Contract Farming, Ecological Change and the Transformations of Reciprocal Gendered Social Relations in Eastern India

Debates on gender and the commodification of land highlight the loss of land rights, intensification of demands on women’s labour, and decline in their decision-making control. Supported by ‘extra-economic forces’ of religious nationalism (Hindutva), such neoliberal interventions are producing new gender ideologies involving a subtle shift from relations of reciprocity to those of subordination. Using data from fine grained fieldwork in Koraput district, Odisha, we analyse the tensions and transformations created jointly by corporate interventions (contract farming of eucalyptus by the paper industry) and religious nationalism in the local landscape. We examine how these phenomena are reshaping relations of asymmetric mutuality between nature and society, and between men and women

Targeting cancer metabolism: a therapeutic window opens

Genetic events in cancer activate signalling pathways that alter cell metabolism. Clinical evidence has linked cell metabolism with cancer outcomes. Together, these observations have raised interest in targeting metabolic enzymes for cancer therapy, but they have also raised concerns that these therapies would have unacceptable effects on normal cells. However, some of the first cancer therapies that were developed target the specific metabolic needs of cancer cells and remain effective agents in the clinic today. Research into how changes in cell metabolism promote tumour growth has accelerated in recent years. This has refocused efforts to target metabolic dependencies of cancer cells as a selective anticancer strategy.Burroughs Wellcome FundSmith Family FoundationStarr Cancer ConsortiumDamon Runyon Cancer Research FoundationNational Institutes of Health (U.S.

Detection of nitrate reductase activity in nitrate reductase deficient mutants of barley (Hordeum vulgare)

Nitrate reductase deficient mutants of barley Az12 and Az13 showed 40-50% in vivo enzyme activity as compared with the Steptoe non-mutant under strictly anaerobic conditions of assay. However, in vitro nitrate reductase activity could not be detected in the mutant extracts prepared by different methods. The extracts did not contain any inhibitory factor as judged by effect of in vitro nitrate reductase activity in the Steptoe non-mutant. Defective functioning of the Mo cofactor in the mutants was indicated by the fact that reduced benzyl viologen was ineffective as an electron donor. Incorporation of Mo-cofactor obtained from the Steptoe non-mutant into the mutant extract significantly reconstituted nitrate reductase activity. The reconstituted enzyme was NADH specific, indicating that coenzyme specificity is not altered in the mutants. Thus association of Mo-cofactor with the apoenzyme appears to be defective in the mutants

Edge loading of plasma facing components in fusion devices

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