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‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction Analysis of Microarray of 50 genes (PAM50) classifier validated for predicting prostate cancer progression in active surveillance: Miami Active Surveillance Trial (MAST)

open access: yesBJU International, EarlyView.
Objectives To evaluate basal‐luminal cell of origin subtyping using Prediction Analysis of Microarray of 50 genes (PAM50) genomic classification profiles for predicting disease progression in men undergoing active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer (PCa).
Ankur Malpani   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

US‐China trade war: Heterogeneous effects on the US consumer

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper meticulously investigates how the US‐China trade war of 2018–19 affected nondurable consumption patterns for households across the United States. Using highly granular NielsenIQ barcode scanner data, we find that a 1 percentage point (pp) increase in a county's tariff exposure growth was associated with a decrease in nondurable ...
Michael DeDad, Sucharita Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Equity considerations in the proposed wildlife protocol to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wildlife trafficking poses a critical threat to global biodiversity, contributes to organized crime, and has disproportionate impacts on underserved and Indigenous communities. Although international legal instruments, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and institutional collaborations,
Chad Patrick Osorio
wiley   +1 more source

Foetal macrosomia: risk factors, maternal and foetal outcomes in N’Djamena Mother and Child Hospital, Chad

open access: yesSouth Sudan Medical Journal, 2018
Background: Macrosomia is a birth weight above the 90th percentile corrected for gestational age and sex, or birth weight of 4000-4500 g. Objective: To determine the incidence of foetal macrosomia and macrosomia-associated maternal and perinatal ...
Gabkika Bray Madoue   +2 more
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Leakage of Public Resources in the Health Sector: An Empirical Investigation of Chad [PDF]

open access: yes
In the public sector in developing countries, leakage of public resources could prove detrimental to users and affect the well-being of the population. In this paper, we empirically examine the importance of leakage of government resources in the health ...
Bernard Gauthier, Waly Wane
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Drones: Emergence of a transformative technology for island rodent eradications

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Drones have emerged as a potentially powerful tool to address an ongoing need for alternative rodent eradication solutions on remote islands. This potential has now been demonstrated in a diverse set of operations across the Pacific. In the coming decades, this novel toolset also offers the possibility to step beyond existing paradigms and imagine a ...
Donal Smith   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of ESG in Shaping the Impact of Financial Development on Banks' Performance

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how financial development, divided into financial markets and financial institutions, affects banks' performance across 93 financially developed countries during the period between 2008 and 2023. The analysis highlights the role of environmental, social and governance readiness as core determinants that reshape ...
Noman Arshed   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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