An agent’s environment does not just happen to be full of structures that function as scaffolds. Scaffolds are ‘built,’ set up, by the agents or by others, intentionally or not. And some characteristics of the processes through which scaffolds have come to be established can also influence...
26]. These results bring important arguments to consider sport and physical activity as effective intervention tools to address both social and sensorimotor skills in autistic people. Indeed, review articles have reported that various physical activity programs ...
The normal problem is that westerners have a hard time understanding the importance of tones in Chinese. You can tell them it is a bit like putTING the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble. Or the difference between desert and dessert. But it is much bigger than than. That is why beginners who...
This means that most individuals known to have allergy to polyethylene glycol (PEG) will usually tolerate mRNA vaccines. However, the flip side of this is that tolerance of mRNA vaccines does not confirm tolerance of PEG. Those that tolerate mRNA vaccines can still be susceptible to severe ...
“first-hit”, linked to obesity, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, while the “second-hit” is activated by hepatic inflammation, together with oxidative stress and endotoxemia, which have a key role in the progression to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and, over time, to fibrosis...
However, they are similar in several ways: First, they were caused by two similar, but different, coronaviruses. Second, the infections have caused the large-scale influences in society8,9. Since the understanding of the mental health issues are urgent, we believe that we could learn some ...
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is typically a chronic, relapsing illness with increased rates of morbidity and mortality. In OUD patients who have achieved abstinence, the main focus lies on preventing relapse. Long-term maintenance treatment makes use of an opioid antagonist like methadone, the opioid...
insofar as it does not become aresponse. Mental health practitioners may benefit from immersive design and measurement that give credence to imagined or anticipated threats as being very real. Tautological quandary: unpack the presence Extant theory takes an important step towards measuring immersion, ...
To compile key strategies from the international experiences to improve access to primary healthcare (PHC) services in rural communities. Different innovative approaches have been practiced in different parts of the world to improve access to essential h
36 Almost anything a government does or does not do affects the health and well-being of the population, mostly in the spheres of resource allocation, planning, social welfare, public health initiatives and regulation, as well as in taxation, urban planning and public works policies.35 The ...