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Admixture Mapping Reveals Candidate Regions for Methotrexate Neurotoxicity Susceptibility: A Reducing Disparities in Acute Leukemia Consortium Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Northern landscapes with a story : The affordances of the aerial view in environmental photography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
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

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2018
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
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping Childhood Cancer Care Services in Oceania: Methodological Lessons From the SIOP Global Mapping Programme

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

New Zealand's own 'Amazon-scale' environmental crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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]

open access: yes, 2017
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
core   +1 more source

Effects of Urban Space Limitations on the Performance of Firefighting Forces and Vehicles During a Disaster in Tehran, District 19 [PDF]

open access: yesدانش پیشگیری و مدیریت بحران
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
doaj  

Improvement of Sickle Cell Disease Care Mitigates the Healthcare Utilization Induced by Increased Prevalence: Experience of a Tertiary Pediatric Center

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

“Until It Suddenly Isn’t”: Two Novels on Life after a Pandemic Disaster

open access: yesHumanities
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
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable agro-food strategies as a response to environmental deterioration in the Frailesca territory, Chiapas, Mexico

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

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