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Informal payments by patients in Croatia: benign custom or detrimental residue from socialism?

Croatian Review of Economic, Business and Social Statistics, 2019
Almost three decades after the collapse of the socialist system, numerous informal practices inherited from that period have remained deeply entrenched in the Croatian economy and society.
Franić Josip, Kojouharov Anton
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Achieving Carbon Neutrality: Strategic Pathways to Sustainability and Net Zero in Manufacturing Supply Chains

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reaching global net‐zero targets has become an urgent priority as businesses and nations face increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving carbon neutrality in manufacturing supply chains requires comprehensive systemic changes across business processes.
Vimal K. E. K., Sivakumar K., Jayakrishna Kandasamy, Umesh Kumar, Anil Kumar, Ashutosh Samadhiya   +5 more
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How Consumers Contest Legitimacy: Skepticism Toward Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consumer skepticism toward Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives operates not only as an individual‐level response but also as a societal governance mechanism that disciplines firms and reshapes organizational legitimacy. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with consumers in an emerging Latin American economy, this study advances an ...
Francine Zanin Bagatini, Marcelo Gattermann Perin, Janine Fleith de Medeiros   +2 more
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Chronic Liver Disease: Assessing Inflammation and Fibrosis Using Three‐Dimensional MR Elastography With Same‐Day Biopsy in a Prospective Cohort

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Three‐dimensional (3D) MR elastography (MRE) derives viscoelastic parameters that may reflect inflammation, but their frequency dependence and the influence of steatosis on inflammation grading and fibrosis staging remain unclear. Purpose To investigate 3D multifrequency MRE for assessing hepatic inflammation, fibrosis stage across ...
Shan Cai, Christian Simonsson, Markus Karlsson, Wile Balkhed, Jens Tellman, Simone Ignatova, Patrik Nasr, Mattias Ekstedt, Stergios Kechagias, Wolf C. Bartholomä, Nils Dahlström, Peter Lundberg   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive Sliding Mode Control Design for Interval Type‐2 T–S Fuzzy Systems With Time Delay: An Event‐Triggered Approach

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this work, a new event‐triggered adaptive first‐order sliding mode control method is proposed for nonlinear systems with constant time delays, modeled by interval type‐2 Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems. To handle matched disturbances with unknown upper bounds, a non‐overestimating adaptation strategy for the control coefficient is ...
Rodrigo Possidonio Noronha, Ginalber L. O. Serra   +1 more
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A Spatial Econometric Analysis on the Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality Outcome

Economics and Business, 2020
The study develops and examines the spatial distribution of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID) on mortality outcomes using a global panel dataset of 79 countries. The empirical evidence is based on Fixed Effect (FE) and System Generalized Method of Moment (
Shobande Olatunji, Ogbeifun Lawrence
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Engineering Science at the I12 Beamline at Diamond Light Source [PDF]

Synchrotron Radiation News, 2017
Synchrotron-based engineering science covers a large field of applications. However, they are all connected in two ways. First, the very synchrotron techniques employed to study the various applications all work in the same way in that they determine structural parameters on the atomic and microscopic scale.
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A Hero's Journey to Systemic Change: Developing Expertise in Agricultural Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experts in rural development and agrarian change wield considerable influence over programme design and delivery, directing resources and shaping trajectories towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet the pathways through which such expertise develops remain under‐examined. This study examines the journey to expertise among experts
Kirt Hainzer, Caitlin Finlayson, Nicholas Harrigan, Andrew McGregor, Katharine McKinnon, Van Touch, Ariane Utomo, Brian R. Cook   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nearest neighbor search on embeddings rapidly identifies distant protein relations

Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2022
Since 1992, all state-of-the-art methods for fast and sensitive identification of evolutionary, structural, and functional relations between proteins (also referred to as “homology detection”) use sequences and sequence-profiles (PSSMs). Protein Language
Konstantin Schütze, Michael Heinzinger, Michael Heinzinger, Martin Steinegger, Martin Steinegger, Burkhard Rost, Burkhard Rost   +6 more
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Conceptualizing and measuring consumers’ negative attitudes towards online shopping

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the advantages of online shopping, increasing evidence indicates the prevalence of negative consumer attitudes towards online shopping (NATOS). Yet existing research exhibits a nearly exclusive focus on measuring positive attitudes, creating limited conceptual breadth. Moreover, despite the existence of conceptually related constructs (
Kaj‐Johanna Stichnoth, Gianfranco Walsh   +1 more
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