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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
wiley   +1 more source

Universal Fiducial Markers for Multi-Modal Radiotherapy. [PDF]

Int J Part Ther
Liu J, Bamberger C, Iqbal N, Reynolds K, Shah S, Li X, Wang P, Fan J, Chawla A, Choe K, Kim D, Rahimi R.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Integrating Digital Feedback Into Competency‐Based Medical Education for Crown Preparation Skill Acquisition: A Pre–Post Study of Dental Interns in Taiwan

European Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Digital technologies are increasingly incorporated into dental education to improve training and promote more objective skill assessment. Digital superimposition enables quantitative comparison between student preparations and reference models but is seldom applied in crown preparation training.
Tsung‐Fu Chang, Da‐Yo Yuh, Dun‐Yu Hsu, Yuan‐Chih Tsai, Yu‐Chiao Wu, Ting‐Yu Wu, Ling‐Yu Kung   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting multiple fiducial markers from a camera seismocardiogram. [PDF]

Biomed Opt Express
Li H, Huang D, Liu L, Zhou Z, Shan C, Wang W.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CFO overconfidence, environmental violations, and firm performance. The moderating role of constituency statutes

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship between Chief Financial Officer (CFO) overconfidence and firm performance through the lens of environmental violations and constituency statutes. Drawing on stakeholder and upper echelons theories, we find that firms with overconfident CFOs are more likely to commit environmental violations, which ...
Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, Shee‐Yee Khoo, Patrycja Klusak, Yurtsev Uymaz, Huong Vu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of daily volumetric imaging on target tracking without fiducial markers during robotic treatment of pancreas. [PDF]

Phys Med Biol
Bedford JL, Nill S, Oelfke U.
europepmc   +1 more source

Liver-directed stereotactic body radiotherapy can be reliably delivered to selected patients without internal fiducial markers-A case series. [PDF]

J Chin Med Assoc, 2022
Fu HJ, Chen PY, Yang HY, Tsang YW, Lee CY.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Affiliated Mutual Funds: Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand?

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many countries, banks are the primary distribution channel for mutual funds and predominantly sell products issued by their own asset management divisions (“affiliated funds”). We examine how this lack of competition affects managerial activeness, fund performance, and investor outcomes.
Dominik Scheld, Oscar Stolper, Mario Fernandes, Kim Heyden   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of intrahepatic fiducial markers in carbon ion radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer-Achieving higher precision treatment. [PDF]

J Appl Clin Med Phys
Nagata J, Kusano Y, Komori M, Takayama Y, Kurokawa S, Ito A, Kamada T, Yoshida D, Kawashiro S, Katoh H.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fiducial markers for stereotactic lung radiation therapy: review of the transthoracic, endovascular and endobronchial approaches. [PDF]

Eur Respir Rev, 2022
Casutt A, Kinj R, Ozsahin EM, von Garnier C, Lovis A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source