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‘My Contributions Made a Significant Difference’: Young Carers’ Reflections on Their Participation in Social Work Admissions

Andrea Newman, Bridgit Carey, Malcolm Kinney · 2021 · The British Journal of Social Work

Abstract Whilst the participation of service users and carers (SUCs) in Social Work admissions (SWAs) has significantly developed over the past decades, concerns have been raised about the tokenistic nature of SUC involvement (Barnes, D.,…

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DO WE REALLY HAVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR JEWISH GLADIATORS?

Haggai Olshanetsky · 2021 · JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

In the past, it has been suggested that Jews were both participants and spectators in the gladiatorial games. Yet, all the materials presented to prove the existence of Jewish gladiators seem to be less conclusive than what the authors…

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Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce Attention to Environmental Issues?

Sari Verachtert, Dieter Stiers, Marc Hooghe · 2025 · Politics of the Low Countries

Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in…

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Preliminary study does not demonstrate SARS-CoV-2 infection in bats from Oaxaca, México during the Covid-19 pandemic

Itandehui Hernández-Aguilar, Luis Román Ramírez-Palacios, Consuelo Lorenzo et al. · 2024 · Therya Notes

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is the etiological agent of the 2019 coronavirus disease that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. This virus has achieved sustained transmission across human populations; however, since 2020, reverse zoonotic contagion…

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Can Collective Action Institutions Outperform the State?

Max Harleman, Jeremy G. Weber · 2025 · Policy Studies Journal

ABSTRACT A core literature in the field of public policy seeks to understand whether decentralized collective action institutions will emerge to provide public goods. While some studies examine how they perform relative to public…

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Mental distress in subjects who did, or did not, move from rural Sami core areas to cities in Norway: The impact of Sami ethnicity

Astrid Eriksen, Marita Melhus, Bjarne Koster Jacobsen et al. · 2021 · Socialmedicinsk tidskrift

The aim of the study was to compare the level of mental distress of Sami and non-Sami residents in rural Sami core areas with that of people who have moved from these areas to cities in Norway. Previous research on mental health among the…

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Oral melatonin did not reduce anxiety before elective hernia repair: A randomised, double‐blinded, placebo‐controlled trial

Mikkel Andreas Holm, Anders Gram‐Hanssen, Bennedikte Kollerup Madsen et al. · 2022 · Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Abstract Background Preoperative anxiety is a common issue in surgery. Preoperative anxiety may lead to increased mortality, pain and dissatisfaction with surgery. Melatonin is a drug with only mild adverse effects and has previously been…

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A Mismatched Group of Items That I Would Not Find Particularly Interesting: Challenges and Opportunities with Digital Exhibits and Collections Labels

Mikala Narlock, Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon, Melissa Harden · 2022 · Evidence Based Library and Information Practice

Objective – The authors sought to identify link language that is user-friendly and sufficiently disambiguates between a digital collection and digital exhibit platform for users from a R1 institution, or a university with high research…

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Aerosol–Climate Interaction in the South Asian Region: A Focused Exploration of the Impacts of Ozone, Black Carbon, Optical Properties and Radiative Forcing in a Region of Significant Climate Change Dynamics

Kazi Rakib Uddin, Shahid Uz Zaman, Krishnakant B. Budhavant et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Climatology

ABSTRACT In South Asia, our understanding of atmospheric aerosols and their optical properties is limited, posing a challenge to comprehending climate change dynamics. This study characterises aerosol optical properties, radiative…

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Vascular Stiffness, Instead of Coronary Artery Calcification, Exhibits Significant Association With Hypertension Risk in General Population

Chia-Ter Chao, Min-Tser Liao, Chung-Kuan Wu · 2025 · American Journal of Hypertension

Abstract BACKGROUND Hypertension (HTN) significantly increases cardiovascular risk worldwide, and its incidence is expected to rise further over time. Both coronary artery calcification (CAC) and vascular stiffness (VS) potentially…

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Whom did the karasuk people resemble?

A. G Kozintsev · 2023 · Etnograficheskoe obozrenie

To test Yuri Rychkov’s claim that the physical type of the Karasuk people was identical to that of the highlanders of Western Pamir, 24 male Karasuk cranial samples were subjected to a multivariate comparison with 59 samples representing…

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A novel approach to off-clamp partial nephrectomy demonstrates significant improvements in renal injury in an experimental porcine model

Daniel Olvera-Posada, Shouzhe Lin, Ghaleb Aboalsamh et al. · 2017 · Canadian Urological Association Journal

Introduction: We sought to design a partial nephrectomy (PN) with contralateral total nephrectomy porcine model and assess the underlying mechanisms of ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) after PN using a novel, clinically approved resection…

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261 LENGTH OF HOSPITAL STAY AND THE ASSOCIATION WITH READMISSION AFTER UNCOMPLICATED ESOPHAGECTOMY. SIGNIFICANT HOSPITAL VARIATION IN THE NETHERLANDS.

D Voeten, L Werf, J Sandick et al. · 2020 · Diseases of the Esophagus

Abstract Prolonged length of hospital stay is a negative outcome of esophageal cancer surgery, not only for the patient; it also leads to increased hospital costs. Within the scope of value-based health care, this study aimed to analyze…

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Why did Endurance sink?

Jukka Tuhkuri · 2025 · Polar Record

Abstract Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance , was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Since then, it has been widely considered that Endurance was the strongest polar ship of its time and was lost because ice tore…

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