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KOR Control over Addiction Processing: An Exploration of the Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway
Drug addiction is a complex, persistent, and chronically relapsing neurological disorder exacerbated by acute and chronic stress. It is well known that the dynorphin/kappa opioid receptor (KOR) system regulate...
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Nursing
Nurses are advocates for their patients, and nurse directors are advocates for both patients and their nursing staff, as well as the eyes and ears of senior leadership. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursin...
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Transnational Economic Engagements: The Africa-Australia Nexus
This chapter reports data from an innovative modified Delphi study of the African-Australian diaspora’s ongoing transnational connections to countries of origin. After considering the meaning and value of the ...
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Sexual Health
Sex plays a large role in our physical and mental health. However, areas of health pertaining to sex and sexuality can be a difficult topic to navigate with emerging adults. Many students enter college without...
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The Physician’s Response to Climate Change
The impact of climate change on patients and healthcare systems is mounting. Yet, healthcare is itself a major cause of climate change, contributing up to 10% of annual United States greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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In Praise of the Transgressive Muslim Body: Portraits of Moroccan Chikhates
Moroccan writer Mahi Binebine and photographer Fatima Mazmouz have chosen an unlikely emblem for their quest for artistic freedom: chikhates, who are female singer-dancers often associated in the Moroccan imag...
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‘Visual Thinking’ and the Influence of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the Homilies and Hymns of Andrew of Crete
This chapter examines the reception of Dionysius the Areopagite’s ideas about images, as reflections of divine reality in the material world, in the liturgical writings of the early eighth-century preacher and...
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Importance of Self-Control in Facilitating Healthy Food Purchasing Behaviour Despite Cue Disruption: An Abstract
Unhealthy diets are a risk factor for ill health. Consumers from a lower socioeconomic (SE) background typically report unhealthier diets illustrating a need for a targeted approach. Supporting healthier food ...
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Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Differential Diagnosis
Chronic insomnia disorders (CID) are often a final common pathway for many people who initially develop sleeplessness in the context of acute stressors (e.g., pain, job loss), but then acquire a form of “learn...
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Pathogenesis of Osteoarthritis in General
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder and is a leading cause of disability in the adult population. It is now appreciated that all components of the joint, including the cartilage, calcified ca...
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Vitrification of Ovarian Tissue for Fertility Preservation
While 80 % of young patients currently survive their cancers, devastating side effects of chemo- or radiotherapies leave females facing infertility due to ovarian failure. Cryopreservation of embryos, oocytes,...
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Lessons Learned from Clinical Research Using QCT, pQCT, and HR-pQCT
In recent decades, three-dimensional imaging tools such as quantitative computed tomography (QCT), peripheral QCT (pQCT), and high-resolution pQCT (HR-pQCT) have advanced our understanding of the hierarchical ...
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Potential Mechanisms of PTOA: Inflammation
Inflammation, characterized by synovitis, is one of the risk factors for the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA), a subset of osteoarthritis (OA), following injury of the meniscus or ACL. Evalu...
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31 Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: Nutritional Management After Surgery
Patients who chose to have Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery need to be able to make long-term lifestyle changes and commit to lifelong vitamin and mineral supplementation. Because the amount of food tha...
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Genetically Based Breast Cancer: Risk Assessment, Counseling, and Testing
Great progress has been made in our understanding of the factors associated with breast cancer, the most common cancer in women both in the United States and in the world. There is ample evidence that several ...
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Ethical Issues
Decisions about prenatal and preimplantation testing present the burden as well as the benefit of choice to those involved with these procedures. This burden includes responsibility for the consequences of one...
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In the Boardroom/Out of the Loop: Group and Organizational Dynamics
This chapter presents a multicultural analysis of group dynamics as it relates to organizational behavior using an integrative psychological–sociocultural framework. In devising this framework, we drew upon tw...
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Marking the Present: Literary Innovation in Ginés Pérez de Hita’s La guerra de los moriscos
At first glance, La guerra de los moriscos; Segunda parte de las guerras civiles de Granada seems to be a logical sequel to Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes, for it treats the next salient cha...
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Primate Follicular Development and Oocyte Maturation In Vitro
The factors and processes involved in primate follicular development are complex and not fully understood. An encapsulated three-dimensional (3D) follicle culture system could be a valuable in vitro model to s...
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Muslim Absence as Literary Aperture
As well known as any date in the Western world, 1492 is also arguably the most important date in the history of the Iberian Peninsula. Columbus’s arrival in the New World, the final defeat of the Muslims in Gr...
