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Reproductive and Genetic Bio Technologies: Taking up the challenge
No full textMarsha J. Tyson Darling reflects on the issues she explored in her plenary commentary at the AWID Forum. She brings to the fore the unprecedented challenges posed by the emergence of rapidly developing and largely unregulated new reproductive and genetic biotechnologies. Development (2006) 49, 18–22. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100236
From economic competition to military combat: export similarity and international conflict
No full textThe vast majority of the extant literature on trade and conflict focuses on bilateral trade to determine whether commerce has a pacifying effect upon pairs of states. We argue that this focus neglects a critical role of international trade: creating tension between states that sell similar goods to the global market. We consider this role explicitly and operationalize its effects empirically. Using commodity-level trade data from 1962 to 2000, we show that countries that produce and sell similar goods are generally more likely to fight, even after we take into account their bilateral trade ties and institutional membership in the global economic system. Our findings are robust to numerous alternative specifications and suggest a strong relationship between economic competition in the global market and military conflict between states
On transversal submanifolds and their measure
No full textWe study the class of transversal submanifolds. We characterize their blow-ups at transversal points and prove a negligibility theorem for their ``generalized characteristic set'', with respect to the Carnot-Carathéodory Hausdorff measure. This set is made by all points of non-maximal degree. Observing that C^1 submanifolds in Carnot groups are generically transversal, the previous results prove that the ``intrinsic measure'' of C^1 submanifolds is generically equivalent to their Carnot-Carathéodory Hausdorff measure. As a result, the restriction of this Hausdorff measure to the submanifold can be replaced by a more manageable integral formula, that should be seen as a ``sub-Riemannian mass''. Another consequence of these results is an explicit formula, only depending on the embedding of the submanifold, that computes the Carnot-Carathéodory Hausdorff dimension of C^1 transversal submanifolds
Gender, New Technologies and Development
No full textMarsha J. Tyson Darling reflects on how new and emerging technology serve ideological, political, social, cultural and gendered interests. She argues progress on social justice and the social norms which are embedded in a public domain is increasingly being sacrificed to legal- and market-based norms in the new genomics-based consumerism that defines the current new and emerging technologies. Her focus is on the gendered dimensions of ‘red biotechnologies,’ particularly the legacy of using women's bodies and risking women's health to pursue largely unregulated biotechnologies. Development (2006) 49, 23–27. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100318
Clinical–Radiologic Dissociation in Post-traumatic Syringomyelia
No full textPost-traumatic syringomyelia develops years to decades after spinal trauma in up to 28% of patients. We report a case of a man who developed extensive syringomyelia 14 years after spinal trauma, but had only minimal symptoms. Presumed pathophysiology of this condition and options for surgical management are briefly reviewed.Department of Neurology Psychology and Psychiatry Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of MedicineDepartment of Neurology Psychology and Psychiatry Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP
Seizures and Headaches in a 34-Year-Old Woman With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
No full textDepartment of Neurology Psychology and Psychiatry Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)Department of Pathology Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of MedicineDepartment of Neurology Psychology and Psychiatry Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)Department of Pathology Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP)Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Botucatu Medical School of Sao Paulo State University (UNESP
The Arc of Modernization: Economic Structure, Materialism, and the Onset of Civil Conflict
Get PDFThe onset of intrastate conflict has two requisite conditions: that prospective insurgents have an incentive to rebel, and that the state lacks the capacity to deter such a rebellion. We outline a simple rationalist argument grounded in gains from economic growth—to both individual income and state revenue—to argue that modernization has the potential to affect the likelihood of civil conflict through both of these conditions. The shift away from a rent-seeking economy affects opportunity costs for rebellion by increasing the cost of recruitment, broadening the time horizon for gain, and decreasing looting possibilities. On the state side, modernization increases state military, economic, and institutional capacity, allowing governments to deter rebellion. We construct an index of modernization from World Bank data and apply a strategic model to explore the effect of modernization on both states and rebels simultaneously. We find that the modernization process describes an arc that may increase the likelihood of unrest in the early stages, but has long-term stabilizing effects
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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