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Climate Action Delay Discourses in the Sports Sector: Insights From Interviews With Athletes and Staff

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a major contradiction between the current model of international elite sport and efforts to mitigate climate change. This study investigates climate action delay discourses within the sports sector by analyzing 28 semi‐structured interviews with athletes and sports federation employees.
Pascal Stegmann, Manuel Suter
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Skills-based medication training program for patients with schizophrenic disorders: a rater-blind randomized controlled trial

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2015
Uwe B Schirmer,1 Tilman Steinert,1,2 Erich Flammer,1,2 Raoul Borbé1,2 1Centre for Psychiatry South-Wuerttemberg, Ravensburg, Germany; 2Ulm University, Department Psychiatry I, Ravensburg, Germany Background: The long-term course of schizophrenia
Schirmer UB, Steinert T, Flammer E, Borbé R   +3 more
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Becoming a TESOL Practitioner: Disciplinary Languaging and the Socialization of International Students in UK Higher Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article proposes the concept of disciplinary languaging to account for the regulated forms of communication that are characteristic of TESOL master's preparatory programs in the UK. It does so with a view to the effects on the socialization of international students who are attracted by the global promotion of such programs and the ...
Yunpeng Du, Miguel Pérez‐Milans
wiley   +1 more source

Study of Socio Demographic Predictors of Adherence of Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) among HIV Positive Patients – A Case Control Study

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2017
Introduction: After starting free Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) in India, challenge has changed from gaining access to taking the treatment correctly and consistently in order to realize the rewards of improved health status, and reduced morbidity and ...
Bhautik P Modi, Vaibhav Gharat, Prakash B Patel, Sunil Nayak, Rachna Prasad, R K Bansal   +5 more
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Keep things in perspective: reasons, rationality, and the a priori

, 2014
Objective reasons are given by the facts. Subjective reasons are given by one’s perspective on the facts. Subjective reasons, not objective reasons, determine what it is rational to do.
Whiting, Daniel
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It's Not You, It's the System: Women Professors in TESOL and the Persistence of Gender Bias

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Although progress has been made with respect to the role and position of women in academia, overt and covert discrimination as well as structural and systemic bias persist. In this article, we report on research conducted with 14 women professors from 10 different countries to explore to what extent these issues affect women professors in ...
Sarah Mercer, Tammy Gregersen, Amy S. Thompson, Su Yon Yim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polypill for prevention of cardiovascular disease in an Urban Iranian population with special focus on nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial within a cohort (PolyIran - Liver) – Study protocol [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is among the most common causes of mortality in all populations. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is a common finding in patients with CVD. Prevention of CVD in individual patients typically requires periodic clinical
Hemming, K., Jafari, E., Khoshnia, M., Khuzani, A.S., Malekzadeh, R., Marshall, T., Merat, S., Nateghi, A., Poustchi, H., Radmard, A.-R.   +9 more
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Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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