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US regulations to curb alleged cancer causes are ineffectual and compromised by scientific, constitutional and ethical violations

prescribed in the US and worldwide. They support unprecedented regulations imposing $trillion costs to world economies, misguided political and social policies and the unfathomable costs of unwarranted public ... to the world, sharing a common philosophy, assumptions and terminology and becoming a regulatory praxis of the World Health Organization. To perceive hands-on the roots of those massive interventions

Stuck in the middle with you: the political position of teachers during the Algerian War of Independence

. This paper investigates the political position of teachers in Algeria during the War of Independence from France (1954-62). Although teachers were agents of the French state, and active in facilitating ... teachers, and how teachers sought to balance their duties of service to education with their political resistance to colonialism. However, we also recognise the heterogeneity of the teaching corps, and the

"A View from the Field:" A Practitioner's Perspective on The Education Reform: A Regression in Labor and Educational Policies in Mexico // La Reforma Educativa: Una regresión en lo educativo y laboral en México

, political and military control by standing above the Mexican Constitution and political institutions. Slowly but surely they put forward their interests in order to increase their profits in this greedy ... defining itself for more than three decades through the reforms that have been forced upon every economic, political, social and cultural sphere. This allows them to pave the way and hastily impose without

A mixture of 13 pesticides, contaminants, and food additives below individual NOAELs produces histopathological and organ weight changes in rats

L et  al ( 2018 ) The dose response principle from philosophy to modern toxicology: the impact of ancient philosophy and medicine in modern toxicology science . Toxicol Rep 5 : 1107 - 1113 Tsatsakis A

The Troubled Past and Contested Future of Northern Ireland's Maze Prison/Long Kesh

hotly contested cultural landscape. In the debate over the future of what remains of the prison campus, competing political perspectives have yielded proposals that prescribe drastically different ... divide split Northern Ireland along several identity lines: national (Irish/British), religious (Catholic/Protestant), political (Separatist (Nationalist)/Unionist), and sectarian (Republican/Loyalist

Scientific, Political Debate Continues on Methods for Estimating Fallout Exposure

Journal of the National Cancer Institute Scientific, Political Debate Continues on NEWS Methods for Estimating Fallout Exposure In 1990, decades after dozens of nuclear blasts from weapons ... muddier. ?Fallout doesn?t have geographic boundaries,? said Preston. ?The original act was based upon the information available at the time and some political decisions.? Hatch spearheaded the act and had

Violence as Communication: The Revolt of La Ascensión, Chihuahua (1892)

-political and primitive. It will become patently clear that terms such as “pre-political,” “primitive,” and “unorganized” are outdated and require alternative methods of postcolonial analysis. As way to ... the most part pre-political and therefore have not reached political consciousness—in the “western” modality of political philosophy. Thus, “…all of the phenomena studied in this book belong to the

Illegal Logging and its Dynamics of Violence Within the P'urhépecha Plateau

trafficking. Nevertheless, through the implementation of an autonomous government based on the P'urhépecha uses and customs, the municipality of Cherán is developing novel political and social strategies to

The War on Drugs is a War on Migrants: Central Americans Navigate the Perilous Journey North

longer trajectories of political, criminal and structural violence including war, neoliberal restructuring and the hemispheric war on drugs. I pay particular attention to the ways state and transnational

Uncertainty assessment of proarrhythmia predictions derived from multi-level in silico models

, Stoffel M ( 2012 ) Statistical analysis of experimental data . In: Kittel B , Luhan WJ , Morton RB (eds) Experimental political science: principles and practices . Palgrave Macmillan UK , London, p 163 - 77

Evidential requirements for the regulatory hazard and risk assessment of respiratory sensitisers: methyl methacrylate as an example

pharmacokinetics and toxicity of methacrylate esters . Thesis submitted to the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Kabata H , Artis D ( 2019 ) Neuro-immune crosstalk and

Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad. Tres años

power relations among political elite, drug cartels, and local communities. Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad was borne out of the frustration and outrage of the Mexican people to the ... Temporary Exhibits at Mexico City’s Museum of Memory and Tolerance. Mónica González received her BA in Communications from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University

Reply to the opinion paper “The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability: an opportunity to develop new approaches for hazard assessment” by Scholz et al.

of whether they actually occur at harmful levels or not. Contrary to the perception of Scholz et al., i.e., that the CSS was just a “political mandate” or “policy statement”, purely hazard-based

Studying Policy Through Violence: The social conditions of education reform in Mexico

, political advisors, students, and community members, engaged in shaping education and opposing the reform. An anthropological approach to policy and violence embraces the analytical horizons of a world that ... saying that it was not part of my research plan. “You have to stay,” she said before I could respond. Since that day, I have spent my time in forums, marches, political meetings, congress, and cultural

A new conceptional model for deriving average dermal absorption estimates from studies with multiple tested concentrations for non-dietary risk assessment of pesticides

According to the presented data and toxicological philosophy, the model of absolute absorption depending on applied dose seems to be a reasonable alternative or even superior model to relative absorption

Online Deliberative Discourse and Conflict Resolution

but good discourse. WO R KS CI TED Ackerman , B. , and J. Fishkin 2002 Deliberation Day . Journal of Political Philosophy . 10 : 129 - 152 . 2000 Bridging the Gap: Storytelling as a way to work ... Deliberative Politics. S. Macedo, ed. Pp. 123 - 150 . New York, NY: Oxford University Press 2002 The Law of Group Polarization. Journal of Political Philosophy . 10 : 175 - 195 . Tidwell , L. andJ .B. Walther

The Role of Cancer Research in Noncommunicable Disease Control

political agenda toward a growing threat to human development. Proposed strategies for control of noncommunicable diseases focused mainly on the shared risk factors of tobacco, harmful use of alcohol ... middle-income countries. This meeting followed the Special Session on HIV/AIDS in 2001, the only other high-level meeting to discuss a health topic and orient the global political agenda toward a growing

The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability: an opportunity to develop new approaches for hazard and risk assessment

evidence for (potential) impacts of chemical pollution on human health, albeit the exact magnitude of the contribution may often not be known. Therefore, the CSS should be considered as a political mandate

Suspended Life

alignments of hyper-exploitation among the international labor force. Suspended Life uses images to reveal the structural violence that informs the juridical, political and cultural relationship between