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Managing the Socially Marginalized: Attitudes Towards Welfare, Punishment and Race [PDF]

, 2012
Welfare and incarceration policies have converged to form a system of governance over socially marginalized groups, particularly racial minorities. In both of these policy areas, rehabilitative and social support objectives have been replaced with a more
Amenta E., Barkan S. E., Beckett K., Blalock H. M., Carter S. B., Chiricos T., Darren Wheelock, Edgel P., Edsall T. B., Epsing-Andersen G., Garland D., Hancock A.-M., Haney L., Johnson M., Katz M. B., Kinder D. R., Kinder D. R., Kluegel J. R., Mink G., Neubeck K. J., Pamela Wald, Quadagno J., Schram S. F., Schuman H., Sears D. O., Skocpol T., Soss J., Soss J., U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. House of Representatives, Wacquant L., Western B., Yakov Shchukin   +34 more
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A stepwise emergence of evolution in the RNA world

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
How did biological evolution emerge from chemical reactions? This perspective proposes a gradual scenario of self‐organization among RNA molecules, where catalytic feedback on random mixtures plays the central role. Short oligomers cross‐ligate, and self‐assembly enables heritable variations. An event of template‐externalization marks the transition to
Philippe Nghe
wiley   +1 more source

Statement on the use of animal‐based measures to assess the welfare of animals

EFSA Journal, 2012
The overall aim of the work outlined in this statement is to help establish a common framework for future scientific opinions dealing with the use of animal‐based measures to assess the welfare of animals.
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
doaj   +1 more source

Does organic farming face distinctive livestock welfare issues? - A conceptual analysis [PDF]

, 2001
The recent development and growth of organic livestock farming and the related development of national and international regulations has fuelled discussions among scientists and philosophers concerning the proper conceptualisation of animal welfare ...
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Kristensen, Erik Steen, Vaarst, Mette   +2 more
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Evolutionary interplay between viruses and R‐loops

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Viruses interact with specialized nucleic acid structures called R‐loops to influence host transcription, epigenetic states, latency, and immune evasion. This Perspective examines the roles of R‐loops in viral replication, integration, and silencing, and how viruses co‐opt or avoid these structures.
Zsolt Karányi, Zita Képes, Zoltán Szabó, Eszter Csoma, Lóránt Székvölgyi   +4 more
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Making the Link: Pregnancy Prevention and the New Welfare Era [PDF]

, 1999
Making the Link: Pregnancy Prevention in the New Welfare Era offers strategies to prevent unintended pregnancy in an era in which the nation's welfare program has a changed mission, more money, and greater reach.
Jodie Levin-Epstein, Phyllida Burlingame, Rutledge Hutson   +2 more
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Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s [PDF]

, 1998
In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built.
Alcock, P., Alder, J., Beresford, P., Blair, T., Blair, T., Blunkett, D., C.P.A.G., Conservative Party, Conservative Party, D.E.T.R, Deacon, A., E.R.A.S., Etzioni, A., Field, F., Giddens, A., Gosling, P., Harman, H., Harman, H., Harman, H., Hetherington, P., Home Office, Hurd, D., Jeavans, C., Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour Party, Lister, R., Mann, K., Marshall, T.H., Meikle, J., Milne, S., N.H.F., Oliver, D., Peter Dwyer, Roche, M., Selbourne, D., Selbourne, D., Titmuss, R.M., Williams, F., Young, M.   +39 more
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The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare

Animals, 2019
Simple Summary Research has shown that an animal’s welfare is highly dependent on how various individual animal factors (e.g., species traits, genetics, temperament and previous experience) interact with environmental features (e.g., social grouping ...
Sally L. Sherwen, P. Hemsworth
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Circulating histones as clinical biomarkers in critically ill conditions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Circulating histones are emerging as promising biomarkers in critical illness due to their diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic potential. Detection methods such as ELISA and mass spectrometry provide reliable approaches for quantifying histone levels in plasma samples.
José Luis García‐Gimenez, Juan Carlos Ruiz‐Rodríguez, Ricard Ferrer, Raquel Durá, Antonio Artigas, Iván Bajaña, David Bolado López de Andujar, Irene Cánovas‐Cervera, Adrián Ceccato, Luis Chiscano‐Camón, Elena Climent‐Martinez, Georgia García Fernández, Gemma Goma, Verónica Monforte, Beatriz Quevedo‐Sánchez, Adolf Ruiz‐Sanmartín, Antonio Sierra‐Rivera, Nieves Carbonell Monleón   +17 more
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Scientific Opinion on monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for pigs

EFSA Journal, 2013
This scientific opinion proposes toolboxes of welfare indicators for developing monitoring procedures at slaughterhouses for pigs stunned with the head‐only electrical method or carbon dioxide at high concentration.
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
doaj   +1 more source