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As China experiences rapid aging, the mental health of older rural adults has become a major public health concern. Among other social insurance programs, the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP) scheme was established to replace part of the income for old ...
Guochen Pan +4 more
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La riforma del sistema previdenziale ovvero il rapporto che non fu scritto
The Italian pension system, historically formed through continuously overlapping layers that lacked the foundation of a unified vision and the ability to look beyond short-term effects, possessed major characteristics of imbalance and of inequality at ...
O. CASTELLINO
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Abstract Six sets of 48 maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines, and their 96 single crosses generated using the North Carolina Mating Design II system, were evaluated for resistance to gray leaf spot (GLS). The aim of the study was to assess the implications of combining ability, heterotic effects, and potence ratio in breeding for GLS resistance in maize ...
James O. Nyanapah +4 more
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The aim of the paper is to propose a new comprehensive retirement insurance solution (CRIS) that, by offering appropriate modules, can be flexibly adapted to customers’ needs during the accumulation of funds and entitlements and during retirement ...
Łyskawa Krzysztof, Bielawska Kamila
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The life-cycle hypothesis, fiscal policy and social security
The paper reviews some of the most important results of the Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) for understanding individual and aggregate saving behaviour.
Tullio Jappelli
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One or More Species of Pacific Tree Frogs? Insights From Vocal Sexual Signals
We investigated patterns of geographic variation in mating calls and how they relate to genetic and environmental distances among nine populations of Pacific tree frogs. We show that variation in the mating calls is better explained by mitochondrial lineage than by geographic or environmental distances among populations.
Alejandro Vélez, Colleen M. Ingram
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Taxation of public pensions in European Union countries
The aging of society is one of the most important trends shaping the social, economic and political life of the 21st century. However, with the increasing number of people of retirement age, the problem of ensuring adequate conditions for a longer life ...
Cieślukowski Maciej
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New Challenges for Trade Unions in the Face of Algorithmic Management in the Work Environment
Algorithmic management is the subject of numerous scientific studies. This article attempts to answer the question of what kinds of new competencies and skills should be acquired by trade unions in ...
Paweł Nowik
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Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality
Abstract Cold thermal refuges may mitigate detrimental effects of future climate warming; yet, pond ecosystems have been largely omitted from thermal refuge research despite being globally numerous and providing critical ecosystem services. We create a formal definition for pond thermal refuge quality, then operationalize this definition by measuring ...
Samuel B. Fey +7 more
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Reform of the bridging pension system – new rights and their economic consequences
This research aims to determine the economic consequences of making bridging pensions permanent. We predict that this will increase the number of beneficiaries and the overall cost of the program.
Kolek Antoni Jerzy
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