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Towards gender-responsive banana research for development in the East-African Highlands
Banana production is an important livelihood for farming households in the East-African highlands as food and as a source of income. Banana is a crop with a long history in this region. Although not originating from Africa, it is believed bananas have been cultivated in this region since 2000 BC. It is not surprising that the technical aspects of banana production are intertwined with rituals, habits, and social norms. In this guide, we highlight and discuss social norms surrounding banana production, zooming in specifically on gender norms. Understanding these norms coupled with the ability to address them is essential for the development and design of high-quality banana-focused research for development (R4D) projects which benefit men as well as women
Continuity and change: Negotiating gender norms in agricultural research for development in Rwanda
This resource is for research and development practitioners working in agriculture and rural development in Rwanda. The objective is to provide information about the ways in which gender norms in Eastern Rwanda are changing, and which ones remain persistent. It finds that despite broader institutional changes, men’s and women’s roles and relations in relation to farming, and the gender norms governing them, are changing in piecemeal ways
Opportunities and threats in the beer-banana value chain in Central Uganda
Poster presented at CIALCA Conference 2011. Kigali (Rwanda). 24-27 Oct 2011
Editorial Introduction: Synergies Between Game Music and Electronic Dance Music in Cultural Context
The issue’s guest editors provide an overview of the intersections between video game music and electronic dance music in their cultural contexts, situating the issue’s articles within this landscape
Distribution of lipids in non-lamellar phases of their mixtures
We consider a model of lipids in which a head group, characterized by its
volume, is attached to two flexible tails of equal length. The phase diagram of
the anhydrous lipid is obtained within self-consistent field theory, and
displays, as a function of lipid architecture, a progression of phases:
body-centered cubic, hexagonal, gyroid, and lamellar. We then examine mixtures
of an inverted hexagonal forming lipid and a lamellar forming lipid. As the
volume fractions of the two lipids vary, we find that inverted hexagonal,
gyroid, or lamellar phases are formed. We demonstrate that the non-lamellar
forming lipid is found preferentially at locations which are difficult for the
lipid tails to reach. Variations in the volume fraction of each type of lipid
tail are on the order of one to ten per cent within regions dominated by the
tails. We also show that the variation in volume fraction is correlated
qualitatively with the variation in mean curvature of the head-tail interface.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figures (better figures are available upon request), to
appear in J. Chem. Phy
Vaginal yeasts in the era of "over the counter" antifungals
OBJECTIVE: To establish whether there has been any rise in the prevalence of non-albicans
Candida species isolated from vaginal swabs since the introduction of “over the counter” antifungal
treatments.
METHOD: A retrospective review looking at all positive vaginal yeast isolates collected from
women attending one genitourinary medicine clinic during the 6 year period from 1993 to 1998
inclusive. All positive vaginal yeast isolates were included, regardless of whether or not the
patients were symptomatic. Isolates from HIV positive women were excluded from the analysis.
RESULT: No increase in non-albicans vaginal yeast isolates was shown during the period studied.
The proportion of non-albicans yeasts remained constant at approximately 5% of the total yeasts
isolated. The most common non-albicans yeast isolated was C glabrata.
CONCLUSION: There is no evidence from this study to suggest that the increasing use of “over the
counter” antifungal treatment has selected for atypical, possibly inherently azole resistant, strains
of vaginal yeasts in HIV seronegative women
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