Public Agency Capabilities and Transformational Challenges of the 21st Century by Richard Sturn

“…Under transformational challenges, the agency capacity of public sector is under stress due to a combination of two specific factors: (a) new coordination problems and social dilemmas, inter alia requiring changing degrees of centralisation of collective agency in a world of polycentric governance and (b) shifting rent potentials, which pre-empt public agency by multiplying situations where private agents have the means and the incentives to invest in rentenhancing and distortive rule setting (shadow politics). …”
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Vivre sous la menace du bâton de maréchal : expériences carcérales et enfermements pour affaires d’honneur en France au xviiie siècle by Romain Benoit-Lévy

“…Its archives give an account of the great diversity of constraints by body available to it and therefore of the experiences of both its defendants and its agents. Imprisonment obliges defendants and then convicts to create new social relationships: with the prisoners, from whom they are all the more distant because they are privileged, and with the prison staff, who are sometimes allies and sometimes enemies. …”
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“Now Will Someone Kindly Tell Me What Is Her Proper Sphere?” Woman Suffrage, Women’s Political Participation, and the Populist Movement by Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet

“…This paper examines how Populism—more particularly Populism in the western Plains—provided women with a political space to act as civic agents without suffrage. It focuses on grassroots activists and women leaders’ mobilization, the limits electoral politics and partisanship imposed on the suffrage movement, case studies of Populist-backed state suffrage referenda, and the subversion of gender norms Populist women’s political activism represented. …”
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IFAS Community Development: Cooperatives as Tools for Community and Economic Development in Florida by Mark A. Brennan

“…In response to decreasing agricultural opportunities and growth pressure, extension and development agents routinely seek new approaches and opportunities for community and economic development. …”
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Sulfites: Separating Fact from Fiction by Paul Grotheer, Maurice Marshall, Amy Simonne

“…This publication will examine what sulfites are, sulfite sensitivity, safety issues related to sulfiting agents, and recommendations for sulfite-sensitive individuals. …”
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La popularización del saber y la « generación de las modernas » : revistas y espacios femeninos en la España de entreguerras by Matilde Eiroa

“…It proposes, to a certain extent, that both surroundings worked like agents of social changes that happened with the proclamation of II the Spanish Republic in April of 1931.…”
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A Sand Fly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz and Neiva) (Insecta: Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) by Maria C. Carrasquilla, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…Several phlebotomine species are vectors of the protozoan parasites in the genus Leishmania, that are the causal agents of leishmaniasis. Visceral leishmaniais is the most severe form of the disease, and is fatal to the human or dog host if untreated. …”
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Oncolytic Immunotherapy: Where Are We Clinically? by Akseli Hemminki

“…Interestingly, human data indicates that these agents have potent immunostimulatory activity, raising the possibility that the key consequence of oncolysis might be induction of antitumor immunity, especially in the context of viruses harboring immunostimulatory transgenes. …”
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An overview of the human immune system and the role of interferon regulatory factors (IRFs) by Ashwinder Kaur, Chee-Mun Fang

“… The immune system consists of a dynamic network of cells, proteins, tissues, and organs that communicate to provide adequate defense responses against pathogenic agents. The immune system divide into the non-specific (innate) and the specific (adaptive) components, where the interactions between these two arms are intricately regulated. …”
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Antibody-Drug Conjugates in the Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer: The Emerging Questions of Sequence and Resistance by Allan Relecom, Francesco Sciotto, Mathieu Chevallier, José Luis Sandoval

“…The use of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) represents an effective treatment strategy that combines the targeting capabilities of monoclonal antibodies with the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapeutic agents to deliver therapy directly to cancer cells. …”
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“For a while they felt better”: Negation in A Flag for Sunrise by Brady Harrison

“…Fear eats away at the self: fear of death, fear of the void within, fear of human meaninglessness, fear of groundlessness in a Godless universe impel the agents of empire forward. Charges into the third world arise from these intertwining fears, from the ache within that can only be briefly quieted through acts of brutality, appropriation, conquest. …”
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MEMORIAS CORPORIZADAS Y CREDIBILIDAD EN MUJERES VÍCTIMAS DE VIOLENCIA - POSIBILIDADES DE RESIGNIFICACIÓN Y REPARACIÓN by FLOR EMILCE CELY-ÁVILA

“…Se analiza la relación entre las memorias inscritas en el cuerpo, el trauma y los recursos corporizados subjetivos y colectivos con los que cuentan las mujeres víctimas de violencia para reconstruir y resignificarse como personas dignas de credibilidad y agentes de cambio. Se refieren casos específicos de violencia sexual en Colombia y se expone la importancia de la creación de comunidades de confianza que propicien espaclos para la narración y escucha de los testimonlos de víctimas, la tramitación de conflictos y nuevas vías de afrontamiento, a partir de los recursos que brinda la reinvención de hábitos corporizados en el arte.…”
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Des ATSEM « maternelles » aux « animatrices ». Transformation de l’identité professionnelle des travailleuses éducatives subordonnées de l’école maternelle by Arthur Imbert

“…Over the past thirty years or so, ATSEM (agentes territoriales spécialisées des écoles maternelles) have crossed the threshold of the classroom to assist teachers in their pedagogical missions. …”
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La différenciation, une réponse individuelle et locale à une institution scolaire traversée de tensions by Sephora Boucenna

“…We decided not to treat diversification as a research concept but rather as a notion that urges their agents to take action they would not implement if they were not forced to do so by the substantial obstacles they encounter in their daily educators’ life. …”
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Os paradigmas concorrenciais do setor de transporte aéreo: uma análise sobre as estratégias da companhia aérea Air France by Ana Paula Camilo Pereira

“…At the same time, they are the agents more susceptible to macroeconomic changes of the dynamism of this market. …”
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Bacteriological examination of the udder samples collected from sheep and goats slaughtered at a local abattoir in elazığ by H. Basri Gülcü, Hasan Öngör

“…Streptococcus uberis (7.52%), Streptococcus dysgalactiae (6.01%), Streptococcus agalactiae (5.26%), Staphylococcus epıdermidis (3.76 %) and Mannheimia haemolytica (3.76 %). The agents isolated and identified from the udder lobes of the goats were Staphylococcus aureus (25,37%), Escherichia coli (8.96%), Staphylococcus epıdermıdis (7.46 %). …”
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Managing Spider Mites in Florida Hops by Hugh A. Smith, Shinsuke Agehara

“… This publication is designed to provide information on managing spider mites on hops grown in Florida to hops growers, UF/IFAS Extension agents, and other crop protection professionals. Hops (Humulus lupulus L.) …”
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Antioxidant Properties of 5-ASA: Potential Mechanism for Its Anti-Inflammatory Activity by T Yamada, C Volkmer, MB Grisham

“…The authors' laboratory and others have demonstrated that 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) possesses potent antioxidant activity, including free radical scavenging properties and the ability to decompose neutrophilic oxidants (eg, hypochlorous acid) and detoxify hemoprotein-associated oxidizing agents. 5-ASA has the additional property of being able to chelate iron and render it poorly redox active. …”
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Métropole, cosmopolitisme et médiation by Gilberto Velho

“…Mediators, though not authors in the conventional sense, are interpreters and re-inventors of culture. They are agents of change when they carry information and transmit new principles, habits, goods and aspirations.…”
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« Le droit français aux prises avec les limites planétaires » by Luis Roman Arciniega Gil

“…This event, sponsored by the CNRS, the University of Lille, the Ceraps UMR 8026, the DD&T association, the RNMSH and the HDF region, was followed by political scientists, sociologists, lawyers, civil servants, public agents from local authorities, members of associations, students and researchers from different disciplines, which shows that the subject goes beyond the only academic and legal sphere.…”
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