From planning to savings: CRC screening organization and cost-utility analysis of early CRC detection in Bulgaria. [PDF]
Krastev H +5 more
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ABSTRACT Aim To investigate whether common disturbances of glucose and lipid metabolism can be automatically identified from magnetic resonance signatures of the pancreas and liver. Methods In this proof‐of‐principle study, 100 individuals with a history of pancreatitis—a relatively homogeneous population at risk for metabolic derangements—underwent ...
Wandia Kimita +5 more
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Perceived Effectiveness of Workplace Violence Prevention Strategies Among Bulgarian Healthcare Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Survey. [PDF]
Radeva N +4 more
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Abstract We build an endogenous growth model that distinguishes productive and welfare government expenditures and embeds fiscal externalities. The model yields three testable hypotheses: (i) productive expenditure raises growth (Barro effect); (ii) productive expenditure generates cross‐country productivity spillovers; (iii) government expenditure ...
Xiaodong Chen, Haoming Mi, Peng Zhou
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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Prevalence of <i>Borrelia afzelii</i> and <i>Borrelia garinii</i> Genospecies in <i>Ixodes ricinus</i> Ticks Collected from Three Regions in Bulgaria. [PDF]
Stanilov I +3 more
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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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ROMO1 as a Diagnostic Biomarker in Cervical Neoplasia: Evidence from Normal, Pre-Invasive, and Invasive Lesions. [PDF]
Tsoneva E +12 more
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