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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Reaction between Boric Acid and Phosphine Indicates Boric Acid as an Antidote for Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2016
Objectives: Aluminium phosphide (AlP) is a fumigant pesticide which protects stored grains from insects and rodents. When it comes into contact with moisture, AlP releases phosphine (PH3), a highly toxic gas.
Motahareh Soltani, Seyed F. Shetab-Boushehri, Seyed V. Shetab-Boushehri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Some Aspects of the Mechanisms of Action of Hemic Antihypoxant Acyzol in Clinical Practice and Experiment

Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2013
The results of clinical and experimental study of the mechanisms underlying the antihypoxic effect of Acyzol are considered. Its effect on the acid-base balance of the blood and oxygen-transport properties of hemoglobin in patients with intoxication with
B.S. Sheyman, M.V. Kurik, N.A. Voloshina, R.V. Vakulenko, I.A. Safronova, T.Yu. Romancha   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon, Agnieszka Leszczynski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic engineering for SIT application: a fruit fly‐focused review

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Sterile insect technique (SIT) has become a key component of efficient pest control. Fruit fly pests from the Drosophilidae and Tephritidae families pose a substantial and overwhelmingly increasing threat to the agricultural industry, aggravated by climate change and globalization among other contributors.
Serafima Davydova, Danheng Yu, Angela Meccariello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Patterns and Outcome of Acute Poisoning Cases at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern Nepal

Journal of Nobel Medical College
Background: Acute Poisoning is a major health problem with significant morbidity and mortality affecting people of all age groups. The objective of the present study was to find out the clinical features, epidemiological profile, pre-hospital treatment ...
Madan Krishna Mandal, Namita Kumari Mandal, Rohit Kumar Shah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of Mycotoxins and Approaches to Its Solution

Вестник войск РХБ защиты
Mycotoxins are characterized by wide structural diversity and variety of origins.Various physical and chemical methods are tried for neutralization of mycotoxins.Enzymatic treatment looks like nature-like and efficient method of detoxification ...
E. N. Efremenko, I. V. Lyagin
doaj   +1 more source