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ABSTRACT Background Neurotoxicity is a rare, often dose‐limiting adverse effect of methotrexate (MTX) therapy that disproportionally affects Latino children. Factors contributing to the observed disparity are not well understood. This study leveraged admixture mapping to identify genetic regions associated with MTX‐related neurotoxicity susceptibility ...
Rachel D. Harris +24 more
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Northern landscapes with a story : The affordances of the aerial view in environmental photography [PDF]
In the context of an environmental crisis, photography and its related practices can be part of an emancipatory project, challenging techno-utopian solutions and envisioning alternative possibilities for sustaining life on this planet.
Hyvönen, Mats,, Harvard, Jonas,
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Contemplation and the Suffering Earth: Thomas Merton, Pope Francis, and the Next Generation
During his address to the US Congress in 2015, Pope Francis lifted up the Trappist monk and famed spiritual writer Thomas Merton as one of four “great” Americans who “offer us a way of seeing and interpreting reality” that is life-giving and brings hope.
Pramuk Christopher
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ABSTRACT The International Paediatric Oncology Society Global Mapping Programme aims to collect data on global paediatric oncology services by continent, with Africa and Latin America completed. This study reports on the methodology and lessons learned for Oceania, a unique continent with resource disparity across countries, multiple small island ...
Trisha Soosay Raj +16 more
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New Zealand's own 'Amazon-scale' environmental crisis [PDF]
When Norway donated US$1 billion to Brazil to help slow down Amazon rainforest destruction in 2008, the world sat up and took notice. Brazilian Government figures show that 355,124 km2 (35,124,000 hectares) of rainforest had been damaged or destroyed ...
Urlich, Stephen
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Environmental protest, politics and media interactions [PDF]
This chapter considers environmental protest and opposition in its diversity and, in doing so, considers the different roles that the media may fulfill in covering environmental conflict and in representing climate crisis.
Susan Forde, Forde, S
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Effects of Urban Space Limitations on the Performance of Firefighting Forces and Vehicles During a Disaster in Tehran, District 19 [PDF]
Background and objective To reduce the risks of fire accidents, it is essential to analyze space-time constraints for firefighters. In district 19 of Tehran city, Iran, the spatio-temporal patterns of fires vary depending on time, location, and causes ...
Afrasyab Kheirdast +2 more
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ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) has undergone major changes in the last decades. Its prevalence has been steadily increasing and numerous advances have been made in the management of the disease. However, the effect in real‐life setting of these major changes is unknown, particularly in a Canadian environment. Procedure We aimed to assess
Maude Cigna +16 more
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“Until It Suddenly Isn’t”: Two Novels on Life after a Pandemic Disaster
This article investigates two recent novels that deal with environmental and pandemic disasters: Severance (2018) by Ling Ma and Under the Blue (2022) by Oana Aristide.
Åsa Nilsson Skåve
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Currently, ecosystems are very deteriorated and large amounts of agrochemicals are applied to food for human consumption, which causes environmental and health problems in the society that consumes a diet based on food with agrochemicals, so a process of
Rosey Obet Ruiz González
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