WOMEN IN CONFLICT

Women in Conflict

This article focuses on female combatants serving in armed conflicts in Africa, South America, and Asia, profiling their time engaged with these forcesas well as the realities they face upon their return to civilian life.Women play a significant role in these conflicts, sometimes constituting up to 30% of the armed forces, although they are often o

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Prestressed elasticity of amorphous solids

Prestress in amorphous solids HYDRAPLENISH bears the memory of their formation and plays a profound role in their mechanical properties.Here we develop a set of mathematical tools to investigate mechanical response of prestressed systems, using stress rather than strain as the fundamental variable.This theory allows microscopic prestress to vary fo

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Evaluation of psoriasis patients’ attitudes toward benefit–risk and therapeutic trade-offs in their choice of treatments

Lina Eliasson,1 Anthony P Bewley,2 Farhan Mughal,3 Karissa M Johnston,4 Andreas Kuznik,5 Chloe Patel,1 Andrew J Lloyd1 1Clinical Outcomes Assessment, ICON Clinical Research UK Ltd, 2Department of Dermatology, Whipps Cross University Hospital, Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, 3Health Economics Outcomes Research, Celgene Ltd, Uxbri

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