MIGRATION AND HEALTH: FACT, FICTION, ART, POLITICS

Migration and health: fact, fiction, art, politics

Abstract The recent Immigration Bill debate in the United States Congress has again re-ignited the polemic regarding immigration policy.In this essay, I argue that disputes surrounding the legality of migrant workers highlight chronic, underlying problems Model Paint related to factors that drive migration.The public health field, although concerne

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A general model for binary cell fate decision gene circuits with degeneracy: indeterminacy and switch behavior in the absence of cooperativity.

BACKGROUND: The gene regulatory circuit motif in which two opposing fate-determining transcription factors inhibit each other but activate themselves has been used in mathematical models of binary cell fate Tinctures decisions in multipotent stem or progenitor cells.This simple circuit can generate multistability and explains the symmetric "poised"

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Governance and Deforestation: Understanding the Role of Formal Rule-Acknowledgement by Residents in Brazilian Extractive Reserves

Brazil has one of the most extensive and effective sets of deforestation control policies in the world.One of the main deforestation control policies implemented by the Brazilian government over the last 15 years has been the creation of an extensive system of protected areas, including extractive reserves.Our study addresses the challenges of redu

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