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"Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem. By the year 2050, more than 10 million people are expected to die from resistant infections. How are researchers tackling that problem? One team is looking at the gut bacteria found in migratory birds. Migratory birds acquire and spread antibacterial resistance genes from their environment with the gut microbiome, serving as a reservoir for these insidious genes. To understand the role of the gut microbiome, researchers gathered fecal samples from migratory birds and their favorite landing spots in China. Genetic analysis revealed 1030 distinct genes conferring resistance to antibiotics including tetracycline, aminoglycoside, β-lactam, and sulfonamide. While the microbes detected in the guts of birds were less diverse than those found in their surroundings, birds carried a greater number of antibiotic resistance genes..."

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This course examines the theories and policy debates over who can own real property, how to communicate and enforce property rights, and the range of liberties that they confer. It explores alternative economic, political, and sociological perspectives of property rights and their policy and planning implications.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Puerto Rican migration to the US. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Portraits

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Portraits d'hommes et de femmes issues d'un pays d'Afrique subsaharienne vivant dans la ville de Québec, réalisés par des étudiants et étudiantes de l'Université Laval.

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Le racisme et la discrimination sont attisés par l’ignorance mutuelle. « Qui sont ces étrangers qui viennent s’installer dans ma ville? », se demandent les habitants qui y sont nés ou qui y ont grandi. « Qui sont ces personnes qui habitent la ville où je souhaite m’établir?», se demandent les immigrantes et immigrants. L’absence de réponse à ces questions peut engendrer la méfiance, le rejet et le repli sur soi et nuire à la construction collective d’un vivre-ensemble harmonieux auquel tous et toutes aspirent. Ce livre, comme l’ensemble de la série Québec ville ouverte, répond de manière concrète et simple à ce besoin de mieux se connaître et se comprendre. Il propose des portraits d’hommes et de femmes d’Afrique subsaharienne qui, pour une raison ou pour une autre, vivent actuellement à Québec, que ce soit depuis 40 ans ou depuis quelques mois, avec le statut d’immigrant, de réfugié ou d’étudiant. Ces courts portraits, réalisés par des étudiantes et étudiants en communication publique de l’Université Laval, nous montrent à la fois les différences, mais aussi les ressemblances entre les aspirations, les rêves, les manières de vivre et les valeurs de tous les citoyens et citoyennes de Québec, nés ici ou ailleurs.

Word Count: 96717

ISBN: 978-2-924661-08-6

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Tome 2

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Portraits d'hommes et de femmes issus d'un pays de culture arabe (Maroc, Liban, Lybie) vivant dans la ville de Québec. Portraits réalisés par des étudiants et des étudiantes de l'Université Laval.

Word Count: 74290

ISBN: 978-2-924661-27-7

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Tome 1

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Portraits d'hommes et de femmes issues d'un pays de culture arabe (Algérie, Mauritanie, Syrie, Tunisie) vivant dans la ville de Québec, réalisés par des étudiants et étudiantes de l'Université Laval.

Word Count: 77512

ISBN: 978-2-924661-24-6

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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Bladder cancer is the 10th most frequent malignancy in the world. Despite the availability of several treatment options, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, outcomes for patients with bladder cancer remain poor. Fortunately, a growing understanding of the molecular origins of the disease is revealing new targets for treatment. Among the most promising are a family of enzymes called tyrosine kinases. Tyrosine kinases modify the structure and function of tyrosine-containing proteins. This action helps regulate cellular processes such as growth, migration, differentiation, and metabolism. Dysregulation of tyrosine kinases is part of the pathway that leads to signs and symptoms of bladder cancer. Abnormal tyrosine kinase function can be caused by mutations, amplification, and chromosomal abnormalities. Ongoing studies are discovering how tyrosine kinases can serve as early markers of bladder cancer and how they might be manipulated to stop the progression of bladder tumors..."

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This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its representation in recent scholarly accounts and advocacy as well as in other media. Ethnographic and fictional readings along with media analysis help to develop a contextualized and comparative understanding of the phenomena in both past and present contexts. It examines the wide range of factors and agents that enable these practices, such as technology, cultural practices, social and economic conditions, and the role of governments and international organizations. The course also discusses the analytical, moral and methodological questions of researching, writing, and representing trafficking and slavery.

This course provides a global history of South Asians and introduces students to the cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of immigrants who traveled across the world. It studies how and why South Asians, who have migrated to America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, are considered a model minority in some countries and unwanted strangers in others. Through literature, memoirs, films, music, and historical writing, it follows South Asian migrants as they discovered the world beyond India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Washington’s long journey to become a state was a complex story culturally, economically, politically, environmentally, and ecologically.This is the teacher guide companion to The State We're In: Washington (Grade 3-5 Edition) Chapter 4. The resource is designed to engage students with a launch activity, focused notes, and a focused inquiry.

From the mouse-deer to the elephant, plant eaters come in all shapes and sizes. But how do they manage to flourish on a salad diet? In this unit we will examine the special features that allow them to extract their nutrients from leaves, and see how some

Students are introduced to the basic biology behind Pacific salmon migration and the many engineered Columbia River dam structures that aid in their passage through the river's hydroelectric dams. Students apply what they learn about the salmon life cycle as they think of devices and modifications that might be implemented at dams to aid in the natural cycle of fish migration, and as they make (hypothetical) Splash Engineering presentations about their proposed fish mitigation solutions for Birdseye River's dam in Thirsty County.

Throughout history, as the concepts of empire and nation-states took hold, individual countries secured their borders and tried to keep unwanted migrants out. As we enter the 21st century Anwarul K. Chowdhury, an Under-Secretary of the United Nations, says, 'The first step towards examining the road to peace should start with an appreciation of the changing nature of conflicts. Gone are days of war between states for conquest, extension of spheres of influence in the name of ideology ... Today's wars are about settling border disputes....' In these lessons students confront that issue. Students begin by discussing why people cross borders and the rights people have when they enter another country. Students will discover the factors that determine the location of borders through the examination of maps, cartoons, and primary source documents. After completing this introductory activity, students will analyze a chart comparing the economic situation in the neighboring countries of Zimbabwe and Botswana, and predict what economic problems each country has. They will then view segments of the WIDE ANGLE film 'Border Jumpers' (2005) to understand why these economic problems exist, develop further arguments for those streaming into Botswana from Zimbabwe and for those in Botswana itself, and compare them to their own predictions. As a culminating activity, students will work in groups to develop a presentation for a simulation of the 17th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum. Their presentations will be shared with their classmates, and, if desired, sent to the United Nations.

This presentation considers how to begin when teaching the global African diaspora. It emphasizes the incorporation of evidence generated by scholars outside of the discipline of history and offers selected examples as points of entry or intersection with curriculum already in use.  

How do you teach world current events? From history textbooks? From the internet? From watching the news? The 21st Century World: Crises and Solutions, aims to remedy a scarcity of comprehensive analysis of world events. It recollects the recent past, analyzes the factors that destabilize and threaten human life, and examines sustainable and fair solutions. The chapters are organized in four parts: sustainability, demographics, literacy, and freedoms. Coverage includes the sustainability of land and water use, poverty-induced issues such as health, hunger, and homelessness, the global economy, population distribution and location, migrations and refugees, education and information and issues of violence that find outlets in oppression, protests, war, and terrorism.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Lung cancer and breast cancer are the two most common types of cancer worldwide. Despite abundant research, the detailed molecular mechanisms behind their progression have remained elusive. A recent study uncovered a key signaling pathway underlying lung and breast cancer development. Receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a ubiquitous transmembrane receptor that is upregulated in inflammatory conditions. One of its ligands, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), is a biologically active phospholipid involved in atherosclerosis, inflammation, diabetes, and cancer. Although these proteins are known to contribute together to other types of cancer, their role in lung and breast cancer has remained unknown. Using in vitro and in vivo mouse studies to evaluate markers of tumor development and progression, researchers found that signaling through RAGE via LPA increased the proliferation, migration, and invasion of lung and breast cancer cells..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women worldwide. While early diagnosis and treatment have improved, recurring cancer is difficult to control, resulting in a poor survival rate. A recent study focused on better understanding the role of a hormone signaling component in breast cancer progression. Progesterone receptor membrane component 1 (Pgrmc1) is a non-classical progesterone receptor with diverse roles in metabolism and steroidogenesis. Using a mouse model of breast cancer, researchers examined tumor development and lung metastasis in mice with or without Pgrmc1. They found that while silencing Pgrmc1 did not affect tumor size at 13 weeks, mice lacking Pgrmc1 survived significantly longer than wild-type mice. Mice without Pgrmc1 also exhibited a lower degree of lung metastasis and lower expression of migration and metastasis markers and in breast cancer cell lines, silencing Pgrmc1 reduced the migration rate..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

How are migrants portrayed in the news and media? Who gets to tell the story of migration, and what aspects of the story tend to go underreported? How do these stories, and the perspectives from which they’re told, impact our own perceptions of migration?
In this unit, students learn to identify underreported stories of migration, and what is missing from mainstream media representations of migrants’ experiences. They analyze nonfiction texts and images, practice identifying perspectives in media, and synthesize their learning to form a new understanding of migration. In their final project, students communicate how their perspective on migration has grown or changed through a creative project, original news story, or existing news story edited to provide a more holistic picture of migration.

The course explores the interactions between state and market as instigators of China’s urbanization, and its consequences of land, housing, transportation, energy, environment, migration, finance, urban inequality. Themes include the de-synchronization of China’s urbanization, potential differences between China’s past and future development, and differentiators between China’s urbanization and those of other countries. This discussion-based course asks students to participate in the conversation with the course instructor and guest lecturers by drawing upon their experiences and academic or professional backgrounds.

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«La violence domestique (conjugale) dans les communautés immigrantes: étude de cas» est un recueil de presse d'eCampus Ontario en libre accès comprends des études de cas d'immigrantes victimes de violence conjugale à utiliser comme matériel pédagogique. Le livre met en évidence la complexité de la violence conjugale dans les communautés d'immigrants et les différents processus juridiques auxquels ces femmes font face pour entamer la justice et les défis auxquels elles sont confrontées pour refaire leur vie et celle de leurs enfants. Ce livre contient également des questions de réflexion; une description des processus juridiques dans le contexte de la violence domestique (conjugale) et un lexique relatif aux études de cas.

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«La violence domestique (conjugale) dans les communautés immigrantes: étude de cas» est un recueil de presse d’eCampus Ontario librement accessible comprenant des études de cas de nouvelles arrivantes, victimes de violence conjugale, qui servira de matériel pédagogique. Cette recherche est le résultat d’une analyse de dossiers judiciaires fermés, de 15 immigrantes vivant en Ontario, victimes de violence dans leur mileu domestique. Les études de cas exhaustives qui émergent de cette recherche présentent le sujet dans toute sa complexité, mettant en évidence la vulnérabilité unique de ces femmes, face aux intersections entre leur contexte ethnoculturelle, leur genre et leur statut d’immigration. De plus, ce livre fait valoir les différents processus juridiques auxquels ces femmes doivent engendrer pour faire preuve de justice, ainsi que les défis auxquels elles sont confrontées pour rétablir leur propre vie et celle de leurs enfants. Au delà des études de cas, ce livre contient des questions de réflexion; une description des processus juridiques impliqués dans les incidences de violence conjugale et un lexique relatif aux études de cas. Ce Pressbook interactif est une ressource idéale pour le travailleurs sociaux et les juristes, y compris les étudiants en formation au sein du travail social ou en droit. Il servira à développer leur compréhension de la complexité des cas de violence domestique (conjugale) envers les femmes en milieu domestique parmi les familles immigrantes et d’élaborer des stratégies d’intervention et d’aide culturellement adaptées.

Word Count: 23186

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