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Diverse reactivity of maleimides in polymer science and beyond

open access: yesPolymer International, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 296-306, April 2025.
This mini‐review provides a thorough overview of maleimide chemistry, highlighting its diverse reactivity in polymer and materials science applications. Abstract Maleimides are remarkably versatile functional groups, capable of participating in homo‐ and copolymerizations, Diels–Alder and (photo)cycloadditions, Michael additions, and other reactions ...
Bruce E Kirkpatrick   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An unusual unplanned complex suicide by arm cutting, poisoning, and self-immolation

open access: yesForensic Science International: Reports, 2023
Different methods of suicide, when combined with contamination of the scene, increase the difficulty of interpreting the dynamics of an event. In the presented case, the discovery of a corpse with widespread burns, singed hair, an “X”-shaped cut on the ...
Claudio Terranova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological Characteristics and Prognostic Factors for Mortality in Severe Burns: A 32‐Year Analysis (1993–2024) From a National Referral Center in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Severe burns represent a major public health burden in middle‐income countries. This study describes the epidemiological profile and identifies independent prognostic factors for in‐hospital mortality in patients with severe burns treated at the national referral center of the Dominican Republic over a 32‐year period.
José Enrique Cueva‐Ramírez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Witnesses to Victims of Self-Immolation [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Psychiatry, 2008
Objective: In some areas of Iran self -immolation is one of the most common ways for committing suicide and it is very disturbing and painful for those who witness it.
Amirian B.S.C   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Contexts of Self-Immolation among Women Admitted to Isfahan Burns Hospital, Iran: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesتحقیقات نظام سلامت, 2022
Background: Women in every society play a central role in the family and at the same time, are highly exposed to the pressures of dysfunctional relationships of economic, social, and cultural institutions outside the family, and if they are constantly ...
Mahmoud Keyvanara   +2 more
doaj  

Rethinking ‘Hill‐Valley Divide’ in Darjeeling District, India: An Autoethnographic Approach to Highland Identities

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Immolation in South Asia: Epidemiology, Motives, and Sociocultural Contexts

open access: yesPublic Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Self‐immolation is a neglected public health and social problem in South Asia. This review focuses on epidemiological patterns, sociodemographic characteristics, motives, and psychosocial correlates associated with self‐immolation in South Asian countries.
S. M. Yasir Arafat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ten Years Working on the Front Lines: Women for Afghan Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This Ten-Year Report tells the story of Women for Afghan Women: our organizational journey over the past decade woven together with world events that affect women's rights in Afghanistan, the personal journeys of the women who lead the organization, and ...

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Multi‐stimuli‐responsive self‐immolative polymer assemblies [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2018
ABSTRACTSelf‐immolative polymers (SIPs) undergo depolymerization in response to the cleavage of stimuli‐responsive end‐caps from their termini. Some classes of SIPs, including polycarbamates, have depolymerization rates that depend on environmental factors such as solvent and pH.
Rebecca E. Yardley, Elizabeth R. Gillies
openaire   +4 more sources

MGL‐Based Drug Conjugate: A Novel Glycan‐Targeting Strategy for Potential Precision Cancer Therapy

open access: yesChemistryEurope, Volume 4, Issue 5, May 2026.
An engineered macrophage galactose‐type lectin (MGL)‐based conjugate (mMGL‐vcMMAE), incorporating an exposed cysteine for site‐specific drug linkage, preserves stability, binding profile, and affinity of the native MGL carbohydrate recognition domain. It also selectively targets Tn/STn‐expressing cancer cells and shows recognition of colorectal cancer ...
Carlos D. L. Lima   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

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