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Government spending efficiency in Latin America
Empirica, 2022 AbstractWe assess public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000–2019, computing data envelopment analysis efficiency scores. For the Public Sector Performance composite indicator, we use the annual data of socio-economic indicators, and for the input measure we consider Total Public Spending as a percentage of GDP ...
António Afonso, Gabriela Baquero Fraga
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Organoids in pediatric cancer research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
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Local Governments’ Efficiency: Study of its Determinants [PDF]
IBIMA Business Review, 2020 Public administration efficiency is increasing on the agenda, considering the scarcity of public resources and the greater demand of citizens for their needs to be met. This research aims to study the determinants of the financial efficiency of the Portuguese municipalities.
Ribeiro, Nuno A. +3 more
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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
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Anti-corruption, government subsidies, and investment efficiency
China Journal of Accounting Research, 2019 The problem of corruption in socio-economic development has long been a focus of academics and practitioners. To address this concern in China, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China instituted a new anti-corruption policy.
Huili Zhang, Ran An, Qinlin Zhong
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Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee +3 more
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An Investigation of the Impact of Government Efficiency on Inflation Rate in Selected MENA Countries [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2015 The present study investigates the impact of government efficiency on inflation rate with considerations on the relationship of this important index with government intervention in the economy and also with the structure of government expenditures for 16
Hassan Heidari +2 more
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Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 2023 According to the connotation and structure of government service resources, data of government service resources in L city from 2019 to 2021 are used to calculate the efficiency of government service resource allocation in each county and region in ...
Ya-guang Guo +4 more
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Determinants of Government Efficiency
World Development, 2008 We compile the first large cross-country panel dataset of public sector performance and efficiency, encompassing 114 countries on all income levels from 1980 to 2006, with about 1,800 country-year observations for the education sector and about 900 observations for health.
David Hauner, Annette J Kyobe
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