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Tropical Materialisms: Toward Decolonial Poetics, Practices and Possibilities

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate ...
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Anita Lundberg
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Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialisms, Queer Ecology, and Spectral Tropicality

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
This special issue entitled “Queering the Tropics” explores how queering as a methodology and gender and sexuality as a critical rubric complicate the study of the tropics and conceptions of tropicality. It also engages with how the tropics as a worldly
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Gregory Luke Chwala, Anita Lundberg, S.N. Nyeck   +3 more
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Gardening in Polluted Tropics: The Materiality of Waste and Toxicity in Olive Senior’s Caribbean Poetry

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
While toxic substances continue increasingly, and unevenly, infiltrating the world, the new materialist turn invites us to examine the relationalities emerging between pollution and literature.
Ysabel Muñoz Martínez
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Black Seed Dreaming: A Material Analysis of Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu”

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
Indigenous Australians are outstanding for the way their ontologies and practices do not rely on a Western dichotomy that opposes material and spiritual realms.
Barbara Glowczewski, Anita Lundberg (Trans.)   +1 more
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Queer Tropical Gothic: Parody, Failure, and Space in Nick Joaquin’s “Gotita de Dragon”

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
The stories for children by Filipino literary master Nick Joaquin (1917-2004), when compared to his famous works for adults, have received scant attention even though they are as masterfully written and thematically sophisticated.
Raymon D. Ritumban
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Genetic improvement of breeding materials in tropical and sub- tropical maize [PDF]

Hereditas (Beijing), 2011
In the present study, 122 maize local cultivars and adapted exotic germplasm from Thailand were used to develop open pollinate varieties (OPVs) using modified ear-to-row scheme, top-cross or test-cross programmes. Ten new maize OPVs with distinct characters were created based on the precise breeding objectives and directional design.
Sansern Jampatong, Chaba Jampatong
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A road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021
To neglect something is to fail to take care of it properly, particularly through inattention. Twenty diseases and disease groups comprise the WHO’s portfolio of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and each could provide a case study for that definition ...
M. Malecela, Camilla Ducker
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An Update on the Influence of Natural Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change on Tropical Cyclones

Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 2023
A substantial number of studies have been published since the Ninth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-9) in 2018, improving our understanding of the effect of climate change on tropical cyclones (TCs) and associated hazards and risks ...
Suzana J. Camargo, Hiroyuki Murakami, N. Bloemendaal, S. Chand, M. Deshpande, Christian Dominguez-Sarmiento, J. J. González-Alemán, T. Knutson, I.-I. Lin, Il‐Ju Moon, C. Patricola, Kevin A. Reed, Malcolm J. Roberts, E. Scoccimarro, Chi‐Yung Tam, E. Wallace, Liguang Wu, Yohei Yamada, Wei Zhang, Haikun Zhao   +19 more
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A review of recent advances (2018-2021) on tropical cyclone intensity change from operational perspectives, Part 1: Dynamical model guidance

Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 2023
This review summarizes the rapporteur report on tropical cyclone (TC) intensity change from the operational perspective, as presented to the 10th International Workshop on TCs (IWTC-10) held in Bali, Indonesia, from Dec.
Zhan Zhang, Weiguo Wang, James Doyle, J. Moskaitis, William A. Komaromi, J. Heming, L. Magnusson, J. Cangialosi, Levi P. Cowan, M. Brennan, Suhong Ma, A. Das, T. Hosomi, P. Clegg, Thomas Birchard, J. Knaff, J. Kaplan, M. Mohapatra, Monica Sharma, Ikegami Masaaki, Liguang Wu, E. Blake   +21 more
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A global call for action to tackle skin-related neglected tropical diseases (skin NTDs) through integration: An ambitious step change

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023
On 8 June 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) released pivotal guidance, “Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: A strategic framework for integrated control and management of skin-related neglected tropical diseases.” Skin-
R. Yotsu, L. C. Fuller, M. Murdoch, W. Brakel, C. Revankar, Mahoutondji Yves, Thierry Barogui, José Antonio, Ruiz Postigo, D. Dagne, K. Asiedu, Roderick J Hay   +11 more
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