Regulatory mechanism of Reelin activity: a platform for exploiting Reelin as a therapeutic agent by Mitsuharu Hattori

“…Reelin is a secreted glycoprotein that was initially investigated in the field of neuronal development. However, in recent decades, its role in the adult brain has become increasingly important, and it is now clear that diminished Reelin function is involved in the pathogenesis and progression of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, including schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). …”
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From Uniformity towards Unequality in Regional Development Policy: The Case of France by Ildikó Egyed

“…Territorial unity formed the basic pillar of the Republic, which no successive regimes were able to undermine and no peripheral bottom-up regionalisation movements could challenge until the end of the past decade. However, from the second half of the 20th century, the unified national territory was increasingly subject to a „two-speed” development, with declining socio-economic conditions outside the zone of influence of the capital city. …”
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Sexualité préconjugale, souillure et reconstruction de soi. Les adolescentes au prisme d’une politique du corps féminin en Tunisie by Meryem Sellami

“…Through the course of ethnographic research started over a decade ago about women’ bodies in Tunisia, this article suggests that the way to realize the imperative to control these women’ sexuality is found at the heart of a body politics that targets exclusively the governance of feminine gender. …”
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Reaping the Returns of a Runaway Economy by Stan Pannier

“… Over the past few decades, economic and maritime historians have shown growing interest in the wages earned by regular seamen in merchant shipping. …”
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The role of satisfaction in cultural activities’ word-of-mouth. A case study in the Picasso Museum of Málaga (Spain) by María Jesús Carrasco-Santos, Antonio Padilla-Meléndez

“…Word-of-mouth has become a relevant area of tourism research over recent decades. However, the effect of tourists’ emotions on these recommendations is an underdeveloped area, particularly in cultural tourism, which, in terms of tourist numbers, is the second most important sector in countries with significant tourism industries, such as Spain. …”
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Le partage inégal des « tâches ménagères » by Roland Pfefferkorn

“…During the last decades women were the actresses of the changes that affected the marital relations, and they reached a bigger autonomy regarding these relations. …”
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“Boring Photography”: American New Topographics, Socialist Boredom, and Post-Soviet Deadpan Photography by Victoria Musvik

“…This article looks at the exhibition New Landscape (2018), which was the first full-scale attempt to reflect on the popularity of “deadpan” photography in Russia in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The show was partly modeled on the American exhibition New Topographics (1975). …”
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Le jardin dans la littérature fin-de-siècle, ou quand un motif narratif devient un objet esthétique by Geneviève Sicotte

“…However, in the late 19th century, there is an inversion of this rhetoric: the decadent garden favours the cultural or even the artificial pole in such an extreme way that nature becomes deleterious and lethal. …”
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Thousand Cankers Disease: A Threat to Black Walnut in Florida by Don Spence, Jason A. Smith

“…It is possible that within the next decade this disease could naturally spread to Florida. …”
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Prawo karne jako narzędzie przeciwko wulgaryzacji języka by Marek Derlatka

“…Profanity has been around for a long time, but the way it is treated in public is changing. Until a few decades ago, the use of such a word in public caused shame, embarrassment, and guilt. …”
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The role of the personnel practitioner in the identification and handling of communication problems in organisations by L.D. Coetsee

“… The scope of the personnel practitioners' role has, over the past decade, grown from the traditional activities of inter alia, manpower recruitment, selection and training to include organisational diagnoses and maintaining and improving organisational effectiveness and the quality of work life of employees. …”
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THE EDUCATION OF URBAN MANAGERS IN IRAN SINCE 1950S TO 2004 by Mahmud Saeedi REZVANI, Hadi Saeedi REZVANI

“…After the Islamic Revolution in 1979 the Development Deputy of the Interior Ministry continued these educational programs after a lapse of two decades. In 2002 the Municipalities Organization was established and these educational programs continued under the new organization. …”
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A review on three‐dimensional graphene: Synthesis, electronic and biotechnology applications‐The Unknown Riddles by Pradheep Thiyagarajan

“…Abstract In the last decade, carbon‐based nanostructures such as buckyball (C60), carbon nanotube (CNT), graphene and three‐dimensional (3D) graphene have been identified as promising materials for electronic, electrochemical energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), optical and sensing applications. …”
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La gestion controversée du feu dans les forêts nationales de l’Idaho et de l’ouest du Montana by Nicolas Barbier

“…Between the end of the conquest of the West and the 1970s, land uses have altered these forests and the fire regimes that affect them. For about four decades, managers have been involved in a partial and controversial restoration of pre-conquest fire regimes and forests they used to shape.…”
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Os enviados de Dom Bosco entre os Masiripiwëiteri. O impacto missionário sobre o sistema social e cultural dos Yanomami ocidentais (Amazonas, Brasil) by Maria Inês Smiljanic

“…This article describes the effects of Salesian missionary activities upon the Yanomami Indians who live in the Maturacá region in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. After decades of sedentarization, the missionaries altered the settlement pattern of the Masiripiwëiteri community, and encouraged the influx of newcomers from neighboring communities. …”
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Causes and Prevention of Emitter Plugging In Microirrigation Systems by D. Z. Haman

“…These systems utilize a network of pipes to distribute water to emitters, which discharge it in various forms such as droplets, small streams, or mini-sprayers. Over the past two decades, microirrigation has emerged as a preferred method for both irrigation and freeze protection in trees and horticultural crops. …”
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Creativity in SMEs: A overview and agenda for future research by Mauricio Castillo-Vergara, Domingo García Pérez de Lema

“…In the last decades, the interest in creativity has grown significantly; its importance is related to the impact on the performance of companies since creativity is defined as the root of innovation. …”
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“First they bomb as much as they please, then they film”: The Politics of War Ruins in Two Vietnam War Documentaries by Zachary Baqué

“…A little less than a decade later, Peter Davis also included ruins in Hearts and Minds, a scathing indictment of the Vietnam War, which was drawing to a close. …”
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L’évolution et les mobilités spatiales de la ville de Musumb, capitale de l’empire lunda de 1852 à 1885 by Liévain Mwangal Mpalang’a-Maruv

“…The causes of these mobilities during the middle and penultimate decade of the 19th century are both endogenous and exogenous. …”
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Nitrogen Fertilizer Sources: What Does The Future Hold for Citrus Producers? by Tom Obreza, Larry Parsons, Kelly Morgan

“…Ammonium nitrate, the workhorse N fertilizer used by citrus growers for decades, has had the greatest leap in cost. Typical questions on the minds of growers these days are: why has this happened, will it continue, and will economics force a change in the type of N fertilizer we use?  …”
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