Incorporating path dependency into downscaled SSP narratives: lessons from Jakarta
Environmental Research LettersScenario development faces the tension between broadening the range of future possibilities to address uncertainty and the path dependency inherited from historical conditions. This unresolved tension affects adaptation to future risks, especially at the
Alexandre Pereira Santos +4 more
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Adaptation or Manipulation? Unpacking Climate Change Response Strategies
Ecology and Society, 2012 Adaptation is a key feature of sustainable social-ecological systems. As societies traverse various temporal and spatial scales, they are exposed to differing contexts and precursors for adaptation.
Dana C. Thomsen +2 more
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Protocol for quantifying miRNA trafficking across the endosomal membrane
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.An in vitro protocol measures miRNA uptake into endosomes isolated from mammalian cell extracts, which are free of subcellular contaminants. Performed at 37 °C in the presence of ATP, it ensures the import of single‐stranded miRNA into the endosomal lumen.
Syamantak Ghosh +2 more
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A resource-based view of the firm : a path dependency investigation into the sources of sustainable competitive advantage : an empirical study of the University of Rhodesia, 1945-1980 [PDF]
, 2011 This study examined the development of the University of Rhodesia (UR) and identified a pattern that developed in a path dependent way. Path dependency captures the notion that choices, that are made when an institution is being formed, tend to have a ...
Mutowo, Maurice K
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ROMANIA – TO HAVE OR NOT TO HAVE ITS OWN DEVELOPMENT PATH? [PDF]
CES Working Papers, 2016 Human societies are evolving in sequences similar to a business cycle. The cause for which the evolution is accompanied by setbacks lies in the complexity of social systems, which, ab initio, cannot be designed or intended by any human mind, and the ...
Gabriela Bodea, Aurelian Petrus Plopeanu
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Beggar-Thy-Neighbour vs. Danube Basin Strategy: Habsburg Economic Networks in Interwar Europe
Religions, 2016 After the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire, leaders in successor states were eager to become economically independent from the former capital Vienna.
Andreas Weigl
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A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS APPROACH TO EXPLAIN THE PATH DEPENDENCY OF SEASONAL FARM LABOUR REGULATIONS IN GERMANY [PDF]
This article introduces discourse analysis as a theoretical concept and an empirical methodology that may enable the endogenization of path creation and path breaking changes in conventional models of political path dependencies.
Zschache, Ulrike +4 more
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BCG vaccination potentiates oxidative phosphorylation in neonatal myeloid‐derived suppressor cells
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.BCG vaccination enhances oxidative phosphorylation in neonatal MDSCs, impairing their immunosuppressive function. It upregulates electron transport chain genes and mitochondrial activity, increasing ATP and oxygen consumption. Pharmacological OXPHOS inhibition partially restores suppressive capacity, confirming causality.
Yingying Chen, Hui Li
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Policy & Society, 2020 Italy was the first large epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western world. Since the country has not had any serious experience with this kind of disease in recent decades, its response has been indicative of a first reaction to an (un)known and (
Giliberto Capano
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Does the proposed CAP reform allow for a paradigm shift towards a greener policy?
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2020 Aim of study: The paper explores whether the legislative proposal for the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2021 and the novelty of comprehensive strategic planning at Member State (MS) level can bring about a greener, more multifunctional policy
Ilona Rac, Karmen Erjavec, Emil Erjavec
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