The lead trade associations of the bio-pharma and semiconductor industries have differed systematically in their roles facilitating development innovation networks between Shanghai Shenzhen, two prominent high-tech metropolises China. Divergent associational stem from variations regional state policy regime that has exerted differential shaping influence on structure social cleavages strength r...

This paper reports on findings from a million-cell granule cell model of the rat dentate gyrus that was used to explore the contributions of local interneuronal and associational circuits to network-level activity. The model contains experimentally derived morphological parameters for granule cells, which each contain approximately 200 compartments, and biophysical parameters for granule cells,...

Hippocampal oscillations reflect coordinated neuronal activity on many timescales. Distinct types of GABAergic interneuron participate in the coordination of pyramidal cells over different oscillatory cycle phases. In the CA3 area, which generates sharp waves and gamma oscillations, the contribution of identified GABAergic neurons remains to be defined. We have examined the firing of a family o...

Social interactions increasingly take place online. Friendships and other offline social ties have been repeatedly associated with human longevity, but online interactions might have different properties. Here, we reference 12 million social media profiles against California Department of Public Health vital records and use longitudinal statistical models to assess whether social media use is a...

To understand the mechanisms behind social inequality, this address argues that we need to more thoroughly incorporate the effects of status—inequality based on differences in esteem and respect—alongside those based on resources and power. As a micro motive for behavior, status is as significant as money and power. At a macro level, status stabilizes resource and power inequality by transformi...

Context: International scholarship and policy tend to depict national structures governing Vocational Education Training (VET) as uniform devoid of internal differences. This macro perspective neglects the numerous processes at meso micro level that shape structure content VET. article focusses on professional associations (meso level) in Switzerland examine heterogeneity governance individual ...

This paper explores the extension of collective governance to sectors without tradition. We introduce concept state-led bricolage analyze expansion Swiss apprenticeship training system – in which employer associations fulfill core tasks economic had previously followed a school-based and state-oriented logic. In deindustrializing societies, these are key for survival collectively governed syste...

Over the past twenty years, prominent theorists of citizenship envisaged cosmopolitan openings, re-making national identity, and progressive multicultural change. The paper explores perspectives on civic inclusion in Kymlicka's Multicultural Odysseys, Soysal's Limits Citizenship, Benhabib's Another Cosmopolitanism. It this work light two recent political episodes, formulation an “anti-separatis...