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New nomads: the dispossession of the consumer in social housing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
With the advent of flexible tenancies, marketised rents, the abolition of a consumer-focused regulator and the disbanding of the National Tenant Voice, three decades of efforts to induce consumer pressure in the English social housing sector have been ...
Bradley, Q
core  

Cell wall target fragment discovery using a low‐cost, minimal fragment library

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
LoCoFrag100 is a fragment library made up of 100 different compounds. Similarity between the fragments is minimized and 10 different fragments are mixed into a single cocktail, which is soaked to protein crystals. These crystals are analysed by X‐ray crystallography, revealing the binding modes of the bound fragment ligands.
Kaizhou Yan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable financing models for long-term viability in social and affordable housing projects in South Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities
The lack of sustainable financing options remains a critical constraint on the development of social and affordable housing, particularly in rapidly urbanising contexts such as South Africa. High and volatile borrowing costs, short debt tenors and rising
N. N. Ngema, N. N. Ngema, V. Chauke
doaj   +1 more source

Social Work or Relief Work? A Crisis in Professional Social Work

open access: yesSocial Change Review, 2015
Social work is a sharing and caring profession based on scientific methods. This problem solving profession makes people self-reliant and self-dependent when he/she is in any sorts of crises.
Adhikari Harasankar
doaj   +1 more source

Invited commentary: The long term impact of forced migration during childhood on adult health

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2016
Saarela and Elo (SSM-Population Health; Volume 2, December 2016, Pages 813–823) provide new evidence of early life forced displacement not being adversely associated with adult health. Their study highlights some of the challenges to identifying a causal
Torsten Santavirta
doaj   +1 more source

Water infrastructure and social housing in Bogotá: an intersection between modern water management and social housing production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
En la actualidad Bogotá afronta la presión de construir viviendas sociales en ecosistemas frágiles, áreas rurales o zonas propensas a las inundaciones, y al mismo tiempo proteger estas áreas para asegurar la capacidad de resiliencia del medio ambiente.
Rojas Bernal, Claudia Lucia
core   +1 more source

Inhibiting stearoyl‐CoA desaturase suppresses bone metastatic prostate cancer by modulating cellular stress, mTOR signaling, and DNA damage response

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Bone metastasis in prostate cancer (PCa) patients is a clinical hurdle due to the poor understanding of the supportive bone microenvironment. Here, we identify stearoyl‐CoA desaturase (SCD) as a tumor‐promoting enzyme and potential therapeutic target in bone metastatic PCa.
Alexis Wilson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information and communication technologies, e-Health and homelessness: A bibliometric review

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2019
A bibliometric review was conducted to assess the available scientific knowledge regarding the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (IEH) and reflect on the existing evidence that ICT use has on
Fran Calvo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social housing and digital exclusion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This report by the National Housing Federation Futures Project analyses the concept of digital exclusion, its effects, the role of housing associations in tackling its consequences and possible interventions that may ...
Winchester, Nik
core  

Organ‐specific redox imbalances in spinal muscular atrophy mice are partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotides

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
wiley   +1 more source

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