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Global Public HealthWe explored women’s narratives about their experiences as victim-survivors of multiple forms of armed conflict violence and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Colombia and examined pathways that clarify the relationships between these two types of ...
Maria Teresa Restrepo +3 more
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Childhood exposure to armed conflict and nutritional health outcomes in Nigeria
Conflict and Health, 2023 Background Armed conflicts are associated with an increased risk of food insecurity, the leading cause of malnutrition in low-and-middle-income countries.
Olusesan Ayodeji Makinde +3 more
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A geography of illicit crops (coca leaf) and armed conflict in Colombia [PDF]
, 2004 Colombia is currently the world’s largest producer of coca leaf and the principal producer of opium poppies in the Americas; the plants are the basic raw materials used to produce cocaine and heroin.
Díaz, Ana María, Sánchez, Fabio
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Book Review: Rape loot pillage: the political economy of sexual violence in armed conflict. By Sara Meger. New York: Oxford University Press [PDF]
, 2018 Review of Rape loot pillage: the political economy of sexual violence in armed conflict. By Sara Meger. New York: Oxford University PressIn Rape loot pillage, Sara Meger offers a feminist political economy perspective on sexual violence in conflict ...
Aroussi, Sahla
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.We show that the majority of the 18 analyzed recurrent cancer‐associated ERBB4 mutations are transforming. The most potent mutations are activating, co‐operate with other ERBB receptors, and are sensitive to pan‐ERBB inhibitors. Activating ERBB4 mutations also promote therapy resistance in EGFR‐mutant lung cancer.
Veera K. Ojala +15 more
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Conflict and Health, 2019 Background Armed conflicts can have severe adverse effects on population health, both directly and indirectly, through the destruction of health care systems.
Ryoko Sato
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Civilians in the Line of Fire in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching [PDF]
, 2015 In our world today, afflicted by wars between States, by conflict between groups within States, and by the scourge of terrorism, civilians constitute the ‘vast majority of casualties in situations of armed conflict’ (UN Security Council, Resolution ...
Michael, Biju
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung +17 more
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War Everywhere: Rights, National Security Law, and the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Terror [PDF]
, 2004 Both international and domestic law take as a basic premise the notion that it is possible, important, and usually fairly straightforward to distinguish between war and peace, emergencies and normality, the foreign and the domestic, the external and the ...
Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1 (ALDH1A1) is a cancer stem cell marker in several malignancies. We established a novel epithelial cell line from rectal adenocarcinoma with unique overexpression of this enzyme. Genetic attenuation of ALDH1A1 led to increased invasive capacity and metastatic potential, the inhibition of proliferation activity, and ultimately ...
Martina Poturnajova +25 more
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