GOVERNING GRAZING AND MOBILITY IN THE SAMBURU LOWLANDS, KENYA

Governing Grazing and Mobility in the Samburu Lowlands, Kenya

Pastoral mobility is seen as the most effective strategy to make use of constantly shifting resources.However, mobile pastoralism as a highly-valued strategy to manage grazing areas and exploit resource variability is becoming more complex, due to recurrent droughts, loss of forage, government-led settlement schemes, and enclosure of land for commu

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Enucleation Induces Parvalbumin and Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, but Not Calbindin D28k Protein Expression in Superior Colliculus of Wistar Rats

Background: It is known that eye enucleation causes various morphological and functional alterations in the central nervous system (CNS).The purpose of this study was to examine the sub-chronic effects of monocular enucleation on the distribution of the calcium binding proteins calbindin D28k (CB) and parvalbumin (PV) as well as the glial fibrillar

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Prolonging effect of polyvinyl alcohol on the drug release

Polymers are currently of interest as drug delivery systems.The use of polymeric forms of medicinal substances will eliminate or reduce the disadvantages of traditional drugs.The purpose of this work was to assess the ability to prolong the action of polyvinyl alcohol in relation to the drug release when going from dilute to more concentrated solut

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Dynamics of immune system gene expression upon bacterial challenge and wounding in a social insect (Bombus terrestris).

The innate immune system which helps individuals to combat pathogens comprises a set of genes representing four immune system pathways (Toll, Imd, JNK and JAK/STAT).There is a lack of immune genes in social insects (e.g.honeybees) when compared to Diptera.Potentially, this might be compensated by an advanced system of social immunity (synergistic a

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