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Health Care Costs: A Primer 2012: Key Information on Health Care Costs and Their Impact [PDF]
, 2012 Examines changes in U.S. healthcare spending, compared with other countries and per capita; what it pays for; who pays; and how healthcare costs affect families and employers.
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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini +2 more
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Trade booms, trade busts and trade costs [PDF]
, 2010 What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows ...
Jacks, David S. (David Steven) +2 more
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Overview of molecular signatures of senescence and associated resources: pros and cons
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Cells can enter a stress response state termed cellular senescence that is involved in various diseases and aging. Detecting these cells is challenging due to the lack of universal biomarkers. This review presents the current state of senescence identification, from biomarkers to molecular signatures, compares tools and approaches, and highlights ...
Orestis A. Ntintas +6 more
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Will Privatization Reduce Costs? [PDF]
I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs.
Lindqvist, Erik
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Adolescent Literacy Programs: Costs of Implementation [PDF]
, 2009 Reviews the literature on implementation of educational reforms and compares implementation processes and costs at schools that have adopted one of three literacy reforms.
Alex Elson, Doran Catlin, Henry M. Levin
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SmallTalk: a novel small‐sized fusion tag for peptide expression and purification
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.The SmallTalk fusion tag allows for the efficient expression and purification of soluble recombinant proteins or peptides in Escherichia coli. Testing with SmallTalk‐GFP confirmed that the proteins were soluble and folded correctly, while SmallTalk‐Bin1b maintained its antimicrobial activity against various bacterial isolates. This streamlined workflow
Atika Tariq +3 more
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The Energy Costs of Historic Preservation [PDF]
, 2017 We explore the impact of historical preservation policies on domestic energy consumption. Using panel data for England from 2006 to 2013 and employing a fixed effects strategy, we document that (i) rising national energy prices induce an increase in home
Hilber, C., Palmer, C., Pinchbeck, E.
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.What factors make for an effective digital learning tool in Higher Education? This systematic review identifies elements of a digital tool that published examples reveal to be features of an engaging and impactful digital tool. A systematic literature search yielded 25 research papers for analysis.
Akmal Arzeman +4 more
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