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Microfinance for the Poor: Can Miracles be Repeated: in the Philippines, Kosovo, and elsewhere? [PDF]

open access: yes
Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world; and women in that country are among the poorest of the poor. In the late 1970s, a man performed a miracle there.
Seibel, Hans Dieter
core  

The assessment of credit guarantee schemes for SME's: valuation and cost [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Small and medium enterprises (SME' s) have important limitations from the financial viewpoint. Their reduced capability to generate resources (self-financing) and their high financial costs as compared to the profitability of investments, makes them ...
Camino Blasco, David   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Skin‐Interfaced Therapeutic Patches for Wound Fluid Management and Transdermal Drug Delivery

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents an integrated skin‐interfaced device combining microfluidics, hydrogel film technology, flexible electronics, and iontophoresis‐based transdermal delivery of PDRN to enhance wound healing. The device effectively manages wound fluid, maintains optimal moisture, and non‐invasively delivers therapeutic drugs.
Dongjun Han   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Finnish Banking Crisis and Its Handling [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper gives a brief description of the evolution of the Finnish banking crisis and its handling. In the first section, the salient features of the Finnish banking system are described. We then briefly discuss the liberalization process, macroeconomic
Nyberg, Peter, Vihriälä, Vesa
core  

Institutional investors in Germany : insurance companies and investment funds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This chapter focuses on institutional investors in the German financial markets. Institutional investors are specialized financial intermediaries who collect and manage funds on behalf of small investors toward specific objectives in terms of risk ...
Maurer, Raimond
core   +1 more source

A Versatile Engineering Platform for the Fabrication of Prosthetic Venous Valves Using Electrospinning

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Percutaneous prosthetic venous valves are fabricated by embedding stents in an electrospun matrix that extends luminally to form leaflets. The design shields leaflets from hyperplastic cells, isolates struts from blood contact, and avoids discrete anchoring points.
Dario Arcuti   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Romania: Bank Deposit Guarantee Fund [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Following international calls to strengthen deposit-insurance systems during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Romanian authorities increased their deposit-insurance coverage from EUR 20,000 to EUR 50,000 (USD 26,800 to USD 67,000) on October 14, 2008 ...
Vergara, Ezekiel
core   +1 more source

Automating Vascular Biology: An End‐to‐End Automated Workflow for High‐Throughput Blood Vessel‐on‐a‐Chip Production and Multi‐Site Validation

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
AngioPlate384 is a 384‐well open‐top platform that automates production of more than 100 miniaturized, perfusable blood vessels embedded in hydrogel and supported by stromal cells. Stromal‐endothelial co‐culture strengthens blood vessel barrier function and yields responses useful for translational planning. Scalable and automation‐ready, it suits drug
Dawn S. Y. Lin   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nationalisation of the «Privatbank»: a look through the convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms

open access: yesПроблеми Законності, 2019
The introduction of the temporary administration gives the Deposit Guarantee Fund not only the full and exclusive right to manage a banking institution, but also the right to dispose of them.
Семен Сергійович Яценко
doaj   +1 more source

A Tri‐Culture Heart‐on‐a‐Chip Platform With iPSC‐Derived Cardiac Cells for Predictive Cardiotoxicity Testing

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents the first entirely isogenic heart‐on‐chip, unifying cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells from a single iPSC source. The platform reveals a critical biological insight: the endothelium actively shields cardiac tissue from drug‐induced toxicity, challenging the predictive accuracy of conventional, avascular models for ...
Karine Tadevosyan   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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