The activating welfare state often frames recruiting ordinary people as ‘local’ co-producers of residence-based provisions the antidote to standardised bureaucracy. This article demonstrates that their enrolment in delivery public services Netherlands constitutes not an antidote, but another variant standardisation. To do so, it introduces concept ‘intimate standardisation’, a set tactics and t...

Silt,?I have the honour to ask you to publish tho followingnote on the uso of acetic acid as an antidote to carbolic acid. Once when I was cleaning a wound I had to dip my hand over and over again into carbolic lotion (1 in 40), and L soon found a painful sensation in my arm from fingers to shoulder joint. I then found that I had a scratch on my finger. [ applied some acetic acid on a piece of ...

We give a rigorous analysis of variations of the contact process on a finite graph in which the cure rate is allowed to vary from one vertex to the next, and even to depend on the current state of the system. In particular, we study the epidemic threshold in the models where the cure rate is proportional to the degree of the node or when it is proportional to the number of its infected neighbors.

Human toxicity of aluminium phosphide occurs due to the toxic effects of phosphine which is liberated in stomach on ingestion (1). The effect is worse in the presence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. It is widely absorbed from gastrointestinal tract and has cytotoxic action as it inhibits mitochondrial respiration. It affects almost all systems i.e. gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, respira...

Recent research suggests that more and more citizens select news and information that is congruent with their existing political preferences. This increase in political selective exposure (PSE) has allegedly led to an increase in polarization. The vast majority of studies stem from the US case with a particular media and political system. We contend that there are good reasons to believe PSE is...