Body work is a central activity in the practice of many workers in the field of health and social
care. This article provides an introduction to the concept of body work – paid work on the …

The selective inhibition of bacterial β-glucuronidases was recently shown to alleviate drug-induced
gastrointestinal toxicity in mice, including the damage caused by the widely used …

Protein quinary interactions organize the cellular interior and its metabolism. Although the
interactions stabilizing secondary, tertiary, and quaternary protein structure are well defined, …

Emotional dysfunction has long been established as a critical clinical feature of schizophrenia.
In the past decade, there has been extensive work examining the potential contribution of …

In North America, Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma
cruzi) was first reported in Mexico in 1940 [1] and in the United States in Texas in 1955 [2]. …

This article investigates the relationship between spatial mobility and the labour process,
developing a typology of ‘mobile work’. Working while mobile is a largely white-collar (and well …

With ‘efficiency savings’ the watchword for health and social care services, reorganisation
and labour rationalisation are the order of the day. This article examines the difficulties …

Most knowledge of protein structure and function is derived from experiments performed with
purified protein resuspended in dilute, buffered solutions. However, proteins function in the …

This article examines worker-client relationships in hairstyling. Data are drawn from interviews
with 15 hourly-paid and 32 self-employed hairstylists and a self-administered survey. …

Animals that communicate acoustically must compete for acoustic space in order to convey
their signals effectively. Tropical rainforest birds live in an extremely diverse acoustic …