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HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Development and dosimetric evaluation of a freely deformable ⁶Li-based neutron shield for boron neutron capture therapy. [PDF]

Med Phys
Hu N, Kakino R, Sasaki A, Nojiri M, Akita K, Yoshikawa S, Kohigashi Y, Yoshino Y, Takeno S, Aihara T, Takata T, Tanaka H, Nihei K, Ono K.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperspectral Imaging for the Classification and Analysis of Drusen in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. [PDF]

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
Chen C, Razavi R, Romano F, Niessen H, Sabokrohiyeh S, Konda A, Chevrefils C, Arbour JD, Rhéaume MA, Nissan R, Rojewski A, Sorya P, Santucci L, Campbell S, Ploumi I, Zhu Y, Ding X, Sylvestre JP, Miller JB, Nassar K.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Deposit Insurance and External Finance [PDF]

Countries around the world differ substantially in the relative importance of their banks and capital markets in providing investment financing. This paper examines one potential explanation for the cross-country differences in the importance of banks ...
Stefan Krause, Stephen G. Cecchetti
core  

Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
wiley   +1 more source

Dental trauma coverage in student accident insurance: a framework-guided document analysis. [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Liew AKC, Abdullah D.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Deposit Insurance and the Consumption Trap [PDF]

We investigate a banking system subject to repeated macroeconomic shocks and show that without deposit rate control, the banking system collapses with certainty. Any initial level of reserves will delay the collapse but not avoid it.
Hans Gersbach, Jan Wenzelburger
core  

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers to healthcare access among women in sub-Saharan Africa: A pooled analysis of multi-country DHS data (2019-2023). [PDF]

PLoS One
Zeleke GA, Mekonen EG, Terefe B, Wassie M, Aemro A, Zegeye AF, Ali MS, Tekeba B, Tamir TT, Workneh BS.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source