Published in Scientific Reports
Violence seems deeply rooted in human nature and an endemic potential for such is today frequently associated with differing ethnic, religious or socio-economic backgrounds. Ethnic nepotism is believed to be one of the main causes of inter-group violence in multi-ethnic societies. At the site of Els Trocs in the Spanish Pyrenees, rivalling groups o...
Media is socially constructed and those who create the message, shape the beliefs and principles that are displayed. The viewers do not merely accept the representations at face value; they consume it, interpret and analyze the validity of it and then express their thoughts on what they see. Media is an influential tool for challenging, maintaining...
Beginning in the early 1900s, research into Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP) showed promising results. After psychedelics were made illegal in the early 1970s they went largely underground. Psychedelic research resumed in the 1990s and the research shows great promise. Unlike traditional antidepressants that only manage symptoms and cause l...
ObjectiveThe Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has evolved into a pandemic crisis, with King County in Washington State emerging as the early US epicenter. A literature review revealed few reports providing front-line clinical and research teams guidance related to multilevel, rapidly evolving COVID-19 directives.MethodThe Rapid Assessment Pr...
Although scholars and politicians like to define our economic system as a “market economy” (most of the time to avoid the term “capitalism”), they still lack a good definition and representation of markets. What is a market? Institutionalist economists are well aware that the Marshallian neo-classical representation of markets founded on demand and...
The House Ball Community consists of sexual, gender and ethnic minority youth who form family-like houses and compete in balls. Many rely on community-based organisations as venues for socialising and accessing health-related resources. In recent years, urban gentrification has challenged the economic survival of the organisations that serve this c...
Published in Transfusion clinique et biologique : journal de la Societe francaise de transfusion sanguine
Blood is apart from the rest of the tissues as this fluid is overseen by basic and applied life and humanistic sciences. Blood is the essence of human functioning. It is the object of one of the most commonly known cancers, leukemia. It is life-saving in transfusion - a property that also gives blood a special credit and questions blood as a valuab...
The vitamin D paradox relates to the lower risk of osteoporosis in people of sub-Saharan African ancestry (Blacks) compared with people of European ancestry (Whites). The paradox implies that for bone health, Blacks require less vitamin D and calcium than Whites do. Why should populations that migrated northward out of Africa have ended up needing ...
Inter-group competition including warfare is posited to be a key force in human evolution (Alexander, 1990; Choi & Bowles, 2007; Wrangham, 1999). Chagnon's research on the Yanomamö is seminal to understanding warfare in the types of societies characteristic of human evolutionary history. Chagnon's empirical analyses of the hypothesis that competiti...
Nous discutons la pertinence du concept d’âge axial chez Eisenstadt appliqué à la Grèce ancienne. Selon Eisenstadt, la Grèce, malgré ses philosophes, était restée trop peu idéaliste pour entrer pleinement dans l’âge axial. Rappelant le diffusionnisme de Hocart et le structuralisme de Lévi-Strauss, nous montrons que les influences orientales, tant à...
