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Competitive Convergence: Mechanisms, Scope Conditions, and Lessons from the Case of Indian Food Safety ReformEpstein, Jessica January 2011 (has links)
In 2006, India began formally reconstructing its national food safety policy, subsuming over seven laws and agencies into a single streamlined regulatory authority. This moment of reform offers a "most likely" test case for theories of global policy convergence. Scholars across multiple fields predict that national politics are becoming more similar over time. Those predictions are especially strong in the field of food safety policy, as the WTO now mandates that member states align with an encyclopedic policy resource called the Codex Alimentarius. The dissertation asks whether, how, and why we see both global pressures for and actual evidence of convergence in the Indian case. I ask if the details of the case map onto the prevailing account in sociology, which predicts convergence as a result of spreading political culture; the sociology of food's broad predictions of both convergence and low political autonomy vis a vis global trade mandates; or the prevailing account in political science, which sees domestic regulatory change as a result of global competitions for consumer markets. I find very limited convergence in the Indian case, mostly limited to a nascent movement toward norms of "science-based" regulation. I also find that theories of regulatory competition best explain why India has converged to the extent it has, though the case suggests new causal mechanisms whereby trade agreements and economic competition generate regulatory change.
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Structural specificity of organic cation transport in rabbit renal brush border membrane vesiclesAyer, Katherine Dorothy January 1988 (has links)
Organic cations (OC's) are actively secreted by the renal proximal tubules in a number of species. The transepithelial transport of OC's involves a secondary active OC/H+ exchange process at the brush border (luminal) membrane. This study employed rabbit renal brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) to investigate the structural requirements associated with substrate recognition at the OC transporter. A number of compounds (an N-alkylammonium series, an N1-alkylpyridinium series and some clinically important organic bases) were tested for their ability to competitively block the uptake of radioactively labelled tetraethylammonium (TEA) into BBMV. The inhibitory effectiveness of these compounds was correlated to the degree of hydrophobicity surrounding the positively-charged nitrogenous nucleus common to all the inhibitors. Preloading BBMV with N1-substituted pyridines trans-stimulated the uptake of TEA, suggesting that these compounds are translocated substrates for the OC transporter. The activity of the OC transport inhibitor and neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium was of special interest, and thus its transport characteristics were fully evaluated.
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Effects of diet on amylase content and synthesis in cultured rat acinar cellsJustice, Jill Diane, 1963- January 1989 (has links)
To study adaptation of pancreatic amylase to diet, an affinity adsorbent, alpha-GHI-AH-Sepharose 4B, was used to determine amylase synthesis in cultured pancreatic acinar cells. This adsorbent exhibited a consistent binding capacity and was specific for amylase. Acinar cells from rats fed high fat (HF) or carbohydrate (HC) diets for 7 d were cultured 1-48 h in serum-free medium. Amylase activity remained significantly higher in HC cells than in HF cells through 24 h in culture, despite its decrease with time in culture. The relative synthesis of amylase (3H-phe amylase/3H-phe total protein x 100) was significantly higher in HC than in HF cells at isolation and remained higher during culture. These results demonstrate that this affinity adsorbent can be used to determine amylase synthesis and suggest that the effect of diet on amylase activity and relative synthesis persists in cultured pancreatic acinar cells.
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The expression and function of B-myb in the cell cycleRobinson, Cleo January 1995 (has links)
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Electrode measurement on the net charge on muscle proteinsBryson, Elzbieta Anna January 1997 (has links)
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Molecular analysis of the human CD2 Locus Control Region in transgenic miceFestenstein, Richard January 1996 (has links)
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Studies on the control of nitrate reductase in Sinapsis albaRollinson, Sara Jayne January 1995 (has links)
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Intracellular cytokines and their therapeutic modulation in immunological disordersSewell, William Arthur Carrock January 2000 (has links)
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Structure and function of the platelet and T-cell activation antigen-1 (PTA1)Adamson, Janet January 2000 (has links)
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The decline of the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) in the New Forest, HampshireSharma, Surender K. January 1994 (has links)
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