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Framing Injustice: Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS) in Nigeria and the #EndSARS Protest Response from a Social Movement Theory Perspective

open access: yesModern Africa, 2022
This article employs Social Movement Theory (SMT) to examine collective action mobilisation against malfeasance by Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS). Created in the 1990s to counter armed gangs, SARS gradually became discredited.
Akali Omeni
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ALEVISM IN THE 1960S: SOCIAL CHANGE AND MOBILISATION [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Premières lignes : "The decades following the Second World War were ones of crucial social change in Turkey. By the end of the 1950s, the social and political landscape of the country was transformed by demographic growth, expansion of education, development of industry, and massive migration to the cities and foreign countries.
openaire   +4 more sources

Catholics in the Making of the Italian Water Movement: A Moral Economy

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2014
The commitment of several Catholic groups and individuals within the Italian mobilisation for public water has been interpreted as an original experience of Catholic bottom up presence in social movements in the broader context of a Catholic awakening ...
Emanuele Fantini
doaj   +1 more source

Social media and youth mobilisation during the End SARS protest [PDF]

open access: yes
Social media has become a significant medium of communication for youth mobilisation in Nigeria.It gives a platform for young people to interact, share knowledge, and organise around social and political issues.
Olanrewaju, Maranatha Morenike   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

open access: yesFEBS 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
wiley   +1 more source

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Translating Protest: Networked Diasporas and Transnational Mobilisation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2022
This study combines ethnographic and computational approaches to critically examine what gets 'lost in translation' when studying intersecting social contexts of diasporic mobilisation around homeland politics.
Tetyana Lokot, Olga Boichak
doaj   +1 more source

Circulating tumor cell viability during and after radiotherapy mirrors treatment response in cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Radiotherapy (RT) response depends on the DNA repair capacity of tumor and host cells. We show that circulating tumor cell (CTC) counts and apoptosis rates before and after RT predict treatment response and outcome, which can be accessed via easily accessible liquid biopsy approaches. Created in BioRender. Wikman, H.
Yvonne Goy   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Older adults’ lived experiences of caring relationships with home care nurses – being in an in-between restricted or enabled existential freedom

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
Purpose The aim of this study is to describe the essential meaning of the phenomenon of caring relationships in home care for older adults in Denmark, based on their lived experiences of caring relationships with home care nurses.
Karoline Lang Mathiesen   +4 more
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Representações e orientações do movimento sindical face ao trabalho e ativismo feminino em Portugal, 1850-1926

open access: yesLer História
The relationship between class and gender has been the subject of numerous international studies. In Portugal, however, this is an under-researched topic.
Joana Dias Pereira
doaj   +1 more source

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