Hospitals have for centuries been considered safe havens immigrants and people on the move. However, migrants who seek health care also targeted exclusion deportation. This article discusses history of how hospitals facilities in United States acted both as sanctuaries sites immigration enforcement. debate came to a head California 1970s, when conservatives began attacking local public faciliti...

Anxiety prepares an organism for dealing with threats by recruiting cognitive resources to process information about the threat, and by engaging physiological systems to prepare a response. Heightened trait anxiety is associated with biases in both these processes: high trait-anxious individuals tend to report heightened risk perceptions, and inappropriate engagement in danger mitigation behavi...

Some riparian areas of the country are in danger of deterioration due to uncontrolled exploitation coupled with loose implementation of environmental protection policies and regulations. Muleta River, a major watershed in Bukidnon, Philippines, was assessed to determine the present condition of its riparian habitat. Abiotic and biotic conditions of the river were assessed. Other factors includi...