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Efficiency of financial institutions: International survey and directions for future research

, 1997
This paper surveys 130 studies that apply frontier efficiency analysis to financial institutions in 21 countries. The primary goals are to summarize and critically review empirical estimates of financial institution efficiency and to attempt to arrive at
Allen N. Berger, David B. Humphrey
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Institutions and social entrepreneurship: The role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations [PDF]

Journal of International Business Studies, 2014
We develop the institutional configuration perspective to understand which national contexts facilitate social entrepreneurship (SE). We confirm joint effects on SE of formal regulatory (government activism), informal cognitive (postmaterialist cultural values), and informal normative (socially supportive cultural norms, or weak-tie social capital ...
Stephan, Ute, Uhlaner, Lorraine M., Stride, Christopher   +2 more
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Intramuscular vaccination targeting mucosal tumor draining lymph node enhances integrins-mediated CD8+ T cell infiltration to control mucosal tumor growth

OncoImmunology, 2018
Purpose: Mucosal immunization is suggested to be crucial for controlling tumors in the mucosal region; however, therapeutic DNA vaccination with electroporation in various mucosal sites has yet to become clinically adaptable.
Jin Qiu, Shiwen Peng, Andrew Yang, Ying Ma, Liping Han, Max A. Cheng, Emily Farmer, Chien-Fu Hung, T.-C. Wu   +8 more
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Use of Internet of Things in the context of execution of smart city applications: a review

Discover Internet of Things, 2023
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about and essential components of any digitization process. The IoT is comprised of several key necessary components, the most important of which are sensors, communication (the ...
Hari Mohan Rai, Atik-Ur-Rehman, Aditya Pal, Sandeep Mishra, Kaustubh Kumar Shukla   +4 more
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Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Mimicking Gynecologic Disease: Clinicopathological Analysis of 20 Cases

Diagnostics, 2022
Diagnosis of pelvic gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) can be challenging because of their nonspecific presentation and similarity to gynecological neoplasms. In this series, we describe the clinicopathological features of 20 GIST cases: 18 patients
Ying Liu, Maryam Shahi, Karin Miller, Christian F. Meyer, Chien-Fu Hung, T.-C. Wu, Russell Vang, Deyin Xing   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Giving syphilis and gonorrhea to friends: using in-person friendship networks to find additional cases of gonorrhea and syphilis

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Syphilis and gonorrhea reached an all-time high in 2018. The resurgence of syphilis and gonorrhea requires innovative methods of sexual contact tracing that encourage disclosure of same-sex sexual contacts that might otherwise be suppressed ...
Janet E. Rosenbaum, Jacky Jennings, Jonathan M. Ellen, Laurel M. Borkovic, Jo-Ann Scott, Charleen Wylie, Anne Rompalo   +6 more
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Federated Contrastive Learning Framework for Proactive Malware Signature Generation in IoT Enabled Edge Environments [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
Malware signatures have been generated traditionally and passively, heavily relying on centralized training and post Infection analysis, delaying containment, and unable to generalize across the heterogeneous IoT ecosystems.
Varri Ramana, Tamatapu Siva kumari, Sirisha Udandarao, Mahesh Amujuru venkata   +3 more
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Decentralization and political institutions [PDF]

, 2006
Does fiscal decentralization lead to more efficient governance, better public goods, and higher economic growth? This paper tests hypotheses posed by theoretical literature that the results of decentralization depend on features of political ...
Enikolopov, Ruben, Zhuravskaya, Ekatrina
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Physiochemical characterization of taste masking levetiracetam ion exchange resinates in the solid state and formulation of stable liquid suspension for pediatric use

Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2016
In the present work, an attempt has been made to mask the bitter taste of Levetiracetam using various ion-exchange resins such as Amberlite IRP69 and Duolite AP143.
Sivaneswari S., Karthikeyan E., Veena D., Chandana P.J., Sai Sumana P., Subhashree P., Ramya L., Rajalakshmi R., Ashok Kumar C.K.   +8 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
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