The article analyzes the situations that girls and young women who have demobilized from the Colombian armed conflict face due to the fact that they are women in the context of a patriarchal culture.These young ex-combatants, after a process that took them from childhood to war to the return to civilian life, construct discourses and question power
Combining mitigation strategies to increase co-benefits for biodiversity and food security
World agriculture needs to find the right balance to cope with the trilemma between feeding a growing population, reducing its impact on biodiversity and minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.In this paper, we evaluate a broad range of scenarios that achieve 4.3 Course a pied - Homme - Vetements - Manteau - Nylon GtCO _2,eq /year GHG mitigation
Airborne particles in the San Joaquin Valley may affect human health
Air quality is a primary concern for many San Joaquin Valley residents.In addition to rapid population growth, a widening interface between urban and agricultural communities, and increasing traffic along the I-5 and Hwy.99 corridors, farming practices in the San Joaquin Valley subject agricultural workers to high concentrations of airborne particu
Gene Families, Epistasis and the Amino Acid Preferences of Protein Homologs
In order to preserve structure and function, proteins tend to preferentially conserve amino acids at particular sites along the sequence.Because mutations can affect structure and function, the question arises whether the preference of a protein site for a particular amino acid varies between protein homologs, and Eye Patch to what extent that vari