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International trade unionism is facing a serious challenge from what is commonly called globalisation. Trade unions feel the need to ‘scale up’ their activities beyond their, once paramount, national ...

Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (FASE) is an international journal for research on agricultural science and engineering. The journal’s aim is to report advanced and innovative ...

Vasa is the European Journal of Vascular Medicine. It is the official organ of the German, Swiss, and Slovenian Societies of Angiology, and the European Society for Vascular Medicine. Vasa publishes ...

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This paper begins by tracing changes in employment patterns since the middle of the 20th Century, arguing that the mid 2000s marked the beginning of a fourth distinctive phase, the earlier ones having ...

Zoonoses are infectious diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans and/or from humans to animals [1,2]. More than 75% of emerging disease pathogens are zoonotic: 60% of them spread from ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) screening with PSA (prostate-specific antigen) remains controversial. PSA is specific to the organ but not to cancer, and different benign conditions can influence the value, ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) pose a significant threat to human health due to the high mortality and morbidity rates. Traditional drugs often have limited efficacy due to inherent constraints, such ...

In past decades, numerous emerging infectious diseases have markedly affected global health and social-economic development. Consequently, the concept of “disease X” has been developed, and lists of ...

This study contributes to broader understanding of viral diversity, by suggesting potential epidemic causes and illustrating genetic relationships among viruses associated with marine organisms. By ...

With over three million Haitians living abroad and the nation’s reliance on remittances and other forms of exchange for its survival, Haiti is shaped by an imagined transnational community found ...