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Safety of Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Evaluation and Perspective from Component Materials to Cells, Modules, and Packs

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides a bottom‐up evaluation of sodium‐ion battery safety, linking material degradation mechanisms, cell engineering parameters, and module/pack assembly. It emphasizes that understanding intrinsic material stability and establishing coordinated engineering control across hierarchical levels are vital for preventing degradation coupling ...
Won‐Gwang Lim, Seoa Kim, Erik A. Wu, Darren H. S. Tan, Shawn Peng, Xiaolin Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

INDEPENDENT COMMERCIAL BANK MERGERS AND AGRICULTURAL LENDING CONCENTRATION

In an era of rapid consolidation in banking, the effect of mergers on the availability of credit to agricultural businesses is unclear. Commercial bank mergers have profoundly altered the urban credit marketplace and are positioned to do the same for the
Dixon, Bruce L., Ahrendsen, Bruce L., Lee, Laderrek T.   +2 more
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Factors that affect short-term commercial bank lending to developing countries [PDF]

Developing countries rely on short-term trade credits for imports of several essential consumer goods, including medicines and basic food supplies. The credits also facilitate export-related transactions.
Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad, Gooptu, Sudarshan   +1 more
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of the Current Global Economic and Financial Crisis on the EU Budget

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2013
The aim of this paper is to analyze the main effects of the current global financial and economic crisis on the European Union budget and the measures that were taken in order to support the EU member states with the purpose of limiting and counteracting
Adina DORNEAN, Andreea SANDU
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Creditor country regulations and commercial bank lending to developing countries [PDF]

Ever since the debt crisis of 1982, commercial banks continue to be reluctant in lending to developing countries. It is often argued that regulatory pressures on commercial banks have also contributed to the banks'reduced exposure to developing countries.
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elite elimination osprey optimization algorithm optimized kernel extreme learning machine for bankruptcy prediction problems

Scientific Reports
This study addresses the limitations of traditional bankruptcy prediction models, which often struggle with nonlinear financial data due to their tendency to fall into local optima, low efficiency in parameter optimization, and insufficient prediction ...
Wenan Liu, Haoyu Wu, Tianshu Wang, Haiming Wu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of Commercial Banks Profitability: the Case of Ethiopian Commercial Banks

, 2015
Banks are the most crucial financial intermediaries in the economy and economy that have profitable banking industry are better able to withstand negative shock and contribute to the stability of the whole economy. The purpose of this study is to investigate determinants of commercial banks profitability in Ethiopia by using panel data of eight ...
openaire   +1 more source