MIGRATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: THE CASES OF SOUTHERN MEXICAN STATES AND THEIR EMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MIGRATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: THE CASES OF SOUTHERN MEXICAN STATES AND THEIR EMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

This paper illustrates institutional approaches of emigrant states toward emigrants abroad, and how these approaches can change over time.These can range from absolute exclusion and non-communication, over fractional collaboration in specific matters, to even permanent institutional inclusion, for instance, through representation of migrants in hom

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Pleiotropic effects of statins

Statins or 3-hydroxy-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA) reductase inhibitors not only prevents the synthesis of cholesterol biosynthesis but also inhibits the synthesis of essential isoprenoid intermediates such as farnesyl pyrophosphate, geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate, isopentanyl adenosine, dolichols and polyisoprenoid side chains of ubiquinone, h

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Using Imperfect Transmission in MEC Offloading to Improve Service Reliability of Time-Critical Computer Vision Applications

The emerging time-critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) use cases, e.g., augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), autonomous vehicle etc., on the one hand, involve computation intensive computer vision (CV) components in the services, on the other hand, the computation task should be completed within the stringent latency constraint, otherwise, th

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Media Practices and Forced Migration: Trust Online and Offline

This article explores the relationship between online and offline practices in the special case of forced migration.By applying a central category in social relations, trust/distrust as developed by Niklas Luhmann, this article contributes to the understanding of forced migration in the digital Condensors age.It presupposes that, without a strategy

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