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La démocratie britannique face au modèle parlementaire écossais

open access: yesE-REA, 2009
British democracy faced with the Scottish parliamentary modelLike other great democracies, the UK has been under attack since at least the 1980s from constitutional reformers who have pointed out the limits of representative democracy and of the British ...
Nathalie DUCLOS
doaj   +1 more source

Alcohol consumption of UK members of parliament: cross-sectional survey

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2020
Objectives This study examined the prevalence of risky drinking by members of parliament (MPs), as well as the relationship between risky drinking and age, years spent as an MP, working outside parliament, awareness of the Parliamentary Health and ...
Jayati Das-Munshi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scottish Education: Between the UK and the Nordic

open access: yesNordic Studies in Education, 2023
The (re)opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 cemented calls for small state self-management, particularly along Nordic lines, both to reflect the desire for independence and belief that small states prosper when aligned with similar jurisdictions ...
Paul Adams
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Representing the People vs Channelling Them: Constitutional Niceties in an Age of Instant Democratic Gratification

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2016
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(3), 1263-1267 | European Forum Highlight of 14 November 2016 | (Abstract) On 3 November 2016 the High Court decided in the case R (Miller) v.
Gareth Davies
doaj   +1 more source

Lessons for Tuberculosis from scrutiny of HIV/AIDS and Malaria UK Parliamentary Questions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Objectives: To identify whether parliamentary scrutiny, in the form of Written Parliamentary Questions (WPQs), has any significant impact on the UK government's stated aid priorities and whether, by refining the approach that MPs with an interest in TB ...
Matt Oliver   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accommodation or political identity: Scottish members of the UK Parliament [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Variation and Change, 2017
AbstractPhonetic variation among Scottish members of the UK Parliament may be influenced by convergence to Southern English norms (Carr & Brulard, 2006) or political identity (e.g., Hall-Lew, Coppock, & Starr, 2010). Drawing on a year's worth of political speeches (2011–2012) from 10 Scottish members of the UK Parliament (MPs), we find no ...
Hall-Lew, Lauren   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Criterion‐Related Validity of the Neuropsychological Quick Assessment for Screening Cognitive, Motor, and Behavioral Impairments in Patients With Pediatric Brain Tumors: An Observational Pilot Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Neuropsychological complications may impair the qualitative prognosis of patients with pediatric brain tumors. However, multifaceted evaluations cannot be conducted in all patients because they are time consuming and burdensome for patients.
Ami Tabata   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Expedition to China’: Corruption and Shaping of British Pacific Policy in the Early-to-Mid Nineteenth Century

open access: yesOriental Studies
Introduction. The paper examines some features inherent to the shaping of Britain’s Pacific policy throughout the early-to-mid nineteenth century in China.
Olga Yu. Zhukovets   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Different Approach to Legislative Bodies: Reflections on the History of Parliament Oral History Project and Laws Around Abortion

open access: yesRechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2021
The History of Parliament Oral History Project has been interviewing former Members of the UK Parliament since 2011. Life stories from inside Parliament reveal missing information about personal motivations, informal cross-party collaboration and use ...
Emma Peplow, Priscilla Pivatto
doaj  

Multiple ETS family transcription factors bind mutant p53 via distinct interaction regions

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mutant p53 gain‐of‐function is thought to be mediated by interaction with other transcription factors. We identify multiple ETS transcription factors that can bind mutant p53 and found that this interaction can be promoted by a PXXPP motif. ETS proteins that strongly bound mutant p53 were upregulated in ovarian cancer compared to ETS proteins that ...
Stephanie A. Metcalf   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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