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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the relationship between wetland ecosystems and prehistoric lakeshore settlements within the Lake Ohrid basin (a biodiversity hotspot) by considering plant food systems at Ploča Mičov Grad, North Macedonia. The mid‐fifth millennium (c.4555–4373 to 4437–4241 cal BCE) waterlogged assemblage contained a diverse spectrum of ...
Amy Holguin +14 more
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Global HeartBackground: Opium consumption has been an overlooked health issue in the Iranian population, and the prognostic role of opium consumption in patients undergoing coronary revascularization is unknown. Hypothesis: We aimed to assess the association between
Ali Izadi Amoli +13 more
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Potential Effect of Opium Consumption on Controlling Diabetes and Some Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Diabetic Patients [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2013 Background: Due to this belief that opium may have beneficial effects on diabetes or cardiovascular risk factors, the present study aimed to assess the potential and possible effects of opium consumption on diabetes control and some cardiovascular risk ...
Najmeh Rahimi +4 more
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
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, 2017 The clash between Great Britain and China in 1839 to 1842 was not only a typical 19th-century imperial war but also the first major conflict in which psychoactive substances played a central role. The hostilities resumed in 1856 to 1860, when Britain used the seizure of the trading ship Arrow in October 1956, near Canton, as an excuse to employ ...
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Romantic Nationalism, Thomas De Quincey and the Public Debate about the First Opium War, 1839-42 [PDF]
, 2019 This essay situates Thomas De Quincey's essay 'On the Opium and the China Question' published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in June 1840 within the British public debate about the politics of the opium trade with China and the First Opium War.
Kitson, Peter
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Opium Dependency in Recurrent Painful Renal Lithiasis Colic [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2012 Background: The main goal of this study is to determine the relationship between opium dependency and frequency of urolithiasis renal colics. Methods: In a cross sectional study we compared opium dependency in urolithiasis patients (case group) with non ...
Ali Asghar Ketabchi +3 more
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Opium use during pregnancy and infant size at birth: a cohort study
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018 Background The reported positive association between opiatic drug use during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes might be confounded by other factors related to high-risk behaviors, including the use of other harmful substances.
Siavash Maghsoudlou +6 more
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Opioids in breast cancer: Between analgesia and modulation of tumour progression
British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Preclinical investigations consistently demonstrate that activation of μ‐opioid receptors and δ‐opioid receptors promote proliferation, migration, angiogenesis, epithelial‐mesenchymal transition, acquisition of cancer stem cell phenotypes, and chemoresistance.
Marianna Ciwun +2 more
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Counterproductive counternarcotic strategies? A study of the effects of opium eradication in the presence of imperfect capital markets and sharecropping arrangements [PDF]
In this paper, we model the economic incentives surrounding opium crop production at farm level in Afghanistan. Specifically, we examine the impact of eradication policies when opium is used as a means of obtaining credit, and when the crops are produced
Andersson, Camilla
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