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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"regulatory capacity"”.
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Regulatory Capacity, Governance Failure, and the Challenge of Urgent Environmental Problems: A Critical Analysis of Conservation Strategies for the Greater Sage-grouse
… is traditionally believed to possess a singular capacity to impose controls to address urgent environmental problems. In the U.S., shifts in governance since the 1980s have eroded centralized public authorities’ role in environmental policy and management. Trust and confidence in federal …
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COMING OF AGE: A TALE OF TWO MATURITIES
… questions about adolescent maturity: cognitive capacity, which undergirds logical thinking, and self-regulatory capacity, which comprises individuals’ ability to restrain themselves in the face of emotional, exciting, or risky stimuli. Age patterns of these constructs were assessed in 5,227 …
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Labeling Schemes or Labeling Scams?: Auditors' Perspectives on ISO 14001 Certification
… credible policy options, they must ensure the capacity to build an industrial morality and to institutionalize responsibility. Relying on a series of in-depth interviews with environmental auditors, this dissertation contributes to a deeper empirical understanding of these regulatory …
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National oil company reform from the perspective of its relationship with governments: the case of China
… of it. The thesis looks at NOC reform to the regulatory framework, the industrial structure, the pricing and distribution system, and the fiscal and financial regimes. It examines the effectiveness of reforms by evaluating the effectiveness of the relationship between governments and NOCs, …
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Hostile-Diabetic Men: An Examination of Peripheral Glucose and QEEG Magnitudes Subsequent to Lateralized Fluency-Stressors
Using the Limited Capacity Model of hostility (Walters & Harrison, 2006; Williamson & Harrison, 2005; Williamson, Harrison, & Walters, 2007) as a guide, the stress response of individuals with a variable and dysregulated fuel supply to their brain (diabetes) was examined subsequent to lateralized …
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Metabolic Control Analysis of Carbon Pathways
… in its ability to identify enzymes with a higher regulatory capacity and, consequently, it can be used as a tool to facilitate the manipulation of carbon acquisition and allocation In plants using molecular approaches.
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Gossip, performance, and regulation: an examination of social communities in Tom Wolfe‘s I Am Charlotte Simmons
… its petty associations by revealing a greater regulatory capacity, a capacity which is maintained through its power to influence social presentation. To clarify here, I do not mean to suggest that gossip has positive qualities, but rather that it has much more complex functions than mere …
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A light in the dark : labor reform in Guatemala during the FRG administration, 2000-2004
… substantial effects in terms of enhanced State regulatory capacity. As the thesis argues, the FRG labor reforms were possible because, unlike the governments preceding (e.g. PAN) and following it (i.e. GANA), the FRG was able to exclude the largest private conglomerates in the country ("the Big …
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The role of B cells in the amplification and in the regulation of transplant rejection.
… response trough a<br/>variety of mechanisms. Regulatory B cells (Bregs) have recently discovered and<br/>their role in regulating autoimmune diseases has been demonstrated in different<br/>murine models. In the context of transplantation B cells are generally thought to<br/>promote graft …
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Understanding Burnout and Self-Regulation Capacity in Canadian Developmental and Elite Sport Coaches
… between burnout, well-being, self-regulation capacity, and perceived stress in coaches, and (b) the perceived impact of a self-regulation intervention implemented with coaches experiencing moderate to high levels of burnout. A sequential mixed methods design was employed to collect …
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Regulation of Neuronal Polarity by Wnt Signaling
… and cam-1 might function in a signaling or regulatory capacity in ALM and PLM polarization.
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A critical review of the who global report on traditional and complementary medicine 2019: implications for harmonization of traditional and complementary medicine regulation in Africa.
… Therefore, an effective and harmonized medicines regulatory system is required for TCM. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2019) global report on TCM highlighted the progress that was globally achieved in the regulation of TCM by countries that have implemented and adopted TCM services over the …
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Effect of a brief self-compassion intervention on self-compassion and health behaviours in emerging adults.
… health behaviour challenges, with lack of self-regulatory capacity implicated. Recent research has identified self-compassion as a possible means of bolstering self-regulatory resources. This pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT; N = 30) aimed to increase self- compassion and self-regulatory …
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Emotion Regulation and Emotionality: An examination of correlates of social skills in young children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typical Development
… in emotional competence, including poor emotion regulatory capacity. The goal of this study was to investigate the link of social skills to emotion regulation and emotionality in 3 through 7 year-old children with and without ASD. Methods: Both parental report and behavioral laboratory …
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Maternal Dissociation, Emotional Acceptance and Child Emotion Regulation: A Study of Residents in a Family Homeless Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence
… in child emotion regulation, and the emotion regulatory capacity of their children. These relationships were investigated in a sample of predominately low-income African-American and Latino mothers and children residing in a domestic violence shelter. In this study, I investigated a …
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Dicer deletion and short RNA expression analysis in mouse embryonic stem cells
… miRNAs are expected to carry significant ES cell regulatory capacity.
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China’s Digital Communications Strategy in Africa: Preliminary Perspectives from Zimbabwe and Kenya
… were mediated by domestic conditions, including regulatory capacity, fiscal constraints, media freedom, and civil society engagement. While Chinese-backed infrastructure projects narrowed aspects of the digital divide, concerns about surveillance, data governance, and vendor lock-in complicated …
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A Delineation of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapeutic Action in New Models of Acute and Chronic Graft versus Host Disease
The potent immune regulatory capacity of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) has been extensively characterised in terms of T cells, natural killer cells and dendritic cells suppression; however the ability of MSC to modulate B cell biology is not fully understood. This immune suppressive ability has …
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Public Regulation through Private Litigation: The Regulatory Power of Private Lawsuits and the American Bureaucracy
… the notably constrained American state, how can regulatory agencies ensure that enforcement goals are met? Some analyses suggest that this is not so easily done; rather, constraints on agencies' formal administrative powers are said to threaten their capacity for effective regulation. But recent …
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Acid-base regulation in the sea urchin Parechinus angulosus during CO₂-induced seawater acidification
… such as upwelling events, may have a higher capacity tolerate elevated CO₂. The sea urchin Parechinus angulosus currently experiences natural CO₂ variations within the Benguela upwelling system and is therefore predicted to possess the capacity to compensate moderate acid-base disturbances. …
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