Local Government in England: Centralisation, Autonomy and Control is a serious book and an important contribution to the scholarship around local government.It opens however, with a pleasingly comic tableau as academics from England, Portugal and Poland bicker amiably at a conference and on Twitter about whose country is really the most centralised
Abstract Objective To investigate the distribution and activation of B-cell subpopulations in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients treated with Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKis) and to analyze their correlation with disease remission.Methods Peripheral blood samples were collected from 23 adult healthy controls and 58 RA patients, 31 of whom were treat
Animated pedagogical agents are lifelike virtual characters designed to augment learning.A review of developmental psychology literature led to the hypothesis that the temporal contingency of such agents would promote human learning.We developed a Pedagogical Agent with Gaze Interaction (PAGI), an experimental animated pedagogical agent that engage
A controllable ion cardigans transport including ion selectivity and ion rectification across nanochannels or porous membranes is of great importance because of potential applications ranging from biosensing to energy conversion.Here, a nanofluidic ion diode was realized by modifying carbon nitride nanotubes with different Adhesive molecules yieldi