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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Antidotes"”.
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“Life Out of Death": Poisons, Antidotes, and the Medical Marketplace in Christina Rossetti's “Goblin Market"
… understandings of toxicology, poisons, and antidotes and cloaking her critique of the medical marketplace of Victorian England and Victorian male medical professionals in allegorical and fantastical elements. This unique combination of literal and allegorical is seen through Rossetti’s …
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Scarcity Antidotes: How the Colonial Agenda Demands Our Bodies to be Sites/Sights of Scarcity, and Our Possible Futures
This first-person action research thesis explored the question, “How might I shift from a scarcity mindset to a possibility mindset to strengthen my anti-oppressive practice?” An anti-oppressive paradigm oriented this research to unconscious colonial norms within white supremacy culture that …
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Moral Agency, Moral Imagination, and Moral Community: Antidotes to moral distress, as reported by experienced ICU nurses regarding the withdrawal of aggressive treatment
Moral distress has been covered extensively in nursing literature and increasingly in the literature of other health professions. Cases that cause nurses’ moral distress mentioned most frequently are those concerned with prolonging the dying process. Given the standard of aggressive treatment over …
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Physiological studies with the experimental herbicide isouron
… the interactions of isouron and four herbicide antidotes on two varieties of corn (Zea mays L.), Dekalb 'XL72AA' and 'XL67', and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), 'Tyler' and 'McNair 1003'. Antidotes used were naphthalic anhydride (1,8 naphthalic anhydride), R-25788 …
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Structure based design of a ricin antidote
… extensive efforts have been underway to develop antidotes against this deadly poison. The catalytic A subunit of the heterodimeric toxin has been biochemically and structurally well characterized, and is an attractive target for structure-based drug design. Aided by computer docking simulations, …
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Design & application of novel methods of analysis for monitoring marine biotoxins
… clinicians to monitor exposure and no specific antidotes available. Current monitoring programs are demanding and can be expensive to maintain and highly labour intensive. Viable alternative or supplementary methods for the detection of marine biotoxins are needed that can be applied at point of …
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Sounding Subjectivity: Music, Gender, and Intimacy
… shared, embodied musical experience served as antidotes to young women’s gendered experiences of isolation and violation. The next chapter, which emerges from ethnographic research performed at the Girlz Rhythm `n’ Rock Camp, a week-long overnight summer camp in central Ohio reconsiders the …
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Attachment and Shame-Coping Style: A Relationship Mediated by Fear of Compassion?
… one copes with shame. Research suggests the best antidotes for shame are receptiveness to compassion from others and the ability to be self-compassionate. However, studies have demonstrated that some individuals fear compassion; perhaps they anticipate deception or feel they are unworthy of …
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The New Role of the Media Specialist: Personal Curriculum as a Tool for Integrated Teaching
… that will shed light on the origin, modalities, antidotes and purpose of fear. A distinction will be made regarding the basic modes of fear, both secular fear and the modes of the fear of God.</p> <p>It is important that we explicitly state that this work is a spiritual exhortation and an …
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I Do Not Fear, Because I Fear
… that will shed light on the origin, modalities, antidotes and purpose of fear. A distinction will be made regarding the basic modes of fear, both secular fear and the modes of the fear of God. </p> <p> It is important that we explicitly state that this work is a spiritual exhortation and an …
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Sensemaking and Human-Centred Design: A Practice Perspective
… sensemaking and human-centred design as antidotes to failures of imagination in global health and development, this dissertation suggests a distinctive perspective on why these topics matter for the health of poor and marginalized people around the world.
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Reduction of the Premature Aging of PEM Fuel Cell - Battery systems by Implementing an Advanced Hybrid Control System Based on Double PID, Neural Network Load Predicting Algorithm and Optimal Battery Sizing Algorithm.
… research work proposed three main interrelated “antidotes” to address the PEM-FC premature failure, thereby reducing cost, reliability and lifetime issues:<br/>a) Development of an optimisation technique to size the intermediate battery buffer component within a fuel cell system.<br/>b) Devise a …
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Investigations on the mechanism of action of the oxime ether safeners for the protection of grain sorghum against metolachlor
Herbicide safeners (protectants, antidotes) are used to protect crop plants from herbicide injury. Currently our understanding of the mechanisms involved in the protection of plants by safeners is not well defined; therefore, investigations were conducted to elucidate the mechanism(s) of action of …
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Utilising games and design-research methodology to promote physical activity among adolescents.
… leading to poor physical and mental health. Antidotes to this sedentary culture are required from both a prevention and treatment perspectives yet engaging adolescents in PA, one side of the energy balance equation, remains a challenge. 'Gaming culture' among youths might be an alternative …
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Women and sexual violence, paths to healing: resistance, rebellion, resilience and recovery
… The study examines the naturally occurring antidotes to the trauma model, exploring self-protective concepts such as resilience and post-traumatic growth. These are contrasted and expanded by the less explored stories of women’s active fight for survival using resistance strategies aimed at …
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Stories from adults stolen as babies during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983): a narrative inquiry into identity restitution
… socio-political practices developed as antidotes to appropriation and victimization mainly by the relentless work of human rights organisations like Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo in the search for their grandchildren, were found to be powerfully enabling, supporting these individuals to …
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Mechanism of anaesthetic activation, combination and antagonism
… my structural findings. While we have access to antidotes of sedatives such as benzodiazepines and opioids, well-functioning antagonists for anaesthetic action are missing. The relatively low pharmacological index of anaesthetics made them once one of the most dangerous drugs used in clinics. …
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Teaching with Passion: A Narrative Inquiry into Elementary Teachers' Identity Development, Personal and Professional Knowledge, and Love of Teaching
… of Susan, Mary, Uticia, Diane, and Yolanda are antidotes for addressing the demands of teaching. In order to present viable narratives, I utilize Jean Clandinin and Michael Connelly's (2000) narrative inquiry methods to collect the stories of my participants. Participant profiles, …
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