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Networking Alone? Digital Communications and Collective Action in Vietnam

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015
This article explores the potential for the formation of collective action in Vietnam. Referring to land and labour protests, bauxite mining, anti-China demonstrations, as well as the revision of the 1992 Constitution, the article examines the social ...
Sandra Kurfürst
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Mapping quantitative trait loci underlying body weight changes that act at different times during high‐fat diet challenge in collaborative cross mice

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Over one billion people worldwide suffer from obesity, and the number is continually rising. Animal models, especially mouse models, are crucial to identifying the genetic components of complex disorders and exploring the potential applications of these genetic findings.
Hanifa J. Abu‐Toamih Atamni, Iqbal M. Lone, Ilona Binenbaum, Kareem Midlej, Eleftherios Pilalis, Richard Mott, Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Fuad A. Iraqi   +7 more
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Myanmar: Political Reforms and the Recalibration of External Relations

Journal 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
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Review: Miller, Michelle Ann (2009), Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia – Jakarta’s Security and Autonomy Policies in Aceh

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2009
Review of the monograph: Miller, Michelle Ann, Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia – Jakarta’s Security and Autonomy Policies in Aceh, London/ New York: Routledge, 2009, ISBN 13: 978-0-415-45467-4, 240 pages.
Antje Missbach
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The influence of selected pathological states on the somatostatin-like immunoreactive (SOM-LI) endocrine cells in the mucosal layer of the porcine descending colon

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2012
This study reports on changes in the number of somatostatin-like immunoreactive (SOM-LI) endocrine cells in the porcine descending colon, caused by chemically driven inflammation, axotomy and proliferative enteropathy (PE).
Sławomir Gonkowski, Jarosław Całka   +1 more
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Combined Gravimetric, Electrochemical, and Computational Research on Benzothiophene Derivatives as Effective Corrosion Inhibitors for Mild Steel

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Four benzothiophenes, thianaphthene (BT‐1), 3‐bromothianaphthene (BT‐2), benzo[b]thiophene‐2‐carboxaldehyde (BT‐3), and benzo[b]thiophene‐2‐carbonitrile (BT‐4), were tested as mild steel corrosion inhibitors in 1‐M HCl. The compounds have the similar benzothiophene core but differ in the substituents bound to the ring.
Nhlanhla G. Chirwa, Motsie Elija Mashuga, Mohammad Salman, Indra Bahadur   +3 more
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An unusual titanosaur axis from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and its significance for sauropod anatomy and systematics

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous São José do Rio Preto Formation (Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil) has yielded a fragmentary but taxonomically diverse record of titanosaur sauropods, although elements from cervical series remain scarce. Here, we describe a nearly complete sauropod axis from the Vila Ventura Paleontological Area, representing an uncommon ...
Bruno A. Navarro, Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla, Jhonata H. A. Martins, Fabiano V. Iori, Leonardo S. Paschoa, Alberto B. Carvalho, Joseli M. Piranha, Hussam Zaher   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

No Country for Leftists? Clientelist Continuity and the 2006 Vote in the Brazilian Northeast Nenhum País de Esquerdistas? Continuidade Clientelista e as Eleições de 2006 no Nordeste Brasileiro

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2010
Building upon recent studies of the electoral effects of social policyand President Lula da Silva’s coattails in the 2006 Brazilian elections, thisarticle explains the performance of leftist and conservative candidates inelections for governor during ...
Alfred P. Montero
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Histological Characterization and Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Gonads During Early Sex Differentiation in the Northern Snakehead (Channa argus)

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
This study delineates the early sex differentiation timeline in the northern snakehead (Channa argus). These findings provide a foundation for future sex‐control breeding in this economically important species. ABSTRACT The northern snakehead (Channa argus) is an economically important aquaculture species in China.
Chaonan Sun, Donglei Sun, Haishen Wen, Xin Qi, Chao Li, Xiaoyan Zhang, Yun Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Business, Economic Experts, and Conservative Party Building in Latin America: The Case of El Salvador Empresarios, expertos económicos y la construcción de partidos de derecha en América Latina: el caso de El Salvador

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2010
A wave of leftist governments has swept Latin America in recent years, attracting a great deal of scholarly attention. Yet a number of new conservative parties have attained considerable electoral success, as well.
Riitta-Ilona Koivumaeki
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