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Prevalence and impact of prescribing cascades in community‐dwelling adults: Longitudinal analysis of the Irish longitudinal study on ageing (TILDA)

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Prescribing cascades occur when medication is prescribed to prevent/treat the adverse effects of another medication and may be intentional/unintentional. This study examines the prevalence of nine prescribing cascades (ThinkCascades) in The Irish Longitudinal StuDy on Ageing (TILDA).
Ann Sinéad Doherty, Rose Anne Kenny, Frank Moriarty, Fiona Boland, Barbara Clyne, Tom Fahey, Denis O' Mahony, Emma Wallace   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons From A Communications Campaign For South Africa's Rural Poor [PDF]

, 2008
This report describes the experience of The Atlantic Philanthropies and 16 non-governmental organizations using communications to advance social justice in South Africa, and shares lessons relevant for funders, nonprofits and advocates around the world ...

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On the causes of the African slave trade [PDF]

, 2013
This paper offers an integrated analysis of the forces shaping the emergence of the African slave trade over the early modern period. We focus our attention on two questions.
Acemoglu, Allen, Angeles, Angeles, Angeles, Angeles, Austen, Austin, Austin, Bockstette, Clark, Clark, Cohn, Conrad, De Groot, Diamond, Domar, Eltis, Eltis, Eltis, Eltis, Evans, Fenoaltea, Finley, Floud, Fogel, Galeson, Glaeser, Green, Inikori, Klein, Klein, Kremer, Lovejoy, Manning, McCloskey, McNeill, Mintz, Nunn, Nunn, Olson, Olsson, Pinker, Putterman, Solow, Thomas, Thornton, Tilly, Whatley, Whatley, Williams   +50 more
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To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Aesthetics of Afro-Andean Smoking Culture: Early Modern Peruvian Tobacco Pipes at the Edge of the Atlantic World

Arts
Although situated at the geographic margin of the early modern Atlantic World, the Pacific coast of Peru was an important region in the development of African diasporic material culture.
Brendan J. M. Weaver, Jerry Smith Solano Calderon, Miguel Ángel Fhon Bazán   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why we age

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnostic features of English-lexified creoles: First attestations from Virgin Islands English Creole [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011
This paper presents the earliest attestations in Virgin Islands English Creole of the diagnostic features of English-lexified contact languages proposed by Baker and Huber (2001).
Andrei A. Avram
doaj   +1 more source

La Historia Atlántica y la enseñanza de la historia

Clio y Asociados, 2019
The dossier presented here is the result of the collective work of the American History I, General History IV and Didactic planning and teaching practices in history of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the National University of La ...
María Cristina Garriga, Viviana Pappier, Jacqueline Sarmiento   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson, Ellen Wohl, Laura L. Govers, Oscar Franken, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Han Olff, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Maryann S. Watson, Luísa M.S. Borges, Tjisse van der Heide   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Sense of Atlantic World Histories: A British Perspective

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2008
This essay explores how historians have come to move beyond national histories with transnational approaches. For early American historians this has involved consideration of how the Atlantic world connected and affected societies in early modern Europe,
Simon P. Newman
doaj   +1 more source