scholarly journals In and Out of Sight: The Afterlife of Official Photography from Idi Amin's Uganda

Kronos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Vokes
Keyword(s):  
Visual Studies ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

ABSTRACT This article examines the output of Uganda's official Photographic Section from the years of the Idi Amin regime (1971-9), an archive of 60,000 black and white images from which have recently come to light in the stores of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation in Kampala. Drawing on recent developments in African visual studies, the article focuses in particular upon what this archive reveals about photographic circulations in and from Amin's Uganda. It finds that this new trove of negatives -when compared with press archives from around the world - is especially revealing of a growing nexus between official photography and all kinds of commercial photographies in the 1970s. This nexus played a key role in shaping both how the Amin regime was pictured at the time, and how its afterlife has continued to reflect down to the present time.

World trade of beet pulp pellets

2016 ◽  
pp. 501-504
Author(s):  
Sergey Gudoshnikov
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
World Market ◽  
Good Source ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Beet Pulp ◽  
Animal Feeding ◽  
Additional Income ◽  
Pulp Production

Beet pulp remaining after the extraction of sugar from beet is a good source of highly digestible fibre and energy used for animal feeding. Beet pulp is mostly used domestically but about 15% of global dried beet pulp production is exported to the world market. Although pulp have only little value as compared to sugar, sales of it abroad help generate additional income for the sugar industry with relatively low overheads. In contrast to sugar where import markets are protected by tariffs and non-tariff barriers while export volumes can be heavily regulated by governments, these restrictions are much less extensive for beet pulp trade. This article reviews recent developments in the world trade in beet pulp. The context of the article is based on the ISO study “World Trade of Molasses and Beet Pulp” MECAS(16)06.

Performing States-Of-In-Between: Dogs, Parrots, and Other Humans in Recent Austrian Performances

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-310
Author(s):  
Sabine Wilke
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Dramatic Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
The World ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Recent Developments

Every late spring since 1951, the Wiener Festwochen bring performers from around the world to Vienna for an opportunity to share recent developments in performance styles and present them to a Viennese public that seems to be increasingly open to experimentation. These festival weeks solidify a specific form of Viennese self-understanding and self-representation as a culture that is rooted in performance. This essay seeks to link two recent Austrian performances—one of them was part of the Wiener Festwochen in 2016, the other was staged in downtown Linz during the past few years—to this Austrian and specifically Viennese culture of performance by reading them as contemporary articulations of a tradition of radical performance art that can be traced back to the Viennese Actionism of the sixties and later feminist articulations in the seventies and eighties. They play on the dramatic effect of these actions, specifically their joy in cruelty, chaos, and orgiastic intoxication, by staging regressions and thus making visible what has been dammed up and repressed in contemporary society.1 Just as their historical models, these two performances merge the performing and the fine arts and they highlight provocative, controversial, and, at times, violent content. But they do it in an interspecies context that adds an entire layer of complexity to the project of societal and cultural critique.

Ibuprofen safety at the golden anniversary. A commentary and recent developments

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Inflammatory Drugs ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Interesting Story ◽  
Anti Inflammatory ◽  
Short Comment ◽  
Published Paper

Ibuprofen is a long lasting non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and still represents one of the most diffused analgesics around the world. It has an interesting story started over 50 years ago. In this short comment to an already published paper, the authors try to focus some specific important point. On top, they illustrate the recent, confusing and fake assertion on the potentially dangerous influence that ibuprofen could have, increasing the risk of Coronavirus infection. This is also better illustrated in a previously published paper, where the readers could find more clear responses to eventual doubts.

scholarly journals Recent developments in the synthesis and biological activity of acridine/acridone analogues

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (26) ◽  
pp. 15776-15804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Gensicka-Kowalewska ◽  
Grzegorz Cholewiński ◽  
Krystyna Dzierzbicka
Keyword(s):  
Biological Activity ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

Many people in the world struggle with cancer or bacterial, parasitic, viral, Alzheimer's and other diseases.

scholarly journals Implementing the Proclamation of Stroke and Potentially Preventable Dementias

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 780-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Hachinski ◽  
Detlev Ganten ◽  
Daniel Lackland ◽  
Reinhold Kreutz ◽  
Konstantinos Tsioufis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Alzheimer Disease ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Brain Health ◽  
Vascular Dysregulation ◽  
New Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
Recent Developments

Brain health plays a central role in wellbeing and in the management of chronic diseases. Stroke and dementia pose the two greatest threats to brain health, but recent developments suggest the possibility that preventing stroke may also prevent some dementias: 1. A large population study showed a 32% decrease in the incidence of stroke and a concomitant 7% reduction in the incidence of dementia; 2. Treatment of atrial fibrillation resulted not only in stroke reduction, but a 48% decrease in dementia; 3. A hypothesis free analyses has shown that the first phase of Alzheimer disease involves vascular dysregulation, opening the door to new therapeutic approaches; 4. Cognitive impairment, often treatable and reversible, accompanies heart and kidney failure. These developments, combined with the knowledge that stroke, dementia and heart disease share the same major treatable risk factors, particularly hypertension, offers an opportunity for their joint prevention. This aspiration is expressed by a Proclamation of the World Stroke Organization on Stroke and Potentially Preventable Dementias and endorsed by the World Heart Federation, the World Hypertension League, Alzheimer Disease International and 18 other international, regional and national organizations as a call for action.

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