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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith +8 more
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Distributed ledger technology (DLT) : introduction
, 2018 Distributed ledger technology is attracting the attention of the financial sector, both owing to its use in transactions with crypto-assets and to the proliferation of initiatives which have the potential to increase the efficiency, transparency, speed and resilience of processes underlying financial transactions.
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Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Promote the Internationalization of Currencies?
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using multinational data (2000–2023), this study employed system GMM and fixed‐effects models to examine CBDC's impact on currency internationalization through a framework measuring ‘market acceptance’ and ‘policy drive.’ The results indicated that CBDC advancement significantly promotes currency internationalization.
Haodong Gu
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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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Understanding how enzymes work: the journey to ensemble–function studies
The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.For decades, structure–function has dominated biochemistry. Structures are highly valuable, yet more is needed to achieve a quantitative understanding of biomolecular function, because function emerges from an ensemble of states, rather than a static structure. We describe an ensemble–function framework applied to quantitatively dissect serine protease
Daniel Herschlag, Siyuan Du
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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Technical challenges in applying zero-knowledge proof to blockchain
大数据, 2018 Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology based on cryptography,However,open and transparent blockchain ledger,combined with sociological mining,data mining and other statistical methods,brings a major threat to user’s privacy.Therefore ...
Kang LI +5 more
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Opportunistic Recharge Enhancement in Arid and Semi‐Arid Regions
Groundwater, EarlyView.Groundwater supplies are increasingly stressed by climatic trends and multiple competing uses, especially in dryland environments. We propose opportunistic recharge enhancement (ORE) as a cross‐disciplinary, scalable framework to augment groundwater supplies by strategically integrating recharge co‐benefits into existing land and water management ...
Neha Gupta +13 more
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Coalition Formation for Sustainable Blockchain Governance: Insights From the Hedera Case
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable governance is essential for blockchain networks to achieve widespread adoption and deliver long‐term business value. Prior blockchain initiatives indicate that inadequate governance structures often lead to limited adoption or eventual project failure, underscoring the importance of decentralised governance for building resilient ...
Christophe Viguerie, Horst Treiblmaier
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Enhancing EHR Interoperability and Security through Distributed Ledger Technology: A Review. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Carlos Ferreira J +3 more
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