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Effect of terahertz irradiation on DNA damage repair in living cells

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We investigated the effect of terahertz (THz) wave irradiation on DNA double‐strand break (DSB) repair in living cells. We found that THz irradiation enhanced DSB repair at specific frequencies, whereas heat treatment inhibited it, indicating that this effect is nonthermal and frequency‐specific.
Yuya Ueno   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Assistance

2021
Abstract Social assistance guarantees basic social rights and provides means-tested, residual benefits to persons in need. It is the last safety net of the welfare state. The actual significance of social assistance varies by welfare regime: the more inclusive and generous a social security system, the less important usually is social ...
Bahle, Thomas, Wendt, Claus
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Image Tagging with Social Assistance

Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2014
Image tagging, also known as image annotation and image conception detection, has been extensively studied in the literature. However, most existing approaches can hardly achieve satisfactory performance owing to the deficiency and unreliability of the manually-labeled training data.
Yang Yang 0002   +4 more
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Psycho-Social Assistance

2009
In the previous chapters we addressed legislation for victims of terrorism and their needs. The following chapters will discuss specific interventions that relate to the needs of victims of terrorism. These chapters are divided according to the main headings of the CoE Guidelines for Victims of Terrorism, with Chapter 5 discussing access and ...
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Social assistance

This contribution provide an analysis of social assistance services for migrants provided by SAI projects aimed at single adults and families. The first part offers a summary of the relevant provisions, emphasising the specific roles assigned to social workers in SAI projects.
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SOCIAL SERVICES TO ASSIST NUTRITION

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1994
Social services to assist in improving nutritional status in older adults are reviewed. The social service interventions are placed in three broad categories of risk for older people to include poverty, social isolation, and dependency/disability. Each social service is identified and described to include eligibility and local resources.
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Social assistance in Southern Europe

South European Society and Politics, 1996
This article summarizes social assistance programmes and outcomes in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey drawing material from a comparative study of OECD countries. A distinct social assistance regime is identified, characterized by the absence of a national minimum income safety net with categorical schemes for the aged and local discretionary ...
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Social assistance beneficiaries’ access to social services in a digitalised and centralised social assistance system

2021
The digitalisation of public services has become topical particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when due to the social distancing restrictions, face-to-face services were limited or non-existent. Using statistical data on red flag notifications in the SA system (2017-2020) and survey data on social work professionals from 2021, we assess the ability
Ylikännö, Minna   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Social vulnerability and short-term disaster assistance in the United States

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2021
Oronde Drakes   +2 more
exaly  

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