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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Lead (Pb) concentrations in predatory bird livers 2010 and 2011: a Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme (PBMS) report [PDF]

, 2012
The Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme (PBMS; http://pbms.ceh.ac.uk/) is the umbrella project that encompasses the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology’s National Capability contaminant monitoring and surveillance work on avian predators.
Chaplow, J.S., Lawlor, A.J., Pereira, M.G., Potter, E.D., Sainsbury, A.W., Shore, R.F., Walker, L.A.   +6 more
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Biological Terrorism, Emerging Diseases, and National Security [PDF]

, 1998
Examines the extent to which bioterrorist attacks have proven or may prove difficult to distinguish from outbreaks of emerging diseases. Makes recommendations for how the U.S.
Christopher F. Chyba
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Surveillance of Wastewater to Monitor the Prevalence of Gastroenteritis Viruses in Chiba Prefecture (2014–2019)

Journal of Epidemiology
Background: In Japan, sentinel surveillance is used to monitor the trend of infectious gastroenteritis. Another method of pathogen surveillance, wastewater-based epidemiology, has been used recently because it can help to monitor infectious disease ...
Chiemi Hotta, Yuki Fujinuma, Takashi Ogawa, Mamiko Akita, Tomoko Ogawa   +4 more
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Iron Physiology and Its Impact on Atopic Diseases: An EAACI Taskforce Report

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Iron is essential for oxygen transport, energy metabolism, and immune regulation. Yet iron deficiency is the most common micronutrient disorder across all age groups, affecting nearly one quarter of the global population. Iron deficiency triggers nutritional immunity, a host defense mechanism that withholds and redistributes iron, contributing
Franziska Roth‐Walter, Ioana Agache, Beatriz Cabanillas, Roberto Berni Canani, Pasquale Comberiati, Holger Garn, Cristina Gomez‐Casado, Karin Hufnagl, Ekaterina Khaleva, Gregorio P. Milani, Daniel Munblit, Nikolaos Douladiris, Liam O'Mahony, Frank Redegeld, Carmen Riggioni, Peter K. Smith, Betty van Esch, Emilia Vassilopoulou, Carina Venter, Diego G. Peroni   +19 more
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Clinically Node‐Negative Merkel Cell Carcinoma: An Update of the Westmead Hospital Experience

ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive cutaneous neuroendocrine malignancy with a high risk of nodal metastasis. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is used to stage clinically node‐negative disease and to guide adjuvant therapy decisions.
Julie Ahn, Julie R. Howle, Michael J. Veness   +2 more
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The duration of fixed exchange rate regimes [PDF]

This paper studies the survival of fixed exchange rate regimes. The probability of an exit from a fixed exchange rate regime depends on the time spent within this regime.
Sébastien Wälti
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