Wellbeing in partnership

In partnerships, the business is managed collectively by the partners, and profits and losses are shared according to the partnership agreement. Such business structures benefit from the diverse skills of each partner, leading to innovative ideas and strategies. Globally, partnerships are favored for their simplicity and flexibility. Various types of partnerships exist, including general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships, each possessing unique...

Subjective well-being (SWB) refers to an individual's self-evaluation of their overall life satisfaction, happiness, and fulfillment. This multifaceted construct is typically assessed by analyzing the balance of positive and negative emotions alongside perceptions of life satisfaction. Personality traits such as neuroticism and extraversion are strongly associated with variations in SWB, offering critical insights into the underlying mechanisms of emotional well-being.
Neuroticism and...

The Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) structure is beneficial due to its significant management flexibility. In an LLP, partners can directly manage the business, thus avoiding the complex governance structures required by corporations. Additionally, LLPs benefit from pass-through taxation, a system where the business's profits and losses are not taxed at the business level, but instead 'passed through' to the partners, who report them on their individual tax returns. This system...

A protocol is presented to evaluate whether small EVs (sEVs) isolated from placental explants cultured under hypoxic conditions (modeling one aspect of preeclampsia) disrupt the blood-brain barrier in nonpregnant adult female...

Portable neuroimaging approaches (functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy) provide advances to the study of the brain in previously inaccessible regions; here, rural Côte d'Ivoire. Innovation in methods and development of culturally-appropriate neuroimaging protocols permits novel study of the brain's development and children's learning outcomes in environments with significant poverty and...

Here, we present a protocol to culture human enteroid or colonoid monolayers that have intact barrier function to study host epithelial-microbiota interactions at the cellular and biochemical...