OBJECTIVES To estimate the frequency of and to characterize muscle excitability abnormalities in Machado-Joseph disease (MJD). DESIGN Machado-Joseph disease is a common autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia caused by an unstable CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion. Muscle cramps and fasciculations are frequent and sometimes disabling manifestations. However, their frequency and pathophysiologic...

Background: Stelis subgen. Physosiphon is basically a Meso-American group, and its best-known species emarginata, characterized by reddish orange flowers distribution along the Gulf of Mexico slope in Guatemala. Morphologically similar specimens from Sierra Madre del Sur, on Pacific Guerrero Oaxaca could represent different undescribed taxon.
 Question: Are Sur populations to emarginata sp...

Through an investigation of the political economy wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, I explore contested meaning environmental justice. contend that, despite their seemingly benign image, parks Oaxaca operate within a spatially abstracted, colonial epistemology capital-centred development. This involves remaking space and appropriation nature on behalf capital. Concomitantly, it ...

Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060, U.S.A. ([email protected])/ Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160, U.S.A. ([email protected])/Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias, Campo Experimental Valles Centrales, Melchor Ocampo 7, Santo Domingo Barrio Bajo, Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico (fa...