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Domestic and International Health Expenditure and Health and Healthcare Use: Evidence From Mozambique

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Evidence on the relationship between public health expenditure and health is mixed and particularly scarce for low‐income countries. Existing studies overlook the subnational distribution of expenditure and rarely distinguish between sources and governance over funding.
Eliana Chavarría‐Pino, Laura Anselmi, Matt Sutton, Sérgio Chicumbe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Role Do Finance Ministers Play in Political Business Cycles? Evidence‐Based on a New African Dataset

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting IL-5Rα with antibody-conjugates reveals a strategy for imaging and therapy for invasive bladder cancer

OncoImmunology, 2017
Despite the high interest and concern due to an increasing incidence and death rate, patients who develop muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) have few options available.
Michel Paquette, Luis-Guillermo Vilera-Perez, Simon Beaudoin, Nadia Ekindi-Ndongo, Pierre-Luc Boudreaut, Marc-Andre Bonin, Marie-Claude Battista, M'hamed Bentourkia, Angel F. Lopez, Roger Lecomte, Eric Marsault, Brigitte Guérin, Robert Sabbagh, Jeffrey V. Leyton   +13 more
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Quantum information transmission through a qubit chain with quasi-local dissipation

, 2017
We study quantum information transmission in a Heisenberg-XY chain where qubits are affected by quasi-local environment action and compare it with the case of local action of the environment. We find that for open boundary conditions the former situation
Mancini, Stefano, Memarzadeh, Laleh, Radgohar, Roya   +2 more
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Operating Capacity, Pricing and Supply Elasticity in Container Shipping Markets

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the channels through which changes in operating capacity influence freight rates in the container shipping market using a novel dataset to create an operating capacity index at the shipping‐route level. Our analysis reveals that when supply elasticity is low, an increase in operating capacity tends to drive freight rates upward,
Cong Sui, Shang Wang, Jingmin Liang, Nikos K. Nomikos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Researcher–Entrepreneur Relationship and Performance of Innovative Startups

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many innovative startups are joint ventures between researchers and entrepreneurs, who collaborate in R&D and product commercialization. Government policies such as grants, subsidies, and patent licensing fees act as Pigouvian subsidies, incentivizing R&D by bridging the gap between the social and private returns of innovation.
Yangguang Huang, Helen Hui
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of chromosome substitution on intrinsic exercise capacity in mice [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/3jr]

F1000Research, 2014
Previous research identified a locus on Chromosome 14 as an important regulator of endurance exercise capacity in mice. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chromosome substitution on intrinsic exercise capacity and identify ...
Sean M. Courtney, Michael P. Massett
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Industry Portfolio Volatility Connections and Industry Portfolio Returns

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper tracks dynamic connections that form among daily US industry portfolio return volatilities using a Bayesian time‐varying parameter VAR model. Market participants often focus on sectors to filter vast amounts of information, and this focus results in cross‐industry return predictability. We characterise connections that form over the
Michael Ellington, Michalis Stamatogiannis, Yawen Zheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Health Risk Assessment From Exposure to Toxic Metals in Soils and Leafy Vegetables in Smallholder Farms of Northeastern Brazil

Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assessed human health risks associated with exposure to potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in soils and leafy vegetables cultivated in smallholder agricultural systems in Northeastern Brazil. Soil and vegetable samples were collected from 18 agricultural areas and analyzed for cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), nickel
Fernando Ferreira da Cunha Filho, Alex Souza Moraes, João Paulo Siqueira da Silva, Edvane Borges da Silva, Ademir Amaral, André Maciel Netto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação do desempenho reprodutivo de novilhas de corte acasaladas aos 14, 18 e 26 meses de idade

Pesquisa Agropecuária Gaúcha, 2007
O trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar o desempenho reprodutivo de novilhas de corte acasaladas aos 14, 18 e 26 meses de idade. Foram coletados, durante os anos de 2003, 2004 e 2005, dados de 270 novilhas de corte de raças britânicas Aberdeen Angus, Devon ...
Carlos Santos Gottschall, Eduardo Tonet Ferreira, Leonardo Canellas, Hélio Radke Bittencourt   +3 more
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