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Dopamine Transporter Imaging as Objective Monitoring Biomarker in Parkinson's Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Although dopamine transporter (DaT) imaging is a valuable diagnostic biomarker, few studies have investigated its utility in objectively monitoring disease progression in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). To date, no study has established a longitudinal relationship between the DaT signal decline and the motor symptom increase ...
Verena Dzialas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Myanmar: Political Reforms and the Recalibration of External Relations

open access: yesJournal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015
This opening chapter provides some background to the domestic reform agenda, along with its drivers and motivations. From 1988 to 2011, the military built up institutions that guaranteed the military’s dominant position in the political arena.
Marco Bünte, Jörn Dosch
doaj  

Roadmap to Nanomedical Applications: Nanotoxicology and In Vitro Guidelines for Lanthanide‐Doped Luminescence Nanothermometers

open access: yesAdvanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
Lanthanide‐based luminescence nanothermometry holds multifaceted potential for nanomedical applications, yet despite significant research advances, clinical translation of the engineered nanomaterials is still controversial and widely disputed. This is related to crucial nanotoxicological aspects that must be addressed at the preclinical level ...
Simona Premcheska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesJournal 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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Incumbents without a Campaign Finance Advantage: Competition and Money in Chile’s Congressional Elections Sin una ventaja financiera: Incumbentes y el gasto electoral en las elecciones parlamentarias de Chile

open access: yesJournal of Politics in Latin America, 2011
Research from various countries has shown that incumbents in legislative elections raise and spend more money when they face a tougher contest. A statistical analysis of Chilean candidates’ campaign finance disclosures shows the opposite: an inverse ...
Joel W. Johnson
doaj  

Measuring Institutional Trust: Evidence from Guyana

open access: yesJournal 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   +3 more
doaj  

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