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A critical feminist discursive analysis of dynamics shaping abortion in Canada: Implications for nursing.

open access: yesWitness, 2020
The advent of “the abortion pill” (Mifegymiso) in 2015 has shaped the contemporary context of access to abortion in Canada. In this paper, we highlight findings of a literature review that uses a gender and intersectional lens and critical discourse ...
Margaret Lebold, Judith MacDonnell
doaj   +1 more source

Exchange Rates and Product Variety [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the role of exchange rate variability in the firm's choice of whether to o¤er one or two varieties. We show that variability induces the firm to vertically segment markets (offer two varieties).
Witness Simbanegavi
core   +1 more source

From omics to AI—mapping the pathogenic pathways in type 2 diabetes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Integrating multi‐omics data with AI‐based modelling (unsupervised and supervised machine learning) identify optimal patient clusters, informing AI‐driven accurate risk stratification. Digital twins simulate individual trajectories in real time, guiding precision medicine by matching patients to targeted therapies.
Siobhán O'Sullivan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Leaving no one behind”: COVID-19 Response in Black Canadian Communities

open access: yesWitness, 2020
Despite the universal healthcare system in Canada, Canadians of African Descent (CAD) still face numerous problems that place them at higher risk to pandemics such as COVID-19.
Josephine Etowa   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Price Elasticities and Pricing Power in Emerging Markets: The Case of Petrochemicals Derived Plastics in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines whether there necessarily exists a conflict between allocative and productive efficiency in small open economy markets. That productive efficiency favours market concentration is not in dispute, and the sole question we face is ...
Johannes Fedderke, Witness Simbanegavi
core   +1 more source

Witnessing Entanglement with Second-Order Interference

open access: yes, 2006
Second-order interference and Hanbury-Brown and Twiss type experiments can provide an operational framework for the construction of witness operators that can test classical and nonclassical properties of a Gaussian squeezed state (GSS), and provide ...
B. Yurke   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Exploring lipid diversity and minimalism to define membrane requirements for synthetic cells

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Designing the lipid membrane of synthetic cells is a complex task, in which its various roles (among them solute transport, membrane protein support, and self‐replication) should all be integrated. In this review, we report the latest top‐down and bottom‐up advances and discuss compatibility and complexity issues of current engineering approaches ...
Sergiy Gan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Msit No'kmaq: An Exploration of Positionality and Identity in Indigenous Research

open access: yesWitness, 2020
In this paper I explore the Mi’kmaq words Mist No’kmaq, which can be translated as ‘all my relations’. Msit No'kmaq is not only at the center of who I am as a person, but also who I am becoming as a researcher. Reflecting on how to honor all my relations
Erica Samms Hurley, Margot Jackson
doaj   +1 more source

Ergothioneine supplementation improves pup phenotype and survival in a murine model of spinal muscular atrophy

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease affecting motor neurons. Individuals with SMA experience mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of an antioxidant and neuroprotective substance, ergothioneine (ERGO), on an SMNΔ7 mouse model of SMA.
Francesca Cadile   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informative Advertising: Competition or Cooperation? [PDF]

open access: yes
I compare the outcome when firms semicollude on advertising to the outcome in the Grossman and Shapiro (1984) model of informative advertising. I show that advertising is lower but prices and profits are higher under semicollusion on advertising.
Witness Simbanegavi
core   +1 more source

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