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Tilting Rightward: C-SPAN's Coverage of Think Tanks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This study's main finding is that C-SPAN coverage of think tanks overwhelmingly favors conservative think tanks while left-of-center think tanks are under-represented. In 2006, conservative think tanks received 43.76 percent of total think tank coverage.
Juan Antonio Montecino, Mark Weisbrot
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Inhibiting stearoyl‐CoA desaturase suppresses bone metastatic prostate cancer by modulating cellular stress, mTOR signaling, and DNA damage response

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Bone metastasis in prostate cancer (PCa) patients is a clinical hurdle due to the poor understanding of the supportive bone microenvironment. Here, we identify stearoyl‐CoA desaturase (SCD) as a tumor‐promoting enzyme and potential therapeutic target in bone metastatic PCa.
Alexis Wilson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Think Tanks in contemporary China: cases from Financial and Environmental Governance in East Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Setting the Puzzle. Think Tanks: A Literature Review. Think tanks in China. Think Tanks 4.0. Chinese Think tanks in East Asia: evidence from Financial Governance. Think Tanks and China’s Environmental Governance.
Menegazzi, Silvia
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Creativity and the experts: New Labour, think tanks, and the policy process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article explores the role of expertise in public debate on creative industries policy in the United Kingdom. The first section gives an overview of the emergence of expertise in government and the rise of think tanks, locating this within a wider ...
Schlesinger, P.
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TBK1‐Associated Primary Lateral Sclerosis Followed by Right Temporal Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We report a 58‐year‐old woman with a novel splice‐site variant in the TANK‐binding kinase 1 (TBK1:c.993–2A>C p.Ala332TyrfsTer39) who sequentially developed primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) followed by right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia (rtvFTD). Neuroimaging demonstrated right anterior temporal atrophy before cognitive symptoms, and
Tomoyasu Matsubara   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

THINK TANKS IN MODERN UKRAINE: CHALLENGES AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

open access: yesПублічне управління та регіональний розвиток
The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of think tanks in modern Ukraine. Various approaches to the definition of the concept of «think tanks» were considered, and a proper definition of this concept was proposed.
Natalia Hromadska
doaj   +1 more source

The Uniformization of Think Tanks in Turkey: The Foundation for Political, Economic, and Social Research (SETA) as a Case Study

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
The present study analyzed the role of Turkey’s think tanks as NGOs and conducted a case study on the Foundation for Political, Economic, and Social Research (SETA), an organization that appears to dominate Turkish think thanks’ sphere of activity. Based
Bulut Gürpinar, Ömür Aydin
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: the influence of think tanks: presenting the right ideas, to the right people, at the right time [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The In Think Tank: The Story of the Adam Smith Institute, Madsen Pirie documents the fascinating history of one of the world’s biggest think tanks, and the many projects in which it has been engaged over the past three decades.
Abelson, Donald
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On‐Demand Activation of Thin Alginate Shell Encapsulated Volatile Liquid for Untethered Pneumatic Soft Actuation

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Phase‐changing liquids enable untethered pneumatic actuation in soft robotics but suffer from volatility and storage challenges. This work reports a simple method to encapsulate Novec 7000 within micron‐thin alginate shells via in situ injection and ionic crosslinking.
Rayan A. M. Basodan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The think-tank model has passed its use by date. We need an alternative model for quality research to impact on evidence-based policy-making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Think-tanks are in crisis yet there is still a need for evidence-based policy prescriptions. Dr Andy Williamson believes that if think-tanks are to have a greater impact, they must embrace principles of quality, transparency and ...
Williamson, Andy
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