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Absence of prostate oedema obviates the need for delay between fiducial marker insertion and radiotherapy simulation. [PDF]
Patel D, Tan A, Brown A, Pain T.
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Autonomous Frameless Spine Registration and Robot‐Assisted Surgery
Workflow of a contactless, frame‐free, robot‐assisted vertebra registration system. Preoperative CT data establish vertebra {V} and mask {Mpre} coordinate systems. Their relationship is computed, and intraoperatively the robot recognizes the skin‐affixed mask, defining {Mintra}.
Amit Kumar +4 more
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Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms
ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle +2 more
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Abstract State‐administered pension plans report paying roughly $20 billion each year in fees to external asset managers, much of it for high‐cost, high‐risk “alternative” assets such as private equity and hedge funds. These outcomes involve trillions in pension investments that affect the retirement security of millions of public sector workers and ...
Jeffrey C. Diebold, Cody R. Taylor
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From Opportunity to Constraint: Structural Inequities in Public Pension Fund Investing
Abstract This study examines how structural features shape participation in private equity across U.S. state and local public pension systems. Using panel data from the Boston College Public Plans Database the analysis introduces the concept of structural asymmetries to explain persistent differences in access to illiquid investment strategies ...
Odd J. Stalebrink
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Intrafractional fiducial marker position variations in stereotactic liver radiotherapy during voluntary deep inspiration breath-hold. [PDF]
Stick LB +3 more
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Abstract As corporate climate litigation intensifies globally, litigants consistently encounter the same procedural and substantive hurdles: duty of care, standing and causation. Success in navigating these hurdles has been sporadic, and most existing inquiry has sought to understand these trends according to geographical or case‐type lenses.
Calum MacLaren
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ABSTRACT COVID‐19 amplified the issue of public resistance to government vaccination programs. Little attention has focused on people's moral reasons for noncompliance, which differ from—but often build upon—the epistemic claims they make about vaccine safety and efficacy, disease severity, and the trustworthiness of government. This study explores the
Katie Attwell +4 more
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ABSTRACT To address the shortcomings associated with state ownership, countries have implemented various legal strategies to curb political influence in state‐owned enterprises. This research studies whether these strategies constrain the government's ability to use their appointment powers for political considerations.
Pablo Torres
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Abstract figure legend Graphical overview of the experimental study. The upper‐left panel presents the research question, and the bottom‐left panel provides a schematic overview of the experimental design. The right‐hand panel depicts repetitive spectral data obtained by magnetic resonance spectroscopy, liver glycogen content during the 5 h post ...
Sophie C. Hannon +12 more
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