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In your eyes only? Discrepancies and agreement between self- and other-reports of personality from age 14 to 29
Do others perceive the personality changes that take place between the ages of 14 and 29 in a similar fashion as the aging person him- or herself? This cross-sectional study analyzed age trajectories in self- versus...
Maximising the Potential of Longitudinal Cohorts for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases
CEG Brayne, CJ Moody, D Mitchell, G Kiser, D Aarsland, D Berg, C Brayne, A Costa, MA Ikram, G Mountain, JD Rohrer, CE Teunissen, LH van den Berg, JM Wardlaw
Dec 13, 2017
The Effect of Foreign Aid on Political Violence: Learning From Case Studies of Nigeria and Sierra Leone
Charlotte Rohrer
Jan 01, 0001
Policymakers in OECD countries regularly cite reducing political violence as a fundamental purpose of foreign aid. For example, countries such as Pakistan and Iraq have received considerable amounts of aid meant to address the...
Foreign Aid Sierra Leone Nigeria political violence RUF boko haram Human Rights extremism African Studies Defense and Security Studies economic policy Growth and Development International Relations Peace and Conflict Studies Political Economy Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences Terrorism Studies
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Can Foreign Aid Reduce the Amount of Terrorist Attacks?
Charlotte Rohrer
Jan 01, 0001
Policymakers in OECD countries regularly cite reducing terrorism as a key purpose of foreign aid. Countries with a high number of terrorist incidents such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq have received considerable amounts of...
terrorism Foreign Aid grievances Kenya Nigeria boko haram al-shabaab African Languages and Societies International Relations Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
In silico target prediction
RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display...
Looking beneath the surface
Whilst initial anatomical studies of frontotemporal dementia focussed on cortical involvement, the relevance of subcortical structures to the pathophysiology of frontotemporal dementia has been increasingly recognized over...
In silico target prediction for elucidating the mode of action of herbicides including prospective validation.
Rucha K Chiddarwar, Sebastian G Rohrer, Antje Wolf, Stefan Tresch, Sabrina Wollenhaupt, Andreas Bender
Jan 19, 2017
The earth's electromagnetic environment
It is found that the energy density of electromagnetic fields at the surface of the Earth follow a scaling law that extends over 16 orders of magnitude from 10-9 Hz to 107 Hz. The temporal variability of the field can be...
The earth's electromagnetic environment
It is found that the energy density of electromagnetic fields at the surface of the Earth follow a scaling law that extends over 16 orders of magnitude from 10-9 Hz to 107 Hz. The temporal variability of the field can be...
Dynamic exergy analysis
As the power and transport sectors decarbonize, industrial emissions will become the main focus of decarbonization efforts. Exergy analysis provides a combined material and energy efficiency approach to assess industrial plants...
Genetic screening in sporadic ALS and FTD.
Martin R Turner, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Adriano Chio, Orla Hardiman, Matthew C Kiernan, Jonathan D Rohrer, James Rowe, William Seeley, Kevin Talbot
Nov 29, 2017
The increasing complexity of the genetic landscape in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) presents a significant resource and physician training challenge. At least 10% of those diagnosed with...
Partisan Gerrymandering and the Illusion of Unfairness
JM Eisler
Aug 22, 2017
Partisan gerrymandering is frequently condemned for distorting democracy and causing unfair representation, and many reformers have called upon federal courts to prohibit the practice. However, the judiciary has struggled to...
Production, consumers' convenience, and cynical economies
JM del Nido
May 06, 2021
Based on twelve months of fieldwork into Uber's conflict in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article examines convenience's role in the emergence of what I call cynical economies: a method and logic of production expressly...
Fibre-reinforced polymers in reinforced and prestressed concrete applications
JM Lees
Sep 10, 2013
Recent developments in the use of fibre-reinforced polymers (FRPs) in reinforced and prestressed concrete applications are reviewed. The influence of FRP material properties on the design of concrete structures is considered and...
Do Not Adjust Your Mind
Glia have been implicated in schizophrenia, although whether they play a primary role is uncertain. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Windrem et al. (2017) transplant human glial progenitors from schizophrenia patients into mouse...
Listeners and Readers Generalize Their Experience With Word Meanings Across Modalities
Research has shown that adults' lexical-semantic representations are surprisingly malleable. For instance, the interpretation of ambiguous words (e.g., bark) is influenced by experience such that recently encountered meanings...
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