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Overcrowded classrooms – The Achilles heel of South African education?
South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020 Background: The South African education system is characterised by a shortage of teachers and inadequate school infrastructure which is contributing to the overcrowded nature of South African classrooms.
Joyce West, Corinne Meier
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Impact of stress on hemostasis: A review
Consilium Medicum, 2023 The article presents an overview of current views of changes in the hemostasis system in response to stress. Stress-induced neurohormonal responses activate the clotting system and inhibit the fibrinolysis system, leading to hypercoagulation.
Vladimir V. Salukhov +4 more
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eLife, 2021 Phospholamban (PLN) is a mini-membrane protein that directly controls the cardiac Ca2+-transport response to β-adrenergic stimulation, thus modulating cardiac output during the fight-or-flight response.
Daniel K Weber +9 more
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“Fight or flight”: coping responses to brand hate
Journal of Product & Brand Management, 2020 Purpose This study aims to investigate the interplay between brand and consumer personalities in shaping brand hate and its consequences. More specifically, it investigates the relationship between fallacious character of the brand, brand betrayal feelings and brand hate, and identifies two response routes leading ...
Bayarassou, Oula +2 more
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Fight or Flight: The Ethics of Emergency Physician Disaster Response [PDF]
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2008 Most disaster plans depend on using emergency physicians, nurses, emergency department support staff, and out-of-hospital personnel to maintain the health care system's front line during crises that involve personal risk to themselves or their families. Planners automatically assume that emergency health care workers will respond.
Iserson, Kenneth V. +5 more
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Evidence for the stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in humans [PDF]
, 2012 Secondary sexual traits that develop under the action of testosterone, such as masculine human male facial characteristics, have been proposed to signal the strength of the immune system due to the sex hormone's immunosuppressive action.
Kecko, Sanita +6 more
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Pathophysiological functions of semaphorins in the sympathetic nervous system
Inflammation and Regeneration, 2023 Upon exposure to external stressors, the body senses them and activates the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) to maintain the homeostasis, which is known as the “fight-or-flight” response. Recent studies have revealed that the SNS also plays pivotal roles
Yumiko Mizuno +2 more
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Empathy Modulates the Effect of Stress Reactivity on Generous Giving
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 How does acute stress influence the degree to which we cooperate with others? Research on the effects of stress on social decision-making is guided by two seemingly contrasting theories.
Hagar Azulay +5 more
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Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum [PDF]
, 2004 This article reviews the existing evolutionary perspectives on the acute stress response habitual faintness and blood-injection-injury type-specific phobia (BIITS phobia). In this article, an alternative evolutionary perspective, based on recent advances
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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Fight or Flight? Understanding Different Stakeholder Responses to Conservation Conflicts
Society & Natural Resources, 2022 International ...
Hodgson, Isla +3 more
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