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A NeuroD1 AAV‐Based Gene Therapy for Functional Brain Repair in Alzheimer's Disease‐Like Non‐Human Primate Model

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study tests NeuroD1 AAV‐based gene therapy in a non‐human primate Alzheimer's disease model. The therapy prevents neuronal damage, inhibits hippocampal atrophy, and reduces neuroinflammation. It also repairs vascular and blood‐brain barrier damage, restores cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, enhances hippocampal glucose metabolism, and improves ...
Zhouquan Jiang, Yongpeng Qin, Bin Luo, Fan Bai, Jiangyue Liu, Long Ma, Shu He, Rongjie Chen, Yuchen Wang, Shanggong Liu, Ying Sun, Yi Chen, Shuo Zhang, Jiaqi Liang, Feng Liao, Huiyi Wei, Junjie Wei, Lu Wang, Hao Xu, Zheng Wu, Gong Chen, Wenliang Lei   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring How Water‐Related Policies of the Global South Consider Gender: Insights From Trialling a New Policy Gender Index in Nepal

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
This paper supports policymakers to consider how well their water‐related policies respond to gender roles, norms and relations. By braiding the latest philosophies on gender mainstreaming with Integrated Water Resources Management and Feminist Policy ...
Susan M. Cuddy, Sanju Koirala, Shahriar Wahid, David J. Penton   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges of change facing entrepreneurs and Kuwaiti SMEs

Cogent Business & Management, 2020
This research paper addresses a clear question: what are the critical factors that policy makers and entrepreneurs need to be aware of when operating in transitional economies in order to sustain SMEs?
Nouf Al Bazie, Ashley Braganza
doaj   +1 more source

A policy window and a network of global and local policy entrepreneurs: The introduction of opioid substitution therapy in Belarus

Central European Journal of Public Policy, 2021
Why does a regime that is predominantly characterised by conservative ideology introduce opioid substitution therapy (OST), a liberal policy? This article applies the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to examine the introduction of OST in Belarus ...
Babayan Ararat, Schlaufer Caroline, Uldanov Artem   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seeing It Through: Advanced Strategies for Influencing Education Policy [PDF]

, 2010
Outlines recommendations from a May 2009 Education Grantmakers Institute about the opportunities and risks of public policy grantmaking, navigating policy from federal to individual levels, funding research, acting as policy entrepreneurs, and ...

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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Startup life may stop here: Helping women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Global Business Insights, 2023
A great emphasis exists in research on entrepreneurs who start small- to medium-size businesses and who are seizing opportunities outside the corporate world, especially in developing countries like Tanzania.
Amr Swid, Emily Rukobo, Elizabeth Maro
doaj   +1 more source

Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disentangling the relationships between denomination of origin regulatory councils activities and Spanish wineries' export performance

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin, Marta Fernández‐Olmos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civic Entrepreneurs and "Ratio Legis" During Russia’s War in Ukraine: a Case Study of Digital Petitions in Latvia and Ukraine

Теорія і практика правознавства
Civic initiatives that manifest themselves in the legitimate form of electronic petitions (initiatives) in different countries of the world are attracting more and more attention. This is especially true in times of social crisis.
Didzis Melkis, Dmytro Luchenko
doaj   +1 more source