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Dynamics of international aid in the Chinese context: a case study of the World Bank's Cixi Wetlands Project in Zhejiang Province (2012)
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Environmental degradation in China, intensified by open-door reforms and industrialization, has been increasing at an alarming scale. Domestically, environmental governance has been poor, often due to institutional constraints and lack of “good pract... Read More about Dynamics of international aid in the Chinese context: a case study of the World Bank's Cixi Wetlands Project in Zhejiang Province.

Returning to work after stroke: perspectives of employer stakeholders, a qualitative study. (2012)
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Purpose: More than 40 % of working age adults with stroke fail to return to work. The work context is a key factor in return to work, but little is known about the experiences of employers in supporting employees with stroke. The aim of this study wa... Read More about Returning to work after stroke: perspectives of employer stakeholders, a qualitative study..

Refusal as a Democratic Catalyst for Mathematics Education Development (2012)
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Electrochemical Performance of Screen-Printed Composite Coatings of Conducting Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes on Titanium Bipolar Plates in Aqueous Asymmetrical Supercapacitors (2012)
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Composites of conducting polymers (polypyrrole and polyaniline) with acid treated multi-walled carbon nanotubes were formulated into printable aqueous inks, with the aid of functional additives (benzethonium chloride as a surfactant with or without p... Read More about Electrochemical Performance of Screen-Printed Composite Coatings of Conducting Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes on Titanium Bipolar Plates in Aqueous Asymmetrical Supercapacitors.

Surface plasmon microscopic sensing with beam profile modulation (2012)
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Surface Plasmon microscopy enables measurement of local refractive index on a far finer scale than prism based systems. An interferometric or confocal system gives the so-called V(z) curve when the sample is scanned axially, which gives a measure of... Read More about Surface plasmon microscopic sensing with beam profile modulation.

Religious young adults recounting the past: narrating sexual and religious cultures in school (2012)
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Schooling can be a pivotal time in young people’s formative experience when identities are negotiated and forged. However, contradictory dominant cultures can operate within the school context, making it very challenging for individuals to negotiate... Read More about Religious young adults recounting the past: narrating sexual and religious cultures in school.

First report of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the Giant African Land Snail Achatina fulica in French Polynesia detected using the SSU rRNA gene (2012)
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The 5' end of the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene was used to determine whether 3rd larval stage Angiostrongylus cantonensis are present in populations of the giant African land snail Achatina fulica from French Polynesia. Two populations, one from... Read More about First report of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the Giant African Land Snail Achatina fulica in French Polynesia detected using the SSU rRNA gene.

Assessing the strengths of mental health consumers: A systematic review (2012)
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Strengths assessments focus on the individual's talents, abilities, resources, and strengths. No systematic review of strengths assessments for use within mental health populations has been published. The aims of this study were to describe and evalu... Read More about Assessing the strengths of mental health consumers: A systematic review.

Impact of flavour solvent on biscuit micro-structure as measured by X-ray micro-computed tomography and the distribution of vanillin and HMF (HPLC) (2012)
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The influence of flavour solvent, propylene glycol (PG) and triacetin (TA), was investigated on the micro-structure (as measured by X-ray micro-Computed Tomography, X-ray ?CT) and aroma compound distribution (as measured by HPLC) within shortcake bis... Read More about Impact of flavour solvent on biscuit micro-structure as measured by X-ray micro-computed tomography and the distribution of vanillin and HMF (HPLC).

Due diligence obligations of conduct: developing a responsibility regime for PMSCs (2012)
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As non-state actors, PMSCs are not embraced by traditional state-dominated doctrines of international law. However, international law has itself failed to keep pace with the evolution of states and state-based actors, to which strong Westphalian noti... Read More about Due diligence obligations of conduct: developing a responsibility regime for PMSCs.

Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: the interdependence hypothesis (2012)
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Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast, we propose that humans’ species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species-unique forms of cognition, communication, and social life—all derive fro... Read More about Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: the interdependence hypothesis.

Long-term outcomes of early childhood science education: insight from a cross-national comparative case study on conceptual understanding of science (2012)
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The purpose of this research was to explore the long term outcomes of either participating or not participating in early childhood science education on Grade 6 students’ conceptual understanding of science. The research is situated in a conceptual fr... Read More about Long-term outcomes of early childhood science education: insight from a cross-national comparative case study on conceptual understanding of science.

Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke (2012)
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Ausgehend von Überlegungen zu Kontrastivität und Transfer in DaF und einem kurzen Vergleich des deutschen und französischen Artikelsystems, werden in diesem Beitrag bestimmte generische Ausdrücke untersucht, bei denen im Deutschen häufig der Nullart... Read More about Ich trinke gerne *die Tee: der Nullartikel aus der Perspektive französischsprachiger Deutschlerner unter besonderer Berücksichtigung generischer Ausdrücke.

Intersection of inflammation and herbal medicine in the treatment of osteoarthritis (2012)
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Herbal remedies and dietary supplements have become an important area of research and clinical practice in orthopaedics and rheumatology. Understanding the risks and benefits of using herbal medicines in the treatment of arthritis, rheumatic diseases... Read More about Intersection of inflammation and herbal medicine in the treatment of osteoarthritis.

‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11 (2012)
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This paper aims to interrogate the framing of New York’s Ground Zero as a ‘dark tourist’ destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of September 11th 2001. What makes Ground Z... Read More about ‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11.

Quorum-sensing and cheating in bacterial biofilms (2012)
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The idea from human societies that self-interest can lead to a breakdown of cooperation at the group level is sometimes termed the public goods dilemma. We tested this idea in the opportunistic bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, by examini... Read More about Quorum-sensing and cheating in bacterial biofilms.

Association of modified cytosines and the methylated DNA-binding protein MeCP2 with distinctive structural domains of lampbrush chromatin (2012)
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We have investigated the association of DNA methylation and proteins interpreting methylation state with the distinctive closed and open chromatin structural domains that are directly observable in the lampbrush chromosomes (LBCs) of amphibian oocyte... Read More about Association of modified cytosines and the methylated DNA-binding protein MeCP2 with distinctive structural domains of lampbrush chromatin.

Pavel Stroilov, "Behind the Desert Storm: a secret archive stolen from the Kremlin that sheds new light on the Arab revolutions in the Middle East" (2012)
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The article reviews the book "Behind the Desert Storm: a secret archive stolen from the Kremlin that sheds new light on the Arab revolutions in the Middle East" by Pavel Stroilov.

Asymptotically optimal quantum channel reversal for qudit ensembles and multimode Gaussian states (2012)
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We investigate the problem of optimally reversing the action of an arbitrary quantum channel C which acts independently on each component of an ensemble of n identically prepared d-dimensional quantum systems. In the limit of large ensembles, we cons... Read More about Asymptotically optimal quantum channel reversal for qudit ensembles and multimode Gaussian states.

Decisions for others become less impulsive the further away they are on the family tree (2012)
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People tend to prefer a smaller immediate reward to a larger but delayed reward. Although this discounting of future rewards is often associated with impulsivity, it is not necessarily irrational. Instead it has been suggested that it reflects the de... Read More about Decisions for others become less impulsive the further away they are on the family tree.