Exploring Hugo Chávez’s use of mimetisation to build a populist hegemony in Venezuela

Rincones, Elena Block

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“…Recently, the rodophycean genus Gracilaria has grown in importance worldwide as an agar source owing to its abundance in biomass and successful cultivation (Critchley, 1993) . For example, Gracilaria lemaneiformis (Bory) Dawson is being grown commercially in Venezuela as a source of agar (Rincones, 1994) . However, several other species of Gracilaria are available in the country, as well as other agar-yielding genera, such as Gelidium, Pterocladia (Lemus et al, 1991) and Gelidiel-Ia .…”

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Structure and properties of agar from two unexploited agarophytes from Venezuela

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The red seaweeds Gelidiella acerosa and Gracilaria mammillaris growing along the coast of Venezuela were investigated as potential economic sources of agar . Agar extracted from Gracilaria mammillaris accounted for 27% of the algal dry weight but had quite a poor gelling ability because of the presence of alkali-stable sulphate groups on the D-galactose residue . However, the gel strength of its aqueous solutions was considerably enhanced by the addition of potassium, sodium and calcium ions (up to 1N) . On the contrary, the galactan from Gelidiella acerosa (yield of about 20% w/w) exhibited quite good properties . In particular, the gel strength was comparable to that of commercial agaroses . Sulphate esters were not detectable by chemical methods and NMR spectroscopy revealed an agarose backbone with a high degree of methylation on both D and L-galactose residues .

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Structure and properties of agar from two unexploited agarophytes from Venezuela

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Exploring Hugo Chávez’s use of mimetisation to build a populist hegemony in Venezuela

Abstract: Whether and how step-by-step the logic of mimetisation was articulated and eventually became a full-bodied reality is what I attempt to demonstrate throughout this thesis.

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Structure and properties of agar from two unexploited agarophytes from Venezuela

Structure and properties of agar from two unexploited agarophytes from Venezuela

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