Japanese Citizens’ and Civic Organizations’ Strong Support for the Redress Movement

One of the hallmarks of AD (Alzheimer's disease) is the formation of senile plaques in the brain, which contain fibrils composed of Aβ (amyloid β-peptide). According to the ‘amyloid cascade’ hypothesis, the aggregation of Aβ initiates a sequence of events leading to the formation of neurofibrillary tangles, neurodegeneration, and on to the main symptom of dementia. However, emphasis has now shifted away from fibrillar forms of Aβ and towards smaller and more soluble ‘oligomers’ as the main culprit in AD. The present chapter commences with a brief introduction to the disease and its current treatment, and then focuses on the formation of Aβ from the APP (amyloid precursor protein), the genetics of early-onset AD, which has provided strong support for the amyloid cascade hypothesis, and then on the development of new drugs aimed at reducing the load of cerebral Aβ, which is still the main hope for providing a more effective treatment for AD in the future.

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Instrumental and Ideological Union Commitment: Longitudinal Assessment of Construct Validity

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027//1015-5759.17.2.98 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 98-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anders Sjöberg ◽

Magnus Sverke

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Temporal Stability ◽

Strong Support ◽

Internal Consistency Reliability ◽

Measurement Model ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Model Parameters ◽

Longitudinal Assessment ◽

Union Commitment ◽

Union Participation

Summary: Previous research has identified instrumentality and ideology as important aspects of member attachment to labor unions. The present study evaluated the construct validity of a scale designed to reflect the two dimensions of instrumental and ideological union commitment using a sample of 1170 Swedish blue-collar union members. Longitudinal data were used to test seven propositions referring to the dimensionality, internal consistency reliability, and temporal stability of the scale as well as postulated group differences in union participation to which the scale should be sensitive. Support for the hypothesized factor structure of the scale and for adequate reliabilities of the dimensions was obtained and was also replicated 18 months later. Tests for equality of measurement model parameters and test-retest correlations indicated support for the temporal stability of the scale. In addition, the results were consistent with most of the predicted differences between groups characterized by different patterns of change/stability in union participation status. The study provides strong support for the construct validity of the scale and indicates that it can be used in future theory testing on instrumental and ideological union commitment.

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The Time Course of the Aversive Conflict Signal

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000271 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 30-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Julia Fritz ◽

Gesine Dreisbach

Keyword(s):

Time Course ◽

Strong Support ◽

Short Soas ◽

Priming Effects ◽

Presentation Time ◽

Psychological Evidence ◽

Study Participants ◽

Direct Investigation

The idea that conflicts are aversive signals recently has gained strong support by both physiological as well as psychological evidence. However, the time course of the aversive signal has not been subject to direct investigation. In the present study, participants had to judge the valence of neutral German words after being primed with conflict or non-conflict Stroop stimuli in three experiments with varying SOA (200 ms, 400 ms, 800 ms) and varying prime presentation time. Conflict priming effects (i.e., increased frequencies of negative judgments after conflict as compared to non-conflict primes) were found for SOAs of 200 ms and 400 ms, but absent (or even reversed) with a SOA of 800 ms. These results imply that the aversiveness of conflicts is evaluated automatically with short SOAs, but is actively counteracted with prolonged prime presentation.

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Letter to Patrick Leahy, Lindsey Graham, Kay Granger, and Nita Lowey offering thanks for strong support of sustained funding levels for global HIV/AIDS programs

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e500692017-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

Strong Support ◽

Hiv Aids

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On the Natural Blood Coagulation Inhibitor System Investigations of Inhibitor Factors Based on Antithrombin Deficient Blood

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1654884 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 14 (03/04) ◽

pp. 473-489 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

O Egeberg

Keyword(s):

Normal Level ◽

Antithrombin Iii ◽

Strong Support ◽

Blood Protein ◽

Coagulation Inhibitor ◽

Inhibitor System ◽

Normal Human ◽

Partial Deficiency ◽

Antithrombin Iii Activity ◽

Prothrombinase Activity

SummaryNatural coagulation inhibitor factors were studied in sera, or in fractions of sera, from patients with congenital partial deficiency of antithrombin and from normal persons. In the patients’ sera the progressive antithrombin (antithrombin III) and heparin cofactor (antithrombin II) had both been measured around 50 per cent of normal level.No decreased activity could be demonstrated in the patients’ sera as to antiprothrombinase, the inhibitor against blood intrinsic prothrombinase activity.For anticonvertin, the inhibitor against the tissue convertin complex, the activity was found decreased to about the same level as that demonstrated for antithrombin III and II. The results lend strong support to the hypothesis that the activities measured as anticonvertin, antithrombin III and antithrombin II represent functions of the same blood protein, which on the other side appears to be distinct from antiprothrombinase. In accordance with this explanation, an antithrombin III concentrate had also antithrombin II and anticonvertin activity, and further, adsorption of a normal human serum with convertin appeared to specifically reduce its antithrombin III activity.The inhibitor against activated antihemophilic C factor (AHC’ = activated f. XI) was studied in sera adsorbed with BaS04 and celite. The inhibitor activity was found at normal level in the patients’ sera, consistent with the view that anti-AHC’ is distinct from antithrombin III, II and from anticonvertin. No acceleration of the anti-AHC’ activity could be demonstrated after addition to the inhibition mixture of weak solutions of heparin.The results are discussed.

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An Analysis of Restraints on Effective Demand for Loans in Rural China

International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology ◽

10.23956/ijermt.v6i8.125 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (8) ◽

pp. 107

Author(s):

Wenjie Ma ◽

Minxin He ◽

Xinyu Zhong ◽

Shengsong Huang

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Financial Services ◽

Rural China ◽

Strong Support ◽

Effective Demand ◽

Second Child ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

First Choice

China’s overall economic growth is, to a great extent, hindered by the lack of economic growth in rural areas. Based on data from the Thousand-Village Survey (2015) of 31 provinces conducted by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, we conduct this empirical study to analyze the current state of rural financial services and the factors influencing effective demand for loans in rural China. Looking at the demand side, in 2014, only 13.91% farmers had loans, and only 15.53% of them made financial institutions their first choice when they needed loans. Clearly, there is still much to do with regard to inclusive finance. From the perspective of the supply side, only 43.86% of dispersed loans can be categorized as productive loans, further reflecting that the financial services industry does not provide strong support for rural economic growth. Further study shows that the main factors influencing effective demand for productive loans are the population age structure and the rate at which migrant workers return home. Therefore, the "Second-Child" policy and policies that encourage migrant workers to go back home to start businesses are of vital importance in order to raise effective financial demand in rural China.

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The Demand For Money in Pakistan: Reply (Notes and Comments)

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v14i3pp.370-375 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 370-375

Author(s):

M. A. Akhtar

Keyword(s):

Interest Rates ◽

Money Demand ◽

Strong Support ◽

Physical Capital ◽

Careful Examination ◽

Demand For Money ◽

Weak Support ◽

Complementarity Hypothesis ◽

The Difference ◽

The One

I am grateful to Abe, Fry, Min, Vongvipanond, and Yu (hereafter re¬ferred to as AFMVY) [1] for obliging me to reconsider my article [2] on the demand for money in Pakistan. Upon careful examination, I find that the AFMVY results are, in parts, misleading and that, on the whole, they add very little to those provided in my study. Nevertheless, the present exercise as well as the one by AFMVY is useful in that it furnishes us with an opportunity to view some of the fundamental problems involved in an empi¬rical analysis of the demand for money function in Pakistan. Based on their elaborate critique, AFMVY reformulate the two hypo¬theses—the substitution hypothesis and the complementarity hypothesis— underlying my study and provide us with some alternative estimates of the demand for money in Pakistan. Briefly their results, like those in my study, indicate that income and interest rates are important in deter¬mining the demand for money. However, unlike my results, they also suggest that the price variable is a highly significant determinant of the money demand function. Furthermore, while I found only a weak support for the complementarity between money demand and physical capital, the results obtained by AFMVY appear to yield a strong support for that rela¬tionship.1 The difference in results is only a natural consequence of alter¬native specifications of the theory and, therefore, I propose to devote most of this reply to the criticisms raised by AFMVY and the resulting reformulation of the two mypotheses.

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Additive Groups in a Non-Symbolic ‘Artificial Algebra’

10.31234/osf.io/k935n ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Randolph C Grace ◽

Nicola J. Morton ◽

Matt Grice ◽

Kate Stuart ◽

Simon Kemp

Keyword(s):

Algebraic Group ◽

Explicit Instruction ◽

Strong Support ◽

Line Length

Grace et al. (2018) developed an ‘artificial algebra’ task in which participants learn to make an analogue response based on a combination of non-symbolic magnitudes by feedback and without explicit instruction. Here we tested if participants could learn to add stimulus magnitudes in this task in accord with the properties of an algebraic group. Three pairs of experiments tested the group properties of commutativity (Experiments 1a-b), identity and inverse existence (Experiments 2a-b) and associativity (Experiments 3a-b), with both line length and brightness modalities. Transfer designs were used in which participants responded on trials with feedback based on sums of magnitudes and later were tested with novel stimulus configurations. In all experiments, correlations of average responses with magnitude sums were high on trials with feedback, r = .97 and .96 for Experiments 1a-b, r = .97 and .96 for Experiments 2a-b, and ranged between r = .97 and .99 for Experiment 3a and between r = .82 and .95 for Experiment 3b. Responding on transfer trials was accurate and provided strong support for commutativity, identity and inverse existence, and associativity with line length, and for commutativity and identity and inverse existence with brightness. Deviations from associativity in Experiment 3b suggested that participants were averaging rather than adding brightness magnitudes. Our results confirm that the artificial algebra task can be used to study implicit computation and suggest that representations of magnitudes may have a structure similar to an algebraic group.

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ACCOUNTING HISTORY AND GOVERNMENTAL INQUIRIES: AN EXPERIMENT IN ADVERSARIAL ROLEPLAY

Accounting Historians Journal ◽

10.2308/0148-4184.21.2.117 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 117-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

R. J. CRAIG ◽

A. J. GREINKE

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

American History ◽

Steel Industry ◽

Strong Support ◽

Ancillary Benefits ◽

Historical Materials ◽

Accounting History ◽

Central Focus ◽

Accounting Courses ◽

Accounting Theory

Governmental inquiries where accounting is a central focus are a rich resource for injecting much needed historical content into accounting courses in higher education. An adversarial roleplay recreated a Wage Stabilization Board hearing in Washington, D.C. which, in 1952, led to President Truman's seizure of the American steel industry and ultimately to a constitutional crisis. The roleplay centered on the accounting issues debated by that Board in response to a highly provocative submission by W. A. Paton on behalf of the steel industry. The roleplay revealed strong support for recourse to such historical materials in providing an enjoyable, stimulating and effective way of learning accounting theory. Ancillary benefits were that students gained a better understanding of some important economic, political and constitutional issues in American history.

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Using CSR Disclosure Quality to Develop Social Resilience to Exogenous Shocks: A Test of Investor Perceptions

Behavioral Research in Accounting ◽

10.2308/bria-51118 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 155-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Kimberly A. Zahller ◽

Vicky Arnold ◽

Robin W. Roberts

Keyword(s):

Strong Support ◽

Management Control ◽

Path Model ◽

Organizational Legitimacy ◽

Social Resilience ◽

Exogenous Shock ◽

Nonprofessional Investors ◽

Exogenous Shocks ◽

Csr Disclosure ◽

Corporate Social

ABSTRACT Our overarching purpose is to propose and test a theory of social resilience to exogenous shocks. The theory posits that high-quality corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure promotes the perception of organizational legitimacy, creating social resilience to exogenous shocks (external events outside management control). Using a path model and data from 100 experienced, nonprofessional investors, we examine whether the quality of a corporation's voluntary CSR disclosure increases its perceived organizational legitimacy and if increases in perceived legitimacy help insulate that organization from negative investor reactions following an exogenous shock. The results provide strong support for the model and show that when CSR disclosures are higher quality, investors perceive organizational legitimacy to be higher, inferring that organizations should emphasize quantifiable, consistent, and comparable reporting. Further, the results indicate that higher levels of perceived organizational legitimacy are associated with greater levels of organizational resilience to an intra-industry exogenous shock.

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