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The Public Protector as a Mechanism of Political Accountability: The Extent of its Contribution to the Realisation of the Right to Access Adequate Housing in South Africa

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2017
This paper is premised on the concept of political accountability which aims to hold accountable government for its action and or omission. Political accountability encompasses a number of mechanisms such as the judiciary and the ombudsman.
Carlos Joel Tchawouo Mbiada
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The Comprehensive Live Cell‐Based Cytotoxicity Assay for Monitoring Disease Activity and Guiding Rescue Therapy in Acute Attacks of NMOSD

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a devastating neurological disease that lacks serological biomarkers that can accurately reflect disease activity. We established a live cell‐based assay (LCBA) using serum with endogenous complement to quantify the overall cytotoxicity, offering a novel functional tool for monitoring
Xiaona Xu, Jie Ding, Yupeng Du, Guibao Luo, Jinming Li, Rui Liu, Xiaoyi Xu, Xiao Li, Minshu Li, Wei Jiang, Chunsheng Yang   +10 more
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Una aproximación al tratamiento legislativo del derecho a una vivienda digna y adecuada, después de tres décadas de reconocimiento constitucional

Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2010
It has almost been thirty two years now since the current Spanish Constitution was enacted and «the right to enjoy decent and adequate housing» was recognized to all Spaniards.
José Luis Ávila Orive, Vega María Arnáez Arce   +1 more
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Philippine Housing Takeover: How the urban poor claimed their right to shelter

Radical Housing Journal, 2019
On 8 March 2017, the Philippine urban poor marched to Pandi, Bulacan calling for their right to housing. Dubbed “Occupy Bulacan” and led by KADAMAY, the takeover succeeded in occupying 5,300 socialized housing units in the area.
Hazel M. Dizon
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Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging of Tissue Microstructure and Early Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Conventional MRI cannot resolve the coexisting pathological processes within multiple sclerosis tissue. Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging decomposes the diffusion signal into fiber, cell, and hindered ratios indexing axonal integrity, cellularity, and extracellular space, respectively.
Apisit Kaewsanit, Aime Luna, Bradley Judge, Nicole Shelley, Karl Friedrichsen, Jayashree Rajamanickam, Zhude Tu, Yong Wang, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, Qing Wang, Matthew R. Brier   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mobilising anti-discrimination law to defend housing rights in Europe: Socioeconomic disadvantage and the right to housing

, 2017
This paper focuses on socioeconomic disadvantage as a significant source of inequality in the realm of housing. Taking into account international and European human rights law, as well as selected domestic systems, it will show how anti-discrimination ...
Benito Sanchez, Juan Carlos, International Conference on Legal Aspects of Housing ‘Ensuring the effective exercise of the right to housing in the EU’   +1 more
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The Association of Amyloid‐β and Tau With Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To clarify the relative contributions of amyloid and tau to synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods We included 109 cognitively unimpaired and impaired individuals from the Geneva Memory Center with available CSF synaptic biomarkers (neurogranin, SNAP‐25, GAP‐43). Participants were stratified according to amyloid (A)
Fausto Roveta, Augusto J. Mendes, Valentina Garibotto, Cecilia Boccalini, Aurelien Lathuiliere, Innocenzo Rainero, Elisa Rubino, Henrik Zetterberg, Nicholas J. Ashton, Federica Ribaldi, Giovanni B. Frisoni, for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing matters: Issue 4, December 2025 [PDF]

This edition focuses on some projects within the mental health services delivering the right support at the right time to people in their own home. Two mental health service housing initiatives were presented at the International Social Housing Festival,
Mental Health Housing Coordinator Network
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Characterization of Defect Distribution in an Additively Manufactured AlSi10Mg as a Function of Processing Parameters and Correlations with Extreme Value Statistics

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Predicting extreme defects in additive manufacturing remains a key challenge limiting its structural reliability. This study proposes a statistical framework that integrates Extreme Value Theory with advanced process indicators to explore defect–process relationships and improve the estimation of critical defect sizes. The approach provides a basis for
Muhammad Muteeb Butt, Varma Kvvssn, Hossein Laieghi, Zia Uddin, Peyman Ansari, E. Kıvanç Sadak, Can Barış Toprak, Hüseyin Kızıl, Enrico Salvati   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Air‐Pressure–Actuated Vibroacoustic Metamaterial With Tunable Bandgap: Design, Modeling, and Characterization

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This article presents the design, modeling, and characterization of air‐pressure–actuated programmable vibroacoustic metamaterials (PVAMM). The study focuses on leveraging air pressure to dynamically tune resonance frequencies for effective noise attenuation.
William Kaal, Michael M. Becker, Sarah C. L. Fischer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source