Sexual abuse and unwanted pregnancies amongst women and girls in Malawi during the COVID-19 pandemic
Background Violence against women and girls increased during the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe. This study investigates the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to sexual abuse towards women and girls in Malawi and explores if there was
Lana Clara Chikhungu, Ugochi Nkwunonwo
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Mujer y economía. La “narrativa de la crisis” desde la perspectiva de género
For the last two decades, especially since the 2008 economic crisis, there has been a notable increase in literary works exploring social, political and economic themes in Spain.
Magda Potok
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À propos de l’édition française de Partigia de Sergio Luzzatto
Sergio Luzzatto’s Partigia. Una storia della Resistenza was first published in Italy in 2013. The aim of this microhistorical study was to reconstruct the events surrounding the execution, as a disciplinary measure, of two unruly partisans belonging to ...
Enrico Mattioda
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Politics is an organizational activity associated with power and personal status. Politics that occur on the spot is becoming increasingly common among workers. Of course, many factors influence the emergence of politics in the workplace.
Aransyah M.F., Hetami A.A.
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa +5 more
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History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975–2015
Zimbabwean fiction writers have engaged with dogs as objects, subjects and even actors. This essay focuses on the pivotal forty-year period between 1975 and 2015, which saw the end of white rule, the rise of an independent African state and the collapse ...
Innocent Dande, Sandra Swart
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The conflict after the Pazzi conspiracy and Poliziano's ‘Coniurationis commentarium’ : literature, law and politics [PDF]
This article aims to analyse how and to what extent juridical and diplomatic issues influenced Angelo Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium, the very famous literary account of the Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici brothers (1478). Written immediately
Celati, Marta
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Aggressive prostate cancer is associated with pericyte dysfunction
Tumor‐produced TGF‐β drives pericyte dysfunction in prostate cancer. This dysfunction is characterized by downregulation of some canonical pericyte markers (i.e., DES, CSPG4, and ACTA2) while maintaining the expression of others (i.e., PDGFRB, NOTCH3, and RGS5).
Anabel Martinez‐Romero +11 more
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Breaching bodily boundaries: posthuman (dis)embodiment and ecstatic speech in lip-synch performances by boychild [PDF]
Employing a sci-fi inspired aesthetic, queer, black, trans artist, boychild presents audiences with a future vision of human embodiment. Strobe lighting makes her appear fragmented or as if she were a hologram.
Riszko, Leila
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Potential therapeutic targeting of BKCa channels in glioblastoma treatment
This review summarizes current insights into the role of BKCa and mitoBKCa channels in glioblastoma biology, their potential classification as oncochannels, and the emerging pharmacological strategies targeting these channels, emphasizing the translational challenges in developing BKCa‐directed therapies for glioblastoma treatment.
Kamila Maliszewska‐Olejniczak +4 more
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