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Comparing Quality of Life Among Female Sex Workers With and Without Addiction

Journal of Client-centered Nursing Care, 2016
Background: Prostitution and substance abuse are among the crucial social problems in women, which affect the quality of life. However, no study has yet investigated that prostitution and substance abuse affect which dimension(s) of quality of life.
Anahita Khodabakhshi Koolaee, Fatemeh Damirchi   +1 more
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Sex Work and the Politics of Space: Case Studies of Sex Workers in Argentina and Ecuador

Social Sciences, 2017
While many studies examine how different legal approaches to prostitution affect sex workers’ living and working conditions, few studies analyze how sex workers’ physical workspaces and the policies regulating these spaces influence sex work conditions ...
Jessica Van Meir
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Avidin is evolutionarily conserved in fish but dispensable for development and resistance against Streptococcus agalactiae in zebrafish

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The presence of biotin‐binding avidin proteins in fish and their biological significance are poorly characterized. We cataloged fish avidins and demonstrate that they are widely present and evolutionarily conserved. We created avd knockout zebrafish and show that zebavidin is dispensable for development and that resistance of avd knockout embryos in ...
Anni K. Saralahti, Markus J. T. Ojanen, Mataleena Parikka, Otto Kauko, Mika Rämet, Vesa P. Hytönen   +5 more
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Cell surface CD11c as a neutrophil aging marker molecule

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Cell surface CD11chi neutrophils were more aged and had better phagocytic function than CD11c−/lo neutrophils. Transcriptomic analysis of CD11chi neutrophils and CD11c−/lo neutrophils in pediatric population showed that the most difference was seen in infants.
Sophia Koutsogiannaki, Fahd Alhamdan, Erik Malm, Marie Bermudez, Samuel Y. Kim, Koichi Yuki   +5 more
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HIV-related risk perception among female sex workers in Nigeria [PDF]

, 2011
Augustine Ankomah1, Godpower Omoregie1, Zacch Akinyemi2, Jennifer Anyanti1, Olaronke Ladipo1, Samson Adebayo11Society for Family Health, Abuja, Nigeria; 2Population Services International, Kigali, RwandaBackground: Over one-third of sex workers in ...
null Ladipo, Akinyemi Z, Anyanti J, Ankomah A, Jennifer Anyanti, Omoregie G, null Akinyemi, Ladipo O, Augustine Ankomah, null Omoregie, Adebayo S, null Adebayo   +11 more
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BCG vaccination potentiates oxidative phosphorylation in neonatal myeloid‐derived suppressor cells

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BCG vaccination enhances oxidative phosphorylation in neonatal MDSCs, impairing their immunosuppressive function. It upregulates electron transport chain genes and mitochondrial activity, increasing ATP and oxygen consumption. Pharmacological OXPHOS inhibition partially restores suppressive capacity, confirming causality.
Yingying Chen, Hui Li
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The Labour Supply of Sex Workers in Cape Town [PDF]

Traditional labour economics predicts that the supply of labour will increase as earnings increase. However, labour supply need not be positive, especially if workers make decisions based on short-term income targets.
Matthew Butler-Adams, Justine Burns
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MARK4 enhances stress granule formation under oxidative stress and increases tau accumulation

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MARK4 (red dots) localizes to stress granules (orange dots) and promotes their formation under oxidative stress by modulating TIA1 (blue dots). MARK4 and TIA1 synergistically increase tau (purple) accumulation, and the reduction of the TIA1 ortholog suppresses neurodegeneration in a fly model.
Sho Nakajima, Kotone Watanabe, Grigorii Sultanakhmetov, Aoi Fukuchi, Keiya Ito, Sawako Shimizu, Taro Saito, Akiko Asada, Kanae Ando   +8 more
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440 Sex Workers Cannot Be Wrong: Engaging and Negotiating Online Platform Power

Social Sciences
Online platforms shape and facilitate our social, economic, and political activities. Sex workers have long pioneered their use for advertising, providing services, screening clients, collecting payments, and peer-interaction, among other activities.
Samantha Majic, Melissa Ditmore, Jun Li
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Guide for workers recently hurt on the job. Spanish

, 2015
A guide to Oregon's workers' compensation benefits, rights, and responsibilities.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program.

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