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Public Finance and Debt Crises in Southern Africa: A Push for Central Banks over Parliaments

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
In the soaring symphony of fiscal policy in Southern Africa, this paper orchestrates a new tune, proposing that central banks, not parliaments, should take the lead role in managing and taming sovereign debt.
Dunia Zongwe
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'Een schadelijke instelling'. Kritiek op het parlement in België in het interbellum

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2005
A harmful institution. Critique of the Belgian parliament during the interwar period Two key features that characterise the interwar period are the crisis within the parliamentary system and the rise of fascism.
E. Gerard
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa, Konstantinos Makryniotis, Theofani‐Iosifina Sousani, Evangelos Topakas, Vangelis Daskalakis, Maria Dimarogona   +5 more
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The Impact of Electoral Gender Quota on Women’s Representation Trend in Parliaments of Western Balkan Countries

Politics in Central Europe
Although women began to exercise their right to vote many years ago, women’s representation in the national parliaments remains an issue to be addressed by many countries.
Hamiti Urtak, Shala Sabiha
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Methodological Reflections on Studying Gender‐Sensitive Parliaments Cross‐Nationally: A “Most Significant Change” Approach

Politics and Governance
Whilst cross-national comparative analyses provide distinct opportunities for the study of gender-sensitive parliaments, the inherent challenge in conducting comparisons necessitates a continued search for innovative methods.
Petra Ahrens, Silvia Erzeel, Merel Fieremans   +2 more
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De taal van het anti-parlementarisme. Poëzie en politiek in Nederland 1870-1940

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2005
The language of anti-parliamentarianism. Poetry and politics in the Netherlands 1870-1940 ‘The language of anti-parliamentarianism’ discusses the intertwinement between Dutch political history during the late nineteenth century and the interwar period ...
I. van den Broek
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Three phosphatase families form a community: The phosphohydrolases that act upon inositol pyrophosphates

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Inositol pyrophosphates are energy‐rich signaling molecules that perform critical functions in cells. Three different families of phosphatases hydrolyze the β phosphate of the inositol pyrophosphate molecules: two have narrow specificities and one is promiscuous.
Ronda J. Rolfes
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Equality Reforms in Parliaments

Politics and Governance
Gender equality reforms implemented across various parliaments around the world have diversified. Introducing the thematic issue Gender Equality Reforms in Parliaments, we trace the context of making parliamentary institutions more gender-sensitive.
Petra Ahrens, Sonia Palmieri
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Het gezag van 'mijnheer de voorzitter' in de parlementaire cultuur van de negentiende eeuw

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2005
The authority of ‘Mr. Speaker’ in nineteenth-century Dutch parliamentary culture The contemporary authority of the Speaker of the Second Chamber is obvious.
J. Turpijn
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler, Markus R. Busch, Reinhard Sterner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source