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Bridget Conley and Alex de Waal enumerate several reasons why a perpetrator might choose to employ starvation: "(i) extermination or genocide; (ii) control through weakening a population; (iii) gaining territorial control; (iv) flushing out a population; (v) punishment; (vi) material extraction or theft; (vii) extreme exploitation; (viii) war provisioning; and (ix) comprehensive societal ...
Citizens in Bengal road making as part of a famine relief project. It has been suggested by Amartya Sen in his book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation that the causal mechanism for precipitating starvation includes many variables other than just the decline of food availability such as the inability of an agricultural laborer to exchange his primary entitlement, i.e ...
Conley and de Waal highlight the weaponisation of starvation employed by conquistadors against the Taíno as being a contributing factor to the genocide, [247] and historian Harald E. Braun highlight Jaragua massacre in 1503 as a case of genocidal massacre.
In dynamical systems theory, Conley index theory, named after Charles Conley, analyzes topological structure of invariant sets of diffeomorphisms and of smooth flows.It is a far-reaching generalization of the Hopf index theorem that predicts existence of fixed points of a flow inside a planar region in terms of information about its behavior on the boundary.
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On average, the starvation response of the individuals after isolation was a 750-kilojoule (180-kilocalorie) reduction in daily total energy expenditure. 250 kJ (60 kcal) of the starvation response was explained by a reduction in fat-free mass and fat mass. An additional 270 kJ (65 kcal) was explained by a reduction in fidgeting. The remaining ...
Linda Evangelista is getting candid about the extreme lengths she went to lose and keep off weight during her early modeling days.. On an episode of the podcast “Ruthie’s Table 4” that was ...