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Coca: The History and Medical Significance of an Ancient Andean Tradition
Coca leaf products are an integral part of the lives of the Andean peoples from both a cultural and traditional medicine perspective. Coca is also the whole plant from which cocaine is derived.
Amy Sue Biondich
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Traditional coca uses have taken place in Peru and Bolivia from three thousand years. International organizations have urged the implementation of “zero-coca” growing policies in those countries, although without tangible results.
GARCIA-YI, Jaqueline
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Grazing management is a key element to optimize growth cycle of forages, which are enhanced in their chemical composition leading to the reception of greater nutritive values for feeding ruminants.
Santiago Alexander Guamán Rivera +3 more
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Climate change has increased the interannual and seasonal variation in the average temperature and precipitation rate, which determine forage availability globally. Similar patterns of change have occurred in tropical regions, and Ecuador is no exception.
Raúl Lorenzo González Marcillo +5 more
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Public Meets Private: Conversations Between Coca‐Cola and the CDC [PDF]
Nason Maani Hessari +2 more
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Influence of Litter Size at Birth on Productive Parameters in Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus)
A study was conducted at the Escuela Superior Politècnica de Chimborazo, Ecuador, to evaluate the influence of litter size of guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) on their development and to establish the economic profitability of the production system.
Angela Edith Guerrero Pincay +5 more
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Willingness to reuse reclaimed municipal wastewater was ascertained through a questionnaire completed by 424 respondents, opinions of 17 experts, and interviews with 15 farmers. Information was collected to assess their knowledge of water scarcity and to
Neha, Arun Kansal
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Four new minor diterpene glycosides with a rare α-glucosyl linkage were isolated from a cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase glucosylated stevia extract containing more than 98% steviol glycosides.
Indra Prakash +1 more
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A Novel Diterpene Glycoside with Nine Glucose Units from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni
Following our interest in new diterpene glycosides with better taste profiles than that of Rebaudioside M, we have recently isolated and characterized Rebaudioside IX—a novel steviol glycoside—from a commercially‐supplied extract of Stevia rebaudiana ...
Indra Prakash +6 more
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Regional monopoly and interregional and intraregional competition: the parallel trade in Coca-Cola between Shanghai and Hangzhou in China [PDF]
This article uses a “principal-agent-subagent” analytical framework and data that were collected from field surveys in China to (1) investigate the nature and causes of the parallel trade in Coca-Cola between Shanghai and Hangzhou and (2) assess the ...
Mok, Vincent, Yeung, Godfrey
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