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Metabolic Modernities: Digestion, Energy Transformations, and the Making and Unmaking of the World in Early Soviet Literature

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 378-398, July 2024.
Abstract Early Soviet society featured clear nutrition guidelines and a robust plan for streamlined logistics in food processing, distribution, and consumption, all of which was aimed at building a stronger state through a virtuous transformation of calories into labor power. Such rhetoric appeared even in children’s illustrated books, such as Vladimir
Elena Fratto
wiley   +1 more source

Severe Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, Vegetative Instability and Neuropathy with 5-Fluorouracil Treatment – Pyrimidine Degradation Defect or Beriberi

open access: yesCase Reports in Oncology, 2011
We present the case of a 19-year-old female with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, who received two courses of chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in combination with folic acid and cisplatin.
A. Rosen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hildaland, or bringing the ice: Reflections on missing persons, Intermittent Islands, and the ethnography of uncertain presence

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 33-48, June 2024.
Abstract Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long‐term fieldwork on an experimental arts festival held annually in the Orkney Islands, this essay reflects on the challenges of documenting uncertain or intermittent presence, as well as the possibilities the ...
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

Thiamine Acquisition Strategies Impact Metabolism and Competition in the Gut Microbe Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Thiamine (vitamin B1) is an essential cofactor for all organisms. Humans primarily acquire thiamine through their diet, and thiamine deficiencies have adverse neurological effects.
Costliow, Zachary A, Degnan, Patrick H
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Potential anti‐obesity effect of saponin metabolites from adzuki beans: A computational approach

open access: yesFood Science &Nutrition, Volume 12, Issue 5, Page 3612-3627, May 2024.
Adzukisaponin VI, adzukisaponin IV, and angulasaponins B and C were the best compounds in all enzymatic grooves. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and free energy molecular mechanics Generalized Born Surface Area (MMGBSA) calculations manifested stability of binding and absence of unfolding in the best scoring complexes.
Ashaimaa Y. Moussa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rapidly progressive polyneuropathy due to dry beriberi in a man: a case report

open access: yesJournal of Medical Case Reports, 2010
Introduction We describe a case of rapidly progressive and severely debilitating polyneuropathy in a patient with confirmed hypovitaminosis B1, consistent with dry beriberi.
Lekwuwa Godwin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coverage and determinants of infant postnatal care in Nigeria: A population‐based cross‐sectional study

open access: yesPediatric Investigation, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 27-36, March 2024.
There is a large variation in coverage of infant postnatal care (PNC) coverage at the state and regional levels in Nigeria. Individual‐level characteristics associated with infant PNC attendance included facility delivery, greater maternal education, maternal employment, urban residence, female head of household, and greater wealth.
Bolaji Emmanuel Egbewale   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shoshin syndrome: report of a treatable disaster

open access: yesJournal of Acute Disease, 2019
Shoshin syndrome is a rare fulminating heart failure caused by thiamine deficiency. In Japanese “sho” means acute damage and “shin” means heart. It consists of a rare and hyperacute manifestation of beriberi that was first described in polished white ...
Tommaso Valobra   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brush Up Your Webster\u27s [PDF]

open access: yes, 1972
From time to time in Word Ways we have seen logological wordplay illustrated from a bewildering variety of sources. In this article we propose to show that one need not always look in arcane and esoteric references to prove one\u27s point.
Myles, Alden, Standish, John
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Entitlement Failure from a Food Quality Perspective: The Life and Death Role of Vitamins and Minerals in Humanitarian Crises [PDF]

open access: yes
entitlement theory, micronutrients, food, humanitarian, emergencies ...
Thorne-Lyman, Andrew, Webb, Patrick
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