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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Overexpression of Adiponectin Receptors in Opium Users with and without Cancer

Clinical Pharmacology: Advances and Applications, 2020
Negar Firouzabadi,1– 3 Maral Haghnegahdar,1 Bahman Khalvati,4 Ali Dehshahri,5 Ehsan Bahramali6 1Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; 2Pharmaceutical Sciences Research ...
Firouzabadi N, Haghnegahdar M, Khalvati B, Dehshahri A, Bahramali E   +4 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

B12 and Folate Concentrations in Opium Addicts Compared to Healthy Subjects: A Case Control Study from Kerman Coronary Artery Disease Risk Study [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2018
Background: Opium addiction is a global problem which has implicated many societies. Opium addiction and drug abuse is related to harmful consequences which affect life style, biochemical factors, and vitamins values, and also is considered as a risk for
Ahmad Gholamhossenian, Beydolah Shahouzehi, Mostafa Shokoohi, Hamid Najafipour   +3 more
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Sixteen Years Later: Revisiting Cultural Complexes and the Roots of Archetypal Thematic Analysis (ATA)1

Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Written as a letter to my 28‐year‐old self, this paper explores the development of my engagement with cultural complexes. On August 18, 2009, I finished a chapter applying cultural complexes to a history of China, complete with elaborate charts that seemed to confirm a process by which cultural complexes are formed, and how China’s then recent
Kevin Lu
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Estimating opium use prevalence at the national and provincial levels in Iran: a modelling study

Scientific Reports
Opium consumption was recently classified as carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). With Iran having the highest global prevalence of opium consumption, understanding the national and provincial prevalence of ...
Saeed Nemati, Mehdi Hatami Goloujeh, Hossein Poustchi, Maryam Hadji, Hamideh Rashidian, Farhad Pourfarzi, Ali Fakhari Dehkharghani, Mehdi Shahmoradi, Farhad Moradpour, Mojtaba Farjam, Mohammadreza Naghipour, Nader Saki, Mohammad Reza Fattahi, Farid Najafi, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Parvin Khalili, Fereshteh Ghorat, Moluk Hadi Alijanvand, Mahmood Moosazadeh, Rahim Khalilzadeh, Javad Harooni, Hossein Fallahzadeh, Nour Mohammad Bakhshani, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Farin Kamangar, Reza Malekzadeh, Mahdi Sheikh, Kazem Zendehdel   +28 more
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The Reasons for Higher Mortality Rate in Opium Addicted Patients with COVID-19: A Narrative Review

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2021
The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused COVID-19 has developed into an unexampled worldwide pandemic. The most important cause of death in patients with COVID-19 is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS ...
Amirhossein DOLATI-SOMARIN, Bahareh ABD-NIKFARJAM   +1 more
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Opium Cultivation Imperilling Endangered Species in Northern Laos

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
To avoid government eradication efforts, farmers in northeastern Laos shifted opium cultivation deep into a national park, causing a > 1000% increase in protected forest cleared for the crop between 2018 and 2022. This displacement directly threatened endangered species like white‐cheeked gibbons, elephants, and dholes by causing a rise in hunting ...
Jay White, Khamphui Invixay, Akchousanh Rasphone, Vincent Nijman   +3 more
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W. A. P. Martin's Glorious Taiping Revolution: The Figurative Economy of Opium and the Revisionist Diplomacies of American Christendom

, 2021
In 1856 when urging diplomatic recognition of the Taiping by the United States, the American Presbyterian missionary W.A.P. Martin laid out a world historical showdown between abstemious Christian revolutionaries of a rising China and besotted pagan and ...
Johnson, KA
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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