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Tensions of Consumer Individualism
Nordicom Review, 2011 Globalizing poses particular challenges to likhet – Norwegian conceptualizations of alikeness – and with it the Norwegian conceptualization of individualism, because globalizing advances a different conceptualization of equality than the one on which ...
Kvidal Trine
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 We examined the negative effects of individualism in an East Asian culture. Although individualistic systems decrease interpersonal relationships through competition, individualistic values have prevailed in European American cultures.
Yuji eOgihara, Yukiko eUchida
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L’idéal du potentiel caché. Le rétablissement, le rite et la socialisation du mal
Anthropologie & Santé, 2020 In this article, I describe changes in collective representations and social ideals that the “ideal of the hidden potential” aggregates, changes by which the status of psychiatric patient has become one of moral partner.
Alain Ehrenberg
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The Effect of Individualism and Collectivism on Customer Satisfaction in Retail Sector: Asian versus Western Culture [PDF]
Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship, 2018 Customer satisfaction is defined as the customer's attitude towards the perceived service performance, which results from the differences in pre-existing expectations and the actual service performance.
Abdul Hamid Abdul Halim +2 more
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Hobbes and Individualism [PDF]
, 2012 This chapter examines Thomas Hobbes's individualism. It first considers Hobbes's epistemological antiauthoritarianism and individualism before discussing his theory of obligation and its moral basis.
Alan Ryan
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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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There Is Individualized Treatment. Why Not Individualized Inference? [PDF]
Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 2016 Doctors use statistics to advance medical knowledge; we use a medical analogy to build statistical inference “from scratch” and to highlight an improvement. A doctor, perhaps implicitly, predicts a treatment's effectiveness for an individual patient based on its performance in a clinical trial; the trial patients serve as controls for that particular ...
Liu, Keli, Meng, Xiao-li
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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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Between Individualism and Community
Nordicom Review, 2006 Media consumption in Denmark as well as other western democracies seems to be in transition in several ways. Fewer people keep up with politics and societal developments.
Andersen Johannes +1 more
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The institutional shaping of management: in the tracks of English individualism [PDF]
, 2006 Globalisation raises important questions about the shaping of economic action by cultural factors. This article explores the formation of what is seen by some as a prime influence on the formation of British management: individualism.
Mutch, A, Alistair Mutch
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