Post-normal crises and technology assessment

Reflections on the challenges for science in crises have become an integral part of public policy and technology assessment (TA).The urgency and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic brought up the question of how scientific Window Cleaners disciplines and individual scientists can provide appropriate advice to decision makers and the public while m

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Decreased ubiquitin modifying enzyme A20 associated with hyper-responsiveness to ovalbumin challenge following intrauterine growth restriction

Abstract Background Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is strongly correlated with an increased risk of asthma later in life.Farm dust SWEETS protects mice from developing house dust mite-induced asthma, and loss of ubiquitin modifying enzyme A20 in lung epithelium would abolish this protective effect.However, the mechanisms of A20 in the devel

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An investigation of tendon strains in jersey finger injury load cases using a finite element neuromuscular human body model

Introduction: A common hand injury in American football, rugby and basketball is the so-called jersey finger injury Ceiling Lamps (JFI), in which an eccentric overextension of the distal interphalangeal joint leads to an avulsion of the connected musculus flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) tendon.In the field of automotive safety assessment, finite e

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