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Open AccessPostoperative shunt failure following hemispherectomy in pediatric patients with pre-existing hydrocephalus
The risk of hydrocephalus following hemispherectomy for drug resistant epilepsy (DRE) remains high. Patients with pre-existing hydrocephalus pose a postoperative challenge, as maintaining existing shunt patenc...
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Reflecting on the YouthMappers Movement
YouthMappers co-founders and organizers reflect on the contributions narrated in this volume, and in a larger sense, the contributions of the more than 300 university campus chapters in more than 60 countries....
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Flaxseed Effects on Inflammation Regulatory Gene Expressions in an Obese Animal Model
Obesity is known to be partially influenced by low-grade inflammation caused by pro-inflammatory cytokines and excess adipose tissue. Flaxseed contains secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG) and α-linolenic ac...
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Open AccessIncidence and challenges of helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) rescue missions with helicopter hoist operations: analysis of 11,228 daytime and nighttime missions in Switzerland
We aimed to investigate the medical characteristics of helicopter hoist operations (HHO) in HEMS missions.
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Yazdani, Kaveh: India, Modernity and the Great Divergence. Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.), 670 S., Brill, Leiden/Boston, MA 2017.
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Have wars and violence declined?
For over 150 years liberal optimism has dominated theories of war and violence. It has been repeatedly argued that war and violence either are declining or will shortly decline. There have been exceptions, esp...
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Summer books
Head up to the heights of summer reading — picked by our regular reviewers — as labs and lecture halls empty.
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Reply to Anatol Lieven
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Have human societies evolved? Evidence from history and pre-history
I ask whether social evolutionary theories found in sociology, archaeology, and anthropology are useful in explaining human development from the Stone Age to the present-day. My data are partly derived from th...
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Possible Pathways for Conceptual Development Related to Energy and the Human Body
Amongst more that 8,000 studies across all areas of scientific learning (Duit, 2009), there are several studies related to energy in the area of physics such as Duit and Haeussler (1994) and Finegold and Trump...
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Infrastructural Power Revisited
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Eliminatorische ethnische Säuberungen: Eine makrosoziologische Erklärung
Der vorliegende Aufsatz entwickelt eine makrosoziologische Strategie zur Erklärung eliminatiorischer ethnischer Säuberungen. In einem ersten Schritt wird gezeigt, dass Ansätze, die den Staat oder eine schwache...
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Strategien der herrschenden Klasse und Citizenship
Im Folgenden wird Marshalls Theorie von Citizenship als zu anglozentrisch und evolutionistisch kritisiert. Eine vergleichende historische Analyse industrieller Gesellschaften eröffnet nicht eine, sondern minde...
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Some Long-term Trends in the Multiple-Boundedness of Societies
»Societies« have always consisted of multiple, overlap**, intersecting networks of interaction, at the boundaries of each of which occurs a certain degree of cleavage. »Societies« have never been unitary but...
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Improvement in Specificity of [14C]d-Xylose Breath Test for Bacterial Overgrowth
The aim of the study was to determine whetherthe specificity of the [14C]d-xylose breathtest could be improved, by excluding false-positivetests due to premature colonic metabolism of the[14C]d-xylose caused by r...
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Synthetic analogs of peptide-binding antibiotics
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Synthetic Analogs of Peptide-Binding Antibiotics
The vancomycin family of antibiotics offers an attractive target in synthetic host-guest chemistry. Vancomycin (1) has been shown by 1H nmr toform discreet complexes with the -D-Ala-D-Ala fragment found in bac...
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War and Social Theory: Into Battle with Classes, Nations and States
It would be easy to polemicise against ‘orthodox sociology’s’ shameful neglect of war; to lament the paucity of sociology’s contribution to the most urgent social problem of our time — peace; and to deride the...
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Capitalism and Militarism
The aim of this paper is less to write a history of the relationship between capitalism and militarism than to analyse their present relationship in the light of history. More specifically, I seek to answer th...
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