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- van der Hoeven, Sara, 1993
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The war on poaching: a metaphor to live or die by?
- 2020
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In: School of Blogal Studies.
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The Convention on Biological Diversity, in their flagship publication on 15 September 2020, laid out the dire state of the world’s biodiversity: “Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate … in turn threatening the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and undermining efforts to address climate change.” Similarly, a year earlier, the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found “an average of around 25 per cent of species in assessed animal and plant groups are threatened … suggesting that around 1 million species already face extinction.” Moreover, the past decade saw a rise in commercial poaching — specifically of charismatic megafauna, like elephants and rhinos for their tusks and horns between 2007-2014 — as well as an intensification of military(-like) approaches to their conservation. Prices for rhino horn, for example, exceeded that of gold and cocaine; and the global trafficking of wildlife parallels the arms and drugs trades in value. Poaching prevention efforts are often described in terms of war, such as the war on poaching, wildlife wars, or rhino wars. Is such a metaphor useful and desirable? And what are the implications of deploying such a metaphor extensively?
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- Son, Hoang Nghia, et al.
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Effects of simulated microgravity on the morphology of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs)
- 2020
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In: Romanian Biotechnological Letters. - Bucharest : University of Bucharest. - 1224-5984 .- 2248-3942. ; 25:6, s. 2156-2160
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study aimed to assess the effects of simulated microgravity on mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) morphology. The results showed that the area of MEFs under simulated microgravity was 7843.39 +/- 551.31 mu m(2) which was lower than the control group (9832.72 +/- 453.86 mu m(2)) (p < 0.001). The nuclear area of MEFs under simulated microgravity (290.76 +/- 4.58 mu m(2)) and the control group (296.8 +/- 4.58 mu m(2)) did not statistically differ. In addition, the nuclear shape value of the MEFs under simulated microgravity and the control group did not statistically differ (0.86 +/- 0.006 vs. 0.87 +/- 0.003, respectively). The nuclear intensity of MEFs under simulated microgravity (19361 +/- 852) was higher than the control group (16997 +/- 285) (P <0.05). Moreover, the flow cytometry analysis indicated the reduced GO/G1 phase cell ratio and the increased S phase and G2/M phase cell ratio in MEFs under simulated microgravity. Simulated microgravity also induced a decrease in diameter of actin filament bundles of the MEFs under simulated microgravity (1.61 +/- 0.33 mu m) compared to the control group (1.79 +/- 0.32 mu m) (P <0.01). These results revealed that simulated microgravity is capable of inducing the morphological changes of mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
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