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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo +2 more
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Efficiency and equity effects of social grants in South Africa [PDF]
This paper discusses the nature and effects of social grants programmes in South Africa against the backdrop of international trends in the reform of social assistance systems. It shows that South Africa has a well-developed social assistance system that
Bongisa Lekezwa +2 more
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Scan of Leadership Development Programs [PDF]
, 2014 [Original publication date is uncertain.]http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108544/1/Scan_of_Leadership_Development_Programs ...
Skillman Technical Assistance Center, University of Michigan School of Social Work
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo +4 more
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A new targeting - a new take-up? : non-take-up of social assistance in Germany after social policy reforms [PDF]
"We present first estimates of rates of non-take-up for social assistance in Germany after the implementation of major social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the German ...
Bruckmeier, Kerstin, Wiemers, Jürgen
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, 2016 As countries implement social assistance (or safety net) programs, a range of technicalhurdles can affect their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban areas,the focus of this study, cost of living can be higher and more prone to economic slowdowns.Poverty can be more ...
Moreira, Vanessa, Gentilini, Ugo
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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany [PDF]
Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many economists.
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter, Steiner, Viktor
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Bifidobacterium bifidum establishes symbiosis with infants by metabolizing lacto‐N‐biose I (LNB) from human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The extracellular multidomain enzyme LnbB drives this process, releasing LNB via its catalytic glycoside hydrolase family 20 (GH20) lacto‐N‐biosidase domain.
Xinzhe Zhang +5 more
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Social assistance and labour supply [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 1999 The longitudinal, 1988–89 LMAS makes it possible to study the interaction between social assistance and labour supply while allowing for substantial time dependence. Tobit equations for hours worked on and off social assistance, which allow for endogenous selection of social assistance status, are estimated by using FIML.
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Tweeting For a Better World [PDF]
, 2012 Recognizing the need to build the social media capacity of nonprofits, the Rita Allen Foundation began a pilot project last spring, engaging the expertise and assistance of The Bridgespan Group, to help six grantees plan effective social media strategies.
Elizabeth Good Christopherson +3 more
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