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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Governing the Local Digital Transformation: A European Comparative Perspective

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares governance structures, policy formulation and implementation of administrative digitalization at the local level in three countries with different administrative traditions: France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Sabine Kuhlmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANÁLISIS DOGMÁTICO DEL DERECHO PENAL AMBIENTAL CHILENO, A LA LUZ DEL DERECHO COMPARADO Y LAS OBLIGACIONES CONTRAÍDAS POR CHILE EN EL ÁMBITO DEL DERECHO INTERNACIONAL: CONCLUSIONES Y PROPUESTA LEGISLATIVA FUNDADA PARA UNA NUEVA PROTECCIÓN PENAL DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE EN CHILE

open access: yesIus et Praxis, 2003
El presente artículo corresponde al Informe Final del Proyecto FONDECYT 1010206­2001, sobre tratamiento penal de los delitos contra el medio ambiente en Chile.
Jean Pierre Matus Acuña   +3 more
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Designing Integrated Policies for the Twin Transition: Challenges and Tradeoffs

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic governance faces the intertwined imperatives of managing the transformative risks and opportunities of digitalization, particularly stemming from artificial intelligence (AI), while achieving environmental sustainability within planetary boundaries.
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

Regional News, Regional Bias? Evidence From Media Discourses and Welfare Decisions in Germany

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do media representations of immigrants shape their treatment by street‐level bureaucrats? Despite a uniform federal legal framework, decision‐making varies substantially across local welfare offices. Though prior research links national news reporting and policy implementation, little is known about how regional variation in news reporting
Stefanie Rueß
wiley   +1 more source

Elevational variation in heart mass and suppression of hypoxia‐induced right ventricle hypertrophy in Andean leaf‐eared mice (Phyllotis)

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend In lowland mammals that ascend to high elevation, hypoxia‐induced changes in the pulmonary circulation can give rise to hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH) and associated right‐ventricle (RV) hypertrophy. Andean mice with broad elevational ranges have greater heart mass relative to body size at higher elevations, but they ...
Naim M. Bautista   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploración del efecto protector frente a radicales libres de derivados de la uva (Vitis vinifera L. Cv. Tannat) en Saccharomyces cerevisiae Analysis of a putative protection against free radicals by grape derivatives (Vitis vinifera L. Cv. Tannat) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

open access: yesRevista Argentina de Microbiología, 2007
Se exploró un posible efecto protector del genoma por parte de un derivado de la uva (vino Tannat). Se utilizaron poblaciones celulares haploides y diploides de Saccharomyces cerevisiae como modelo eucariota.
N. Bracesco   +5 more
doaj  

Transcranial direct current stimulation enhances delayed retention after 5 days of lower‐limb motor skill learning

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Schematic overview of the 5 day lower‐limb motor skill learning protocol combining ankle visuomotor practice with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Participants were allocated to motor skill practice with active tDCS over the leg representation of primary motor cortex (SKILL‐STIM), motor skill practice with sham ...
August Lomholt Kvistad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cardioprotección farmacológica en anestesia cardiovascular. Diltiazem vs nitroglicerina

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Anestesiología y Reanimación, 2016
Introducción: en pacientes cardiópatas isquémicos se han diseñado diversas estrategias preventivas farmacológicas para limitar el daño por isquemia- reperfusión, con el fin de optimizar el balance en el consumo miocárdico de oxigeno.
Julián D Guzmán Bonilla   +3 more
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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

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