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State and life in Cuba: calibrating ideals and realities in a state-socialist system for food provision. [PDF]
Based on our collective ethnography of Cuba’s socialist system for the provision of state‐subsidised food, this article explores manners in which the state weaves itself into the fabric of people’s everyday lives in state‐socialist society. Instituted by Cuba’s revolutionary government in the early 1960s, Cuba’s ‘state system for provisioning’ is still
Mesa Cumbrera O +5 more
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Impact of amino acids and sugars after thermal processing on acrylamide formation in synthetic potato models and real potatoes. [PDF]
The composition of potato cultivars affect acrylamide formation after thermal treatment, therefore synthetic potato models were formulated in order to better understand the effect of sugar and amino acids on acrylamide formation after frying. Abstract Amino acids and sugars, along with the thermal processing, are considered the main parameters to ...
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Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Resumen La reventa de gasolina brasilera en la frontera Venezuela–Brasil es un acontecimiento emergente que facilita el entendimiento sociopolítico nuevo de las estrategias de sobrevivencia locales más allá de la resiliencia social e informalidad en tiempos de crisis.
Morelia Morillo Ramos, Eva van Roekel
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Indirect effects of African megaherbivore conservation on bat diversity in the world's oldest desert
Abstract In extreme environments, temperature and precipitation are often the main forces responsible for structuring ecological communities and species distributions. The role of biotic interactions is typically thought to be minimal. By clustering around rare and isolated features, like surface water, however, effects of herbivory by desert‐dwelling ...
Theresa M. Laverty, Joel Berger
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El desastre del Rana Plaza siete años después: Iniciativas transnacionales y proyecto de tratado
Resumen Se examinan iniciativas innovadoras de derecho laboral transnacional en respuesta al desastre del Rana Plaza (Bangladesh) en 2013. Respaldadas por la OIT, tuvieron gran éxito, pero fueron insuficientes para un cambio duradero en la industria de la confección: las prácticas de abastecimiento de las grandes marcas en la cadena mundial de ...
Anne TREBILCOCK
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[ES] La creciente demanda de agua, en cantidad y calidad, percibida en los países en desarrollo, debido a la intención de satisfacer las múltiples necesidades de una cada vez mayor población urbana que busca mejorar su nivel de vida, ejerce permanente ...
Benavides Muñoz, Holger Manuel
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Modelos predictivos de sistemas de información en la gestión de abastecimientos del sector ferretero
Hasta hace unos años era común que las empresas no presentaran un control permanente sobre las existencias de los productos, lo que obligaba al cálculo de periodos óptimos de revisión para tomar decisiones de reposición.
Francisco Cedeño Troya +1 more
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Evaluating synthetic substitutes to reduce illegal harvesting and support species recovery
Abstract Providing synthetic substitutes is a widely promoted strategy to shift consumer demand away from wildlife products derived from threatened species. Yet, there is little evidence on whether product substitution prevents illegal or unsustainable harvesting and contributes to the recovery of threatened populations.
Aditya Shekhar Malgaonkar +17 more
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El negocio del hambre. Fraude y corrupción durante la posguerra autárquica en el campo altoandaluz.
La política autárquica de posguerra sumió a la inmensa mayoría de la población en la carestía y la miseria, condenándola al hambre y a la enfermedad.
Gloria Román Ruiz
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