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Immigration, Drinking, and Frequent Mental Distress
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2010 Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the importance of immigration as a risk factor for self-reported frequent mental distress (FMD) among black respondents to an Internet survey. Method: Snowball sampling was used to obtain Internet
Julius Ade MD, PhD +2 more
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
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Elevated C-reactive protein and mortality risk among COPD patients
The Egyptian Journal of BronchologyBackground Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive disease associated with autoimmune systemic inflammation. The evidence on the role of C-reactive protein (-CRP) in predicting mortality among people with COPD remains mixed. Methods
Srikanta Banerjee +4 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Henry David Thoreau´s critique of expansionist ideology
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1962) es un naturalista y escritor estadounidense. Él es mejor conocido por Walden (1854), un relato de su experimento en el que viven solas en Walden Pond, cerca de Concord, Massachusetts, para observar la vida de los bosques.
Manfred Pütz
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Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
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Sedimentology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Deciphering sediment provenance is essential to understand depositional patterns and dynamics. This question is particularly important in archaeological contexts to constrain the sedimentological history of unearthed material—an information critically needed, for example, to estimate the age of the deposits—or to apprehend sediment movement ...
Fuchs Coraline +8 more
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Intramuscular pathways of maladaptation in overtraining syndrome
The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend The transition from adaptive overreaching to maladaptive overtraining and mechanisms through which excessive training load can lead to performance decline. Four interconnected pathophysiological domains are highlighted: neural fatigue, involving both central and peripheral components such as altered sensory feedback and reflex ...
Emily Shorter +4 more
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Role of attitudes and intentions in predicting adherence to oral diabetes medications
Endocrine Connections, 2017 The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the extent to which patient attitudes and intentions predict adherence to the use of oral antihyperglycemic regimens in African Americans.
Emmanuel K Fai +2 more
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The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend Left atrial myocytes have TAT‐associated faster Ca2+ release but are more prone to maladaptation at higher frequencies due to weaker peripheral SR Ca2+ uptake and smaller trigger Ca2+ current. Abstract Changes in heart rate affect Ca2+ signalling and contractility in ventricular muscle, but the effects on atrial Ca2+ signalling ...
Joon‐Chul Kim +6 more
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