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Parallels and tensions among Christian and Islamic banking

In die Skriflig
Over recent decades, Islamic banking has experienced substantial global growth, with assets under management reaching approximately USD 3.24 trillion, while the Christian community has not developed a comparably operationalised banking paradigm.
Morten Bøsterud
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds to Engineer the Dormant Landscape of Microscopic Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Decellularized liver extracellular matrix scaffolds provide a platform to study dormant liver‐metastatic colorectal cancer. They induce reversible dormancy, in combination with nutrient depletion and low dose chemotherapy, through cell cycle arrest and chemotherapy resistance.
Sabrina N. VandenHeuvel, Lucia L. Nash, Abigail J. Clevenger, Claudia A. Collier, Oscar R. Benavides, Sanjana Roy, Brinlee Goggans, Aelita Salikhova, Anvitha Tharakesh, Svasti Haricharan, Amber N. Stratman, Scott Kopetz, Alex J. Walsh, Shreya A. Raghavan   +13 more
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The impacts of global economic policy uncertainty on green bond returns: A systematic literature review

Heliyon
This study utilizes the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework to investigate the interconnectedness of green bond with various financial markets, aiming to clarify their relationship with global economic ...
Samuel Asante Gyamerah, Clement Asare
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Did the market overreact to the mandatory switch to IFRS in Europe? [PDF]

, 2014
Despite studies which indicate that mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) reduced the cost of capital for adopting firms and improved analysts’ forecasts, the evidence supporting any improvement in accounting quality is
Chen, Q, Skerratte, L
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Spherical Skin Model: Stratified Co‐Culture of Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes on Spherical Beads Toward Compound Screening

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Models of the human skin must combine the relevant biological contents and suitable biomaterials with the correct spatial organization. Performing compound screening on such in vitro models also requires fast and reproducible production methods of the models.
Elisa Lenzi, Nadia Vertti‐Quintero, Julien Husson, Anne‐Laure Bulteau, Carine Nizard, Karl Pays, Sébastien Sart, Charles N. Baroud   +7 more
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Asset Building for Social Change: Pathways to Large-Scale Impact [PDF]

, 2004
Provides an in-depth examination of current and historic initiatives, in an effort to discern patterns of successful scaling up from among Ford's Assets Program portfolios ...

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Preserve or retreat? Willingness-to-pay for Coastline Protection in New South Wales

, 2019
Coastal erosion is a global and pervasive phenomenon that predicates a need for a strategic approach to the future management of coastal values and assets (both built and natural), should we invest in protective structures like seawalls that aim to ...
Ardeshiri, Ali, Heagney, Elizabeth C., Kovac, Mladen, Swait, Joffre   +3 more
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Redefining Therapies for Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis: Synergistic Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides, Nanotechnology, and Computational Design

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP)‐loaded nanocarriers provide a multifunctional strategy to combat drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By enhancing intracellular delivery, bypassing efflux pumps, and disrupting bacterial membranes, this platform restores phagolysosome fusion and macrophage function.
Christian S. Carnero Canales, Jessica Ingrid Marquez Cazorla, Renzo Marianito Marquez Cazorla, Aline Martins dos Santos, Jonatas Lobato Duarte, Letícia Oliveira Catarin Nunes, Túlio Custódio Reis, Lara Cerazi Salvador, Norival Alves Santos‐Filho, Rafael Miguel Sábio, Hélder A. Santos, Fernando Rogério Pavan   +11 more
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An Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Approach for Reliability and Regulation-Aware Decision Support in Power Systems

Computation
Modern medium-voltage (MV) distribution networks face increasing reliability challenges driven by aging assets, climate variability, and evolving operational demands.
Diego Armando Pérez-Rosero, Santiago Pineda-Quintero, Juan Carlos Álvarez-Barreto, Andrés Marino Álvarez-Meza, German Castellanos-Dominguez   +4 more
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The Economics of Natural Disasters - Implications and Challenges for Food Security [PDF]

A large and growing share of the world's poor lives under conditions in which high hazard risk coincides with high vulnerability. In the last decade, natural disasters claimed 79,000 lives each year and affected more than 200 million people, with damages
de Haen, Hartwig, Hemrich, Gunter
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