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The Rif and California: Environmental Violence in the Era of New Cannabis Markets
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020 This chapter explores the different forms of environmental violence practised against humans and nature (including the cannabis plant) in a context of intensive cannabis cultivation.
Kenza Afsahi
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Trying to Be All Things to All People: Alternative Development in Afghanistan
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020 Alternative development has had little success in Afghanistan. Understood and implemented as geographically bounded interventions designed to reduce drug crop cultivation, these projects failed to achieve their objectives throughout the 1990s. Since 2001,
David Mansfield
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Are Barriers to Sustainable Development Endogenous to Drug Control Policies?
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020 This introductory article explains the rationale behind the 12th Thematic Issue of International Development Policy, which explores the tension between development and drug control goals, both current and historic.
Khalid Tinasti +2 more
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In vitro cultivation of Cryptosporidium parvum and screening for anticryptosporidial drugs [PDF]
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1990 Sporozoites of Cryptosporidium parvum which were excysted in vitro from oocysts isolated from calves or patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome underwent development in monolayers of the mouse fibroblast cell line L929. Asexual multiplication occurred, with the maximum numbers of parasites usually being observed between 24 and 48 h after ...
V, McDonald +8 more
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Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2023 Tumor mutation burden (TMB) has emerged as an essential biomarker for assessing the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy. However, due to the inherent complexity of tumors, TMB is not always correlated with the responsiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors (
Chuwei Liu +12 more
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Treading the fine white line: cocaine trafficking [PDF]
, 2016 The illicit drug’s trade is a highly profitable business that grasps the interest of millions of people and equally affects millions of others. Cocaine is a highly addictive drug that plagues many countries.
McNicholl, S, O'Hagan, A
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The influence of cultivation techniques on the productivity of drug-free cannabis
The Agrarian Scientific Journal, 2022 The influence of seeding methods, seeding rates against the background of pre-sowing and foliar treatments of seeds and plants on the yield and quality of hemp products at the experimental site of the Penza branch of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Research Center LC has been studied.
Irina Vladimirovna Bakulova +2 more
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The Drug Problem and Organized Crime, Illicit Financial Flows, Corruption and Terrorism [PDF]
, 2017 An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022 This paper used publicly available data, such as the analysis of 103 court cases to make a profile of those convicted for cannabis cultivation in Albania. There are multiple reports on drugs and organized crime in Albania which provide information on the
Adela Llatja
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Redox Biology, 2019 Intracellular tension activity plays a crucial role in cytotoxic brain edema and astrocyte swelling. Here, a few genetically encoded FRET-based tension probes were designed to detect cytoskeletal structural tension optically, including their magnitude ...
JiaRui Zhang +7 more
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