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Rights and Value: Construing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Civil Commons

Studies in Social Justice, 2011
This article brings together the United Nations’ International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and John McMurtry’s theory of value.
Giorgio Baruchello, Rachael Lorna Johnstone   +1 more
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Discourse in Development: Viewing the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights through the Post-Colonial Lens [PDF]

This article uses post-colonial theory to examine the cluster of international human rights known as economic, social and cultural rights. The article surveys the jurisprudence of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, making it ...
Beth Lyon
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Iron homeostasis disruption and lipid peroxidation in skeletal muscle during short‐term immobilization

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
14‐day casting‐induced immobilization reduced gastrocnemius muscle mass and increased non‐heme iron and ferritin heavy chain levels. Despite iron accumulation, transferrin receptor 1 and iron regulatory protein 2 were paradoxically upregulated. Lipid peroxidation was elevated without compensatory antioxidant responses.
Haruka Yokogawa, Kazuhiko Higashida, Naoya Nakai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT IN THE SIERRA NEVADA OF SANTA MARTA: CASESTUDY [PDF]

The Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta of Colombia is a region of immense cultural, historical, ecological and biological value. However, external interventions have caused serious cultural, social and environmental damage.
Eduardo Uribe
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Proteasomal degradation of intracellularly expressed Amblyomin‐X limits suicide gene therapy potential in melanoma cells

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This study explores the feasibility of expressing the antitumoral protein Amblyomin‐X through a suicide gene therapy approach and investigates its intracellular fate after gene delivery. Although the gene is efficiently expressed, melanoma cells rapidly degrade the Amblyomin‐X protein via proteasome activity.
Victor Dal Posolo Cinel, Carlos DeOcesano Pereira, Aline Ramos Maia Lobba, Melissa Regina Fessel, Ana Marisa Chudzinski‐Tavassi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local culture, globalisation and policy outcomes: an example from long term care. [PDF]

It is argued that the impact of globalisation and global ideologies on social policy can depend on the ways that local cultures reinforce or combat global ideologies and pressures.
Wilson, Gail
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Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees? [PDF]

, 2014
Why does the American Constitution lack contain social and economic guarantees, which appear in most contemporary constitutions? This essay explores four possible answers: chronological, cultural, institutional, and realist. The chronological explanation
Sunstein, Cass Robert
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MiR‐513a promotes human erythroid differentiation by modulating c‐Jun

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During early human erythropoiesis, miR‐513a promoted erythroid differentiation in primary human CD34+ hematopoietic stem‐progenitor cells and human TF‐1 erythroleukemic cells by indirectly decreasing c‐Jun and phospho‐c‐Jun expression, which are associated with increased GATA1 expression.
MinJung Kim, Brittany Taylor, Shannon Bolten, Christian L. Eberly, Mahliya Abdurahman, T. Michael Creed, Acong Yang, Taylor L. Hatchet, Tristan Dyson, Shuo Gu, Curt I. Civin, Tami J. Kingsbury   +11 more
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Property rights, collective action, and plant genetic resources [PDF]

"Many factors affect the conservation of biodiversity, including demographic changes, technological developments, national agricultural policies, and economic, social, and cultural factors.
Dennis, Evan, Di Gregorio, Monica, Eyzaguirre, Pablo, McCarthy, Nancy   +3 more
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