This essay analyses the determinants of support for state social welfare provision in Russia and China on the basis of a four-stage recursive model using two waves of the World Values Survey. It hypothesises that support is a function of economic self-interest, tapped by subjective economic satisfaction and relative income; ideology including beliefs about market fairness and inequality aversio...

The topographic organization of motor, sensory and cognitive functions in the human cerebellum is poorly understood, and, owing to its anatomical organization, most of the folial surface is hidden from view. In order to facilitate surface-based analysis of functional activation within the cerebellar cortex, we constructed a "pipeline" for extracting, labelling and conformally mapping the cortic...

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (S S Lim PhD, A D Flaxman PhD, K G Andrews MPH, C Atkinson BS, E Carnahan BA, K E Colson BA, R E Engell BA, G Freedman BA, M K Freeman BA, E Gakidou PhD, R Jasrasaria BA, Stephen S Lim‡, Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman, Goodarz Danaei, Kenji Shibuya, Heather Adair-Rohani*, Markus Amann*, H Ross Anderson*, Kathryn G Andrews*, Martin Aryee*, Charles Atkinso...

Polysaccharides and their inherent structural and chemical variability provide an enormous hitherto unexploited design space for production of a range of new biobased materials. Exopolysaccharides are synthesized by numerous microorganisms (Rehm, 2010). Studies on biosynthesis provided critical information on how precursors are enzymatically diverted from primary metabolites and how they are po...

Stemphylium sarcinaeforme (Cav.) Wilt. (formerly Macrosporium sarcinaeforme Cav.) and Monilinia fructicola (Wint.) Honey (formerly Sclerotinia fructicola (Wint.) Rehm.) are two fungi which have been widely used as test organisms for screening fungicides in the laboratory. S. sarcinaeforme is resistant to the toxicity of phenolic and quinonoid compounds (herein referred to as phenols and quinone...

This study investigates whether students who initially began college as engineering or technology majors and who were required to participate in remedial mathematics and/or remedial English programs, were less likely to graduate with their bachelor’s degree in their fourth through seventh years, as compared to engineering and technology majors who were not required to participate in a remedial ...

UNLABELLED The anamorphic genus Phoma was subdivided into nine sections based on morphological characters, and included teleomorphs in Didymella, Leptosphaeria, Pleospora and Mycosphaerella, suggesting the polyphyly of the genus. Recent molecular, phylogenetic studies led to the conclusion that Phoma should be restricted to Didymellaceae. The present study focuses on the taxonomy of excluded Ph...

In this issue of International Psychogeriatrics, our research group published a paper on alcohol use disorders (AUD) in elderly adults (Kist et al., 2014). According to different authors, age of onset is an important characteristic to distinguish subgroups of patients with AUD, similar to, for example, late-onset depression (LOD) and lateonset schizophrenia (LOS). The cut off age to discriminat...