Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is the only setting in which a vaccine applied patients allergic exactly to active principle vaccine. Therefore, AIT products need be not effective but also safe. In Europe, for subcutaneous AIT, this has been achieved by allergoid strategy IgE epitopes are destroyed or masked. addition, adjuvants physically precipitate allergen at injection site prevent too rapid s...

Fluctuations in global petroleum prices can explain part of the variation in political violence in three African petrol states: Angola, Nigeria, and Algeria. As petrol states, all these countries have depended on imports of food and other basic commodities purchased with oil export receipts. Thus, when petrol prices and the economic performance of these countries fall, the states decrease impor...

This article unpacks the events and reactions surrounding a mysterious ‘fainting wave’ that swept through Angolan middle high schools from early 2011 on. By attending to historicity materiality of fainting wave, investigates why strong conviction took root dark political intentionality behind this inexplicable phenomenon, conspiratorial interpretation prevailed over alternative explanations mor...

Based on fieldwork conducted in 2013–2014 with a provincial-level Chinese state-owned construction firm Luanda, this article examines how businesses attempted to expand the aftermath of booming period Angolan postwar reconstruction. entrepreneurs found that business could only be done help local mediators promising open otherwise inaccessible portals political expediency. They shared their woul...