Res Pract Thromb Haemost
May 2024
Rare inherited coagulation disorders due to the deficiency or dysfunction of coagulation factors have until recently received less clinical attention than hemophilias and von Willebrand disease. This situation has changed in the last decades, mainly due to therapeutic progress with the availability of more and safer products for replacement therapy produced by plasma fractionation or recombinant DNA technology. This narrative review, based on the latest literature and expert opinion, emphasizes the progress achieved for each of the rare deficiencies, mentions the still unmet therapeutic needs, and sketches the perspectives for further progress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To characterize and analyze violence committed against Venezuelan immigrant female sex workers, from the perspective of an intersectional look at social class, gender and race-ethnicity.
Method: Exploratory study with a qualitative approach. Data sources: interviews with 15 Venezuelan immigrant women sex workers and 37 Brazilian online media reports that addressed the topic.
The present study aimed to expand the understanding of the correlates of sexual harassment myths, a set of beliefs that serve to justify male perpetrators. Data collected among Italian adults (407; 59.5% women) showed that individual levels of precarious manhood beliefs-according to which manhood is a social status that must be proven via public action-were related to greater sexual harassment myths acceptance in male and female respondents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpontaneous smiles in response to politicians can serve as an implicit barometer for gauging electorate preferences. However, it is unclear whether a subtle Duchenne smile-an authentic expression involving the coactivation of the zygomaticus major (ZM) and orbicularis oculi (OO) muscles-would be elicited while reading about a favored politician smiling, indicating a more positive disposition and political endorsement. From an embodied simulation perspective, we investigated whether written descriptions of a politician's smile would trigger morphologically different smiles in readers depending on shared or opposing political orientation.
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