Vascular endothelial‐cadherin as a marker of endothelial injury in preclinical Alzheimer disease
Abstract Objective Endothelial dysfunction is an early and prevalent pathology in Alzheimer disease (AD). We here investigate the value of vascular endothelial‐cadherin (VEC) as a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) marker of endothelial injury in preclinical AD.
Rawan Tarawneh+5 more
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A Theory of Political Entrepreneurship [PDF]
This paper adapts the entrepreneurial theory developed by Richard Cantillon, Frank Knight, and Ludwig von Mises to the theory of “political entrepreneurship.” Political entrepreneurship is an outgrowth of the theory of the market entrepreneur, and derives from extending entrepreneurial theory from the market into the po-litical sphere of action.
Mccaffrey, Matthew, Salerno, Joseph
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Konflikt o niskiej intensywności jako instrument polityki zagranicznej państwa, [PDF]
The article presents one of the forms of military involvement of states, which is a lowintensity conflict. It has been shown that initiating and participating in them can be an instrument of foreign policy. The first part describes this type of conflict,
Łukasz Muszyński
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The Political Identity: Between Qur'anic View and Western Theory
Purpose: Identity nowadays has become very complicated in the political sphere. Political identity needs to be studied from two perspectives; Western theory and Islamic theory. Islamic political identity taken from the concept of the Qur'an.
Sujiat Zubaidi+3 more
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Upvotes? Downvotes? No Votes? Understanding the relationship between reaction mechanisms and political discourse on Reddit [PDF]
A significant share of political discourse occurs online on social media platforms. Policymakers and researchers try to understand the role of social media design in shaping the quality of political discourse around the globe. In the past decades, scholarship on political discourse theory has produced distinct characteristics of different types of ...
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Bottom-up accountability and public service provision: Evidence from a field experiment in Brazil
Does local oversight improve public service delivery? We study the effect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities.
Danilo Freire+2 more
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Impact of Farmers’ Associations on Household Income: Evidence from Tea Farms in Vietnam
Farmers’ associations play an important role to help members increase their access to supports of information, capital, and technology; bring benefits to members; and partly promote production, enhance productivity, and increase income.
Hung Van Vu, Huong Ho, Quoc Hoi Le
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The economic ethics of Calvinism. The reconciliation of piety and wealth
The doctrine of predestination in the Lutheran and Calvinist theology, along with the assumption of a radical separation of nature and grace as well as the material and spiritual realm, had a significant impact on social life.
Lucyna Chmielewska
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Discourse: Education, Theory of Politics, and Politics of Theory
In this paper, I revisit and reflect on my own and my research partners’ attempts at investigating the relationship between education and politics through the lens of discourse theory and discourse analysis methodology. This auto-analytical reflection corresponds to the shift in discourse studies from a technically understood discourse analysis to a ...
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Data‐driven performance metrics for neural network learning
Summary Effectiveness of data‐driven neural learning in terms of both local mimima trapping and convergence rate is addressed. Such issues are investigated in a case study involving the training of one‐hidden‐layer feedforward neural networks with the extended Kalman filter, which reduces the search for the optimal network parameters to a state ...
Angelo Alessandri+2 more
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