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Patterns of technological progress and corporate innovation [PDF]

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The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation.
Waśniewski, Krzysztof
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Market‐Based Nutrition Regulation and Adult BMI Dynamics in Latin America

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based nutrition policies, including interpretative labeling systems and taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs), have been widely adopted across Latin America to influence dietary choices and address rising obesity rates. While prior research documents change in food purchasing and product reformulation following these policies ...
Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Grace Melo
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Franchise in Romanian tourism [PDF]

open access: yes
Both on national and international scale, tourism business is improving continuously, by adjusting to the tourists' demands, resulting in modification and adaptation of organization and association forms in this area.
Bunea-Bontaş, Cristina Aurora   +1 more
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Nineteenth-Century Bahia\u27s Passion for British Salted Cod: From the Seas of Newfoundland to the Portuguese Shops of Salvador\u27s Cidade Baixa, 1822-1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dried cod has played a similar role to sugar in the international chain of commerce. It became a major traded commodity between British North America (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Gaspe) in the nineteenth century.
Herold, Marc W.
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Functional Advantage of Central Pancreatectomy Over Distal Pancreatectomy for Benign or Low‐Grade Malignant Tumors: A Comparative Analysis Based on 75‐g Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Central pancreatectomy (CP) better preserves postoperative pancreatic endocrine function than distal pancreatectomy for benign or low‐grade malignant tumors. The 75‐g oral glucose tolerance test demonstrated that CP maintained insulin secretion and glucose tolerance, highlighting its clinical advantage as a function‐preserving procedure.
Dongha Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The success of luxury brands in Japan and their uncertain future [PDF]

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The Japanese are the world?s largest individual consumers of luxury brands and form the second largest market for luxury goods after the US. The Japanese were the driving force behind the exponential growth of the European luxury industry and the ...
Ronald J. Degen
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Serum Bile Acids Are Useful Indicators of Intrahepatic Recurrence After Initial Curative Hepatectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Bile acids accumulation in hepatocytes causes liver damage and contributes to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the association between serum bile acid levels and postoperative intrahepatic recurrence in hepatocellular carcinoma remains unclear.
Tomoaki Bekki   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

E-BRANDING DE DESTINOS E IMAGEN AFECTIVA Un estudio sobre la percepción de los consumidores a partir de las redes sociales oficiales de Porto de Galinhas (PE – Brasil)

open access: yes, 2020
Resumen Este estudio tiene por objetivo analizar de qué forma el consumidor percibe la imagen afectiva del destino Porto de Galinhas a partir de las aplicaciones de e-branding en sus redes sociales oficiales. La fundamentación teórica utilizada para esta investigación consistió en abordar la función del e-branding de destinos, la relevancia de las ...
Cavalcanti Silva, Isadora Bianca   +1 more
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Short‐ and Long‐Term Outcomes of Subtotal Gastrectomy for Remnant Gastric Cancer: A Multicenter Study

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This multicenter study compared subtotal versus completion gastrectomy for remnant gastric cancer. Subtotal gastrectomy was associated with shorter operative time and significantly less postoperative weight loss, with no difference in long‐term survival, suggesting it as a feasible surgical option without compromising oncologic outcomes.
Kensuke Kudou   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

History repeats itself: current traps in complexity practice from a systems perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper discusses the history of systems scholarship and how this has been translated into particular forms of purposeful action, like complexity practice.
Ison, Raymond, Schlindwein, Sandro Luis
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