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Does Gender Matter? A Feminist Exploration of the Financial Performance of Social Enterprise
Social enterprises are businesses that intentionally pursue social value creation through earned-income strategies. A growing body of research suggests that women may be prone toward the social aspects of social enterprise such as aiding disadvantaged groups, contributing to local communities,...
Broadus, Erica D.
social entrepreneurship, gender, social enterprise, financial performance, and women business owners
Public Policy & Administration
Cordes, Joseph J
Johnson, Jasmine M and Ken, Ivy
Differences in Patient-Reported Outcomes among Persons with Serious Mental Illness Receiving Integrated Primary and Behavioral Healthcare in Community Mental Health Centers
This study examined heterogeneity in treatment effects across subgroups, among individuals with serious mental illness receiving integrated primary and behavioral healthcare in Community Mental Health Centers. The primary objectives were to (1) assess the effects of race or ethnicity, age, and...
Brown, Melanie
Newcomer, Kathryn
Levi, Jeffrey and Infeld, Donna
Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Victim Willingness to Report: Representative Bureaucracy through an Intersectional Lens
Previous research applying representative bureaucracy as a theoretical framework has emphasized the link between passive and active representation to identify how or when non-dominant groups, Blacks or women, actively engage in actions or behaviors that benefit the Black or women citizens they...
Breslin, Rachel Amilcar
gender, police, representative bureaucracy, intimate partner violence, intersectionality, and race
Pandey, Sanjay K.
Deitch, Cynthia, Newcomer, Kathryn E., Ken, Ivy, and Riccucci, Norma M.
Federal Managers' Use of Evidence (Performance Measurement Data and Evaluation Results): Are We There Yet?
Understanding federal managers' use of evidence (performance measurement data and evaluation results) to inform decision-making is an important step to develop concrete strategies to remove barriers to use and increase use. The goals of this research are to: 1) explain the extent to which senior...
Watson, Yvonne M.
Evidence, Federal managers, Evaluation Use, Performance Information, Government performance, and Measurement Use
Newcomer, Kathyrn E.
Cordes, Joseph J., Bernstein, David J., Caracelli, Valerie J., and Pandy, Sanjay K.
Essays on Migration and Development
Essays on Migration and DevelopmentThe dissertation comprises three essays on migration and economic development. The first two essays assess how temporary migration from the household affects 'left-behind' female spouse and children. The third essay identifies factors that predict remittance...
Saurav, Abhishek
Migration and Remittances, Public Policy, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Development Impact, and Education
Conger, Dylan
De, Supriyo, Barnow, Burt, Brooks, Leah, and Cordes, Joseph
Property Tax Limitations, School District Revenues, and Equity: Analyses of Pennsylvania's Act One
Voters' hatred of the property tax has led to the enactment of tax and expenditure limitations (TEL) in most states (Brunori, Bell, Cordes, and Yuan, 2008; Sokolow, 1998). Past research suggests that TELs have consequences for school districts, such as reductions in revenue and expenditures, and...
Verret, Jill Evancho
School district equity, Tax and Expenditure Limitation, Act 1, and Property tax
Nakib, Yas
Brunori, David, Rotberg, Iris, Atchison, Drew, and Cellini, Stephanie
Essays on Econometric Approaches for Understanding Health Care Quality and Finance in Alternative Policy Settings
This dissertation is a three-essay model, using different econometric techniques to understand important health care quality and finance issues. The first essay examined the impact of health workforce configuration on quality and volume of care at community health centers using a production...
Luo, Qian
Dor, Avi
Moghtaderi, Ali and Markus, Anne R.
Essays on State Tax Revenues During the Great Recession and Beyond
This dissertation is a collection of three essays exploring how U.S. state tax revenues – total, personal income, sales, and corporate – have fared during the Great Recession (GR) and beyond. In Chapter 2, we examine whether Virginia could have better forecasted the extreme revenue shortfalls...
McShea, Melissa Formosa
volatility, event history model, revenue forecasting, state tax revenue, Great Recession, and Bayesian vector autoregression
Conger, Dylan and Sinclair, Tara M
Did Individual Insurance Market Reforms Under the Affordable Care Act Affect Labor Force Participation Decisions Among Older Workers?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) included reforms to increase the availability and affordability of private, individual health insurance. This dissertation examines how these changes affected labor force participation decisions of older workers not yet eligible for Medicare, particularly retirement...
Ramos, Christal
Health insurance, Job lock, Retirement, and Labor force participation
Barnow, Burt S.
Lantz, Paula and Long, Sharon
Ingredients for Optimal Care: Exploring Factors Associated with Patient Quality Outcomes Among Federally-Qualified Health Centers
Primary care practices nationally vary in their performance along key clinical measures. For this reason, policymakers, payers, and providers are increasingly focused on performance accountability and aligning payment to recognize value. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 heavily invests in...
Proser, Michelle
hypertension, community health center, Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC), quality improvement, Medicaid, and diabetes
Shin, Peter and Gurewich, Deborah
The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned or Lessons Observed?
When Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in August 2005, it exposed gaps in the nation's response system for catastrophic disasters. The failed Federal response was the subject of multiple reviews, including those conducted by the executive and legislative branches. However, little...
Kaniewski, Daniel John
Hurricane Katrina, homeland security, National Response Framework, disasters, National Response Plan, and policy learning
Newcomer, Kathryn and Cushman, Charles
Griffith, Thomas, Carafano, James, Roman, Peter, and Shaw, Gregory
Institutions and Self-Governing Social Systems: Linking Reflexivity and Institutional Theories for Cybersecurity and Other Commons Governance Policies
A commons is the conventional term that describes a widely accessible and shared resource, such as an ocean, open rangeland, a public park, or public portions of the Internet, which is difficult to exclude or limit use once naturally provided or humanly produced. Ruin of a commons can result when...
Clark, Kenneth Norman
IAD, commons, institutional, reflexivity, governance, and cybersecurity
Newcomer, Kathryn E.
Toregas, Costis, Post, Jerrold M., Infeld, Donna L., and Harmon, Michael
International Trade in Research and Development Services and the Activity of MNC Subsidiaries
International technology diffusion reflects global R&D; production and collaboration that increasingly accompany other forms of international activity such as trade and foreign direct investment. This thesis studies country-level market flows of disembodied technology or intangibles trade. The...
Moris, Francisco
technology diffusion, international trade, globalization, R&D, foreign direct investment, and multinational companies
Husbands Fealing, Kaye and Newcomer, Kathryn E.
Cordes, Joseph J., Robbins, Carol A., Barnow, Burt, and Kannankutty, Nirmala
The Genesis of Race to the Top: A Case Study of Policy Change
This study examined the factors that led to the rise and eventual adoption of the state incentive grants program, later known as Race to the Top (RTT), in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act in 2009. Until the Recovery Act in 2009, reauthorizations of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary...
Dinkes, Rachel
Race to the Top, American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Baumgartner and Jones, Kingdon, Agenda Setting, and Interviews
Balla, Steven J.
Newcomer, Kathryn, Infeld, Donna, Nakib, Yas, and Cookson, Peter
National, Regional and Sectoral Innovation Systems in China: General Overview and Case Studies of Renewable Energy and Space Technology Sectors
After years of rapid economic growth, China is now the world's second largest economy. An intriguing explanation for this success suggests that national policies centered on robust innovation and investment in technology are a powerful source of economic growth and national competitive advantage....
Besha, Patrick
Solar, Space, System, China, Innovation, and Technology
Vonortas, Nicholas S
Pace, Scott, Balla, Steven, Dickson, Bruce, and Hertzfeld, Henry
R&D Characteristics and Organizational Structure: Case Studies of University-Industry Research Centers
Within the past few decades, university-industry research centers have been developed in large numbers and emphasized as a valuable policy tool for innovation. Yet little is known about the heterogeneity of organizational structure within these centers, which has implications regarding policy for...
Hart, Maureen McArthur
organization theory, university-industry research, and cooperative research center
Newcomer, Kathryn, Boardman, Craig, Zuckerman, Brian, and Rycroft, Robert
Cultural Competence in Childbirth in Multicultural Ecuador: Lessons for Evaluation
Despite Ecuador's increased public health spending and improvement in health outcomes, the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in the country is high and has been increasing in tendency in the past decade. Furthermore, there is a clear gap in the proportions of institutional births between indigenous...
Arevalo, Cinthia Josette
cultural competence, Ecuador, childbirth, evaluation, Maternal mortality, and intercultural
Kirkhart, Karen E and Ortega, Fernando
Institutional Arrangements in State Medicaid Governance and their Relationship to Medicaid Long-Term Service and Support Policy Development
State Medicaid programs finance institutional long-term care arrangements, such as nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities, as well as a range of home- and community-based services (HCBS). HCBS are an alternative to more-common institutional services and allow individuals to remain in...
Rogers, Katherine Kimbell
rebalancing, long-term services and supports, home and community-based services, and Medicaid
Infeld, Donna and Doty, Pamela
Elam, Linda, Markus, Anne, Regenstein, Marsha, and George, Effie
A Comprehensive Case Study of a Gay-Straight Alliance: Fostering Safe, Supportive Schools for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students
This dissertation studied a gay-straight alliance (GSA) in a midwestern, suburban high school, including the group's purpose, participants, and approaches to supporting students and engaging its larger community. This study examined not only the GSA's implementation, but also its larger school...
Poirier, Jeffrey Michael
education practice, conditions for learning, Gay-straight alliance (GSA), education policy, LGBT students, and case study
Infeld, Donna L.
Swayze, Susan S., Rodriguez, Carlos, Green, Colin, and Jennings, Kevin
Transformative Research - An Exploration of Six Propositions
U.S. federal programs that fund transformative research have proliferated in recent years, with both Congress and the Administration urging science agencies to fund more of it. However, there appears to be no firm understanding of the concept. Its definitions tend to be inspirational but vague....
Lal, Bhavya
peer review, high risk high reward research, paradigm shift, transformative research, and groundbreaking research
Vonortas, Nicholas
Pace, Scott, Newcomer, Kathryn, Bray, David, and Scneider, Valier
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Aridi, Anwar1
Arleth, Joseph E1
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Newcomer, Kathryn E11
Cordes, Joseph J9
Dor, Avi8
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Conger, Dylan9
Cordes, Joseph J.8
Han, Xinxin1
Medicaid10
Health Policy3
community health center3


Inner Sanctum by TOVP's Song & Dance Team The Kensington Sierra Madre 245 West Sierra Madre Blvd.
A Halloween spoof by the TOVP's Song & Dance Team. Come see your favorite Halloween personalities including the Bone Sisters, The Spice Gouls, Cell Block Sweeties and more!


The year 2005 marked a significant achievement in the history of Jyoti Sroat School as it was when the first batch of students appeared for and successfully passed their Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examinations. Since then till 2016, a total of 58 students of whom 38 were children with disabilities and 20 were children without disabilities(VI-30, Locomotor Impairment-3, HI-4, mild Intellectual impairment-1, Non-Disabled-20) have emerged successful in passing the same.
PADMA SRI AWARD 2010 for Education and Literature, conferred by the former President of India Smt. P. Patil on the former Headmistress of School, Smt. Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar ( a visually impaired person) for Literature & Education.
Brainfeed School Excellence Award: Jyoti Sroat School was recognized among the top 10 State Board Schools of Meghalaya and rewarded with the School Excellence Awards 2016 by Brainfeed.
Batihun Mary Khongmawloh (Locomotor Impairment) – One of the first students of JSS. After graduation, Mary was employed by Bethany Society as warden of the Boys' Hostel in the campus and later as a staff of Legal Awareness Cell (LAC). A former President of Association of Challenged People (ACP), Meghalaya she has been instrumental and dynamic in mobilizing Person With Disability (PWDs) in the State for advocacy purposes. Currently, she lives in the USA with her husband who is blind and together they started a project called "Jing King Ksiar" project under which they built and manage a primary school in her village, "Pungweikyian", Pynursla aimed at providing education, exposure, and skill development to the village children and youth.
"Light After Dark": The music band from the school comprising of Visually Impaired members: Hilter Kongphai, Dilbertstar Lyngdoh, Rimeki Pajuh & Wanlamphrang Nongkhlaw, has earned plaudits for their musical prowess and have performed across the state and certain other parts of the country.
4. Bertina Lyngdoh, an ex-student of Jyoti Sroat School became the first visually impaired person from Meghalaya to complete her masters from a mainstream university. She is currently teaching English at the school.


حسینی فرد, سید مهدی, قربانی, هادی, آقازاده, مصطفی, حسینی فرد, مجتبی. (1395). سنتز نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز و ارزیابی عملکرد آن در حذف مس از محلول‌های آبی. مجله آب و فاضلاب, 27(3), 2-11.
سید مهدی حسینی فرد; هادی قربانی; مصطفی آقازاده; مجتبی حسینی فرد. "سنتز نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز و ارزیابی عملکرد آن در حذف مس از محلول‌های آبی". مجله آب و فاضلاب, 27, 3, 1395, 2-11.
حسینی فرد, سید مهدی, قربانی, هادی, آقازاده, مصطفی, حسینی فرد, مجتبی. (1395). 'سنتز نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز و ارزیابی عملکرد آن در حذف مس از محلول‌های آبی', مجله آب و فاضلاب, 27(3), pp. 2-11.
حسینی فرد, سید مهدی, قربانی, هادی, آقازاده, مصطفی, حسینی فرد, مجتبی. سنتز نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز و ارزیابی عملکرد آن در حذف مس از محلول‌های آبی. مجله آب و فاضلاب, 1395; 27(3): 2-11.
در این پژوهش حذف مس از محلول‌های آبی با استفاده از نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز به‌عنوان جاذب مناسب و جدید مورد بررسی قرار گرفت. به این منظور نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز به‌روش ترسیب الکتروشیمیایی کاتدی سنتز شدند و تأثیر پارامترهای pH، زمان تماس، غلظت جاذب و اثر غلظت اولیه بر فرایند جذب مس در سیستم ناپیوسته مطالعه شد. برای تعیین ویژگی‌های نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز، از میکروسکوپ الکترونی روبشی، دستگاه پراش پرتو ایکس و دستگاه طیف‌سنج مادون قرمز استفاده شد که نتایج حاصل، اندازه متوسط این نانوذرات را بین 30 تا 50 نانومتر نشان داد. نتایج نشان داد که با افزایش pH محلول آبی از 3 تا 7، ظرفیت جذب مس افزایش می‌یابد، به‌طوری که در pH بهینه برابر با 7، میزان جذب با مقدار بیش از 96 درصد، به حداکثر خود رسید. همچنین افزایش زمان تماس و میزان جاذب باعث افزایش راندمان حذف شد و نتایج نشان داد که با افزایش غلظت مس، ظرفیت جذب افزایش می‌یابد. در بررسی ایزوترم‌های جذب، داده‌های آزمایشی مطابقت بیشتری با مدل فروندلیچ با ظرفیت جذب بیش از 169 میلی‌گرم بر گرم نشان دادند. همچنین داده‌های به‌دست آمده برای جاذب نشان داد که جذب مس از مدل سینتیک شبه مرتبه دوم تبعیت می‌کند. به‌طور کلی نتایج این پژوهش نشان داد که استفاده از نانوذرات دی‌اکسید منگنز، یک روش مناسب با پتانسیل بالا در حذف مس از محلول‌های آبی است.
Removal of copper from aqueous solutions was investigated using manganese dioxide nanoparticles as a new and suitable adsorbent. For this purpose, manganese dioxide nanoparticles were synthesized using the cathode electrochemical deposition method and the effects of pH, contact time, MnO2 concentration, and copper concentration on copper removal efficiency were investigated in a batch system. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), XRD, and FTIR were used to characterize the synthesized manganese dioxide nanoparticles. Results showed that nanoparticle diameters ranged from 30 to 50 nm and that a copper adsorption efficiency of bove 96% percent would be achieved at an optimum pH of 7. It was found that increasing the copper concentration and reducing adsorbent dosage led to enhancements in adsorption capacity but slight reductions in adsorption efficiency. Experimental data also indicated that copper adsorption fitted the Freundlich model with an adsorption capacity of above 169 mg.g‒1 and that it obeyed a pseudo-second order kinetic equation. It was concluded that manganese dioxide nanoparticles may be used as a suitable adsorbent with a high potential for the removal of copper from aqueous solutions.
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Replace tactics and logistics with functional requirements and non-functional requirements and you have a "too long, didn't read" version of this post.
Attending the Barcelona Fixed Income Leaders Summit proved to be a very rewarding experience.
Great to see Solace Systems open up and allow folks to download their Virtual Message Router, API documentation and user guides.
A number of years back I was working with a client with a buy-side asset management business. They wanted to understand the impact of MIFID and the proliferation of multiple execution venues for equity trades. I prepared some thought leadership and sketched out a development plan for what needed to be done for a slow-time system to offer after the event analysis.
Within most buy-sides there is a realisation of a need for TCA. TCA is something we have covered before here. There is also a recognised need for performance measurement and attribution. This post covers those topics yet has a focus on a new analytic area for buy-sides - behavioural analytics.
Buy-side compliance systems: Still 20th Century technology?
Buy-side compliance systems are not, in large part, true real-time. What does that mean? A genuine real-time system will be event-driven, most existing systems are not.
The last few years have seen an incredible focus on cost cutting. I've seen a few implementations over this period where firms have picked up the low hanging fruit options. So several firms have switched from Solaris/Sparc to Linux/x86 hardware.


Feeling out of balance or just interested in incorporating essential oils into your yoga practice? Aromatherapy can play a huge role in balancing the energy flow between your chakras and can even enhance your mood and soothe aches and pains. It's a great add-on to any yoga practice and is fun and relatively inexpensive to experiment with. Plus, you'll smell absolutely amazing after your practice!
Curious about which essential oils might benefit your practice the most? This quiz is for you!
To be more loving to those in my life.
I want to be more productive! I struggle with prioritizing tasks and time management and feel like I'm always behind on projects for work.
To focus on dealing with my past traumas and become emotionally healthier.
I want to work on managing my stress better. I get so worked up sometimes when I have a lot going on, but the anxiety hurts me more than it helps me.
To feel more connected to my body by eating right, avoiding alcohol, and spending more time in my practice. It makes me feel so good, but I don't do it enough.
I isolate myself from my friends and significant others. If it's really bad, I'll sink into depression.
I tend to shut down and avoid my responsibilities.
I get the worst acne when I'm stressed out.
I go into overdrive. People are always telling me to relax, but I have to get it all done before I can just kick back and chill out!
I try to spend a lot of time on self-care: getting enough sleep, drinking a lot of water, and indulging in relaxing aromatherapy.
You're having a rough day and decide to head to a yoga class to clear your head. In your practice, the teacher comes over several times to adjust you. What's your reaction?
Helpful criticism motivates me! I push myself even harder to perfect my poses...but then I end up pulling a hamstring.
Continue with my practice, but afterwards my neck feels funny...I think I started holding tension after the corrections.
I go into child's pose for the rest of the class. I wish I had just gone home tonight instead.
I get immediately self-conscious and can't focus on my practice. Suddenly, all I can think about is everything that's gone wrong today...including this.
What is your biggest stress trigger?
When I don't have enough time to stretch, exercise my body, or eat properly.
When I feel like I'm a complete letdown to the people around me.
When I have too much to do and too little time to do it.
When my skin is broken out. I know it sounds silly, but it really bothers me!
A lack of physical or emotional intimacy with those closest to me.
What's your go-to type of yoga?
Yin. I love how it grounds me into my emotional state.
I always go to restorative…maybe I could push myself harder, but I want to just relax.
Whichever class fits into my schedule the best!
What's your idea of a vacation?
Something where I can give back to the community and have fun while I do it!
Honestly, I love just hanging out at home, watching movies, and catching up on sleep.
Spending some serious time with myself journaling, meditating, and doing other self-nourishing activities.
You get cut off in the grocery store parking lot. What's your reaction?
I have a full-on panic attack.
I slam on my brakes and start swearing. What's wrong with people these days?
I immediately tense up. I think I need a massage after this.
I'm so shaken up that I need to pull over.
It doesn't bother me. I'm sure I've cut someone off accidentally too!
Honestly, I feel like I barely even see my friends anymore because my schedule is so crazy!
A little spacey, but they love me anyways.
Considerate and compassionate. I try to always be there to listen to their problems and issues, even at the expense of my personal time.
A ball of nervous energy.
I shoot for eight hours, but my anxious thoughts keep me up all night sometimes.
Great. I could sleep all day!
I only get four to five hours a night. I think I function best on just a few hours of sleep.
My heart often races when I'm laying in bed. It can be hard to get to sleep, but once I do, I'm fine.


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China's efforts to build the Myitsone Dam—a $3.6 billion hydropower project planned at the confluence of the Mali and N'Mai Rivers at the source of the Irrawaddy River in Burma's Kachin State (Figure 4)—were thwarted in late September after Burma's President Thein Sein suspended construction "to respect the will of the people."
4. Sold down the river. Burma in late September abruptly suspended construction of the $3.6 billion Myitsone hydropower project it was jointly developing with China on social, environmental, and political concerns about the project's impact. This image shows the Irrawaddy River in Kachin State, where the project, which had been compared to China's Three Gorges, would have been built. Courtesy: International Rivers
The project—which has been compared to the massive Three Gorges Project in China—is part of a seven-dam cascade that represents a $20 billion investment by China. It was being jointly developed by the state Myanmar Ministry of Electric Power, privately owned Asia World Company of Burma, and the China Power Investment Corp. More than 90% of the electricity generated by the station, scheduled for completion in 2019, was expected to be exported to China.
But skepticism about the quality and independence of a submitted environmental impact assessment and concerns regarding the resettlement process had made plans to build the project highly controversial. According to nonprofit group International Rivers, the project in an earthquake-prone area would have created a reservoir "the size of Singapore," displaced 12,000 people, and irreversibly affected Burma's central river system and rice-growing area. Reports also allege that plans to build the dam had exacerbated a long-standing conflict between ethnic Kachin people and the new Burmese civilian-led military government.
In an interview with the China Daily following Burma's rejection of the project, President of China Power Investment Corp. Lu Qizhou said the company had not been alerted about a possible suspension of the project. He said China had "diligently fulfilled [its] duties and obligations," hiring "top-notch" hydropower design firms and consultancies to develop the project. Interest in developing the project stemmed from Burma's immense hydropower resource of more than 100 GW. Only 2.45% of that potential has been developed or is in development. "In particular, as the upstream-Ayeyawady hydropower project is located near the China-Myanmar border, developing hydropower resources here not only can meet Myanmar's [Burma's] power demand for industrialization, but also can provide clean energy for China," he said.
Burma stood to gain economic benefits of up to $54 billion through taxation, free power, and share dividends—far more than China Power Investment's return on investment during the 100-year life of the project, he also asserted. The project's suspension meant that the company would lose a "huge sum of money" that had been invested, a loss would go "far beyond" direct investment and financial expenses.
"There would also be tremendous amount of default claims from contractors, serious inability of electricity generation of the Construction Power Plant, huge increase of basic investment spread to other cascade power stations, and so on," he said.
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Enjoy delicious s'mores all year round with our No-Bake S'mores in a Jar recipe! Great for parties and events — serve right in the mason jar!
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It should come as no surprise that I am absolutely crazy about s'mores desserts! A couple times a year (4th of July, for sure), I get to indulge in traditional s'mores, enjoyed outside with the grill or over an open fire. But during the rest of the year? I'm always looking for a good excuse to have s'mores.
Today we're adding to that collection by sharing a S'mores in a Jar recipe. These are super simple to make and include all the key flavors that you would expect in a s'mores dessert: graham cracker crumbs, marshmallow creme & mini marshmallows, plus a homemade chocolate ganache.
One of the things I also really like about this s'mores recipe is that they are a dessert in a jar. You assemble the ingredients right into a mason jar and you serve it in the jar too. For this recipe, we used Ball 16-ounce wide mouth mason jars. While we like this size for this No-Bake S'mores in a Jar recipe, you don't have to use this size. You could certainly use a different size that you have on hand, including a smaller jar (such as 8-ounce mason jars and 4-ounce mason jars). If you do use a different jar, you'll have to adjust the amount that you place for each layer.
I know that when some of you hear "chocolate ganache", you might be a bit concerned that this is complicated. But, have no fear. It's actually quite simple to make and you'll really enjoy it in this dessert.
The first step to making your S'mores in a Jar recipe is to make your chocolate ganache. This is done by heating heavy whipping cream over medium-high heat until it starts to bubble. Add your chocolate chips, turn the heat down way low, and whisk until all the chocolate chips have melted and you have a thick chocolate ganache. Allow the ganache to cool and thicken and it's ready to be used in this recipe.
After you have made the chocolate ganache, place about 1/2 cup of graham cracker crumbs in the bottle of your jar. For the graham cracker crumbs, you can buy a box of graham cracker crumbs or buy the actual graham crackers and crush them yourself. Pat the crumbs down a bit in your jar.
On top of the graham cracker crumbs, add about 1/2 cup of marshmallow creme (also called marshmallow fluff). This is sticky stuff, so plop it in there and try to spread it out a bit over the graham cracker crumbs — it doesn't have to be perfect.
After adding the marshmallow creme, you're ready to add your homemade chocolate ganache layer. The ganache is then topped with mini marshmallows and, if you wish, a sprinkle of chocolate chips.
NOTE: If you make the chocolate ganache in advance and it's been refrigerated, we recommend letting it come to room temperature before using.
Now, what's one of the best things about s'mores? TOASTED MARSHMALLOWS!! To make this the ultimate s'mores dessert, we recommend using a kitchen torch and toasting those mini marshmallows that you placed on top.
Don't have a kitchen torch? You could also place the jars on a baking sheet and place them under the broiler on your stove. But keep a close watch — you don't want them to get too burned! You don't have to toast the marshmallows, but we recommend you do. Not only does toasted marshmallows taste the best, but they make this marshmallow dessert look great.
Since this is a no-bake s'mores in a jar recipe, it's now ready to serve! Grab a spoon and dig in!
If you are going to make these for a party or event, you might be wondering how far in advance can you make these. We recommend assembling these the day of your event, but you can make your chocolate ganache even a week beforehand. You'll want to let it come to room temperature before spooning it into your jar.
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In a small saucepan, heat heavy cream over medium-high heat until it starts to bubble. Quickly add chocolate chips, turn heat down to low, and whisk quickly until you have a thick, even textured ganache. Set aside to cool and thicken.
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What lockdown support is available to business?
If your business has been adversely impacted by the recent lockdown in NSW, support is available but there are limitations.
The NSW Government has announced new grants of up to $10,000 for businesses adversely impacted by the recent COVID-19 lockdowns. Eligibility for the grant is streamed into general business, and hospitality and tourism. The full details of the grant and the eligibility criteria have not been released as yet but here is what we know so far:
You need to prove a decline in turnover
The value of the grant is determined by the impact of the lockdown on your turnover. Your business will need to prove a decline in turnover across a minimum 2 week period after the commencement of the major restrictions.
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70% $10,000
50% $7,000
For some clients, particularly those who have been unable to trade at all during lockdown, proving the decline in turnover should be reasonably simple. For others, we will need to work with you closely once the parameters for the decline in turnover test are known, to determine if you can access the grant.
Small business COVID-19 support grant
The grant is limited to businesses (including sole traders) with:
A NSW registered ABN or able to demonstrate they are physically located and primarily operating in NSW; and
Turnover of more than $75,000 pa; but
Below the NSW Government 2020-21 payroll tax threshold of $1.2m as at 1 July 2020; with
Fewer than 20 full time equivalent employees
Hospitality & Tourism COVID-19 Support grant
The grant is limited to tourism or hospitality businesses with:
Turnover of more than $75,000 pa; and
An annual Australian wages bill below $10m as at 1 July 2020.
Extension of Dine & Discover to takeaway
Dine & Discover vouchers can now be used for takeaway from eligible and registered Dine businesses during the restriction period but you will need to deliver to the customer's home or have them pick up the order and check in with a QR code – vouchers cannot be redeemed for takeaway using third party delivery platforms.
The expiry of Dine & Discover vouchers has also been extended until 31 August 2021.
Payroll, gaming machine tax deferral option
You can apply to defer:
Payroll tax payments due in July 2021, and
Hotel June quarter gaming machine tax
For those that apply to defer, State Revenue will provide a repayment program on a case-by-case basis.
Where and how to apply
The full eligibility details are not available as yet and applications have not opened for the grants.
When applications do open, it will be through the Services NSW website.
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The American People?
With roughly a third of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans, the party bombards us with the term American People at every utterance. With almost 60% of the country fully vaccinated, Republicans say the American People have doubts. Yesterday, Mitch McConnell, in response to questions about the insurrection, said the American people want to move on; in response to a bevy of issues surrounding the grievous actions, by the former president, defaming democracy:
"I think the American people are focusing on this administration and what it is doing to the country. And it's my hope that the 2022 election will be a referendum on the performance of the current administration. Not a rehash of suggestions about what may have happened in 2020," said McConnell.
The use of domestic-PsyOps-speech by Republicans has proven so effective, they continue to use it; American people, pro-life, trickle-down, and job creators are so inculcated into political language, no one bothers to question their legitimacy any longer. The latest entrant in the misappropriation of words is Critical Race Theory. The teaching of Critical Race Theory in graduate law school classes is a complex idea. Time and space do not allow for a lengthy discussion in this forum, but I hope the words of former Vice President Pence and Senator Ted Cruz, who liken the theory to reverse racism and the Klan, are not the final words. Even though Republicans say the 'American People' are fearful of liberals brainwashing white seven-year-olds to hate themselves, no elementary, middle, or high schools teach such a complex theory.
So what is happening now is that some school districts are [literally] whitewashing history by removing books, such as those by award-winning author Jerry Craft. Two books by the African American writer "New Kid" and "Class Act" were deemed as labeling white children as oppressors. Before the banning of Craft's work, parent Bonnie Anderson told the Katy Independent School District near Houston, Texas, "The books don't come out and say, 'We want white children to feel like oppressors,' but that is absolutely what they will do," Anderson said.
Are parents more afraid of little Ken or little Karen being traumatized by misinformation, as they see it, or the truth of their ancestry? The credo of the world's Jewish population is "never forget" about the atrocities of Hitler. The two-word phrase has been appropriated in remembrance of 9/11. Unfortunately, for black Americans, never forgetting is looked upon as silent finger-pointing of white America. As much as I am generally opposed to "what about-ism," I have to mention my opposition to a group of black California parents. They were able to have some classic American literature removed from schools; Among them was one of my favorite books, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Although the motivations were different, one side to shield their children from further injury and the other to deny that injury was done; let me not equate the two points of view, but I am still loathed to ban books. As a black parent, grand-parent, and educator, I believe the adage that the 'best disinfectant is sunlight' and, in my opinion, makes the air we share tolerable. Hiding our wounds does not heal them; it only prolongs the pain.
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Cogan, Christopher, and Edwards, Thomas, Jr., 1994 (February), Metadata standards for Gap analysis: Moscow, Idaho, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Idaho.
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Project acronym AXONGROWTH
Project Systematic analysis of the molecular mechanisms underlying axon growth during development and following injury
Researcher (PI) Oren Schuldiner
Summary Axon growth potential declines during development, contributing to the lack of effective regeneration in the adult central nervous system. What determines the intrinsic growth potential of neurites, and how such growth is regulated during development, disease and following injury is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Although multiple lines of evidence indicate that intrinsic growth capability is genetically encoded, its nature remains poorly defined. Neuronal remodeling of the Drosophila mushroom body offers a unique opportunity to study the mechanisms of various types of axon degeneration and growth. We have recently demonstrated that regrowth of axons following developmental pruning is not only distinct from initial outgrowth but also shares molecular similarities with regeneration following injury. In this proposal we combine state of the art tools from genomics, functional genetics and microscopy to perform a comprehensive study of the mechanisms underlying axon growth during development and following injury. First, we will combine genetic, biochemical and genomic studies to gain a mechanistic understanding of the developmental regrowth program. Next, we will perform extensive transcriptomic analyses and comparisons aimed at defining the genetic programs involved in initial axon growth, developmental regrowth, and regeneration following injury. Finally, we will harness the genetic power of Drosophila to perform a comprehensive functional analysis of genes and pathways, those previously known and new ones that we will discover, in various neurite growth paradigms. Importantly, these functional assays will be performed in the same organism, allowing us to use identical genetic mutations across our analyses. To this end, our identification of a new genetic program regulating developmental axon regrowth, together with emerging tools in genomics, places us in a unique position to gain a broad understanding of axon growth during development and following injury.
Axon growth potential declines during development, contributing to the lack of effective regeneration in the adult central nervous system. What determines the intrinsic growth potential of neurites, and how such growth is regulated during development, disease and following injury is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Although multiple lines of evidence indicate that intrinsic growth capability is genetically encoded, its nature remains poorly defined. Neuronal remodeling of the Drosophila mushroom body offers a unique opportunity to study the mechanisms of various types of axon degeneration and growth. We have recently demonstrated that regrowth of axons following developmental pruning is not only distinct from initial outgrowth but also shares molecular similarities with regeneration following injury. In this proposal we combine state of the art tools from genomics, functional genetics and microscopy to perform a comprehensive study of the mechanisms underlying axon growth during development and following injury. First, we will combine genetic, biochemical and genomic studies to gain a mechanistic understanding of the developmental regrowth program. Next, we will perform extensive transcriptomic analyses and comparisons aimed at defining the genetic programs involved in initial axon growth, developmental regrowth, and regeneration following injury. Finally, we will harness the genetic power of Drosophila to perform a comprehensive functional analysis of genes and pathways, those previously known and new ones that we will discover, in various neurite growth paradigms. Importantly, these functional assays will be performed in the same organism, allowing us to use identical genetic mutations across our analyses. To this end, our identification of a new genetic program regulating developmental axon regrowth, together with emerging tools in genomics, places us in a unique position to gain a broad understanding of axon growth during development and following injury.
Project acronym BRSCDP-TEA
Project Bounded rationality and social concerns in decision processes: theory, experiments, and applications
Researcher (PI) Massimo Marinacci
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI
Summary In the field of economics, individual decision making is the basic building block for studying complex environments such as markets, political systems, and social dynamics. Individual decision making is embodied in the neoclassical economically rational agent, whose only concern is the maximization of utility from his own material consumption. Two qualities of this agent are especially important for the research we will undertake: He has perfect understanding of the problems he faces - today and in the future - and unbounded computational ability to solve them. He also has no regard for the consumption of other members of the society or for their feelings about his actions. Huge empirical and experimental evidence shows that departure from these qualities is robust and significant. The failure of the existing models to incorporate bounded rationality and social concerns has proven critical in socially relevant and complex situations such as lifetime consumption and saving, taxation and expenditure policy, labour search and wage determination. The objective of this project is to bring these phenomena into the framework of neoclassical economics, to test their implications, and to tackle important applications. A novel and central feature of our approach is the attempt to retain the parsimonious methodological approach of economic modelling, which has scored groundbreaking successes in matters such as the design of auctions, markets, contracts, and voting mechanisms. Our project envisions the development of theory on individual decision making, the use of experiments to illuminate and test the theory, and the concrete application of theory - mainly to financial markets. The project will push the frontiers of the understanding of the above mentioned socially relevant situations. The explanatory power of our approach will be guaranteed by the continuous feed-back between theory and evidence- experimental and neuroexperimental, and by a departure from ad hoc modelling.
In the field of economics, individual decision making is the basic building block for studying complex environments such as markets, political systems, and social dynamics. Individual decision making is embodied in the neoclassical economically rational agent, whose only concern is the maximization of utility from his own material consumption. Two qualities of this agent are especially important for the research we will undertake: He has perfect understanding of the problems he faces - today and in the future - and unbounded computational ability to solve them. He also has no regard for the consumption of other members of the society or for their feelings about his actions. Huge empirical and experimental evidence shows that departure from these qualities is robust and significant. The failure of the existing models to incorporate bounded rationality and social concerns has proven critical in socially relevant and complex situations such as lifetime consumption and saving, taxation and expenditure policy, labour search and wage determination. The objective of this project is to bring these phenomena into the framework of neoclassical economics, to test their implications, and to tackle important applications. A novel and central feature of our approach is the attempt to retain the parsimonious methodological approach of economic modelling, which has scored groundbreaking successes in matters such as the design of auctions, markets, contracts, and voting mechanisms. Our project envisions the development of theory on individual decision making, the use of experiments to illuminate and test the theory, and the concrete application of theory - mainly to financial markets. The project will push the frontiers of the understanding of the above mentioned socially relevant situations. The explanatory power of our approach will be guaranteed by the continuous feed-back between theory and evidence- experimental and neuroexperimental, and by a departure from ad hoc modelling.
Project acronym CHEMOSENSORYCIRCUITS
Project Function of Chemosensory Circuits
Researcher (PI) Emre Yaksi
Summary Smell and taste are the least studied of all senses. Very little is known about chemosensory information processing beyond the level of receptor neurons. Every morning we enjoy our coffee thanks to our brains ability to combine and process multiple sensory modalities. Meanwhile, we can still review a document on our desk by adjusting the weights of numerous sensory inputs that constantly bombard our brains. Yet, the smell of our coffee may remind us that pleasant weekend breakfast through associative learning and memory. In the proposed project we will explore the function and the architecture of neural circuits that are involved in olfactory and gustatory information processing, namely habenula and brainstem. Moreover we will investigate the fundamental principles underlying multimodal sensory integration and the neural basis of behavior in these highly conserved brain areas. To achieve these goals we will take an innovative approach by combining two-photon calcium imaging, optogenetics and electrophysiology with the expanding genetic toolbox of a small vertebrate, the zebrafish. This pioneering approach will enable us to design new types of experiments that were unthinkable only a few years ago. Using this unique combination of methods, we will monitor and perturb the activity of functionally distinct elements of habenular and brainstem circuits, in vivo. The habenula and brainstem are important in mediating stress/anxiety and eating habits respectively. Therefore, understanding the neural computations in these brain regions is important for comprehending the neural mechanisms underlying psychological conditions related to anxiety and eating disorders. We anticipate that our results will go beyond chemical senses and contribute new insights to the understanding of how brain circuits work and interact with the sensory world to shape neural activity and behavioral outputs of animals.
Smell and taste are the least studied of all senses. Very little is known about chemosensory information processing beyond the level of receptor neurons. Every morning we enjoy our coffee thanks to our brains ability to combine and process multiple sensory modalities. Meanwhile, we can still review a document on our desk by adjusting the weights of numerous sensory inputs that constantly bombard our brains. Yet, the smell of our coffee may remind us that pleasant weekend breakfast through associative learning and memory. In the proposed project we will explore the function and the architecture of neural circuits that are involved in olfactory and gustatory information processing, namely habenula and brainstem. Moreover we will investigate the fundamental principles underlying multimodal sensory integration and the neural basis of behavior in these highly conserved brain areas. To achieve these goals we will take an innovative approach by combining two-photon calcium imaging, optogenetics and electrophysiology with the expanding genetic toolbox of a small vertebrate, the zebrafish. This pioneering approach will enable us to design new types of experiments that were unthinkable only a few years ago. Using this unique combination of methods, we will monitor and perturb the activity of functionally distinct elements of habenular and brainstem circuits, in vivo. The habenula and brainstem are important in mediating stress/anxiety and eating habits respectively. Therefore, understanding the neural computations in these brain regions is important for comprehending the neural mechanisms underlying psychological conditions related to anxiety and eating disorders. We anticipate that our results will go beyond chemical senses and contribute new insights to the understanding of how brain circuits work and interact with the sensory world to shape neural activity and behavioral outputs of animals.
Project acronym CIRCUIT
Project Neural circuits for space representation in the mammalian cortex
Researcher (PI) Edvard Ingjald Moser
Summary Neuroscience is one of the fastest-developing areas of science, but it is fair to say that we are still far from understanding how the brain produces subjective experience. For example, simple questions about the origin of thought, imagination, social interaction, or feelings lack even rudimentary answers. We have learnt much about the workings of individual cells and synapses, but psychological phenomena cannot be understood only at this level. These phenomena all emerge from interactions between large numbers of diverse cells in intermingled neural circuits. A major obstacle has been the absence of concepts and tools for investigating neural computation at the circuit level. The aim of this proposal is to combine new transgenic methods for cell type-specific intervention with large-scale multisite single-cell recording to determine how a basic cognitive function self-localization is generated in a functionally well-described mammalian neural circuit. We shall use our recent discovery of entorhinal grid cells as an access ramp. Grid cells fire only when the animal moves through certain locations. For each cell, these locations define a periodic triangular array spanning the whole environment. Grid cells co-exist with other entorhinal cell types encoding head direction, geometric borders, or conjunctions of features. This network is thought to form an essential part of the brain s coordinate system for metric navigation but the detailed wiring, the mechanism of grid formation, and the function of each morphological and functional cell type all remain to be determined. We shall address these open questions by measuring how dynamic spatial representation is affected by transgene-induced activation or inactivation of the individual components of the circuit. The endeavour will pioneer the functional analysis of neural circuits and may, perhaps for the first time, provide us with mechanistic insight into a non-sensory cognitive function in the mammalian cortex.
Neuroscience is one of the fastest-developing areas of science, but it is fair to say that we are still far from understanding how the brain produces subjective experience. For example, simple questions about the origin of thought, imagination, social interaction, or feelings lack even rudimentary answers. We have learnt much about the workings of individual cells and synapses, but psychological phenomena cannot be understood only at this level. These phenomena all emerge from interactions between large numbers of diverse cells in intermingled neural circuits. A major obstacle has been the absence of concepts and tools for investigating neural computation at the circuit level. The aim of this proposal is to combine new transgenic methods for cell type-specific intervention with large-scale multisite single-cell recording to determine how a basic cognitive function self-localization is generated in a functionally well-described mammalian neural circuit. We shall use our recent discovery of entorhinal grid cells as an access ramp. Grid cells fire only when the animal moves through certain locations. For each cell, these locations define a periodic triangular array spanning the whole environment. Grid cells co-exist with other entorhinal cell types encoding head direction, geometric borders, or conjunctions of features. This network is thought to form an essential part of the brain s coordinate system for metric navigation but the detailed wiring, the mechanism of grid formation, and the function of each morphological and functional cell type all remain to be determined. We shall address these open questions by measuring how dynamic spatial representation is affected by transgene-induced activation or inactivation of the individual components of the circuit. The endeavour will pioneer the functional analysis of neural circuits and may, perhaps for the first time, provide us with mechanistic insight into a non-sensory cognitive function in the mammalian cortex.
Project acronym CIVICS
Project Criminality, Victimization and Social Interactions
Researcher (PI) Katrine Vellesen LOKEN
Host Institution (HI) NORGES HANDELSHOYSKOLE
Summary A large social science literature tries to describe and understand the causes and consequences of crime, usually focusing on individuals' criminal activity in isolation. The ambitious aim of this research project is to establish a broader perspective of crime that takes into account the social context in which it takes place. The findings will inform policymakers on how to better use funds both for crime prevention and the rehabilitation of incarcerated criminals. Criminal activity is often a group phenomenon, yet little is known about how criminal networks form and what can be done to break them up or prevent them from forming in the first place. Overlooking victims of crime and their relationships to criminals has led to an incomplete and distorted view of crime and its individual and social costs. While a better understanding of these social interactions is crucial for designing more effective anti-crime policy, existing research in criminology, sociology and economics has struggled to identify causal effects due to data limitations and difficult statistical identification issues. This project will push the research frontier by combining register datasets that have never been merged before, and by using several state-of-the-art statistical methods to estimate causal effects related to criminal peer groups and their victims. More specifically, we aim to do the following: -Use recent advances in network modelling to describe the structure and density of various criminal networks and study network dynamics following the arrest/incarceration or death of a central player in a network. -Obtain a more accurate measure of the societal costs of crime, including actual measures for lost earnings and physical and mental health problems, following victims and their offenders both before and after a crime takes place. -Conduct a randomized controlled trial within a prison system to better understand how current rehabilitation programs affect criminal and victim networks.
A large social science literature tries to describe and understand the causes and consequences of crime, usually focusing on individuals' criminal activity in isolation. The ambitious aim of this research project is to establish a broader perspective of crime that takes into account the social context in which it takes place. The findings will inform policymakers on how to better use funds both for crime prevention and the rehabilitation of incarcerated criminals. Criminal activity is often a group phenomenon, yet little is known about how criminal networks form and what can be done to break them up or prevent them from forming in the first place. Overlooking victims of crime and their relationships to criminals has led to an incomplete and distorted view of crime and its individual and social costs. While a better understanding of these social interactions is crucial for designing more effective anti-crime policy, existing research in criminology, sociology and economics has struggled to identify causal effects due to data limitations and difficult statistical identification issues. This project will push the research frontier by combining register datasets that have never been merged before, and by using several state-of-the-art statistical methods to estimate causal effects related to criminal peer groups and their victims. More specifically, we aim to do the following: -Use recent advances in network modelling to describe the structure and density of various criminal networks and study network dynamics following the arrest/incarceration or death of a central player in a network. -Obtain a more accurate measure of the societal costs of crime, including actual measures for lost earnings and physical and mental health problems, following victims and their offenders both before and after a crime takes place. -Conduct a randomized controlled trial within a prison system to better understand how current rehabilitation programs affect criminal and victim networks.
Project acronym CODEC
Project Consequences of Demographic Change
Researcher (PI) Arnstein Aassve
Summary The project will be using the Gender and Generations Surveys (GGS) – a system of comparable micro-level surveys for several Developed countries – to analyse the consequences of demographic change. The analysis will be using households and individuals as the unit of observation. As a result, we will be able to make inferences about how certain demographic behaviours (i.e. childbearing, marital disruption, single motherhood, leaving home), including their timing and sequencing, affect certain outcomes, such as income, poverty, deprivation, together with various child outcomes. This analysis is particularly relevant given recent demographic trends in developed countries (e.g. divorce rates are increasing, out-of-wedlock childbearing is becoming more prevalent, and general delay in key demographic events such as childbearing and leaving the parental home). The novelty of the study is driven by its focus on consequences of newly emerging demographic patterns and behaviour, which is in contrast to the majority of previous demographic studies – which has tended to focus on the determinants behind these trends. Policy analysis has not had a strong tradition in Demography and the aim of this project is to rectify this shortcoming of the discipline. By focusing on the consequences of demographic change and using techniques that are borrowed from program evaluation, econometrics, applied statistics and empirical sociology, we aim to advance the understanding of how demographic events impact other important processes in the life course of individuals and how policy makers can best influence such outcomes by appropriate policy interventions.
The project will be using the Gender and Generations Surveys (GGS) – a system of comparable micro-level surveys for several Developed countries – to analyse the consequences of demographic change. The analysis will be using households and individuals as the unit of observation. As a result, we will be able to make inferences about how certain demographic behaviours (i.e. childbearing, marital disruption, single motherhood, leaving home), including their timing and sequencing, affect certain outcomes, such as income, poverty, deprivation, together with various child outcomes. This analysis is particularly relevant given recent demographic trends in developed countries (e.g. divorce rates are increasing, out-of-wedlock childbearing is becoming more prevalent, and general delay in key demographic events such as childbearing and leaving the parental home). The novelty of the study is driven by its focus on consequences of newly emerging demographic patterns and behaviour, which is in contrast to the majority of previous demographic studies – which has tended to focus on the determinants behind these trends. Policy analysis has not had a strong tradition in Demography and the aim of this project is to rectify this shortcoming of the discipline. By focusing on the consequences of demographic change and using techniques that are borrowed from program evaluation, econometrics, applied statistics and empirical sociology, we aim to advance the understanding of how demographic events impact other important processes in the life course of individuals and how policy makers can best influence such outcomes by appropriate policy interventions.
Project acronym COFBMIX
Project Cortical feedback in figure background segregation of odors.
Researcher (PI) Dan ROKNI
Summary A key question in neuroscience is how information is processed by sensory systems to guide behavior. Most of our knowledge about sensory processing is based on presentation of simple isolated stimuli and recording corresponding neural activity in relevant brain areas. Yet sensory stimuli in real life are never isolated and typically not simple. How the brain processes complex stimuli, simultaneously arising from multiple objects is unknown. Our daily experience (as well as well-controlled experiments) shows that only parts of a complex sensory scene can be perceived - we cannot listen to more than one speaker in a party. Importantly, one can easily choose what is important and should be processed and what can be ignored as background. These observations lead to the prevalent hypothesis that feedback projections from 'higher' brain areas to more peripheral sensory areas are involved in processing of complex stimuli. However experimental analysis of signals conveyed by feedback projections in behaving animals is scarce. The nature of these signals and how they relate to behavior is unknown. Here I propose a cutting edge approach to directly record feedback signals in the olfactory system of behaving mice. We will use chronically implanted electrodes to record the modulation of olfactory bulb (OB) principal neurons by task related context. Additionally, we will record from piriform cortical (PC) neurons that project back to the OB. These will be tagged with channelrhodopsin-2 and identified by light sensitivity. Finally, we will express the spectrally distinct Ca++ indicators GCaMP6 and RCaMP2 in PC neurons and in olfactory sensory neurons, respectively, and use 2-photon microscopy to analyze the spatio-temporal relationship between feedforward and feedback inputs in the OB. This comprehensive approach will provide an explanation of how feedforward and feedback inputs are integrated to process complex stimuli.
A key question in neuroscience is how information is processed by sensory systems to guide behavior. Most of our knowledge about sensory processing is based on presentation of simple isolated stimuli and recording corresponding neural activity in relevant brain areas. Yet sensory stimuli in real life are never isolated and typically not simple. How the brain processes complex stimuli, simultaneously arising from multiple objects is unknown. Our daily experience (as well as well-controlled experiments) shows that only parts of a complex sensory scene can be perceived - we cannot listen to more than one speaker in a party. Importantly, one can easily choose what is important and should be processed and what can be ignored as background. These observations lead to the prevalent hypothesis that feedback projections from 'higher' brain areas to more peripheral sensory areas are involved in processing of complex stimuli. However experimental analysis of signals conveyed by feedback projections in behaving animals is scarce. The nature of these signals and how they relate to behavior is unknown. Here I propose a cutting edge approach to directly record feedback signals in the olfactory system of behaving mice. We will use chronically implanted electrodes to record the modulation of olfactory bulb (OB) principal neurons by task related context. Additionally, we will record from piriform cortical (PC) neurons that project back to the OB. These will be tagged with channelrhodopsin-2 and identified by light sensitivity. Finally, we will express the spectrally distinct Ca++ indicators GCaMP6 and RCaMP2 in PC neurons and in olfactory sensory neurons, respectively, and use 2-photon microscopy to analyze the spatio-temporal relationship between feedforward and feedback inputs in the OB. This comprehensive approach will provide an explanation of how feedforward and feedback inputs are integrated to process complex stimuli.
Project acronym COGSYSTEMS
Project Understanding actions and intentions of others
Researcher (PI) Giacomo Rizzolatti
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA
Summary How do we understand the actions and intentions of others? Hereby we intend to address this issue by using a multidisciplinary approach. Our project is subdivided into four parts. In the first part we investigate the neural organization of monkey area F5, an area deeply involved in motor act understanding. By using a new set of electrodes we will describe the columnar organization of the area F5, establish the temporal relationships between the activity of F5 mirror and motor neurons, and correlate the activity of mirror neurons coding the observed motor acts in peripersonal and extrapersonal space with the activity of motor neurons in the same cortical column. In the second part we will assess the neural mechanism underlying the understanding of the intention of complex actions , i.e. actions formed by a sequence of two (or more) individual actions. The focus will be on the neurons located in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area involved in the organization of high-order motor behavior. The rational of the experiment is that, while the organization of single actions and the understanding of intention behind them is function of parietal neurons, that of complex actions relies on the activity of the prefrontal lobe. In the third and fourth parts of the project we will delimit the cortical areas involved in understanding the goal (the what) and the intention (the why) of the observed actions in individuals with typical development (TD) and in children with autism and will establish the time relation between these two processes. Our hypothesis is that the chained organization of intentional motor acts is impaired in children with autism and this impairment prevents them from organizing normally their actions and from understanding others intentions.
How do we understand the actions and intentions of others? Hereby we intend to address this issue by using a multidisciplinary approach. Our project is subdivided into four parts. In the first part we investigate the neural organization of monkey area F5, an area deeply involved in motor act understanding. By using a new set of electrodes we will describe the columnar organization of the area F5, establish the temporal relationships between the activity of F5 mirror and motor neurons, and correlate the activity of mirror neurons coding the observed motor acts in peripersonal and extrapersonal space with the activity of motor neurons in the same cortical column. In the second part we will assess the neural mechanism underlying the understanding of the intention of complex actions , i.e. actions formed by a sequence of two (or more) individual actions. The focus will be on the neurons located in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, an area involved in the organization of high-order motor behavior. The rational of the experiment is that, while the organization of single actions and the understanding of intention behind them is function of parietal neurons, that of complex actions relies on the activity of the prefrontal lobe. In the third and fourth parts of the project we will delimit the cortical areas involved in understanding the goal (the what) and the intention (the why) of the observed actions in individuals with typical development (TD) and in children with autism and will establish the time relation between these two processes. Our hypothesis is that the chained organization of intentional motor acts is impaired in children with autism and this impairment prevents them from organizing normally their actions and from understanding others intentions.
Project acronym dEMORY
Project Dissecting the Role of Dendrites in Memory
Researcher (PI) Panayiota Poirazi
Host Institution (HI) FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS
Summary Understanding the rules and mechanisms underlying memory formation, storage and retrieval is a grand challenge in neuroscience. In light of cumulating evidence regarding non-linear dendritic events (dendritic-spikes, branch strength potentiation, temporal sequence detection etc) together with activity-dependent rewiring of the connection matrix, the classical notion of information storage via Hebbian-like changes in synaptic connections is inadequate. While more recent plasticity theories consider non-linear dendritic properties, a unifying theory of how dendrites are utilized to achieve memory coding, storing and/or retrieval is cruelly missing. Using computational models, we will simulate memory processes in three key brain regions: the hippocampus, the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex. Models will incorporate biologically constrained dendrites and state-of-the-art plasticity rules and will span different levels of abstraction, ranging from detailed biophysical single neurons and circuits to integrate-and-fire networks and abstract theoretical models. Our main goal is to dissect the role of dendrites in information processing and storage across the three different regions by systematically altering their anatomical, biophysical and plasticity properties. Findings will further our understanding of the fundamental computations supported by these structures and how these computations, reinforced by plasticity mechanisms, sub-serve memory formation and associated dysfunctions, thus opening new avenues for hypothesis driven experimentation and development of novel treatments for memory-related diseases. Identification of dendrites as the key processing units across brain regions and complexity levels will lay the foundations for a new era in computational and experimental neuroscience and serve as the basis for groundbreaking advances in the robotics and artificial intelligence fields while also having a large impact on the machine learning community.
Understanding the rules and mechanisms underlying memory formation, storage and retrieval is a grand challenge in neuroscience. In light of cumulating evidence regarding non-linear dendritic events (dendritic-spikes, branch strength potentiation, temporal sequence detection etc) together with activity-dependent rewiring of the connection matrix, the classical notion of information storage via Hebbian-like changes in synaptic connections is inadequate. While more recent plasticity theories consider non-linear dendritic properties, a unifying theory of how dendrites are utilized to achieve memory coding, storing and/or retrieval is cruelly missing. Using computational models, we will simulate memory processes in three key brain regions: the hippocampus, the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex. Models will incorporate biologically constrained dendrites and state-of-the-art plasticity rules and will span different levels of abstraction, ranging from detailed biophysical single neurons and circuits to integrate-and-fire networks and abstract theoretical models. Our main goal is to dissect the role of dendrites in information processing and storage across the three different regions by systematically altering their anatomical, biophysical and plasticity properties. Findings will further our understanding of the fundamental computations supported by these structures and how these computations, reinforced by plasticity mechanisms, sub-serve memory formation and associated dysfunctions, thus opening new avenues for hypothesis driven experimentation and development of novel treatments for memory-related diseases. Identification of dendrites as the key processing units across brain regions and complexity levels will lay the foundations for a new era in computational and experimental neuroscience and serve as the basis for groundbreaking advances in the robotics and artificial intelligence fields while also having a large impact on the machine learning community.
Project acronym EUROPOPULISM
Project European Integration, Populism and European Cities
Researcher (PI) Guido Enrico TABELLINI
Summary Why is it so difficult to achieve further European political integration? This question motivates the first part of the project. The standard approach in economics presumes that integration of countries reflects a tradeoff between economic benefits and the cost of cultural heterogeneity. To assess this tradeoff, we exploit survey data to quantify cultural heterogeneity within and between EU countries, comparing it to the US. We also investigate time variation, to assess whether economic integration led to cultural convergence. Finally, exploiting regional variation, we seek to identify a cultural core and compare it to the economic core of the EU. We conjecture the following conclusion: although European economic integration has not led to cultural convergence, the primary obstacle to integration is not cultural heterogeneity per se, but the presence of other barriers, such as national identities or national institutions, which amplify its effects. The second part of the project studies the causes and implications of two related phenomena: the diffusion of nationalism and of political populism, with behavioral voters. We study nationalism as endogenous identification with one's nation, and analyze how it interacts with political institutions and political processes in a setting of international policy coordination. We study populism as due to the reaction of disappointed voters who behave according to Prospect theory. Our main goal is to explain these behavioral phenomena, and to derive predictions about the effect of institutional reforms. The third part of the project examines Europe in the very long run. It studies the formation of clusters of creative élites within Europe, in a historical perspective. The main goal is to explain how local self-government institutions and the migration of upper tail human capital between different European cities contributed to the formation of clusters of innovation and creativity in the XI-XIX centuries.
Why is it so difficult to achieve further European political integration? This question motivates the first part of the project. The standard approach in economics presumes that integration of countries reflects a tradeoff between economic benefits and the cost of cultural heterogeneity. To assess this tradeoff, we exploit survey data to quantify cultural heterogeneity within and between EU countries, comparing it to the US. We also investigate time variation, to assess whether economic integration led to cultural convergence. Finally, exploiting regional variation, we seek to identify a cultural core and compare it to the economic core of the EU. We conjecture the following conclusion: although European economic integration has not led to cultural convergence, the primary obstacle to integration is not cultural heterogeneity per se, but the presence of other barriers, such as national identities or national institutions, which amplify its effects. The second part of the project studies the causes and implications of two related phenomena: the diffusion of nationalism and of political populism, with behavioral voters. We study nationalism as endogenous identification with one's nation, and analyze how it interacts with political institutions and political processes in a setting of international policy coordination. We study populism as due to the reaction of disappointed voters who behave according to Prospect theory. Our main goal is to explain these behavioral phenomena, and to derive predictions about the effect of institutional reforms. The third part of the project examines Europe in the very long run. It studies the formation of clusters of creative élites within Europe, in a historical perspective. The main goal is to explain how local self-government institutions and the migration of upper tail human capital between different European cities contributed to the formation of clusters of innovation and creativity in the XI-XIX centuries.


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