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Enjeux fonciers et développement "durable" au Mali
2012
Making the land issue a total economic phenomenon and capital the driving force of development equates to giving free rein to the commodification of the land. Is it really necessary for Mali to sell off its agricultural land and its land resources to access development? For what development? Does development demand that family-run small farming operations and age-old, traditional land management methods be sacrificed? Ever since the country attained national sovereignty in 1960, Mali ‒ a poor country in sub-Saharan Africa ‒ has been seeking in vain to achieve rapid economic, social and industrial development by all the means available, with the exception of the deployment of an endogenous d…
The (Evolving) vineyard’s age structure in the valencian community, Spain. A new demographic approach for rural development and landscape analysis
2019
Vineyards have assumed a key role as rural landmarks in recent decades. Investigating vineyard dynamics and contexts may reveal various economic, cultural, and environmental aspects of rural landscapes, which can be linked to land-use changes and major soil degradation processes, including soil erosion. As a contribution to rural landscape studies, the purpose of this work is to investigate the spatial distribution of vineyard plots in the Valencian community, located in the eastern area of the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on the final product, the type of vineyard and how long each vineyard has been settled over time. The work provides a comprehensive analysis of a wine-growing landscape, c…
Cutaneous RANK-RANKL Signaling Upregulates CD8-Mediated Antiviral Immunity during Herpes simplex Virus Infection by Preventing Virus-Induced Langerha…
2015
Herpes simplex virus-type 1 (HSV-1) causes the majority of cutaneous viral infections. Viral infections are controlled by the immune system, and CD8(+) cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs) have been shown to be crucial during the clearance of HSV-1 infections. Although epidermal Langerhans cells (LCs) are the first dendritic cells (DCs) to come into contact with the virus, it has been shown that the processing of viral antigens and the differentiation of antiviral CTLs are mediated by migratory CD103+ dermal DCs and CD8 alpha(+) lymph node resident DCs. In vivo regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are implicated in the regulation of antiviral immunity and we have shown that signaling via the receptor activ…
Human primary dendritic cell subsets differ in their IL-12 release in response to Leishmania major infection
2010
Immunity against leishmaniasis has primarily been studied in experimental infections of mice. It was shown that infected skin dendritic cells (DC) are critical for the induction of protection against this pathogen, and targeting skin DC in vaccination approaches in mice has proven to be successful. However, little is known about the contribution of human DC subsets from the skin to primary immunity against this pathogen. In this study, we have analysed the interaction between different human DC subsets and Leishmania major. Primary human myeloid and monocyte-derived DC ingested the parasite comparable to that of murine skin DC, and this resulted in DC activation and IL-12 release, a cytokin…
Public engagements with Lapland’s Dark Heritage: Community archaeology in Finnish Lapland
2018
Research project Lapland’s Dark Heritage organized a one-week public excavation in Inari, Finnish Lapland, at a Second World War (WWII) German military hospital site in August 2016. #InariDig took place with the help of international experts and pre-registered volunteers. In this field report, two of the archaeologists leading the excavations and an ethnographer who took part in documenting this community archaeology experiment introduce the excavation sites and activities reflecting on the engagements with volunteers and local community. peerReviewed
[Construction and reaction of the mucosa-associated-lymphatic tissue (MALT) in the middle ear, the Tuba Eustachii and the larynx of the rat].
2003
Comunidad, consolidación urbana y políticas de vivienda social. Una mirada desde Colombia y la ciudad de Tunja, Boyacá / / / \ \ \ Community policies…
2020
Resumen: Las ciudades latinoamericanas presentan múltiples problemáticas urbanas, entre ellas el crecimiento a saltos y los vacíos urbanos que deja la autoconstrucción de viviendas, todo en un marco de desigualdad en la distribución del suelo, con soluciones de planeación insuficientes, alejadas de la realidad de las comunidades, y poco eficaces en la mitigación del déficit de calidad de las viviendas y del hábitat urbano. Se estudia el caso de esta ciudad mediana, el análisis a su política urbana y de vivienda social, la mirada de los gestores públicos y la perspectiva que tiene la comunidad, todo con el fin de encontrar propuestas de mejora que procuren una consolidación del entorno urban…
Constructing the secular imagined community : a critical intercultural analysis of discourses of laïcité from Le Monde
2016
The concept of secularism encompasses numerous aspects beyond the regulation of relations between the State and Churches. Using a critical intercultural communication framework, this research project explores the interplay between secularism, culture, religion, identity, and collective representations. Specifically, this study focuses on laïcité, the concept of secularism used in France. Previous studies have criticized laïcité for being biased and contributing to inequalities between communities in France. The pervasive (and false) representation of laïcité as originally and exclusively French has also been criticized. In the light of the concerns raised by previous studies, this study set…
A Riemann-Type Integral on a Measure Space
2005
In a compact Hausdorff measure space we define an integral by partitions of the unity and prove that it is nonabsolutely convergent.