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Posthuman Ecologies of the Corpse

open access: yesKvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2019
Book review of Erin E. Edwards: The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2018, 240 pages.
Marietta Radomska
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Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in”

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Community health workers (CHWs) are frequently put forward as a remedy for lack of health system capacity, including challenges associated with health service coverage and with low community engagement in the health system, and expected to enhance or ...
Marta Schaaf   +12 more
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Urinary Tubular Injury Biomarkers Are Associated With ESRD and Death in the REGARDS Study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
IntroductionUrinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL) and urinary kidney injury molecule-1 (uKIM-1) are established markers of subclinical acute kidney injury.
Bennett, Michael   +10 more
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Apigenin, by activating p53 and inhibiting STAT3, modulates the balance between pro-apoptotic and pro-survival pathways to induce PEL cell death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BACKGROUND: Apigenin is a flavonoid widely distributed in plant kingdom that exerts cytotoxic effects against a variety of solid and haematological cancers.
Cirone, Mara   +5 more
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Studying autophagy’s relationship to cell death [PDF]

open access: yesAutophagy, 2008
Depending on the circumstances, autophagy can prevent, cause or regulate the kinetics of cell death. Consequently, it is particularly important that experimental strategies to study these responses are designed carefully. Here, I discuss some of the issues to be considered when designing such experiments.
openaire   +2 more sources

Metastasis and circulating tumor cells [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Cancer is a prominent cause of death worldwide. In most cases, it is not the primary tumor which causes death, but the metastases. Metastatic tumors are spread over the entire human body and are more difficult to remove or treat than the primary tumor ...
Dalum, G. van   +2 more
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Why are so many Nepali women killing themselves? A review of key issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: For decades the maternal mortality in Nepal was the lead cause of death among women, with great improvements in the maternal mortality ratio in the twentieth century the second most common cause has become more prominent.
Dhungel, A.   +5 more
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Mortality, protoplasm decay rate, and reliability of staining techniques to recognise 'living' foraminifera: a review.

open access: yes, 2000
Non-vital staining, especially with rose Bengal, has been widely used in ecological studies to differentiate between the tests of dead(unstained) foraminifera from those presumed to be living at the time of collection (stained).
Bowser, S.S., Murray, J.W.
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Evaluation of Life and Death Studies Course on Attitudes Toward Life and Death Among Nursing Students

open access: yesKaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2005
The aim of this study was to evaluate attitudes toward life and death among nursing students after attending the life and death studies (LDS) program. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to collect data. The pretest-posttest control group
Huei-Lih Hwang, Wen-Tin Chen
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RARE & INCONSISTENT: THE DEATH PENALTY FOR WOMEN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Previous studies of the national landscape around the death penalty for women have identified and analyzed past themes and issues.22 This Article brings the analysis current through 2005, beginning with a reprise of the conversations about gender bias ...
Streib, Victor L.
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