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What Ails Local Service Delivery of Public Goods and Services? [PDF]
This Note provides an account of the problems underlying local service delivery (LSD) in the Philippines and presents some prospective solutions. The problems are examined on the basis of the three components of the Triangulation Framework for LSD ...
Layug, Allan S.
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The Challenges of Malaysian Dry Ports Development
Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2015 This paper examines the functions and challenges of dry ports development in Malaysia through 11 face-to-face interviews with dry port stakeholders.
Jagan Jeevan +2 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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The Politics of Service Delivery in Pakistan: Political Parties and the Incentives for Patronage, 1988-1999 [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of the political party structure on the incentives for politicians to focus on patronage versus service delivery improvements in Pakistan.
Zahid Hasnain
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Globalisation and national incentives for protecting environmental goods [PDF]
, 2004 This article tries to explain national incentives for protecting environmental goods either autonomously or collectively; it explores how globalisation has affected those incentives; and it suggests how national environmental policy might respond so as ...
Kölliker, Alkuin
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Proteostasis and the gut microbiota play a key role in shaping host physiology. Microbiota‐derived metabolites, vitamins, and RNA modulate host proteostasis. Findings from model systems, including C. elegans, indicate microbes can either stabilize or disrupt host proteostasis.
Abhishek Anil Dubey, Maria Ermolaeva
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Nonlinear pricing of information goods [PDF]
This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods under incomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricing and usage-based pricing are feasible, and administering usage-based pricing may involve transaction costs.
Arun Sundararajan
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Competitiveness in a Multipolar Port System: Striving for Regional Gateway Status in Northeast Asia
Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics, 2016 The structure of competitiveness between hub ports in the multipolar Northeast Asian system will determine which ports achieve regional gateway status.
Sihyun Kim, Dalwon Kang, John Dinwoodie
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The delivery of goods in the city
, 2013 Ce cas permet d’aborder le difficile et délicat problème de la distribution urbaine, à travers le transport des marchandises en ville, ce dernier concernant à la fois les livraisons des commerçants de proximité et celles des particuliers, notamment celles, de plus en plus nombreuses, des internautes.L’objet du cas est, avant tout, de présenter les ...
Durand, Bruno, Senkel, Marie-Pascale
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From mice to humans—divergent strategies for intestinal homeostasis and regeneration
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Recent advances such as organoid genome editing, xenotransplantation, imaging, and whole‐genome sequencing have enabled direct studies of human intestinal stem cells (ISCs). These studies reveal species‐specific features, including slower ISC proliferation, distinct injury responses, slower somatic mutation accumulation in humans, and an inverse ...
Keiko Ishikawa +2 more
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