— This paper shows why corruption is especially difficult to detect under China’s system of decentralized authoritarian rule, which I call a “rule of mandates.” Local officials must pursue high priority political targets but have immense discretion over which laws to implement. A relative standard for corruption consequently arises since non-implementation of laws may be mandate-serving or may ...

Absfract: Cyclic sulfates 21-23 and sulfite 27 derived from glucofuranose lead to the 3,6_anhydrosugar 28 in excellent yields when treated with sodium sulfite or in basic media. When treated with sodium sulfite, the 3-deoxy derivative 24 fails to give the intramolecular cyclization which leads to the anhydrosugars. Instead it gives the disulfonate derivative 26. 28 was used as starting material...

Vertebrate model organisms have facilitated the discovery and exploration of morphogenetic events and developmental pathways that underpin normal and pathological embryological events. In contrast to amniotes such as Mus musculus (Mammalia) and Gallus gallus (Aves), our understanding of early patterning and developmental events in reptiles (particularly nonavians) remains weak. Squamate reptile...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency is becoming endemic in many parts of the world. AIM To study vitamin D status in Egyptian females of different age groups. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 404 females, who were categorized into group 1 (51 nursing females); group 2 (50 pregnant females); group 3 (208 females of childbearing age); group 4 (38 elderly females); and...

The main source of vitamin D for Australians is exposure to sunlight. Thus, levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D(3), the indicator of vitamin D status, vary according to the season and are lower at the end of winter. In Australia and New Zealand, the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency varies, but is acknowledged to be much higher than previously thought. One study found marginal deficiency in 23...

In this article, we trace a specific ‘situated bodily practice’, namely the ‘act of covering’ head with scarf during liturgy, in church that has migrated from Middle East to Sweden. This ‘veiled tradition’ is interpreted as ‘ritual migration’ can cast light on complexities re-producing traditions new setting, functioning ‘cultural prism’ for question integration. The broader aim nuance symbolic...