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How to help your depressed friend? The effects of interactive health narratives on cognitive and transformative learning

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Using narratives is an important communication strategy in mental health campaigns to empower readers to adequately help people suffering from depression.
Jasper Scholl   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study shows that sublethal heat stress protects fish embryos against ultraviolet radiation, a concept known as ‘hormesis’. However, chemical stress transmission between fish embryos negates this protective effect. By providing evidence for the mechanistic molecular basis of heat stress hormesis and interindividual stress communication, this study ...
Lauric Feugere   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agency and Anxiety [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
In this paper, we introduce the psychological concept of anxiety into agency theory. An important benchmark in the anxiety literature is the inverted‐U hypothesis, which states that an increase in anxiety improves performance when anxiety is low, but reduces it when anxiety is high.
Rauh, Michael, Seccia, Giulio
openaire   +3 more sources

Interaction vesicles as emerging mediators of host‐pathogen molecular crosstalk and their implications for infection dynamics

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Interaction extracellular vesicles (iEVs) are hybrid vesicles formed through host‐pathogen communication. They facilitate immune evasion, transfer pathogens' molecules, increase host cell uptake, and enhance virulence. This Perspective article illustrates the multifunctional roles of iEVs and highlights their emerging relevance in infection dynamics ...
Bruna Sabatke   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedded creativity: structural interconnections between materiality, visuality, and agency in everyday perceptual settings

open access: yesCreativity Studies, 2018
The goal of the article is to examine how some material surfaces contribute to the social consequentiality of the everyday visual experience, generating, transmitting and disseminating nonverbal social meanings, making up bulk of contemporary world’s ...
Ilya Inishev
doaj   +1 more source

Emancipation in a Reception System: Asylum-Seekers in Poland in a Security Grey Zone Between Liberal Democracy and Nation-State

open access: yesCentral and Eastern European Migration Review, 2021
The security of asylum-seekers in the context of conditions of reception has not been frequently researched. This article aims to fill this gap by arguing that asylum-seekers in Poland are stuck in a grey zone between being secure and being securitised ...
Mateusz Krępa
doaj   +1 more source

Data and agency

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2015
This introduction to the special issue on data and agency argues that datafication should not only be understood as the process of collecting and analysing data about Internet users, but also as feeding such data back to users, enabling them to orient themselves in the world.
Kennedy, H., Poell, T., van Dijck, J.
openaire   +5 more sources

Decoding the dual role of autophagy in cancer through transcriptional and epigenetic regulation

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation controls autophagy, which exerts context‐dependent effects on cancer: Autophagy suppresses tumorigenesis by maintaining cellular homeostasis or promotes tumor progression by supporting survival under stress. In this “In a Nutshell” article, we explore the intricate mechanisms of the dual function of autophagy ...
Young Suk Yu, Ik Soo Kim, Sung Hee Baek
wiley   +1 more source

National Agency for Investment Development in new investment laws [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة الاجتهاد للدراسات القانونية والاقتصادية, 2020
In order to encourage and try to attract both to attract both national and foreign investors, the legislator has been concerned with the institutional framework for investment, including the National Investment Development Agency, which is the highest ...
Khouatra Samia
doaj  

Representing ‘Place’: City Climate Commissions and the Institutionalisation of Experimental Governance in Edinburgh

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
Against the backdrop of increasingly fragmented and poly-centric urban climate governance, this article examines the establishment of city climate ‘commissions’ as an experimental means of addressing the challenge of climate change at the city-scale.
Alice Creasy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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