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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Tecnología y ciencias del agua, 2018 En esta investigación se propone caracterizar plaguicidas organoclorados (POC), y parámetros fisicoquímicos en agua y sedimentos del río Tucutunemo. La información obtenida servirá para desarrollar posteriormente un modelo de transporte de contaminantes.
Samuel Cárdenas +3 more
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Food poisoning due to yam flour consumption in Kano (Northwest) Nigeria [PDF]
, 2009 Food poisoning is known to occur sporadically from time to time due to poor hygienic preparations. Its occurrence rarely assumes epidemic proportion. The objective was to report the occurrence of food poisoning due to yam flour among three families which
Adeleke, SI
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globally, rivers receive a diverse range of chemicals, including metals, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, petrochemicals, human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and personal care products. However, the extent to which these different chemical groups affect riverine invertebrate communities is not well defined.
Imogen P. Poyntz‐Wright +2 more
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Renaming in Adoption: Exploring Name Ambivalence in Adoptive Parents' Name Stories
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Names are central to identity, yet their role in adoption, where identity and family dynamics are complex, remains under‐researched. This article draws on findings from a qualitative study of names and adoption in England and Wales to examine adoptive parents' decisions about the first names of their children.
Jan Flaherty +3 more
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Vândalos, apocalípticos e deslocados, ou os modernismos para além do eixo
Anos 90, 2013 Resenha do livro de Os Vândalos do Apocalipse e outras histórias: arte e literatura no Pará dos anos de Aldrin Moura de Figueiredo.
Flávio Leonel Abreu da Silveira
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Journal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pancreas disease (PD), caused by salmonid alphavirus (SAV), is a concern for salmon aquaculture in Scotland, Ireland and Norway. This article presents results from a controlled field trial monitoring three study groups from vaccination to harvest.
Jostein Mulder Pettersen +7 more
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Dilemmas Encountered While Planning Social and/or Political Elementary Mathematics Tasks
School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A mathematical task rooted in social and/or political contexts has the potential to engage students in exploring their own realities and learning about the realities of others while building their mathematical knowledge. While there are planning and instructional practices recommended for these types of tasks, no single practice can fully ...
Amanda Sugimoto +5 more
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Plaguicidas y cáncer de mama en mujeres cordobesas
Revista de Salud Ambiental, 2001 La exposición a contaminantes ambientales constituye en la actualidad un problema importante en salud pública, sobre todo con respecto al papel que dichos tóxicos juegan como carcinogenéticos.
R. Angulo Lucena +2 more
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PATELLIDAE SHELLS WASTE AS A BIOSORBENT FOR THE REMOVAL OF ALDRIN PESTICIDE FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS [PDF]
Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 2018 Adsorptive removal of aldrin insecticide from aqueous solutions by Treated Patellidae Shells (TPS) was investigated in a batch method under laboratory conditions.
ABDELHAMID BAKKA +7 more
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