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Risk sharing and internal migration KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Over the past two decades, more than half the population in our sample of rural Tanzanians has migrated out of their home-communities. We hypothesize that this powerful current of internal migrants is changing the nature of traditional institutions such as informal risk sharing. Mass internal migration has created geographically disperse networks, on which we collected detailed panel data. By quantifying how shocks and consumption co-vary across ...
Internal migration and ethnic division University of Antwerp KU Leuven
Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses on the (re)creation of ethnic divisions in a new city, Palmas, the capital of the Brazilian state Tocantins. Because the city was only founded in 1990, internal migration has heavily influenced the composition of the citys population. The research shows that residential proximity and interaction between ...
Ligand migration through the internal hydrophobic cavities in human neuroglobin University of Antwerp
Neuroglobin (Ngb), a member of the globin superfamily, was found in the brain of vertebrates and is suggested to play a neuroprotective function under hypoxic conditions by scavenging nitrogen monoxide (NO) through a dioxygenase activity. In order for such a reaction to efficiently take place and to minimize the release of reactive intermediates in the cytosol, the cosubstrates O2 and NO and other unstable reaction intermediates should bind ...
Risk sharing and internal migration University of Antwerp
When youth justice and migration intersect: 'Specialized' initiatives: building expertise or internal borders? Ghent University
West African Interests in (EU) Migration Policy: Balancing Domestic Priorities with External Incentives Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Studies on EU–Africa migration cooperation often focus on the interests of the EU and its member states. But what do African states themselves seek to achieve with respect to migration policy? This article presents an in-depth look at Ghana and Senegal, two stable West African democracies, and assesses which types of migration policies they support, and why. We suggest that a distinction ought to be made between West African policymakers’ more ...
Migration from RIA to LC-MS/MS for aldosterone determination: Implications for clinical practice and determination of plasma and urine reference range intervals in a cohort of healthy Belgian subjects KU Leuven
© 2018 Background: Aldosterone measurement is critical for diagnosis of primary aldosteronism and disorders of the renin-angiotensin system. We developed an LC-MS/MS method for plasma and urinary aldosterone and compared it to our RIA method. We present a reference interval study for a Belgian population. Methods: 68 plasma and 23 urine samples were assayed for as part of a method comparison. For the reference interval study, we enrolled 282 ...