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Peer punishment promotes enforcement of bad social norms
Nature Communications, 2017 Punishment by peers can enforce social norms, such as contributing to a public good. Here, Abbink and colleagues show that individuals will enforce norms even when contributions reduce the net benefit of the group, resulting in the maintenance of ...
Klaus Abbink +3 more
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Caps on Political Contributions, Monetary Penalties and Politician Preferences [PDF]
With politician preferences over policy outcomes, the effect of a contribution cap with monetary penalties for exceeding the cap is starkly different from the case with an indifferent politician.
Tuvana Pastine, Ivan Pastine
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The Ile181Asn variant of human UDP‐xylose synthase (hUXS1), associated with a short‐stature genetic syndrome, has previously been reported as inactive. Our findings demonstrate that Ile181Asn‐hUXS1 retains catalytic activity similar to the wild‐type but exhibits reduced stability, a looser oligomeric state, and an increased tendency to precipitate ...
Tuo Li +2 more
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Contribution of the “Portici Group” to the Development of Agricultural Hydraulics
Procedia Environmental Sciences, 2013 AbstractDuring the last four decades, the research group led by Alessandro Santini, at the Department of Agriculture, University of Naples Federico II - Italy, has provided the scientific community with relevant contributions to various fields of hydraulic engineering for agriculture, irrigation and drainage, and agricultural water management.
CHIRICO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA +8 more
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Dynamic voluntary contributions to a discrete public good: Experimental evidence. [PDF]
Public Goods ; Experiments ; Voluntary contributions ; Dynamic contributions.
Hichri, W., Diev, P.
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee +3 more
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Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring [PDF]
Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process.
Dalton Conley, Brian J. McCabe
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
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EUNK Revista Científica de Abejas y ApicultoresPalynological analyses were conducted on 26 honey samples and 5 propolis samples from six apiaries (Apis mellifera) located between kilometers 11 and 17 along the road from Villavicencio to Puerto López (Meta, Colombian Orinoquía).
J. Orlando Rangel-Ch. +2 more
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Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign Contributions and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation [PDF]
Do politicians tend to follow a strategy of ambiguity in their policy positions or a strategy of reputational development to reduce uncertainty about where they stand?
Randall S. Kroszner, Thomas Stratmann
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