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The Colonization of Hong Kong: Establishing the Pearl of Britain-China Trade [PDF]
We construct a staged development framework with multi-period discrete choices to study the colonization of Hong Kong, which facilitated the trade of several agricultural and manufactured products, including opium, between Britain and China. The model is
Palivos, Theodore +2 more
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Direct Ambient Mass Spectrometry for Food, Beverage, and Agricultural Sample Analysis and Research
ABSTRACT Ambient and direct mass spectrometry (MS) methods are becoming increasingly used for the rapid analysis of food, beverage and agricultural samples. Novel ionization approaches combined with targeted, or untargeted workflows provide analytical outcomes within a greatly reduced time period compared to traditional separation science coupled with ...
Leigh M. Schmidtke +3 more
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Opium intoxication in children under 5 years old, Golestan- Iran (2006-07)
Background and Objective: Opium usage for sedating/relieving from diarrhea or cough causes a public health problem. In the northeast of Iran (Golestan province), opium is used widely for symptomatic therapy of routine illnesses in young children.
Besharat S (MD) +4 more
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Losing wealth or restricting the poison? Changing opium policies in early republican Turkey, 1923-1945. [PDF]
Este artículo analiza las variables políticas respecto al opio en la etapa inicial de la Turquía republicana y sus consecuencias políticas. Al inicio del siglo XX, la consideración pública del opio había sido reconstruida y se había afianzado la tesis de
Burçak Gürsoy, Özgür
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Interventions for opioid use disorder during the first year postpartum: A systematic review
Abstract Objective To provide a qualitative summary of published interventions for postpartum opioid abstinence and reduction in non‐prescribed opioid use in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). Materials and Methods PubMed, CINAHL, PsychINFO, and EMBASE were searched from inception to January 11, 2023.
Charlotte B. McCarley +6 more
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This review highlights the characteristic odor markers of illicit drugs, emphasizing volatile markers from both natural and synthetic sources, and explores the shift from canine‐based detection to emerging noncontact sensing technologies. Illicit drug use remains a global concern, requiring effective detection methods to counter evolving concealment ...
Minwoo Kim +4 more
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Effects of opium dependency on hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of opium on hypothalamic pituitary gonad function. Fifty-six opium dependent (28 men and 28 women; mean age, 25±5 year) were enrolled for hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis. The control group considered
Mansorian, A.-R. +6 more
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The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Presence of Lead in Opium [PDF]
Opium addiction is a common form of addiction in Middle East countries such as Iran. Recently several reports suggested some kinds of pathologic findings such as abdominal pain, nephropathy, and anemia in opium addict patients. Such pathologic findings
Aghaee-Afshar, Mahmoud +4 more
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The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism [PDF]
The no-miracles argument (Putnam, 1975) holds that science is successful because successful theories are (approximately) true. Frost-Arnold (2010) objects that this argument is unacceptable because it generates neither new predictions nor unifications ...
Park, Seungbae
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