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Reading and Mapping the Worldviews of Island States through National Anthems: Celebrating Deity, Identity, Landscapes and Unity

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2022
National anthems, along with the national flag, stamps and monuments, are important features of a state’s identity. The lyrics and music instill patriotism and nationalism on holidays, at sporting events, and in children at school.
Brunn Stanley D.
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Implication of two new paradigms for futures studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The paper considers the emergence of two recent perspectives in futures work. One is evolutionary futures studies. The other is critical futures studies.
Bell   +13 more
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Derivatives and the Financial Crisis of 2008: Managing Risk, Creating Risk, and Regulations [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2012
Exchange-traded derivatives, i.e., futures and options are the most powerful financial instruments in financial markets for hedging policies aimed at managing the price risks which are originated in physical markets as well as for speculative strategies. 
Atefeh Taklif
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Thoughts on a Changing Landscape for Research Archiving in the Cloud Era: A Critical Perspective from South Africa

open access: yesSources, 2023
This article reflects on humanities research and archival futures in Southern Africa in the Cloud era—those collections that support research on an institutionalised basis, including sound and related collections. Since the 1990s, for comparably smaller,
Valmont Layne
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Characteristics of Real Futures Trading Networks

open access: yes, 2011
Futures trading is the core of futures business, and it is considered as one of the typical complex systems. To investigate the complexity of futures trading, we employ the analytical method of complex networks.
Albert   +59 more
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Poster Boys and the Rehabilitative Dream: Using a Temporal Lens to Explore Severe Brain Injury Rehabilitation

open access: yesJournal of Long-Term Care, 2023
Context: The future comes into the present and acts upon the now. Understanding how engagement with the future shapes today and how actions taken in the now affect a time yet to come is important in understanding and improving brain injury ...
Julie Latchem-Hastings
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Biosphere Futures: a database of social-ecological scenarios

open access: yesEcology and Society
Biosphere Futures (https://biospherefutures.net/) is a new online database to collect and discover scenario studies from across the world, with a specific focus on scenarios that explicitly incorporate interdependencies between humans and their ...
Jan J. Kuiper   +17 more
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Algorithmic Strategies for Precious Metals Price Forecasting

open access: yesMathematics, 2022
This research is the first attempt to create machine learning (ML) algorithmic systems that would be able to automatically trade precious metals. The algorithm uses three forecast methodologies: linear regression (LR), Darvas boxes (DB), and Bollinger ...
Gil Cohen
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Compliance advisory service feasibility study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This report identifies areas or methods of regulatory compliance information and advice to SMEs in the region that are inadequate or deficient. It recommends additional services that will benefit SMEs in the region taking into account the business ...
Faster Futures Ltd   +1 more
core  

Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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