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The Health of the Commonwealth: A Brief History of …

WebThe Health of the Commonwealth is a short but thorough and even-handed history of sickness, medicine, and public health in Pennsylvania from the arrival of European settlers to the present day. The author covers an enormous amount of material in just over 100 pages of text. Major themes in the text include conflicts among medical practitioners, …

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Health Wearables: Ensuring Fairness, Preventing Discrimination, …

WebAbstract. Wearable fitness devices have the potential to address some of the most challenging public health problems in the United States. But they also raise serious privacy concerns. The data they collect can be combined with personal information from other sources, raising the specter of discriminatory profiling, manipulative marketing, and data …

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The Health of Coal Miners’ Wives: A Historical Analysis

WebAbstract. Existing coal mining health literature has not adequately addressed the health of women and girls who reside (and perform reproductive labor) within the households of male coal miners exposed to coal dust and other coal toxins. This study compares archival data on the health at the time of death for coal miners’ wives and non-coal miners’ wives to …

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Microaggressive Stress and Identity Trauma: The Work-Related …

WebAbstract. Music teachers are exposed to work-related stressors sufficient to negatively impact their mental health, and both the COVID-19 pandemic and culture wars have amplified the likelihood of teacher-targeted bullying and harassment. However, LGBTQ+ teachers have been historically more likely to experience workplace discrimination, and …

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Biodiversity and aquatic ecosystem functioning: A mini …

WebEcosystem functioning depends on multiple interactions among physical, chemical and biological factors. Indeed, ecosystem processes (e.g., productivity and nutrient recycling) result directly from the diversity of functional traits in biotic communities, which in turn are determined by species composition and diversity. Species diversity results both from …

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The Soil Health Card Scheme in India: Lessons Learned and …

WebABSTRACT. This article assesses the design, process flow, and impact of the Soil Health Card (SHC) scheme in India, which was introduced in 2015. Under this scheme, government mechanisms distribute SHCs to each farmer. The article examines the scheme using a nationally representative sample of farmers in 2017. Awareness of the SHC scheme …

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LGBTQ Music Educators: External Mentoring Between Student …

WebAbstract. The purpose of this instrumental case study was to examine what LGBTQ (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning) student teachers in music classrooms might learn from LGBTQ music teachers who served as external mentors outside the classroom setting. During the student teaching semester, 3 LGBTQ student …

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Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management

WebAquatic Ecosystem Health & Management is the official journal of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society (AEHMS), published quarterly since 1998. It is a peer-reviewed primary journal devoted to the promotion of ecosystem-based science, approaches, health, management, and restoration of marine and freshwaters of the world.

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Brazilian mangroves Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management

WebAbstract. Of Brazil’s 7408 km of coastline 6786 km contain mangrove forests, covering some 25,000 km2. Only one coastal state, Rio Grande do Sul, lacks mangrove coverage. Mangroves occur from the border with French Guiana, just above the Equator (04°30′N) to well beyond the Tropic of Capricorn, reaching 28°30′S, near Laguna (Santa Catarina …

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Freshwater fishes of Bangladesh: Fisheries, biodiversity and habitat

WebFisheries play an important role in nutrition, income, employment and export earnings in Bangladesh. Fishes contribute to 63% of animal protein intake, about 5% of gross domestic product and 5% of export earnings; approximately 1.4 million people are directly engaged in fishing, 11 million in part-time fishing and another 3 million in aquaculture activities. The …

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Countryside Modernized or Traumatized

WebAbstract. Modernization and industrialization were core elements of the Communist agenda and reshaped rural life after World War Two. Although the shift toward large-scale agriculture was characterized by a decade-long unequal battle between the traditional peasantry and the Socialist state, the latter achieved collectivization by 1961, at last. In …

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