On Semiperiphery Life: Autoethnography of Being Academics Middleman

10.1177/0160597621993405 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 016059762199340

Author(s):

Oskar Szwabowski

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It is a middle text about being a middle-man. I am a middle-man from the periphery. So, this is my voice. About a life that has no matter. About what I am being taught when I try to speak within the international scientific/autoethnographic community.

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SOIL ORGANISMS AS ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS OF THE CRITICAL ZONE—THE FORGOTTEN MIDDLE MAN

10.1130/abs/2018ne-311378 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Stephen T. Hasiotis ◽

Keyword(s):

Critical Zone ◽

Ecosystem Engineers ◽

Soil Organisms ◽

Middle Man

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Green Tea and Its Relation to Human Gut Microbiome

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26133907 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (13) ◽

pp. 3907

Author(s):

Sergio Pérez-Burillo ◽

Beatriz Navajas-Porras ◽

Alicia López-Maldonado ◽

Daniel Hinojosa-Nogueira ◽

Silvia Pastoriza ◽

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Keyword(s):

Gut Microbiota ◽

Green Tea ◽

Bacterial Species ◽

Bioactive Molecules ◽

Bioactive Metabolites ◽

Microbial Dysbiosis ◽

Inflammatory Processes ◽

Health Promoting ◽

Middle Man ◽

Specific Species

Green tea can influence the gut microbiota by either stimulating the growth of specific species or by hindering the development of detrimental ones. At the same time, gut bacteria can metabolize green tea compounds and produce smaller bioactive molecules. Accordingly, green tea benefits could be due to beneficial bacteria or to microbial bioactive metabolites. Therefore, the gut microbiota is likely to act as middle man for, at least, some of the green tea benefits on health. Many health promoting effects of green tea seems to be related to the inter-relation between green tea and gut microbiota. Green tea has proven to be able to correct the microbial dysbiosis that appears during several conditions such as obesity or cancer. On the other hand, tea compounds influence the growth of bacterial species involved in inflammatory processes such as the release of LPS or the modulation of IL production; thus, influencing the development of different chronic diseases. There are many studies trying to link either green tea or green tea phenolic compounds to health benefits via gut microbiota. In this review, we tried to summarize the most recent research in the area.

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Evaluation of Blockchain in Capital Market Use-Cases

International Journal of Web Portals ◽

10.4018/ijwp.2018010105 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 54-76

Author(s):

Sinsu Anna Mathew ◽

Abdul Quadir Md

Keyword(s):

Capital Markets ◽

Capital Market ◽

Use Cases ◽

Third Party ◽

Global Capital ◽

Distributed Ledger ◽

The World ◽

High Integrity ◽

Middle Man ◽

Financial Transactions

This article describes the “Blockchain” which is an upcoming technology in the current leading world and which serves as a capital market use-cases for many of the global Fintech industries across the world, is a distributed ledger of economic transactions which not only used for recording financial transactions but mostly everything of value in this world. In the current world, mostly all the transactions are done through online which mainly includes the bank as a “middle man,” which could be untrustworthy at times. Blockchain comes into the picture which eliminates the need of a middle man or third party between the users who are involved in the transactions. Represents a financial ledger entry of data structure which consists of record of transactions which is digitally signed and cannot be tampered as authenticity is ensured in which the ledger is considered to be of high integrity. One of the leading and highly valued platform of blockchain is “Hyperledger Fabric” which is meant for securing transactions and serves a powerful container technology for smart contract development in the global capital firms. The potential of Blockchain and DLT in capital markets in this upcoming world could remove many of the inefficiencies and costs inherent in the global capital markets across the world and could be considered as a viable technology which enable to settlement.

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