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Artificial intelligence in preclinical epilepsy research: Current state, potential, and challenges
Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.Abstract Preclinical translational epilepsy research uses animal models to better understand the mechanisms underlying epilepsy and its comorbidities, as well as to analyze and develop potential treatments that may mitigate this neurological disorder and its associated conditions. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool across
Jesús Servando Medel‐Matus +7 more
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Reelection Incentives and Political Corruption: Evidence from Brazilian Audit Reports [PDF]
As part of a recent anti-corruption campaign, the Brazilian government began to audit the municipal expenditure of federally-transferred funds. Using these audit reports, we construct a unique data set of political corruption to test whether reelection ...
Ferraz, Claudio, Finan, Frederico
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Profiling Corruption Perception in Africa: the Role of Religion, Gender, Education and Age [PDF]
, 2009 This study investigates attitude towards corruption and the role of gender, religion, education and age using a Nigerian survey data. It also seeks to establish how attitudes towards corruption relates to some other reported ethical measures such as ...
Bello, M., Gbadamosi, Gbolahan
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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
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The Indonesian Police Reform: Police in the Reform Era based on New Institutionalism Perspective
Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2016 Since the reformation and democratization movement in 1998, Indonesians have faced a chronic corruption problem. At the beginning of reformation era in1998 to fight against corruption, the Indonesian government reforms the organization structure of the ...
ACHMAD NURMANDI +3 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates earnings management in European banks in the context of the 2016 EU audit directive. Using a dynamic panel of 134 banks over 2012–2023, we apply two‐step System‐GMM estimators with three profitability measures—Earnings Before Provisions and Taxes (EBPT), Return on Assets (ROA), and Return on Equity (ROE).
Maria Christofidou +3 more
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Building up a convenient accountability: How the ‘anti-corruption’ law in Brazil was put into force
Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2016 This paper focuses on how Brazil designed and put into force a legal instrument that makes companies strictly liable for domestic and international acts of corruption and highlights the role of external drivers during a 15-year process.
Fernanda Odilla Vasconcellos de Figueiredo
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Confronting corruption in the health sector in Vietnam: patterns and prospects [PDF]
, 2011 This repository item contains a single issue of the Health and Development Discussion Papers, an informal working paper series that began publishing in 2002 by the Boston University Center for Global Health and Development.
Brinkerhoff, Derick +4 more
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Interdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.Integrated multi‐omics reveals that CD36‐mediated lipid overload in PBMCs drives T cell exhaustion via sub‐lethal ferroptotic stress and AKT suppression. This systemic metabolic signature serves as a robust predictor of immunotherapy response in HCC, suggesting that modulating lipid metabolism can rescue immune fitness.
Ying Zhu +6 more
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State ownership’s dual impact: Agency costs in vietnam’s construction and real estate sector
Asia and the Global EconomyThis study examines the impact of state ownership on agency costs in Vietnam’s real estate industry from 2011 to 2023. Using a dual-proxy approach—Total Operating Expenses Ratio (TOER) and Total Asset Turnover (TAT)—we analyze data from 122 listed firms.
Quoc Hoi Le +3 more
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