As a young vocalist and voice trainer, I kept thinking that if I could only identify the "right technique," if I could only figure out with certainty which body part should go where during voice production, then I could sing well and I could also be a good voice trainer. Even beyond the rather frightful omission of emotions and art in this thinking, there was a serious fallacy: knowing that you...

I examine the role of apprenticeship status in controlling labor unionized graduate student teaching assistants (TAs). In her book Coerced, Erin Hatton identifies as a basis coercion—particularly nontraditional regimes—in which managers control workers’ access to status-based rights, rewards, and punishments. expand Hatton's concept coercion distinguish between two types: despotic, prevails, he...

We read with great interest the recent commentary by Manmeet K Matharoo and colleagues,1 discussing various gender ethnicity discrepancies that exist in gastroenterology workforce certain countries including USA UK.

The objective of the study was to investigate the hydration status and fluid balance of elite European youth soccer players during three consecutive training sessions. Fourteen males (age 16.9 ± 0.8 years, height 1.79 ± 0.06 m, body mass (BM) 70.6 ± 5.0 kg) had their hydration status assessed from first morning urine samples (baseline) and pre- and post-training using urine specific gravity (US...