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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complications of Different Types of Cranioplasty and Identification of Risk Factors Associated with Cranioplasty at a Tertiary Care Centre: A Prospective Observational Study

open access: yesIndian Journal of Neurosurgery
Objective Decompressive craniectomy (DC) is an urgent procedure which is done to decrease intracranial pressure. A study of the complications would suggest measures to improve the care.
Yatendra Shukla   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity, Biocontrol, and Plant Growth Promoting Abilities of Xylem Residing Bacteria from Solanaceous Crops

open access: yesInternational Journal of Microbiology, 2014
Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is one of the solanaceous crops of economic and cultural importance and is widely cultivated in the state of Goa, India.
Gauri A. Achari, Raman Ramesh
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural systems research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Contents: Just what do we mean by "systems", and how can we understand them? Why is systems research particularly suited to organic agriculture? How do we do it?
Boehncke, E, Lockeretz, W
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A comparison of the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and Aleutian Islands large marine ecosystems through food web modeling / by K. Aydin ... [et al.] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Detailed mass balance food web models were constructed to compare ecosystem characteristics for three Alaska regions: the eastern Bering Sea (EBS), the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), and the Aleutian Islands (AI). This paper documents the methods and data used to
Aydin, Kerim Yunus   +4 more
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Pipe Water, Employment and Health: A Gendered Analysis in India

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of indoor piped drinking water (IPDW) on gender disparities in employment and health in India, using panel data from the India Human Development Survey (2005–2012). Employing a differences‐in‐differences (DID) model with heterogeneous treatment effects, the analysis reveals that IPDW access increases rural women ...
Ashish K. Sedai
wiley   +1 more source

Aplikasi Penginderaan Jauh untuk Identifikasi Mulut Goa di Kawasan Karst Kecamatan Tepus Gunungkidul [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Karst merupakan bentuklahan hasil proses pelarutan dengan salah satu potensi berupa goa. Penginderaan jauh dapat dimanfaatkan untuk mengenali parameter kenampakan mulut goa di kawasan karst.
Kusumawati, A. (Andani)   +1 more
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Role of BK Virus CTLs in the Treatment of BK Virus–Associated Nephropathy in Kidney‐Transplant and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients

open access: yesTransplant Infectious Disease, EarlyView.
Third‐party, BK virus‐specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) were safe and effective in reducing viremia in kidney and stem cell transplant recipients with BK virus nephropathy. However, they did not improve kidney function. Earlier administration may be more beneficial before nephropathy and irreversible damage occur.
Amanda Olson   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

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