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Published online: 14 Aug 2018 ; Although the political context in Uganda exhibits democratic deficit and patronage, research and development actors have given little attention to the possible negative impact these may have on agricultural policymaking and implementation processes. This article examines the influence of power in perpetuating prevailing narratives around public participation in agricultural policymaking processes. The analysis is based on qualitative data collected between September 2014 and May 2015 using 86 in‐depth interviews, 18 focus group discussions, and recorded observations in stakeholder consultations. Results indicate that while the political setting provides space for uncensored debates, the policymaking process remains under close control of political leaders, technical personnel, and high‐level officers in the government. Policy negotiation remains limited to actors who are knowledgeable about the technical issues and those who have the financial resources and political power to influence decisions, such as international donors. There is limited space for negotiation of competing claims and interests in the processes by public and private actors actively engaged in agricultural development, production, processing, and trade. Thus, efforts to achieve good governance in policy processes fall short due to lack of approaches that promote co‐design and co‐ownership of the policies. ; Government of the Netherlands ; Peer Review

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe polygenic disorder triggered by environmental factors. Many polymorphic genes, particularly the genetic determinants of hypodopaminergia (low dopamine function), associate with a predisposition to PTSD as well as Substance Use Disorder. Support from the National Institutes of Health for neuroimaging research and molecular, genetic applied technologies have improved understanding of brain reward circuitry functions have inspired the development of new innovative approaches to their early diagnosis and treatment of some PTSD symptomatology and addiction. This review presents psychosocial and genetic evidence that vulnerability or resilience to PTSD can theoretically be impacted by dopamine regulation. From a neuroscience perspective dopamine is widely accepted as a major neurotransmitter. Questions about how to modulate dopamine clinically in order to treat and prevent PTSD and other types of reward deficiency disorders remain. Identification of genetic variations associated with the relevant genotype-phenotype relationships can be characterized using the Genetic Addiction Risk Score (GARS®) and psychosocial tools. Development of an advanced genetic panel is under study and will be based on a new array of genes linked to PTSD. However, for now, the recommendation is that enlistees for military duty be given the opportunity to voluntarily pre-test for risk of PTSD with GARS, before exposure to environmental triggers, or upon return from deployment as part of PTSD management. Dopamine homeostasis may be achieved via customization of neuronutrient supplementation "Precision Behavioral Management" (PBM™) based on GARS test values, and other pro-dopamine regulation interventions like exercise, mindfulness, biosensor tracking, and meditation.

The planned High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider is being designed to maximise the physics potential of the LHC with 10 years of operation at instantaneous luminosities of 7.5×10 34 cm ¿2 s ¿1 . A consequence of this increased luminosity is the expected radiation damage requiring the tracking detectors to withstand hadron fluence to over 1×10 15 1 MeV neutron equivalent per cm 2 in the ATLAS Strips system. Fast readout electronics, deploying 130 nm CMOS front-end electronics are glued on top of a silicon sensor to make a module. The radiation hard n-in-p micro-strip sensors used have been developed by the ATLAS ITk Strip Sensor collaboration and produced by Hamamatsu Photonics. A series of tests were performed at the DESY-II test beam facility to investigate the detailed performance of a strip module with both 2.5 cm and 5 cm length strips before irradiation. The DURANTA telescope was used to obtain a pointing resolution of 2 ¿m, with an additional pixel layer installed to improve timing resolution to ~25 ns. Results show that prior to irradiation a wide range of thresholds (0.5¿2.0 fC) meet the requirements of a noise occupancy less than 1×10 ¿3 and a hit efficiency greater than 99%. © 2018 ; The research was supported and financed in part by Canada Foundation for Innovation, the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada under the Research and Technology Instrumentation (RTI) grant SAPEQ-2016-00015; the National Key Program for S&T Research and Development (Grant No. 2016YFA0400101) of China and CAS-Helmholtz Joint Research Group; theMinistry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Repub87lic coming from the projectLM2015058 - Research infrastructure for experiments at CERN; the DST/NRF in South 88 Africa; the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Particle Physics National Program, ref. 89 FPA2015-65652-C4-4-R (MINECO/FEDER, UE), and co-financed with FEDER funds; the UK's Science and Tech90nology Facilities Council; USA Department of Energy, Grant DE-SC0010107; and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 654168. The measurements leading to these results have been performed at the Test Beam Facility at DESY Hamburg (Germany), a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF).

This 26th dossier d'Agropolis is devoted to research and partnerships in agroecology. The French Commission for International Agricultural Research (CRAI) and Agropolis International, on behalf of CIRAD, INRAE and IRD and in partnership with CGIAR, has produced this new issue in the 'Les dossiers d'Agropolis international' series devoted to agroecology. This publication has been produced within the framework of the Action Plan signed by CGIAR and the French government on February 4th 2021 to strengthen French collaboration with CGIAR, where agroecology is highlighted as one of the three key priorities (alongside climate change, nutrition and food systems).