Using the UN Human Rights System to Advocate for Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief

This toolkit is a resource for organizations that want to advocate for increased access to palliative care and pain relief as a human right within the United Nations human rights system. The toolkit introduces the UN human rights system and offers step-by-step advice and resources on how to navigate it, including various treaty bodies and the UN Human Rights Council. It also discusses how to advocate for palliative care and access to pain relief in regional human rights systems

Inked careers : tattooing professional paths

The concept of career has an interdisciplinary and historical constitution, which includes persons, groups, organizations and society. Given that, we aim to deepen the interactionist notion of career from the understanding of a deviant path, supported by a theory and a method appropriated to the cited call for interdisciplinary approaches. Dilemmas (Hughes, 1958) and conflicts (Hughes, 1937) emerged as important analytical categories. Although necessary, these two concepts were not sufficient to contemplate analyses in their entirety. For this reason we conceptualized a third possibility of controversy during a career: the inquiries. The study followed the Narrative method to analyze objective and subjective changes during a tattoo artist’s career through interviews and informal conversations carried out over 22 months. The discussion presents three main contributions. Theoretically, a new understanding of the concept of careers, linking past, present and future and the idea of non-linearity of experienced and envisioned careers. Methodologically, suggesting orientations for future career studies such as the use of turning points as a methodological tool and the investigation of deviant fields. Finally, our defense of the interactionist perspective as suitable for career studies, since it allows the investigation of deviant elements

Bioenergetics and Biomechanics of Handcycling at Submaximal Speeds in Athletes with a Spinal Cord Injury

A study aimed at comparing bioenergetics and biomechanical parameters between athletes with tetraplegia and paraplegia riding race handbikes at submaximal speeds in ecological conditions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Raising Awareness on Health Impact of the Chemicals Used in Consumer Products: Empirical Evidence from East-Central Europe

Recent research and guidance provided by regulatory authorities address the growing concerns on the control of chemicals used in consumer products. In this context, this study responds to literature alerts emphasizing the need for promoting risk reduction by decreasing the use of damaging chemicals and raising public awareness on this issue. It focuses on East-Central Europe and investigates whether consumers are worried about the impact on health of chemicals, and whether they think there is enough information available in this sense. The study uses logistic regression in order to analyze the secondary data from Special Eurobarometer No. 416 (part of Eurobarometer Wave EB 81.3, European Commission, 2014), namely 27,998 interviews collected in all 28 EU countries, of which 11,460 are from East-Central Europe. The research reveals a profile of East-Central Europeans, who consider that they lack information on the topic, and identifies the most effective way of reaching these people according to their perceptions and habits. Reporting results on a representative sample in East-Central Europe, the study indicates the channels, sources of information, and trusted institutions in order to support a campaign for raising public awareness on the health impact of chemicals used in consumer products

Syndrome in question

Waardenburg syndrome is an inherited disease characterized by sensorineural hearing loss, pigmen-tation changes and minor facial malformations. It has four clinical variants. We report the case of a girl who, like her mother, was affected by this syndrome. The diagnosis was made after detection and treatment of deafness

BIOMATERIALS BASED ON NANOHYDROXYAPATITE

In this study, the porous hydroxyapatite-filled cellulose acetate scaffolds were prepared via dry-wet phase inversion method by dispersing hydroxyapatite nanoparticles in the polymeric matrix. The calcined hydroxyapatite prepared by wet precipitation method has the crystal size smaller than 50 nm. The unfilled and hydroxyapatite-filled cellulose acetate scaffolds have an asymmetric structure consisting of two layers, the dense top layer (active layer) supported by the porous sub-layer (substructure). The cross-sectional SEM images revealed that hydroxyapatite nanoparticles were well dispersed in the cellulose acetate matrix

A hybrid dynamical systems approach to smart irrigation

We present a novel model for a drip irrigation system, using a hybrid dynamical systems paradigm to take into account the intrinsic binary nature of the control input. We consider an irrigation pipe with a generic number of drippers, analyzing the effect that the transients in the pipe have on the irrigation uniformity, and propose an intuitive irrigation strategy based on the one currently used by farmers. The model is presented together with simulations, whose parameters are based on real farm data