Background: Interventions with women’s groups are increasingly seen as an important strategy for advancing women’s empowerment, health, and economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, with the potential to increase the resiliency of members ...
Rebecca Walcott +6 more
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Gender Politics and Secure Services For Women: Reflections on a study of staff understandings of challenging behaviour. [PDF]
This paper discusses the findings of a Q methodological study that investigated the complexity of professional understandings of (attitudes towards) residents in a secure unit for women with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours.
Anderson, J +3 more
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Starting from the hypothesis that the wars of the 20th century are realized as key factors of cultural identification on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that the category of gender conditions distinctive features of cultural identity within a
Azra Ičanović
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Women’s Socio-Political Dynamics in Indonesian Literature
Literary works have been believed to be media to spread ideas or ideology. This paper seeks to examine the images of women before Indonesia’s Reformation Era as reflected in Ahmad Tohari's Bekisar Merah and after the Reformation Era as reflected in Ayu ...
Wajiran Wajiran, Dani Fadillah
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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li +6 more
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Alienation and women's experience in contemporary fiction [PDF]
The paper is an attempt at illustrating either radical or subtle changes in the ways gender and literature interact when analyzing alienation as one of the most enduring processes and practices operating within the realm of literary topics.
Gordić-Petković Vladislava S.
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor +12 more
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Women’s and feminist periodical press in literary studies’ classroom: Theory and practice [PDF]
Women’s and feminist periodical press represents a fruitful resource for researchers who explore women’s and gender history, history of women’s and feminist movement(s), women’s writing, and various gender identites which were - and still are ...
Kolarić Ana
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?
The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo +4 more
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Growth and economic opportunities for women: literature review to inform the DFID-IDRC-Hewlett Foundation research program on women's economic empowerment, gender equality and growth in low income countries [PDF]
This is a background paper for a new research programme on women's economic empowerment. It is a comprehensive literature review on the state of the field.
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