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Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia
ABSTRACT Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio‐ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions.
Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg
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Objects and Evictions: The Politics of Things and the Reshaping of Urban Marginality
ABSTRACT Scholars have extensively documented different forms of violence experienced by homeless and evictable people, but paid less attention to how their material belongings are handled by the perpetrators of violence. Based on the method of engaged anthropology, the article identified three main regimes of handling material belongings during ...
Irina Zamfirescu
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COVID‐19 Lockdown Reshaped Communities of Urban Soil Arthropods
ABSTRACT Human activities drive resource availability and biodiversity patterns in urban ecosystems. By studying terrestrial arthropods during and after the COVID‐19 lockdown in a tropical metropolis, we show that the return of anthropogenic food subsidies in public spaces after the pandemic not only increased arthropod diversity and biomass but also ...
Igor Norbiatto +2 more
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Asthma and Multimorbidity Amongst Ethnic Minority Groups in High Income Countries
There is a tight intersection between asthma, deprivation, ethnicity, multimorbidity and poor clinical outcomes. An integrated, holistic and culturally tailored approach is needed to improve clinical outcomes amongst ethnic minority groups with asthma and multimorbidity. ABSTRACT Asthma is one of the commonest noncommunicable diseases worldwide.
Mamidipudi Thirumala Krishna +6 more
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Global Asthma Network Phase I surveyed children, adolescents, and adults worldwide to assess the prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema. Human Development Index (HDI) and Gini inequality index (GinI) were important explanatory factors for prevalence variability of these conditions, with hotspots in areas with high HDI and high GinI ...
Luis García‐Marcos +15 more
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We trace the formation of the cell structures known to determine ovariole number in the model insect Drosophila melanogaster, called terminal filaments. By investigating the formation of terminal filaments and ovarioles during queen and worker development in ants, we confirm the existence of terminal filament bundling (white arrows) and show that it ...
Claire Ramsay, Paul Lasko, Ehab Abouheif
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Mortality for diatomaceous earth was observed as early as 2 h after exposure with 50% and 90% mortality at 3.5 and 4.6 h (LT50 and LT90, respectively) for Musca domestica. The LT50 and LT90 increased when the size of the fly species increased (M. domestica to Cochliomyia macellaria to Sarcophaga bullata) and increased for all three from 50 to 70 ...
Grayson L. Cave +4 more
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