How do unemployment benefits and minimum wage affect poverty?

The instruments used anti-poverty-wise by governments and authorities in a direct manner are restricted to the economic tools such as the minimum wage system or the unemployment benefits.Although these instruments have a beneficial effect in the majority of cases, the abuse or misuse of said mechanisms can and would generate the exact opposite effe

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Parietal Lobe Reorganization and Widespread Functional Connectivity Integration in Upper-Limb Amputees: A rs-fMRI Study

The right parietal lobe plays an important role in body image, and disorders of body image emerge after lesions in the parietal lobe or with parietal lobe epilepsy.Body image disorder also often accompanies upper-limb amputation, in which the patient misperceives that their missing limb is still part of their body.Cortical reorganization is known t

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Caveolins: Targeting Pro-survival Signaling in the Heart and Brain

The present review discusses intracellular signaling moieties specific to membrane lipid rafts (MLRs) and the scaffolding proteins caveolin 9G and introduces current data promoting their potential role in the treatment of pathologies of the heart and brain.MLRs are discreet microdomains of the plasma membrane enriched in gylcosphingolipids and chol

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Study on the polymorphism of POU1F1 gene in sheep

ABSTRACT In this study, POU1F1 gene polymorphism was detected in five sheep populations (large-tailed Han, small-tailed Han, Yuxi fat-tailed, Lanzhou large-tailed, and Mongolian Foot Care sheep), using DNA pooling and sequencing, to provide theoretical basis for the breeding of excellent sheep varieties.Three single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) lo

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