objective(s): yu-ping-feng-san (ypfs) is a classical traditional chinese medicine that is widely used for treatment of the diseases in respiratory systems, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) recognized as chronic inflammatory disease. however, the molecular mechanism remains unclear. here we detected the factors involved in transforming growth factor beta 1 (tgf-β1)/smad2 si...

Abstract This study proposes an environmental identity economics theory that can improve our understanding of pro-environmental behaviour. We test the potential by analysing farmers’ decisions to invest in renewable energy production using a hybrid choice model. Our findings illustrate farmers with strong require less financial incentive invest. Furthermore, lower compensation is found be suffi...

Praised for its revolutionary technique and studied for its perplexing imagery, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait has remained a riddle since the 19th century. Completed in 1434 in Bruges, the work showcases a skilled use of oil paints and impressively realistic details. More famous and perhaps more important, however, than van Eyck’s technique are the two figures and the objects which decorate...

Choreographic programming is a paradigm where programmers write global descrip- tions of distributed protocols, called choreographies, and correct implementations are au- tomatically generated by mechanism projection. Not all choreographies pro- jectable, because decisions made one process must be communicated to other processes whose behaviour depends on them – property known as knowledge choi...

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Prince Edward Island Right to Life Association (RTLA) lobbied medical professionals, hospital boards, politicians, and neighbours to prevent the Charlottetown and Summerside hospital corporations, the only abortion providers on the Island, to eliminate their Therapeutic Abortion Committees. Because abortion committees were not mandatory and only hospital boar...

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Globally, the organic food market is most successful green market. Young consumers, decision-makers of future, are perceived as being more environmentally concerned than older cohorts. The aim this study was to consider young consumers’ attitudes and behaviours concerning food, where in UK mature Poland. Empirical research conducted using a web-based survey questionnaire (CAWI) with consumers (...

The operations of stock photographs, as utilised by the Irish anti-abortion lobby, have not been examined before. Many ‘Vote No’ posters in 2018 referendum campaign on 8th amendment maintained a visual and textual focus foetal personhood: asking electorate to ‘love both,’ while deploying range photographs. In this article, I trace specific images used against Repeal back their online image bank...