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The Scientific World JOURNAL, 2003 Amylin (islet amyloid polypeptide) is a peptide synthesized principally in the b-cells of the pancreatic islets together with insulin and has actions as a hormone, growth factor, and modifier of behavior. As a hormone, amylin acts to modify gastric motility, renal resorption, and has metabolic actions.
Wookey, PJ +3 more
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Global communication and political culture in the semi-periphery: The rise of the Globo corporation [PDF]
, 2008 This article will offer a description and explanation of the rise of the Brazilian media corporation Globo by situating it in the context of the periphery and semi-periphery of the World System and the globalisation of communication.
Wilkin, P
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Trends of centre-periphery polarization in Sverdlovsk region between 2008 and 2015 [PDF]
, 2017 The significant imbalances in the economic space of a region, particularly between the centre and the periphery, present a serious challenge for economists, politicians and policy makers. Which measures are to be taken to remedy this situation?
Dvoryadkina, E. B., Kaibicheva, E. I.
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Lithuanian Literature in 1918–1940: The Dynamics of Influences and Originality
Interlitteraria, 2018 Lithuanian independence (1918–1940), which lasted for twentytwo years, and its symbolic center, the provisional capital Kaunas, have been very important for the country’s political, social, and cultural identity. In 1918, changes in the social, economic,
Gitana Vanagaitė
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Re-theorising the core: a ‘globalized’ business elite in Santiago, Chile [PDF]
, 1998 World systems theory continues to be a widely adopted approach in theorisations of the contemporary world economy. An important epistemological component to world systems theory is the metaphor of core-periphery.
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Why Being a Periphery is not Honorable, and why It does not Threaten Russia
Управленческое консультирование, 2020 The foreign policy of theRussian Federationattracts the attention of experts and researchers not only during the days of obvious victories, but also during periods of serious trials.Russiamanaged not to become the periphery of any Center; this is the fi ...
N. M. Mezhevich
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Journalism at the Periphery [PDF]
Media and Communication, 2019 The increasing influence of actors who might not fit into traditional definitions of a journalist but are taking part in processes that produce journalism has attracted scholarly attention. They have been called interlopers, strangers, new entrants, peripheral, and emergent actors, among others. As journalism scholars grapple with how to refer to these
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Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2022 Purpose. The paper aims to examine the impact of the oblast center on regional socio-economic development in the context of the center-periphery relationship. Methodology / approach.
Mariana Melnyk +2 more
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Detecting Core-Periphery Structures by Surprise [PDF]
, 2019 Detecting the presence of mesoscale structures in complex networks is of primary importance. This is especially true for financial networks, whose structural organization deeply affects their resilience to events like default cascades, shocks propagation,
Caldarelli, Guido +2 more
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Confluenze, 2014 The modernization process is analyzed here in two peripheral realities of the world system - nineteenth-century Brazil and Sicily - as depicted in La guerra del fin del mundo and in Il gattopardo. In particular, we show how in the world that Vargas Llosa
Stefano Brugnolo, Laura Luche
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