The use of plant extracts for therapeutic purposes knows a wide diffusion. The vegetal origin of
these products intercepts people’s desire to cure themselves with natural drugs; this aspect, together with
effectiveness and regulatory opportunities,…
This open access book contributes to research on the ascendance of neoliberalism in Canada through the vantage point of professional fundraising in the 1990s and 2000s. Fifty high-ranking fundraisers from across Canada were interviewed through 2008…
While entities as different as armed groups, multinational corporations, political parties, megacities, labour unions, terrorist organisations, or indigenous peoples are mentioned as non-state actors in the relevant literature, rural communities are…
This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially…
The topics covered in this Special Issue range from breastfeeding and early-life nutrition
to effects on microbiota, infection, allergy, asthma, and the mechanisms of
immunomodulation via (the early introduction of) nutrition on infections and…
This edited volume contains 18 articles published in Sustainability from late 2018 to early
2021. During that time, the world faced the fatal and widespread health crisis, COVID-19,
which had threatened the social and public health systems at every…
This reprint focuses on the geometrical and spectroscopic features as well as potential
applications of halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen, tetrel, and triel bonds in chemical
reactions, crystal engineering, molecular recognition, and biological…