Today, interesting and important interconnections have been made that promise great leaps forward for innovation systems and entrepreneurial ecosystems especially operating at the regional or sub-national level of the space economy. Of course, there are politics in such relationships. Most notable are those that are critical of anything that “interferes” with market hegemony (neoliberal bias) w...

Systemic neo-adjuvant therapy plays a primary role in the management of locally advanced breast cancer. Without having any negative effect in overall survival, induction chemotherapy potentially assures a surgery approach in unresectable disease or a conservative treatment in technically resectable disease and acts on a well-vascularized tumor bed, without the modifications induced by surgery. ...

Recently there have been several attempts to arrive at a more precise understanding of the relationship between Marxism and psychology. These have been notable in that they have been informed by Althusserian treatments of Marxism rather than orthodox Freudian or Lacanian themes. Such treatments, it is argued, entail the complete eradication of any notion of subjectivity. The following analyses ...

The concept of cultural hegemony is notoriously difficult. As it is presented in Gramsci’s original writings, hegemony is a cluster of several ideas, insights, and suggestions (see Adamson, 1980; Bates, 1975; Howson & Smith, 2008; G. A. Williams, 1960). This is hardly surprising. One had to remind that the notion was developed to explain very specific historical processes in post-WWI Europe. Re...

A new method is presented for fully automated regional quantification of the human neo-cortical thickness from 3-D MR images. The method does not require explicit extraction of the cortical surface, but instead is based on a geodesic distance transform of the binarized 3-D volumetric gray matter map obtained by automated segmentation. Regional cortical thickness distributions are derived by atl...

Will China's rise lead to Chinese hegemony? Most International Relations scholars would answer in the negative, contending road a global hegemony remains well beyond Beijing's interests and capabilities. In Asia, however, formidable economy, technological advancement, rapidly modernizing military forces, recent geopolitical moves look outright hegemonic - fact that United States attempts "pivot...