posterior partial callosotomy and sham surgery at post-surgery day 7 and day 28. The seeds were centered at left/right primary somatosensory cortex (S1)/primary visual cortex (V1), respectively. The transected part of the corpus callosum is indicated in red in the sagittal planes (top left panel) and the anatomical regions of S1 and V1 are highlighted in 3D atlas space (bottom left panel). At d...

We study the effects on accountability in government service delivery of decentralizing administration of an antipoverty program. While governments at both central and local levels are vulnerable to antipoor policy biases owing to political capture, centralized delivery systems are additionally prone to bureaucratic corruption, owing to problems in monitoring bureaucratic performance. Decentral...

Introduction Economic integration and cooperation in Asia has traditionally been more market-driven and institution-lite. The Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) in 1997/98 and the Great Recession in 2008 changed that. As the number of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Asia increases, intraregional trade has intensified and it continues to grow. In the financial side, the cross-border holding of financial...

BACKGROUND There is interest in using residential dust to estimate human exposure to environmental contaminants. OBJECTIVES We aimed to characterize the sources of variability for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in residential dust and provide guidance for investigators who plan to use residential dust to assess exposure to PAHs. METHODS We collected repeat dust samples from 293 hou...

"In this paper the author introduces a population-projection framework that incorporates interregional migration and intraregional residential mobility streams to project future population sizes both across and within regions in a manner that is consistent with existing migration theory. The author presents a general matrix model of the framework, shows how its parameters can be estimated from...