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Human rights abuses at a psychiatric hospital in KwaZulu-Natal

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Psychiatry, 2007
Background:Following allegations of human rights abuses ata psychiatric hospital in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, thatwere reported in one of the local newspapers, the nationaland provincial Ministers of Health visited the hospital.
D L Mkhize
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Estimating the Efficiency of Voting in Big Size Committees [PDF]

open access: yes
In a simple voting committee with a finite number of members, in which each member has a voting weight, the voting rule is defined by the quota (a minimal number of voting weights is required to approve a proposal), and the efficiency of voting in the ...
Pavel Doležel
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Erythropoietin modulates hepatic inflammation, glucose homeostasis, and soluble epoxide hydrolase and epoxides in high‐fat diet‐induced obese mice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lobbyists and corporations have opportunities to exercise significant influence over UK public policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
MPs have this week been debating the government’s controversial Lobbying Bill, which has now concluded its committee stage in the House of Commons. In the 2012 audit of UK democracy, Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Andrew Blick, and Stephen Crone considered the ...
Blick, Andrew   +2 more
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Iron homeostasis disruption and lipid peroxidation in skeletal muscle during short‐term immobilization

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
14‐day casting‐induced immobilization reduced gastrocnemius muscle mass and increased non‐heme iron and ferritin heavy chain levels. Despite iron accumulation, transferrin receptor 1 and iron regulatory protein 2 were paradoxically upregulated. Lipid peroxidation was elevated without compensatory antioxidant responses.
Haruka Yokogawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Northwest Friend, October 1952

open access: yes, 1952
Northwest Friend, October 1952. William Penn Speaks To Ministers of Christ; A Committee Visits The Inland Empire; Meet Your Pastors; Our Bolivian Pastors and Evangelists; Are Tithers Dying Off?; The Superintendent\u27s Corner; Items of Interest; Around ...
George Fox University Archives
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THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL REINTEGRATION IN ROMANIA AFTER 1989 [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2019
This paper attempts at pointing to the way in which social reintegration has evolved in Romania, starting with the communist era and ending with present time. First, we briefly outline the organisation of social reintegration under the communist regime
Constantin Marc NEAGU
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A Letter Invited on a Trip: Practice of Dealing with Complaints in Soviet Lithuania

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2007
In Soviet post-war society many letters / complaints which had little to do with ideology or police were written. People who wrote those complaints did not intend to report or punish anyone.
Dalia Marcinkevičienė
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Non-discrimination under the European Convention on Human Rights: a critique of the UK Government's refusal to sign and ratify Protocol 12 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The European Convention on Human Rights does not contain a general prohibition of discrimination. Article 14 is accessory to the Convention’s other substantive guarantees and has no independent existence, with the result that certain forms of ...
Grief, Nicholas
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Parliamentary committees in Zambia's Third Republic: partial reforms; unfinished agenda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This article critically examines the contribution of parliamentary committees in Zambia to democratic government. Several committees are of long-standing, including the Committee on Government Assurances and Committee on Delegated Legislation; others ...
Burnell, Peter J.
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