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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Abstract Angrite meteorites are critically silica‐undersaturated igneous rocks with high Ca/Al and Fe/Mg, along with depletion in volatile lithophile elements Na and K such that they crystallize anorthite along with olivine and calcic pyroxene. The anorthite in angrites contains substantial Fe, and in NWA 1670 and NWA 1296, it is present at major ...
Seann J. McKibbin +2 more
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Scaffolding during surgical procedures: Guidance with baby steps or giant leaps?
Abstract Introduction Scaffolding refers to the dynamic support teachers provide to help learners complete tasks they cannot yet do independently. This is often done by breaking tasks into smaller, manageable steps and adjusting the support based on the learner's performance.
Bart Lambert +4 more
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A14 Heart Surgery Process Improvements [PDF]
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The Compatriot Win Effect and Behavioural Biases in Lottery Markets
ABSTRACT This paper presents evidence to support the compatriot win effect as a behavioural bias in lottery demand. We exploit the quasi‐random assignment of the jackpot prize across provinces in the Christmas draw of the Spanish National Lottery to examine whether lottery sales increase in jackpot‐winning provinces in subsequent draws.
David Boto‐García +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper revisits the fixed effects panel data model with AR(1) remainder disturbances and provides a bias corrected estimator for the serial correlation coefficient based on first differencing the panel regression to get rid of the fixed effects.
Badi H. Baltagi, Long Liu
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US Federal Budgets and Federal Employee Job Satisfaction
Abstract Researchers have long studied how organizational budgets relate to performance, but how do employees themselves experience the effects of budgetary decisions? Given widespread attention to political dysfunction in US federal budgeting, conventional wisdom holds that employees are negatively affected by budgetary uncertainty (volatility, delays,
Nathan Favero, Carla Flink, Tingli Qu
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TNF Inhibitor Therapy in Corticosteroid‐Resistant or ‐Dependent Pediatric Neutrophilic Dermatosis
ABSTRACT Neutrophilic dermatoses are rare in children. Systemic corticosteroids are the first‐line treatment, but guidelines for second‐line therapies are lacking. We report five cases of children with systemic steroid‐resistant/dependent neutrophilic dermatoses, successfully treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors.
Laure Chêne +7 more
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Blurred Lines: Leveraging Business Model Ambiguity for Innovation and Agility
ABSTRACT Earlier research has established the cognitive perspective on business models (BM) and business model innovation (BMI), which predominantly assumes that the understanding and interpretation of established BMs are uniform among organizational actors.
Pascal Breitenmoser +2 more
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