JALL 41(1)

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These notes describe a version of the model presented by Comin and Gertler (2006) which integrates a theory of cycles and growth. The cycles they have in mind are ‘intermediate cycles’, which are frequencies of oscillation in the data that are lower than the 8 to 32 quarter frequencies conventionally associated with business cycles. In some respects, the model resembles the model of Romer that ...

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Expectations about an upcoming emotional event have the power to shape one s subsequent affective response for better or worse. Here, we used mediation analyses to examine the relationship between brain activity when anticipating the need to cognitively reappraise aversive images, amygdala responses to those images and subsequent success in diminishing negative affect. We found that anticipator...

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Brain metastasis (BM) is increasingly diagnosed in Her2 positive breast cancer (BC) patients. Lack of effective treatment to breast cancer brain metastases (BCBMs) is probably due to inability of the current therapeutic agents to cross the blood-brain barrier. The central nervous system (CNS) response rate in BCBM patients was reported to improve from 2.6%–6% (lapatinib) to 20%–65% (lapatinib i...

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RA is common and costly for individuals, health services and societies. Current guidelines for the management of RA highlight the importance of early administration of DMARDs and the titration of therapy against disease activity to try and achieve remission. Reasonable evidence exists to show that early institution of DMARDs reduces the rate of progression of radiological damage in the long ter...