This interaction profile discusses and evaluates the evidence for joint toxic action among lead, manganese, zinc, and copper. The interaction profile recommends how to incorporate concerns about possible interactions or additivity into public health assessments of hazardous waste sites where people might be exposed to mixtures of these chemicals. The profile recommends using endpoint-specific h...

This article reviews the mechanistic basis of the tissue residue approach for toxicity assessment (TRA). The tissue residue approach implies that whole-body or organ concentrations (residues) are a better dose metric for describing toxicity to aquatic organisms than is the aqueous concentration typically used in the external medium. Although the benefit of internal concentrations as dose metric...

Although the crustacean heart is modulated by a large number of peptides and amines, few of these molecules have been localized to the cardiac ganglion itself; most appear to reach the cardiac ganglion only by hormonal routes. Immunohistochemistry in the American lobster Homarus americanus indicates that pyrokinins are present not only in neuroendocrine organs (pericardial organ and sinus gland...

BACKGROUND This study explored how married women perceive situations which create family conflicts and lead to different forms of violence in urban Pakistan. In addition, it examines perceptions of consequences of violence, their adverse health effects, and how women resist violence within marital life. METHODS Five focus group discussions were conducted with 28 women in Karachi. Purposive sa...

This paper aims to analyse the behaviours related decoupling of disclosed information on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability, deepening these practices’ knowledge within family businesses. For this purpose, we defined as a gap between social responsibility performance (internal actions) disclosures (external actions). sample 33,809 observations for period 2011–201...

A family of Ga-actions on affine space Am is constructed, each having a non-finitely generated ring of invariants (m ≥ 6). Because these actions are of small degree, they induce linear actions of unipotent groups Ga Ga on A 2n+3 for n ≥ 4, and these invariant rings are also non-finitely generated. The smallest such action presented here is for the group Ga Ga acting linearly on A11.

The unique needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have implications for animal welfare. This nested pilot study examined the effects of a randomized trial of 10-week therapeutic horseback riding (THR) intervention versus a no-horse barn activity (BA) control group on children's behaviors with family pets. Sixty-seven (THR n = 31; BA n = 36) participants with ASD (ages 6-16 yea...

Preterm birth is an event that affects about 30,000 babies a year, in Italy alone. The great advances made neonatology (especially recent decades) have drastically reduced the risk of mortality. contribution intends to analyze phenomenon prematurity according parental and family dimension. Premature parents, fact, are immersed situation for which they were not prepared, could interrupt or threa...

This article explores mothers’ narratives of ‘prepping’ behaviours. Prepping involves the management stockpiled household items in anticipation marketplace disruption. In this article, we use anticipated food shortages following UK’s exit from EU (‘Brexit’) as our context. Drawing on interview data, highlight how mothers embed prepping into their ongoing pursuit intensive motherhood, bound high...

Oncostatin M (OSM) is a cytokine belonging to the gp130 family, whose members serve pleiotropic functions. However, several actions of OSM are unique from those of other gp130 cytokines, and these actions may have critical roles in inflammatory mechanisms influencing several metabolic and biological functions of insulin-sensitive tissues. In this review, the actions of OSM in adipose tissue and...