The literature has firmly established an association between parental separation and school failure.Nevertheless, parental separation does not affect academic aptitudes.Thus, mediators explain such relationship.A field study was designed to identify and quantify damage in the mediating variables between parental separation and school failure (i.e.,

Based on Foucauldian notions such as discourse, regime of subjectification, and governmentality, the article analyzes one of the dominant discourses constituting the affirmative action policy in higher education in Chile.Our analysis is based principally on main documents associated to the discursive formation of the Support and Effective Access in

Introduction High-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity is accompanied by compromised nitric oxide (NO) signaling and gut microbiome dysregulation.Inorganic dietary nitrate, which acts as a NO donor, exerts beneficial effects on metabolic disorders.Here, we evaluated the effects of dietary nitrate on HFD-induced obesity and provided insights into the unde

For the treatment of severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis, minimally invasive heart valve prostheses are increasingly used, especially for elderly patients.The current generation of devices is based on equi-jec 7 xenogenic leaflet material, involving limitations with regard to calcification and durability.Artificial polymeric leaflet-structures

Coral reefs across the world have demonstrated an incredible resilience to disturbance, having persisted for over 200 million years withstanding local, short-term shocks such as cyclones and bleaching events, as well as large-scale, long-term global changes such as sea-level fluctuations.However, there are now many persistent and growing threats to