Get the balance right

Get the right balance--lessons learned from the first Ebola infected patient in Dallas.

Liberalisation and Regulation in Electricity Systems: how can we get the balance right

This paper explores the issue of the balance between liberalisation and regulation in electricity systems, which is the essence of much of the detailed policies which are implemented in the sector. By liberalisation I take to mean the use of market or quasimarket mechanisms as part of a reform of the sector, by regulation I take to mean regulatory intervention to restrain the operation of marke...

Babies get it right

Infants use a region on the right side of their brain to distinguish between human faces and objects.

Get the balance Right: can Normative Appeals Encourage Funders to Support Selected Crowdfunding Campaigns?

Increasingly more and more people turn to crowdfunding, either as entrepreneurs to get their idea funded or as financiers to help others realizing what might become a successful business one day. One situation frequently encountered on crowdfunding platforms is that certain projects receive more funding than needed, whereas others fail to achieve sufficient funding. To this day, no research has...

“Get the Balance Right”: Pathological Significance of Autophagy Perturbation in Neuromuscular Disorders

Recent research has revealed that autophagy, a major catabolic process in cells, is dysregulated in several neuromuscular diseases and contributes to the muscle wasting caused by non-muscle disorders (e.g. cancer cachexia) or during aging (i.e. sarcopenia). From there, the idea arose to interfere with autophagy or manipulate its regulatory signalling to help restore muscle homeostasis and atten...