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Flint Revisited

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2020
photo credit  ID 65823592 © Lindaparton | Dreamstime.com I. Introduction Lead is a neurotoxin so potent that major environmental agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have found that ...
Tracey L. Cohen
doaj   +1 more source

Race Audits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court’s race jurisprudence suffers from a stunning lack of imagination where possibilities for meaningful local government involvement in combating structural racial inequality are concerned. Cases such as Parents.
Lenhardt, Robin A.
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Selective Inhibition of Integrin β3 Topology Provides a Safer Antithrombotic Strategy

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Current integrin αIIbβ3 inhibitors effectively reduce thrombosis but also increase bleeding risk. During thrombosis, high shear blood flow can directly activate the integrin αIIbβ3 via a distinct topological change in the β3 transmembrane domain, independent of hemostatic platelet signaling.
Joonha Lee   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proving Environmental Inequity in Siting Locally Unwanted Land Uses [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
This paper advances a process for determining whether, e.g., waste-to-energy facilities are disproportionately located in minority and poor communities, and the author asks others to join in searching for a scientifically sound and fair process of ...
Greenberg, Michael
core   +2 more sources

Liquid Metals in Radio Frequency Applications: A Review of Physics, Manufacturing, and Emerging Technologies

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
This paper reviews the physics of liquid metals in RF devices, including the influence of mechanical strain on resonance as well as fabrication methods and strategies for designing tunable and strain‐tolerant inductors, capacitors, and antennas.
Md Saifur Rahman, William J. Scheideler
wiley   +1 more source

Which came first, people or pollution? Assessing the disparate siting and post-siting demographic change hypotheses of environmental injustice

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2015
Although a large body of quantitative environmental justice research exists, only a handful of studies have examined the processes by which racial and socioeconomic disparities in the location of polluting industrial facilities can occur.
Paul Mohai, Robin Saha
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism: An Annotated Bibliography and General Overview, Focusing on U.S. Literature, 1996-2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
We review the literature published in academic, non-law journals on environmental justice and environmental racism, focusing on the literature relevant to the environmental justice movement in the United States.
Turner, Robin L., Wu, Diana Pei
core   +1 more source

Advances in Gastric Cancer Research: Insights Into Carcinogenesis, the Tumor Microenvironment, Metastasis, and Factors Influencing Prognosis

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Department of Gastroenterological Surgery at Kumamoto University has maintained a commitment to integrating cutting‐edge clinical practice with fundamental research, particularly concerning malignant diseases of the digestive tract.
Hideo Baba   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water Grabbing in the Cauca Basin: The Capitalist Exploitation of Water and Dispossession of Afro-Descendant Communities

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2012
This article examines water grabbing in the Alto Cauca in Colombia as a form of accumulation through ethnicised and racialised environmental dispossession in the capitalist system.
Irene Vélez Torres
doaj  

Unpacking environmental racism through dependency theory in the case of second-hand goods export to West Africa

open access: yesDiscover Environment
The second-hand goods export market is complex and inextricably intertwined with environmental racism and dependency theories. Studies have shown that the adverse impacts of second-hand goods exports outweigh their benefits.
Prince Nii Koi Kotei   +3 more
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