Political ecology of asymmetric ecological knowledges: diverging views on the eucalyptus-water nexus in the Taita Hills, Kenya

Environmental resource management policies worldwide have long insisted on the need to involve local communities and their diverse ecological knowledges in management planning and decision-making.In SubSaharan post-colonial countries, however, formal resource management is still largely dominated by bureaucratic governance regimes that date back to

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Hepatitis B virus suppresses complement C9 synthesis by limiting the availability of transcription factor USF-1 and inhibits formation of membrane attack complex: implications in disease pathogenesis

Abstract Background The complement system functions primarily as a first-line host defense against invading microbes, including viruses.However, the interaction of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) with the complement-components during chronic HBV infection remains largely unknown.We investigated the mechanism by which HBV inhibits the formation of cytolytic

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