COALITION OR OPPOSITION? THE BEHAVIOUR OF REGIONALIST PARTIES IN MULTI-LEVEL COMPETITION: THE CASES OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY AND SCOTLAND

Coalition or Opposition? The Behaviour of Regionalist Parties in Multi-level Competition: The Cases of the Basque Country and Scotland

This article compares the positioning behaviour of parties and reveals why one party joins a coalition, while others do not.The cases of two regionalist parties of the UK and Spain are depicted: the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Fridge/Freezer Basque National Party (BNP).The study is a contribution to the problems of positioning behaviour of pa

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Identifying small molecules for protecting chondrocyte function and matrix integrity after controlled compressive injury

Objective: Articular cartilage injury is central for the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA).With few disease-modifying therapies successful at offsetting progressive osteoarthritis (OA), our goal is to use a high throughput screening platform of cartilage injury to identify novel chondroprotective compounds.Targeting articular cart

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Viral Communities of Shark Bay Modern Stromatolites

Single stranded DNA viruses have been previously shown to populate the oceans on a global scale, Bag Sealers and are endemic in microbialites of both marine and freshwater systems.We undertook for the first time direct viral metagenomic shotgun sequencing to explore the diversity of viruses in the modern stromatolites of Shark Bay Australia.The dat

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