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Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor and Ching, Erik (2012) Modernizing minds in El Salvador: education reform and the Cold War, 1960–1980, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), xv + 341 pp. $29.95 pbk (2015)
Journal Article
Muhr, T. (2015). Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor and Ching, Erik (2012) Modernizing minds in El Salvador: education reform and the Cold War, 1960–1980, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), xv + 341 pp. $29.95 pbk. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12394

Understanding the Bolivarian revolution (2015)
Journal Article
Muhr, T. (2015). Understanding the Bolivarian revolution. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 60,

Review of Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández (editor), Democracy, revolution, and geopolitics in Latin America, Routledge 2014.

South-South cooperation in education and development: The ¡Yo, Sí Puedo! literacy method (2015)
Journal Article
Muhr, T. (2015). South-South cooperation in education and development: The ¡Yo, Sí Puedo! literacy method. International Journal of Educational Development, 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.04.005

This article addresses two tendencies within the international education and South–South cooperation literatures: the omission of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) from discussions of South–Sou... Read More about South-South cooperation in education and development: The ¡Yo, Sí Puedo! literacy method.

Obesity, starch digestion and amylase: association between copy number variants at human salivary (AMY1) and pancreatic (AMY2) amylase genes (2015)
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Carpenter, D., Dhar, S., Mitchell, L., Fu, B., Tyson, J., Shwan, N. A., …Armour, J. A. (in press). Obesity, starch digestion and amylase: association between copy number variants at human salivary (AMY1) and pancreatic (AMY2) amylase genes. Human Molecular Genetics, 24(12), https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddv098

The human salivary amylase genes display extensive copy number variation (CNV), and recent work has implicated this variation in adaptation to starch-rich diets, and in association with body mass index. In this work, we use paralogue ratio tests, mic... Read More about Obesity, starch digestion and amylase: association between copy number variants at human salivary (AMY1) and pancreatic (AMY2) amylase genes.