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Mankind's growing influence on the environment was recognized as long ago as 1873, when the Italian geologist Antonio Stoppani spoke about a “new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth,” referring to the “anthropozoic era”. And in 1926, V. I. Vernadsky acknowledged the increasing impact of mankind: “The direction in which the processes of evolution must proceed, namely towards increasing consciousness and thought, and forms having greater and greater influence on their surroundings.” Teilhard de Chardin and Vernadsky used the term 'noösphere' — the 'world of thought' — to mark the growing role of human brain-power in shaping its own future and environment. So far, these effects have largely been caused by only 25% of the world population. The consequences are, among others, acid precipitation, photochemical 'smog' and climate warming. Hence, according to the latest estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Earth will warm by 1.4–5.8 °C during this century.

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Lamina-specific membrane and discharge properties of rat spinal dorsal horn neurones in vitro

Ruth Ruscheweyh, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Brain Research Institute, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria, Jürgen Sandkühler

The Journal of Physiology·2002

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2290304/

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Housing Pathways: A Post Modern Analytical Framework

David Clapham

Housing, Theory and Society·2002·207 citations

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`Men leave me as I cannot have children': women's experiences with involuntary childlessness

S.J. Dyer, N. Abrahams, M. Hoffman, Z.M. van der Spuy

Human Reproduction·2002·176 citations

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HOMOSEXUAL EXISTENCE AND EXISTING SOCIALISM

Dan Healey

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies·2002·20 citations

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Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families

Annette Lareau

American Sociological Review·2002·299 citations

Although family life has an important impact on children's life chances, the mechanisms through which parents transmit advantages are imperfectly understood. An ethnographic data set of white children and black children approximately 10 years old shows the effects of social class on interactions inside the home. Middle-class parents engage in concerted cultivation by attempting to foster children's talents through organized leisure activities and extensive reasoning. Working-class and poor parents engage in the accomplishment of natural growth, providing the conditions under which children can grow but leaving leisure activities to children themselves. These parents also use directives rather than reasoning. Middle-class children, both white and black, gain an emerging sense of entitlement from their family life. Race had much less impact than social class. Also, differences in a cultural logic of childrearing gave parents and their children differential resources to draw on in their interactions with professionals and other adults outside the home. Middle-class children gained individually insignificant but cumulatively important advantages. Working-class and poor children did not display the same sense of entitlement or advantages. Some areas of family life appeared exempt from the effects of social class, however.

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Plasmids Spread Very Fast in Heterogeneous Bacterial Communities

Francisco Dionisio, Ivan Matic, Miroslav Radman, Olivia R Rodrigues, François Taddei

Genetics·2002·159 citations

Abstract Conjugative plasmids can mediate gene transfer between bacterial taxa in diverse environments. The ability to donate the F-type conjugative plasmid R1 greatly varies among enteric bacteria due to the interaction of the system that represses sex-pili formations (products of finOP) of plasmids already harbored by a bacterial strain with those of the R1 plasmid. The presence of efficient donors in heterogeneous bacterial populations can accelerate plasmid transfer and can spread by several orders of magnitude. Such donors allow millions of other bacteria to acquire the plasmid in a matter of days whereas, in the absence of such strains, plasmid dissemination would take years. This “amplification effect” could have an impact on the evolution of bacterial pathogens that exist in heterogeneous bacterial communities because conjugative plasmids can carry virulence or antibiotic-resistance genes.

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Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?*

Ian Manners

2002

Twenty years ago, in the pages of the, Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community’s ‘civilian power’ in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to a seductiveness in adopting the notion of ‘military power Europe’. In contrast, I will attempt to argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU’s international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the EU as a ‘normative power Europe’.

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Lamina-specific membrane and discharge properties of rat spinal dorsal horn neurones in vitro

Housing Pathways: A Post Modern Analytical Framework

`Men leave me as I cannot have children': women's experiences with involuntary childlessness

HOMOSEXUAL EXISTENCE AND EXISTING SOCIALISM

Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families

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Plasmids Spread Very Fast in Heterogeneous Bacterial Communities

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Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?*