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An economic history of Hundi, 1858-1978 [PDF]
, 2012 A centuries-old artery of credit for Indian merchant networks, the indigenous credit system hundi has received no systematic attention in histories of the Indian subcontinent.
Martin, Marina
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Amygdala Neurodegeneration: A Key Driver of Visual Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Visual disability in Parkinson's disease (PD) is not fully explained by retinal neurodegeneration. We aimed to delineate the brain substrate of visual dysfunction in PD and its association with retinal thickness. Methods Forty‐two PD patients and 29 controls underwent 3‐Tesla MRI, retinal spectral‐domain optical coherence tomography,
Asier Erramuzpe +15 more
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US Salary History Bans -- Strategic Disclosure by Job Applicants and the Gender Pay Gap [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 I study the effects of US salary history bans which restrict employers from inquiring about job applicants' pay history during the hiring process, but allow candidates to voluntarily share information. Using a difference-in-differences design, I show that these policies narrowed the gender pay gap significantly by 2 p.p., driven almost entirely by an ...
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective People with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) may require a high level of daily assistance both for indoor and outdoor activities. Usually, relatives or friends provide daily support to MS patients who have lost personal autonomy. Several factors such as disability level and disease duration may affect the burden of care in caregivers of ...
Giuseppe Schirò +9 more
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The South African Software Industry as a Key Component of Economic Development: Pipedream or Possibility [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The Information and Communication sector has undoubtedly played a pivotal role in changing the way people live nowadays. Almost every area of our lives is affected by the presence and the use of the new information and communication technologies. In this regard, many researchers' attention has been attracted by the influence or the significant impact ...
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iPEHD – The ifo Prussian economic history database [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th -century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several
Becker, Sascha O. +3 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Osteoporosis, a known complication of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), increases the risk of hip fracture, which is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Fracture risk estimates in patients with RA treated with contemporary treatment strategies are lacking.
C. Allyson Jones +5 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The study objective was to estimate the budget impact of funding a standardized education and exercise therapy program, Good Life with osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) for people with hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) waiting for total joint replacement (TJR) consultation in a universal publicly insured health care system in Canada.
Darren R. Mazzei +4 more
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L.V.Kantorovich and Linear Programming [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 I want to write about what I know and remember about the activities of Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich, an outstanding scientist of the 20th century; about his dramatic struggle for recognition of his mathematical economic theories; about the initial stage of the history of linear programming; about beautuful Kantorovich metric, about the creation of a ...
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THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: NATURE, HISTORY, AND THE ROLE OF TRADE.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018 We explore the role of natural characteristics in determining the worldwide spatial distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, observed across 240,000 grid cells.
V. Henderson +3 more
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