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The Japanese social welfare as a driver of racist discourses

Racism in Japan has characteristics that can be traced back to social and cultural historical constructs. The manifestations of this structural component of Japanese society are multidimensional, as well as multi-level, as they act both at the institutional level and in everyday life. Social welfare is precisely one of the areas in which racism is expressed. It is a vehicle for discrimination, institutionalised in its social and cultural embeddedness. At the same time, it becomes a means of ...

New remains of Titanochelon richardi (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the Upper Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin: taxonomic and phylogenetic implications.

The alpha-taxonomy of continental giant tortoises (Testudinidae, Titanochelon) from the European Neogene is far from settled, which has implications for inferring their phylogenetic relationships. The diagnosis of the type species (Titanochelon bolivari) is dubious because it considered Titanochelon richardi as a junior subjective synonym. Here we describe a new partial skeleton (skull, partial carapace, plastron, and multiple postcranial elements) from the Late Miocene (9.4–9.1 Ma, MN10) of ...

Discovery and rescue of porcine bastroviruses associated with polioencephalomyelitis in domestic pigs

Bastroviruses (BastV) are non-enveloped single-stranded positive-sense RNA viruses that have been discovered recently in feces samples of different animals and humans. The non-structural proteins of these viruses show similarities to those of hepevirids (Hepeviridae), and the structural proteins exhibit similarities to those of astrovirids (Astroviridae). BastVs have been found in fecal samples of mammals, amphibians, and invertebrates, but the association of infection and clinical disease ma...

La collezione di tatuaggi di Cesare Lombroso: profili giuridici tra digitalizzazione e installazioni museali permanenti