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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Gridlock"”.
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Autophagy gridlock in tauopathy
… of mature autolysosomes, implying an autophagy gridlock preventing the maturation of autophagic intermediates. Collectively, these results show that human tau misexpression both impaired and its toxicity was regulated by autophagy. Early activation of autpophagy suppressed tauopathy, likely …
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A Queueing Theoretic Approach to Gridlock Prediction in Emergency Departments
… treat other patients. Boarders in the ED lead to gridlock, which is defined as the situation when no new patient can be accepted to the ED until a hospital bed becomes available. In this research, we developed a predictive model to provide probabilities of entering gridlock within a time horizon, …
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Elections Have Consequences: Moral Value Foundations Ensure Gridlock through the Ballot Box
… in the voting public and congressional gridlock in Washington, research in moral psychology has implicated reliance on differing moral value foundations between liberals and conservatives as a determinant of partisan divides. While Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) research has highlighted …
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Hong Kong’s Executive–Legislative Gridlock: Filibuster, Fragmented Politics and Chinese Influence after 2016
… system and the current political gridlock in Hong Kong than what is available in existing literature. It argues that even though Hong Kong maintained the authoritarian features after the handover, (1) the Basic Law’s institutional settings, (2) the Chinese path-dependent attitudes …
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An examination of congressional elections
… chapter I examine the causes of congressional gridlock. I examine a model of two parties that must negotiate in order to choose a policy to enact. The parties compete in elections in two bodies of a legislature and the winning candidates engage in a bargaining process to determine the …
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Essays On Policy Dynamics Under Political Frictions
… Consequences of Divided Government and Policy Gridlock, studies the welfare consequences of divided government by analyzing a dynamic legislative bargaining model with endogenous status quo. By comparing a unified government where the opponent's approval is not needed with a divided government …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Media and Information Manipulation
… a critical tension between the possibility of gridlock and the abuse of power, which is inherent in democratic institutions. Using cross-national data and leveraging an original survey experiment from Turkey, I show that effective checks and balances decrease democracy satisfaction and that …
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Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
… climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their policy preferences on highly polarizing issues, other non-partisan identities may also be relevant in informing environmental policy attitudes. This …
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Comparative Public Finance: Sustainability and Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms
… also help explain the current legislative gridlock and the reasons why no major reform has been enacted for decades. For Mexico and the United Kingdom there exist politically feasible reforms, notably a modification of the retirement age channel, that can increase the system’s …
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Legislative commitment in Congress
… is routinely criticized for dysfunction and gridlock. In this context, the behavior of policy wonks is of normative and practical interest, but there remains relatively little research that focuses squarely on these members. I conceptualize policy wonks as MCs who commit to legislating by …
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John Dewey's Theory of Citizenship and Community in the Developing American Democracy as Seen Through the Philosophy of Pragmatism as a Public Administration Model for the Citizen's Role in Public Governance
… more "participative" access. In essence, virtual gridlock has resulted. One solution is to rediscover and accurately understand Dewey, who can help us rethink science and the knowledge process in government and the possibilities for citizen involvement in government.
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The child care conundrum : the costs and consequences of unmet early child care needs among parents working at academic institutions across the United States
… and its pernicious effects, current political gridlock has hindered efforts to create universal child care programs and policies. In the absence of large public investments in child care, this thesis builds a case for local employers and institutions to be held accountable for filling the early …
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PLACE-BASED CONSERVATION LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE BEAVERHEAD-DEERLODGE PARTNERSHIP
… due to a frustration over perceived agency “gridlock,” a desire for increased certainty in the planning process, unresolved wilderness designations, and the need for comprehensive conservation measures in a changing West. The primary benefits of the place-based legislated approach, according …
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PLACE-BASED CONSERVATION LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE BEAVERHEAD-DEERLODGE PARTNERSHIP
… due to a frustration over perceived agency “gridlock,” a desire for increased certainty in the planning process, unresolved wilderness designations, and the need for comprehensive conservation measures in a changing West. The primary benefits of the place-based legislated approach, according …
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Dynamic Signal Coordination Models for a Network With Oversaturated Intersections
… of queue management strategies (QMS), such as gridlock avoidance, local and system congestion releases, and a congestion release with maximum priority on certain movements, are developed and applied into a network with oversaturated intersections. Different network topologies are considered, …
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Bridging gaps in synthetic biology oversight : iGEM as a testbed for proactive, adaptive risk management
… imposed on policy revisions due to political gridlock, it is necessary to understand what can be realistically accomplished within the existing federal system, and what instead needs to be achieved outside it. Here, a fuller, more invigorated approach to engagement support is coupled with a …
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Pillars of stone or pillars of sand? An analysis of sustainability discourse in U.S. cities
… function symbiotically. With institutional gridlock preventing comprehensive policy change at the national level coupled with state-by-state disparities in addressing environmental concerns, cities currently operate at the forefront of the sustainability movement. City governments have taken …
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Speeding up Housing Supply in Hong Kong through Land Readjustment
… A practical solution will require breaking the gridlock inherent in current power dynamics. Chapter II – Land Readjustment: A Possible Solution brings forth Land Readjustment as a potential tool to address the land supply problem. As Land Readjustment is a relatively unfamiliar concept in the …
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Biochemische Charakterisierung der basischen Helix-Loop-Helix-Transkriptionsfaktoren Hey1 und Hey2 sowie Untersuchung ihrer Rolle während der Herz- und Gefäßentwicklung
… Folge einer Aortenstenose wie bei der gridlock (zf-Hey2)-Mutante im Zebrafisch ist. Vielmehr führt eine homozygote Hey2-Deletion zu einer Kardiomyopathie in Kombination mit verschiedenene Herzfehlern. Untersuchungen der Hey1- und HeyL-Expression in Hey2-Knockoutembryonen mittels RNA in …
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The politics behind the establishment of United Nations-mandated fact-finding missions: the case of Myanmar
… However, structural explanations, like the gridlock in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), do not adequately take into account the timing of the establishment of this United Nations mandated fact-finding mission. The tatmadaw’s military operations have for many years been seen to …