GOVERNANCE ENTREPRENEURS AS SPOILERS IN NORDIC DEFENCE COOPERATION

Governance entrepreneurs as spoilers in Nordic defence cooperation

The Boots deteriorated security situation in Europe has contributed to a renewed focus on Nordic defence cooperation.Recent political statements indicate an increased interest among the Nordic states to strengthen regional security cooperation in times of peace, crisis and conflict.Nonetheless, the main obstacles preventing close integration remain

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Gender Modifies the Association of Cognition With Age-Related Hearing Impairment in the Health and Retirement Study

Introduction: Despite growing recognition of hearing loss as a risk factor for late life cognitive disorders, sex and gender analysis of this association has been limited.Elucidating this is one means to advocate for holistic medicine by considering the psychosocial attributes of people.With a composite Gender Score (GS), we aimed to assess this am

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Dysregulated Methylation Patterns in Exon IV of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Gene in Nicotine Dependence and Changes in BDNF Plasma Levels During Smoking Cessation

IntroductionSeveral studies reported dysregulated protein levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in smokers and during cessation.However, the epigenetic regulation of the BDNF gene has not yet been investigated.We measured the plasma levels of BDNF and the epigenetic regulation of exon IV Beginner / Beginner+ of the BDNF gene in smokers

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