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Unveiling the intermediate role of Mexico’s mid-sized metropolises
Regional Studies, Regional ScienceThis paper analyses the role of metropolises that occupy a secondary place in urban systems and distinguishes between the intermediation and other strategic roles that they can play.
Alejandra Trejo-Nieto
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Aerial Laser Scanning in Archeology
Geoinformatics FCE CTU, 2011 Technology of aerial laser scanning is often well used for a DTM generation. The DTM (digital surface model) displayed in appropriate form, e.g. shaded surface, can be used as a data source for searching for archaeological sites.
Martina Faltýnová, Karel Pavelka
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Effective Population Size and the Effects of Demography on Cultural Diversity and Technological Complexity [PDF]
, 2016 A central tenet of the so-called demographic hypothesis is that larger populations ought to be associated with more diverse and complex toolkits. Recent empirical tests of this expectation have yielded mixed results, leading some to question to what ...
L. S. Premo
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Discover Global SocietyThe study explored the nexus between financial literacy and credit decision of maize aggregators in Ghana. Multistage sampling approach was used to select 200 maize aggregators from the Bono and Bono East regions to form the sample size.
Samuel Afotey Anang +6 more
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The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff +2 more
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Effect of Firm Size on Corporate Borrowing of Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria [PDF]
International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences, 2016 The purpose of the research was to investigate to what extent the size of a firm in Nigeria oil and gas industry affects the magnitude of external borrowings. The study went further to examine the relationship between firm size and financial leverage in the same industry; as well as the causal relationship among the variables under study.
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POEMS Syndrome: 2026 Update on Diagnosis, Risk‐Stratification, and Management
American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disease Overview POEMS syndrome is a life‐threatening syndrome due to an underlying plasma cell neoplasm. The major criteria for the syndrome are polyneuropathy, clonal plasma cell disorder (PCD), sclerotic bone lesions, elevated vascular endothelial growth factor, and the presence of Castleman disease.
Angela Dispenzieri
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Bank Borrowing and Financing of Medium-sized Firms in Indonesia
, 2008 The improvement of financial intermediation functions is crucial for a robust banking system. When lending, banks have to cope with such problems as information asymmetry and adverse selection. In order to mitigate these problems, banks have to product information and improve their techniques of lending.
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