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Other People's Money: Political Embeddedness on Pension Boards, Alternative Assets and Investment Fees

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract State‐administered pension plans report paying roughly $20 billion each year in fees to external asset managers, much of it for high‐cost, high‐risk “alternative” assets such as private equity and hedge funds. These outcomes involve trillions in pension investments that affect the retirement security of millions of public sector workers and ...
Jeffrey C. Diebold, Cody R. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Intergovernmental Grants, Fiscal Autonomy, and Local Budgeting: Evidence of Reference Dependence From Korea

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a panel threshold regression to examine how own‐source revenues and unconditional grants affect internal expenditures of Korean local governments. Guided by mental accounting theory, we argue that revenue sources create distinct “accounts,” shaping expenditure choices. Results reveal two thresholds (0.310% and 0.401%) beyond
Kyungmin Yoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pinus‐derived membrane vesicles disrupt pathogenic metabolism in fungi

open access: yesPlant Biology, EarlyView.
Needle‐derived vesicles from pine trees impair fungal metabolism and growth, offering a sustainable strategy to control pine pitch canker disease. Abstract Much of what we know about the biological impacts of vesicles (MVs) is derived from Arabidopsis thaliana.
S. Kunene   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

StAR Protein Deficiency in Clinical Practice: A Case Series From Saudi Arabia. [PDF]

open access: yesCase Rep Endocrinol
Alabduljabbar A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Long‐term stability of periodontal plastic surgery featuring traditional autogenous graft and coronally advanced flap alone

open access: yesPeriodontology 2000, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Coronally advanced flap (CAF), either alone or in combination with a connective tissue graft (CTG), represents one of the most extensively investigated surgical approaches for the treatment of gingival recessions, demonstrating high rates of mean root coverage (MRC) and complete root coverage (CRC). However, evidence regarding their
Giovanni Zucchelli   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I Can't Fully Explain It, but Something Just Feels Off”: A Qualitative Study of Danish Students' Bystander Perceptions of Sexual Violence Risk

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how Danish upper secondary students, when positioned as bystanders, evaluate risk in situations involving or potentially escalating into sexual harassment or violence. Drawing on psychological risk perception literature, we focus on the cognitive, emotional, and contextual factors that shape young bystanders' recognition ...
Terese Hartmann, Sarah van Mastrigt
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

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