Distribution and transmission of medicinal plant knowledge in the andean highlands: a case study from peru and bolivia. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 This paper presents a study of patterns in the distribution and transmission of medicinal plant knowledge in rural Andean communities in Peru and Bolivia. Interviews and freelisting exercises were conducted with 18 households at each study site.
Mathez-Stiefel SL, Vandebroek I.
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The present and future use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for cognitive neuroscience. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2020 The past few decades have seen a rapid increase in the use of functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) in cognitive neuroscience. In our review, we aim to provide a comprehensive and state‐of‐the‐art review of fNIRS basics, technical developments, and applications.
Pinti P +6 more
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Price-shifting fungibility [PDF]
, 2022 Unconditional intergovernmental grants are popular with economists but increasingly rarely observed in practice. Conversely, earmarking grants became a common form of the centres’ support to states in federalist countries, though they are seriously ...
Barbaro, Salvatore
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DECENTRALIZATION AND PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE: NEW EVIDENCE FROM ITALY
Economic Inquiry, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 856-880, April 2020., 2020 We exploit a new dataset based on European Union (EU) procurement award notices to investigate the relationship between the degree of centralization of public procurement and its performance. We focus on the case of Italy, where all levels of government, along with a number of other public institutions, are involved in procurement and are subject to ...
Olga Chiappinelli
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On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain [PDF]
, 2013 This paper studies the effect of political variables on the gains obtained by Spanish regions in periodical bargaining of the intergovernmental financing agreements and on the regional distribution of discretional earmarked grants over the period 1987 ...
Lago Peñas, Santiago +2 more
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The 2021 Madrilenian regional election: how can the incumbent improve its results in times of crisis? [PDF]
, 2023 Introduction: Although there is a considerable amount of work on the eect of catastrophes on elections, we still do not have much work on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on them.
Coulbois Bernardo, Jaime Pierre
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, Volume 2009, Issue 1, 2009., 2009 Human babesiosis is an emerging tick‐borne infectious disease caused by intraerythrocytic protozoan species of the genus Babesia with many clinical features similar to those of malaria. Over the last 50 years, the epidemiology of human babesiosis has changed from a few isolated cases to the establishment of endemic areas in the northeastern and ...
Edouard Vannier +2 more
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estimating and explaining the territorial structure of government [PDF]
, 2012 1\. Introduction 6 2\. Theorizing Government Structure 7 2.1 Spatial Theory 7 2.2 Soft Information Versus Scale Economies 8 3\. Estimating Government Structure 11 4\. Explaining Government Structure 17 5\. Results 18 6\.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Mapping State Structures – With an Application to Western Europe, 1950—2015 [PDF]
, 2018 This paper addresses long-standing challenges in conceptualizing and measuring state structures. It first outlines a novel conceptualization of the unitary/federal distinction and its relation to de/centralization and a/symmetry, from which it derives ...
Adcock +63 more
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Give me liberty or give me money: the fiscal decentralization and autonomy of regional governance in Slovakia [PDF]
, 2019 [Abstract] The aim of this study is to focus on fiscal decentralization and regional financial autonomy in Slovakia. The public administration reform and fiscal decentralization process in Slovakia ought to increase the autonomy of the multi-level ...
Horváth, Peter +2 more
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