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Developing a social mobilisation intervention for salt reduction: participatory action research in Bombali district, Sierra Leone

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background High salt intake is a major risk factor for hypertension, which in turn contributes to cardiovascular diseases, the major cause of death from non communicable diseases (NCDs).
Kiran Cheedella, Peter Conteh, Guanyang Zou, John Walley, Ajaratu Kamara, Haja Wurie, Sophie Witter   +6 more
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Fragile airports. Fragile cities. Fragile landscapes

Urban Development Issues, 2021
Recent events provide ample proof of the fragility of cities, territories and airport nodes when they come face-to-face with extreme and unexpected events. The Coronavirus pandemic, for example, has caused a complete disruption in the air network. Climate change, recurrent floods, rising seas, desertification, land impoverishment and, more generally ...
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Readiness to deliver person‐focused care in a fragile situation: the case of Mental Health Services in Lebanon

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2021
Background Evidence suggests wide variability in the provision of mental healthcare across countries. Countries experiencing fragility related risks suffer from a high burden of mental-ill health and additionally have limited capacity to scale up mental ...
Aya Noubani, Karin Diaconu, Giulia Loffreda, Shadi Saleh   +3 more
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Cholic and deoxycholic acids induce mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired biogenesis and autophagic flux in skeletal muscle cells

Biological Research, 2023
Background Skeletal muscle is sensitive to bile acids (BA) because it expresses the TGR5 receptor for BA. Cholic (CA) and deoxycholic (DCA) acids induce a sarcopenia-like phenotype through TGR5-dependent mechanisms.
Johanna Abrigo, Hugo Olguín, Franco Tacchi, Josué Orozco-Aguilar, Mayalen Valero-Breton, Jorge Soto, Mauricio Castro-Sepúlveda, Alvaro A. Elorza, Felipe Simon, Claudio Cabello-Verrugio   +9 more
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Temperature Dependence of Structural Relaxation in Glass-Forming Liquids and Polymers

Entropy, 2022
Understanding the microscopic mechanism of the transition of glass remains one of the most challenging topics in Condensed Matter Physics. What controls the sharp slowing down of molecular motion upon approaching the glass transition temperature Tg ...
Vladimir N. Novikov, Alexei P. Sokolov
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Church communication in the face of vulnerability: a theoretical framework and practical application for information management in cases of the abuse of minors

Church, Communication and Culture, 2021
This article is mainly aimed toward those responsible for communications in ecclesial organizations that are experiencing vulnerability. It integrates the perspective of organizational communication with ecclesiological contributions.
Marco Carroggio
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Fragility of open-topped oil storage tanks under wind in Patagonia

Emergency Management Science and Technology, 2023
Oil storage tank farms are complex systems and the eventual failure of one of their components could affect the whole system. A risk assessment requires identifying the magnitude of the damage that can occur under certain load levels.
Rossana C. Jaca, Josefina Grill, Natalia Pareti, Luis A. Godoy, Sergio Bramardi   +4 more
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The fragile community. Psychiatric illness in Mario Tobino and Paolo Milone

Griseldaonline, 2023
The two novels Le libere donne di Magliano by Mario Tobino and L’arte di legare le persone by Paolo Milone, despite having been published almost seventy years apart from each other, present an affine structural approach, which can be illuminated through ...
Niccolò Amelii
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Adapting and implementing training, guidelines and treatment cards to improve primary care-based hypertension and diabetes management in a fragile context: results of a feasibility study in Sierra Leone

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Sierra Leone, a fragile country, is facing an increasingly significant burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Facilitated by an international partnership, a project was developed to adapt and pilot desktop guidelines and other clinical ...
Guanyang Zou, Sophie Witter, Lizzie Caperon, John Walley, Kiran Cheedella, Reynold G. B. Senesi, Haja Ramatulai Wurie   +6 more
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Corpuscular Fragility and Metabolic Aspects of Freshly Drawn Beta-Thalassemia Minor RBCs Impact Their Physiology and Performance Post Transfusion: A Triangular Correlation Analysis In Vitro and In Vivo

Biomedicines, 2022
The clarification of donor variation effects upon red blood cell (RBC) storage lesion and transfusion efficacy may open new ways for donor–recipient matching optimization.
Alkmini T. Anastasiadi, Vasiliki-Zoi Arvaniti, Efthymios C. Paronis, Nikolaos G. Kostomitsopoulos, Konstantinos Stamoulis, Issidora S. Papassideri, Angelo D’Alessandro, Anastasios G. Kriebardis, Vassilis L. Tzounakas, Marianna H. Antonelou   +9 more
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