Neonatal rats which had received a daily injection of 50 microgram of 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) or 30 microgram of L-thyroxine (T 4) for 7 days beginning on the day of birth were compared as to the late effect of the hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid axis with the neo saline control. Neo DNP rats and neo T 4 rats revealed the retardation of growth compared with neo saline rats. The plasma level of TS...

According to some perspectives, it is difficult imagine the collective West developing further relations with Russia beyond regulatory and systemic – rather than social so long as their political systems remain divergent. At same time, continued elements of Russian “Europeanness” raise fundamental questions about future role pre-eminence liberal states including Canada in contemporary internati...

This article details the extensive security regimes deployed against Black Power in Caribbean that were operated by regional governments and (neo)colonial British state. These of securitisation targeted radical political groups actors whose ideology placed them an antagonistic relation to independent West Indian states Britain. The author argues state’s involvement suppression is inseparable fr...

Abstract The demand for regional autonomy, which crystallised in the 1990s during municipal decentralisation, has profoundly marked Bolivia’s political history. This article examines reorientation of autonomic model since 2009 Constitution. “recentralisation” is explained by: (a) hegemony achieved by Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and its consequences local politics; (b) regulatory centralism, ...

Paul Detrick The NEO PI-R is one of a group of closely-related objective assessment instruments (NEO Inventories) designed to measure the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality (Digman, 1990; McCrae & John, 1992). The FFM has received widespread acceptance as a valid descriptor of normal personality (Mount & Barrick, 1998), as well as an organizing framework for the prediction of job performanc...