Does Age, Residency, or Feeding Guild Coupled with a Drought Index Predict Avian Health during Fall Migration?

Birds are good indicators of environmental change and are often studied for responses to climate.Many studies focus on breeding birds, while fewer look at the migration period, which is a critical time for many birds.Birds are more susceptible to unusual climatic events during their migration due to the metabolic stress of long-distance movements.I

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Ubiquitin-dependent folding of the Wnt signaling coreceptor LRP6

Many membrane proteins fold inefficiently and require the help of enzymes and chaperones.Here we reveal a novel folding assistance system that operates on membrane proteins from the cytosolic side of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).We show that folding of the Wnt signaling coreceptor LRP6 is promoted by ubiquitination Bookchin’s libertarian munici

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The new scramble for Africa in a post-colonial era and the challenges of inclusive development: a semi-systematic literature review

The African populace met the end of colonialism in Africa with jubilation.There was hope that its demise would lead to socioeconomic emancipation after decades of segregation, discrimination and denial of local values and traditions.Nevertheless, what emerged has been the total opposite: corruption, never-ending conflict, the rise of violent non-st

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Family Mediation: a new work field for Social Work Professional

We are verifying in the last years how the demand of mediation has been increasing as a positive step to intervene in conflicts in all areas of human interrelation.But above all, it is in the family atmosphere, specifically in the conflicts coming from separations and divorces, where it has been done a greater drive Seasonality, soil attributes and

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