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Book Review: Heiduk, Felix (ed.): Security Sector Reform in Southeast Asia: From Policy to Practice

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015
Book Review of the edited volume by Heiduk, Felix (ed.) (2014), Security Sector Reform in Southeast Asia: From Policy to Practice. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, ISBN 978-0-230-22 896-2, 264 pages.
Leanne-Marie McCarthy-Cotter
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Preliminary results on underground muon bundles observed in the Frejus proton-decay detector [PDF]

The proton-decay detector installed in the Modane Underground laboratory (4400 mwe) in the Frejus tunnel (French Alps) has recorded 80 880 single muon and 2 322 multi-muon events between March '84 and March '85 (6425 hours of active time).
Degrange, B.
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Short‐Term Outcomes of Robot‐Assisted Versus Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer: A Propensity Score‐Matched Analysis

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study compared short‐term outcomes of robot‐assisted versus laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer using 1:1 propensity score matching. Among 218 matched pairs, robot‐assisted colectomy was associated with reduced blood loss, fewer conversions to open surgery, lower overall complication rates, and shorter hospital stays, despite longer operative ...
Akira Inoue, Yujiro Nishizawa, Yoshinori Kagawa, Masahiro Hashimoto, Shinya Kato, Yoshihiro Morimoto, Taishi Hata, Makoto Fujii, Masaaki Motoori, Kazumasa Fujitani   +9 more
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Self‐Limiting Polymerization‐Induced Crystallization‐Driven Self‐Assembly (SL‐PI‐CDSA) Enables Templated Synthesis of Chiral Plasmonic, Hybrid 2D Hexagonal Assemblies

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
This work details the rapid generation (t ≤ 5 min) of size‐tunable, ultralow dispersity (Ð ≤ 1.01) 2D hexagonal nanosheets by self‐limiting polymerization‐induced crystallization‐driven self‐assembly (SL‐PI‐CDSA) of modular and templating poly(aryl isocyanide) block copolymers, with functions that permit post‐polymerization modifications. Specifically,
Randall A. Scanga, Sean H. Sarault, Amin Kiani, Patryk Wąsik, Anthony J. Branco, Sophie A. Harris, Sangmin Jeong, Ali Shahrokhinia, Jake Borges, Cassidy M. Anunciacao, Jayant Kumar, Lawrence M. Wolf, Michael B. Ross, James F. Reuther   +13 more
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Vietnamese Civic Organisations: Supporters of or Obstacles to Further Democratisation? Results from an Empirical Survey

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2016
In political science and in development cooperation, civic organisations (COs) under authoritarian rule are usually seen as supporters of processes that move towards democratisation. However, these organisations are sometimes criticised for their support
Jörg Wischermann, The Cuong BUI, Thi Viet Phuong DANG   +2 more
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Preoperative Total Iron‐Binding Capacity Is a Novel Surrogate Marker of Short‐ and Long‐Term Outcomes After Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
HCC patients with low preoperative TIBC levels experienced significantly more frequent post‐hepatectomy complications. Furthermore, these patients were significantly correlated with worse survival. Preoperative serum TIBC levels may be a novel surrogate marker of postoperative complications and long‐term survival after hepatectomy.
Taishi Yamane, Hiromitsu Hayashi, Daisuke Ogawa, Shotaro Kinoshita, Yuta Shiraishi, Takanobu Yamao, Yuki Kitano, Tatsunori Miyata, Hirohisa Okabe, Masaaki Iwatsuki   +9 more
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Child-raising, Childbirth and Abortion In Extremis: Women’s Stories of Caring for and Losing Children during the Violence of 1965–1966 in Indonesia

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2013
In this paper I examine women survivors’ stories about childbirth and child-raising during the period of mass violence following Indonesia’s 1965 coup, as well as some accounts of abortion during detention.
Annie Pohlman
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Responsibility-allevation and effort provision in a gift-exchange experiment [PDF]

Previous indirect evidence suggests that impulses towards pro-social behavior are diminished when an external authority is responsible for an outcome. The responsibility-alleviation effect states that a shift of responsibility to an external authority ...
Gary Charness
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Size‐Based Preoperative CT Assessment for Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Colon Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Preoperative CT based on lymph node size shows moderate accuracy for detecting nodal metastasis in colon cancer. In this meta‐analysis of 29 studies (5,634 patients), pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0.69 and 0.66. Size‐based CT alone has limited value for clinical decision‐making.
Yuji Takayama, Tomoya Shimizu, Jun Watanabe, Shimpei Ogawa, Yukihide Kanemitsu   +4 more
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Measuring Institutional Trust: Evidence from Guyana

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2015
Institutional trust is often measured by several items that are analyzed individually or as sum-scores. However, it is difficult to summarize the results of individual-items analyses, whereas sum-scores may be meaningless if the dimensions that the items
Troy Devon Thomas, Koen Abts, Koenraad Stroeken, Patrick Vander Weyden   +3 more
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