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ABSTRACT Tropical forests play a crucial role in achieving the sustainable development goals by contributing to climate stability, conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods. However, forests are disappearing due to agricultural expansion. In West Africa, cocoa production is a major driver of deforestation.
Thomas Addoah+7 more
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Abstract Research Summary The paper explores how the deep historical roots of informal institutions influence current informal businesses. It proposes that both pre‐colonial institutions—the tradition of cousin marriage—and the subsequent shocks of colonization still impact the performance of informal firms. We theorize on how the effects of historical
Saul Estrin+2 more
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Abstract Research Summary This study examines how corporate political influence in developed democracies is more likely to occur where visibility is lower, both in terms of the actors involved and of the points of influence in allocation processes. Using novel data on politically exposed persons across 28 European countries (2011–2017), I distinguish ...
Tony L. He
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Data Bookkeeping Service 3 - A new event data catalog for CMS
M. Giffels, Yining Guo, D. Riley
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This analysis illuminates how girls and young women dedicated to horse sports craft a resilient identity that they take to their wider lives. The constitutive features of their horse person identity are their willingness to love, care, and learn about horses combined with their embodied close relationships with specific horses.
Laura Sanchez
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Establishing an Essential Dataset for Trauma Registry in LMICs: Insights From a Delphi Survey
Injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, with 90% of deaths occurring in low‐middle‐income countries (LMICs). Establishing well‐functioning trauma systems is crucial in LMICs, with a trauma registry being an integral component. This study used the Delphi technique to gather insights from trauma experts on essential data variables ...
Theresa Farhat+10 more
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ABSTRACT The challenge of optimising multimodal functions within high‐dimensional domains constitutes a notable difficulty in evolutionary computation research. Addressing this issue, this study introduces the Deep Backtracking Bare‐Bones Particle Swarm Optimisation (DBPSO) algorithm, an innovative approach built upon the integration of the Deep Memory
Jia Guo+6 more
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