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

open access: yesCroatian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Achieving Carbon Neutrality: Strategic Pathways to Sustainability and Net Zero in Manufacturing Supply Chains

open access: yesBusiness 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.   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nearest neighbor search on embeddings rapidly identifies distant protein relations

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +6 more
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Critically Revisiting the Psychometric Properties of the EDE‐Q and Its Short Forms: Is It Time to Move On?

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE‐Q) remains the most widely used self‐report measure of eating disorder symptoms, despite concerns regarding its factorial instability, construct redundancy, and local item dependence. Numerous brief versions have been proposed to address these limitations.
Rafael Moreton Alves da Rocha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Spatial Econometric Analysis on the Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality Outcome

open access: yesEconomics 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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Economies of Scale to Consumption in Collective Households

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Browning et al. (2013) model collective‐household economies of scale in goods consumption by having each good be partly shared, instead of each good being public or private. We modify their model to achieve simple point identification and estimation of the economies of scale of consumption of each good, and we provide a new index of household ...
Hsin‐Yuan Hsieh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Hero's Journey to Systemic Change: Developing Expertise in Agricultural Development

open access: yesSustainable 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   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Business model maturity in management theory and practice – defining from an expert perspective

open access: yesManagement, 2020
Since many researchers and managers think about the essence, creation mechanisms and limits of the manufacturing model maturity, at this point, the author raises the question related to this issue: what dimensions (descriptions and desiderata) should be ...
Niewiadomski Przemysław
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 school closures and mental health of adolescent students: Evidence from rural Mozambique

open access: yesSSM - Mental Health, 2023
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, entailing widespread school closures as well as acute disruptions to household livelihoods, had substantial consequences for adolescent well-being in low-income countries. We present novel evidence about the prevalence
Feliciano Chimbutane   +4 more
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Early Gains, Uneven Growth: Four‐Wave Longitudinal Evidence on Sustainability Identity in Teacher Education

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Preparing future teachers to support progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires more than simply strengthening their sustainability knowledge. It is also crucial to understand how sustainability‐related values and perceived responsibilities are integrated into their developing identities. Since teachers can influence how
Ece Avinç
wiley   +1 more source

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