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Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Development Path. The Case of Visegrad Countries

Studia i Materiały, 2016
The main aim of the article is to describe shortly the role of FDI in economic transformation and increasing export capabilities of the Visegrad countries. In the first part potential benefits of FDI are described, and in the second one conditionality of
Grzegorz Tchorek
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Direct and extended friendship effects on minority and majority children’s interethnic attitudes: A longitudinal study. [PDF]

, 2009
Longitudinal direct and extended cross-ethnic friendship effects on out-group evaluations amongst German (majority status, N = 76) and Turkish (minority status, N = 73) children (age 7-11 yrs) in ethnically heterogeneous elementary schools were examined ...
Rutland, Adam, Feddes, Allard R., Feddes, A., Noack, Peter   +3 more
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Comparative Drug Response Profiling in Neuroblastoma Cell Lines and Patient‐Derived Tumor Organoids

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT High‐risk neuroblastoma remains a leading cause of pediatric cancer mortality, and improved preclinical models are needed to guide therapeutic developments. We screened seven high‐risk neuroblastoma cell lines and three patient‐derived tumor organoids with 528 compounds alongside bone marrow controls, and compared them with external datasets ...
Krzysztof Wierbiłowicz, Se Whee Sammy Park, Aironas Los, Ernest Liu, Nona Struyf, Tom Erkers, Sören Lehmann, Jan J. Molenaar, Jakob Stenman, Olli Kallioniemi, Päivi Östling, Brinton Seashore‐Ludlow, Kasper Karlsson   +12 more
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Examining the role of unmeasured confounding in mediation analysis with genetic and genomic applications

BMC Bioinformatics, 2017
Background In mediation analysis if unmeasured confounding is present, the estimates for the direct and mediated effects may be over or under estimated. Most methods for the sensitivity analysis of unmeasured confounding in mediation have focused on the ...
Sharon M. Lutz, Annie Thwing, Sarah Schmiege, Miranda Kroehl, Christopher D. Baker, Anne P. Starling, John E. Hokanson, Debashis Ghosh   +7 more
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Metacognitive Self-Regulation: The Mediating Role of Emotion Oriented Coping between Positive and Negative Beliefs about Rumination amongst Pakistani Adults [PDF]

JLUMHS, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The study explored the moderated mediating role of gender on the relationship between positive and negative beliefs about rumination mediated by emotion oriented coping. METHODOLOGY: The research was a short survey.
Aisha Muneer , Jamil A Malik, Raiha Aftab   +2 more
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Direct Effect of Sunshine on Suicide [PDF]

JAMA Psychiatry, 2014
It has been observed that suicidal behavior is influenced by sunshine and follows a seasonal pattern. However, seasons bring about changes in several other meteorological factors and a seasonal rhythm in social behavior may also contribute to fluctuations in suicide rates.To investigate the effects of sunshine on suicide incidence that are independent ...
Benjamin, Vyssoki, Nestor D, Kapusta, Nicole, Praschak-Rieder, Georg, Dorffner, Matthaeus, Willeit   +4 more
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The Effects of Financial Development on Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]

, 2014
This paper examines how financial development influences foreign direct investment. The direct and indirect sector-specific effects that source countries' financial development and destination countries' financial development can have on foreign direct ...
Desbordes, Rodolphe, Wei, Shang-Jin
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Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani, Rachel K. Peterson, Avani D. Rao, Laurie J. McKenzie, Ahmed Magdy Elmotayam, Leslie Chang, Michael Roth, Susan L. McGovern   +7 more
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The evolutionary genetics of paternal care: How good genes and extrapair copulation affect the trade‐off between paternal care and mating success

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
We investigate the evolution of a gene for paternal care, with pleiotropic effects on male mating fitness and offspring viability, with and without extrapair copulations (EPCs).
Courtney Fitzpatrick, Colette M. Ciresi, Michael J. Wade   +2 more
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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
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