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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2019 This paper explores some of the interactions between community workers, drug traffickers and militiamen in the city of Rio de Janeiro and in the Baixada Fluminense region.
Marcella Araujo
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Erdogan's Foreign Policy Against Kurds in Syria: A Turkish Military and Political Strategy
Law and Justice, 2022 The situation in the Middle East is complicated by the need for Turkey to formulate a new military and political strategy . Relations between the Kurds and Turkey since the collapse of the Ottoman caliphate have been strained by the Kurds' desire for ...
Diana Setiawati +1 more
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The Dormant Second Amendment: Exploring the Rise, Fall, and Potential Resurrection of Independent State Militias [PDF]
, 2013 The term “militia” is polarizing, misunderstood, misapplied, and generally difficult for modern Americans to digest. That is not surprising, given the depth and breadth of American militia history and militias’ substantial evolution over four centuries ...
Golden, Michael J.
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Participatory Militias: An Analysis of an Armed Movement's Online Audience
, 2015 Armed groups of civilians known as "self-defense forces" have ousted the powerful Knights Templar drug cartel from several towns in Michoacan. This militia uprising has unfolded on social media, particularly in the "VXM" ("Valor por Michoacan," Spanish ...
Cranshaw J. +16 more
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Function‐driven design of a surrogate interleukin‐2 receptor ligand
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Interleukin (IL)‐2 signaling can be achieved and precisely fine‐tuned through the affinity, distance, and orientation of the heterodimeric receptors with their ligands. We designed a biased IL‐2 surrogate ligand that selectively promotes effector T and natural killer cell activation and differentiation. Interleukin (IL) receptors play a pivotal role in
Ziwei Tang +9 more
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Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2014 In Links, Nuruddin Farah (2003) portrays a Somali back to his country after more than two decades of exile. The scenario he meets is aSomalia already free from the dictatorship that expulsed him, but still immersed in a bloody civil war between rival ...
Divanize Carbonieri
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee +3 more
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Teniente Remedios Jover Cánovas (Estado Mayor 3 Division, XV Cuerpo del Ejército del Ebro)
Cuestiones de Género: de la Igualdad y la Diferencia, 2011 Tradicionalmente la historiografía ha dado por sentado que la participación de las mujeres en el Ejército Popular fue momentánea, ya que el Gobierno de la República las excluyó del mismo a finales de 1936.
Esther Gutiérrez Escoda
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Guns, Militias and Oklahoma City [PDF]
, 1995 While this Symposium on The Second Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms was in final stages of production a massive explosion ripped through a federal office building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing scores of men, women, and children.
Barnett, Randy E
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Structural biology of ferritin nanocages
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Ferritin is a conserved iron‐storage protein that sequesters iron as a ferric mineral core within a nanocage, protecting cells from oxidative damage and maintaining iron homeostasis. This review discusses ferritin biology, structure, and function, and highlights recent cryo‐EM studies revealing mechanisms of ferritinophagy, cellular iron uptake, and ...
Eloise Mastrangelo, Flavio Di Pisa
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