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Changes in Equity Investment of Japan's Households After the Introduction of Defined Contribution Plans [PDF]

Compared to other advanced economies, Japan's households allocate fewer financial assets to equity investment. We examine the possibility that the introduction of self-directed defined contribution plans could stimulate more equity investment by exposing
Kunio Nakashima, Tomoki Kitamura
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Collaborating for Gender Equity in Christian Education

, 2020
This essay addresses the importance of teachers promoting gender equity. It explores potential causes for gender discrimination in Christian institutions including double standards, unequal representation, organizational culture and similarity attraction.
Castellon, Adrienne R., Sowerby, Stacy
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Climate Action Impacts on Steelmaking Emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants Highlight a Gap Between the Paris Agreement and the Stockholm Convention

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Emissions of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UPOPs) and global warming are two major environmental challenges. But their governance has largely evolved in parallel, leaving the toxicity implications of climate‐driven industrial transitions poorly understood.
Yuxiang Sun, Qiuting Yang, Jianghui Yun, Yujue Yang, Junhao Tang, Qian Liu, Minghui Zheng, Guorui Liu   +7 more
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Compliant Polymeric Sheet‐Based Heat Exchangers

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work presents flexible, transparent, and deployable polymer heat exchangers that achieve a heat transfer capacity per cost up to 4x higher than the state of the art, surpassing both metal and other polymer counterparts. The tube‐on‐tube design enables efficient heat transfer without flow occlusion, while the lightweight, corrosion‐resistant, and ...
Richard J. Fontenot, Loic Duggal, Sofia Urbina, Barclay Jumet, Anoop Rajappan, Daniel J. Preston   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in stunting prevalence in Latin America and the Caribbean countries: differences between quintiles and deciles

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a renewed commitment of tackling the varied challenges of undernutrition, particularly stunting (SDG 2.2).
Maria del Pilar Flores-Quispe, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Maria Fátima S. Maia, Leonardo Z. Ferreira, Fernando C. Wehrmeister   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Private equity-, stock- and mixed asset-portfolios: a bootstrap approach to determine performance characteristics, diversification benefits and optimal portfolio allocations : [Version: December 2003] [PDF]

, 2004
In this article, we investigate risk return characteristics and diversification benefits when private equity is used as a portfolio component. We use a unique dataset describing 642 US-American portfolio companies with 3620 private equity investments ...
Schmidt, Daniel
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Selective Lithium Recovery via Photothermal Evaporation and Hydration‐Controlled Adsorption

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A bilayer Mo‐LDH@Sponge composite is developed to couple interfacial photothermal evaporation with hydration‐controlled lithium adsorption. Solar‐induced heating dynamically regulates Li+ hydration and transport, enabling selective lithium capture from saline water. This work provides mechanistic insight into photothermal–adsorption coupling for energy‐
Yanan Pan, Yue Zhang, Guoliang Liu, Weiquan Zhan, Wencai Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing blood pressure control among patients with hypertension in Rwanda: the role of patients and caretakers

BMC Public Health
Background Hypertension (HTN) is a leading cause of cardiovascular diseases and premature death, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries.
Liberee Kubwimana, Pascaline Uwase Nsanzurwanda, Genereuse Irakoze Iradukunda, Joyeuse Urujeni, Natnael Shimelash, Rex Wong   +5 more
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Maintaining Delivery of Evidence-Based Interventions to Reduce Under-5 Mortality During COVID-19 in Rwanda: Lessons Learned through Implementation Research

Annals of Global Health
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in drops in access to and availability of a number of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) known to reduce under-5 mortality (U5M) across a wide range of countries, including Rwanda.
Alemayehu Amberbir, Felix Sayinzoga, Kedest Mathewos, Jovial Thomas Ntawukuriryayo, Amelia VanderZanden, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Agnes Binagwaho   +6 more
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How can communities and organisations improve their health literacy?

Public Health Research & Practice, 2018
Definitions of health literacy have tended to focus on the abilities of patients and communities, rather than on the ability of the health system and its services to respond to patients’ different levels of health literacy.
Jane Lloyd, Louise Thomas, Gawaine Powell-Davies, Gawaine Powell-Davies, Regina Osten, Mark Harris   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source