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Does local government tax competition promote industrial transformation and upgrading? [PDF]

PLoS One
Meng Y, Yang X, Zheng C.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Taxing tobacco as a strategy to reduce consumption and increase public health benefits in Pakistan. [PDF]

East Mediterr Health J
Aziz N, Almas A, Mahmood T, Bloomfield GS, Samad Z.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Examining the impact of environmental centralization on enterprise total factor productivity through a quasi-natural experiment conducted in China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chen A, Cheng Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Firearms as a Market‐Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm‐Related Harm in the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points For half a century, firearm‐related deaths and injuries have been endemic in the United States, with COVID‐19 contributing to a record high of 48,830 deaths in 2021, an epidemic rate increase. By 2023, national trends masked a significant 10‐fold difference in firearm‐related death rates among states.
ESZTER RIMÁNYI, JONATHAN D. QUICK, STEPHEN W. HARGARTEN, CHARLES C. BRANAS, SANDRO GALEA, NASON MAANI, JONATHAN LOWY, ZAIN HUSSAIN, NICHOLAS HOFFMANN   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control coming into force: time for a step change in ambition. [PDF]

Lancet
Gilmore AB, Callard C, Sy D, Llorente BA, Bhojani U, Egbe CO, Bialous SA.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative genomic analysis of duck plague virus reveals evolutionary divergence between vaccine and contemporary field isolates in Thailand. [PDF]

Poult Sci
Kruasuwan W, Arigul T, Jenjaroenpun P, Wongsurawat T, Sangkakam K, Muenthaisong A, Sthitmatee N, Nganvongpanit K, Nair V, Kulprasertsri S, Songserm T, Apinda N.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
wiley   +1 more source