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Foreign Direct Investment in a Late Industrialising Country: The Portuguese IDP Revisited [PDF]

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This article uses the investment development path to analyse the evolution of Portugal’s competitiveness in recent years. This is interpreted as the country’s capacity to both attract and engage in foreign direct investment.
Francisco B. Castro
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ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
wiley   +1 more source

Expert participation in the health technology assessment process: a scoping review. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Bras Enferm
Figueiredo SMDS   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Aggregate and sector-specific exchange rate indexes for the Portuguese economy [PDF]

open access: yes
Economic theory and empirical evidence suggest that fluctuations in exchange rates may have strong reallocation effects. Accession to the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992, and then to the European Monetary Union in 1999, implied a drastic change in the ...
Fernando Alexandre   +3 more
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Fine‐scale patterns of genetic structure in three species of forest birds reveal dynamic Pleistocene history within an Amazonian interfluve

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Phylogeographical studies of Amazonian birds have revealed large intraspecific diversity, even within recognized areas of endemism. To understand the origin and organization of Amazonian diversity, including the influence of current and historical landscapes, we need to evaluate fine‐scale patterns of genetic diversity in relation to detailed ...
Affonso Henrique Nascimento de Souza   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Works Councils on Wages [PDF]

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This paper investigates for the first time the effect of works councils on the anatomy of wages, using matched employer-employee data from the German LIAB for 2001. We find that works councils are associated with higher earnings.
John T. Addison   +2 more
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Exploring the exploration: implications of leaving or remaining at the natal site during the early stages of independence in a partially migratory bird

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Despite being an important fraction of any animal population, juveniles are a severely understudied group. Juveniles often need to learn an array of skills that allow them to survive independently and do so while undertaking decisions that may impact their fitness, recruitment and survival, having therefore relevant demographic implications.
Manuela S. Rodrigues   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of particulate matter filtration: systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Bras Enferm
Faustino F   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A new catfish species of Microcambeva Costa & Bockmann, 1994 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from southern Brazil, with a redescription of M. ribeirae Costa, Lima & Bizerril, 2004

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Among the few species of Microcambeva reported as occurring in more than one hydrographic basin, M. ribeirae has been previously listed from both the Ribeira de Iguape and the Guaraqueçaba basins. However, morphological and molecular analyses revealed that the specimens from Guaraqueçaba represent a new species, which is described in this ...
Lucas S. de Medeiros   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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