki ke ketinggian. HAI terdiri dari acute mountain sickness (AMS), high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) dan high-altitude ...
Dwitya Elvira
doaj  

Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
wiley   +1 more source

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