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Pursuing patents for their own sake: How the investment discourse shapes patent quality and quantity
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract Patent systems worldwide face criticisms over declining patent quality and increasing patent quantity. While most research focuses on strengthening examination rigour, this article turns attention to relatively underexplored patenting incentives.
Li Liu
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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Between Construction and Inheritance: The Hidden Frame of Colonialism in Galician Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the 1960s and 1970s, anticolonial liberation narratives transcended the geopolitical boundaries of the Global South and profoundly shaped nationalist movements in Europe. Although the anticolonial frame gained momentum during this period, its overtly confrontational rhetoric was gradually supplanted by moderate frames that aligned with ...
Xavier de Pablo, Ramón Máiz
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Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Obesity's global rise has outpaced the effectiveness of “one‐size‐fits‐all” prevention and treatment strategies. The promise of precision medicine lies in addressing the etiological and biological diversity of obesity and transforming it into actionable endotypes.
Nadia Abu Samra +13 more
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Does the European Union ‘Rule the World’? Competition Law Diffusion to Singapore and Hong Kong
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines why Singapore and Hong Kong adopted competition law by testing four diffusion mechanisms: coercion, competition, learning, and the Brussels Effect. Using structured process tracing and extensive archival evidence, it evaluates the distinct observable implications of each mechanism.
Yannis Karagiannis
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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Towards a Trade War in 2025: Real Threats for the World Economy, False Promises for the US
The World Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the MIRAGE‐Power computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, we simulate a trade war initiated in 2025 by the new US administration. The central scenario consists in a 60‐percentage point tariff increase on all US imports from China, a 10‐percentage point tariff increase on all products from other partners, except Canada and Mexico, and ...
Antoine Bouët +2 more
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International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 1172-1211, March 2027.Abstract Despite increasing demands for resilient and sustainable supply chains, inventory management often relies on outdated single‐criterion analyses. While multi‐criteria ABC (MCABC) analyses provide a theoretically mature assessment of resilience‐sustainability‐benefit trade‐offs in inventory, their adoption remains limited due to fragmented ...
Lukas Grützner, Michael H. Breitner
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Past, present and future of local crop evolution
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1989-2004, November 2026.Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales +6 more
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