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Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS), also known as surfactant deficiency disorder (SDD), [2] and previously called hyaline membrane disease (HMD), is a syndrome in premature infants caused by developmental insufficiency of pulmonary surfactant production and structural immaturity in the lungs.
Causes may include sepsis, pancreatitis, trauma, pneumonia, and aspiration. [1] The underlying mechanism involves diffuse injury to cells which form the barrier of the microscopic air sacs of the lungs , surfactant dysfunction, activation of the immune system , and dysfunction of the body's regulation of blood clotting . [ 5 ]
UNRISD was established in 1963 "to conduct research into problems and policies of social development, and relationships between various types of social development and economic development". [4] It was originally set up with a grant from the Government of the Netherlands, and its first Board Chair was the eminent economist Jan Tinbergen , who ...
The journal Social Justice Research [3] (SJR) was founded in 1987 by Melvin Lerner to publish work related to the growing field. The journal is published quarterly. Social Justice Research is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.796. [4]
Community-based research is more likely to trigger public action and engagement with environmental issues than traditional research. [7] Bottom up community-based research in which community members oversee each phase of the research project is more likely to inspire structural reforms that are responsive to the needs of EJ communities. [6]
Two women who worked for disgraced ex-NYPD honcho Jeffrey Maddrey are ensnared in the federal probe of a sex-for-overtime scandal involving another female employee, The Post has learned.
National Research Act; Other short titles: National Research Service Award Act of 1974: Long title: An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of National Research Service Awards to assure the continued excellence of biomedical and behavioral research and to provide for the protection of human subjects involved in biomedical and behavioral research and for other purposes.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States