The research draws on the concept of ‘cultural capital’ as well assumptions critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics to argue that Covid-19 pandemic may be viewed a global turning point. article explores context means have facilitated transformation cultural capital during coronavirus outbreak. dramatic changes culture been successfully pushed through due public’s incessant exposur...

This article examines the impact of cross-border economic sanctions (CES) on quality national health – proxied by life expectancy. Structural gravity models are employed for a sample 148 sanctioned countries (108 developing and 40 developed countries) during 1995–2018 period. We consider various forms sanction, including arms, military, trade, finance travel. The results reveal that imposition ...

Shared responsibility agreements between the Australian Government and Indigenous communities are based on a concept of mutual obligation but have overtones of paternalism and imposition. The nature and extent of choice in any such agreements need to be established.

Depression of ventilation mediated by endogenous opioids has been observed acutely after resistive airway loading. We evaluated the effects of chronically increased airway resistance on hypoxic ventilatory responsiveness shortly after load imposition and 6 wk later. A circumferential tracheal band was placed in 200-g rats, tripling tracheal resistance. Sham surgery was performed in controls. Ve...