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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Filopodia are essential for steroid release

Nature Communications
Steroid hormones, crucial for development and physiology, were traditionally believed to diffuse passively through membranes. However, recent evidence shows insect steroid ecdysone being secreted via regulated exocytosis, but the mechanisms ensuring ...
Eléanor Simon, Raphaël Bonche, Yassine Maarouf, Marie-Paule Nawrot-Esposito, Nuria Magdalena Romero   +4 more
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Standardised Methods for Developing Conceptual Frameworks for Placental Disorders of Pregnancy: Pre‐Eclampsia and Stillbirth

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Risk factors for the placental disorders of pregnancy (pre‐eclampsia, fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, and stillbirth) are complex, frequently involving the interplay between clinical factors and wider social and environmental determinants of health.
Terteel Elawad, Mai‐Lei Woo Kinshella, Ellie Stokes, Kelly Pickerill, Elisa Dalle Piagge, Marianne Vidler, Ella Stanley, Marie‐Laure Volvert, Jeffrey N. Bone, Helen Elwell, Hiten D. Mistry, Violet Mateljan, Eleni Tsigas, Veronique Filippi, Peter von Dadelszen, Hannah Blencowe, Laura A. Magee, PRECISE Network   +17 more
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Buyer‐Optimal Platform Design

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
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Why Is Exclusivity in Broadcasting Rights Prevalent and Why Does Simple Regulation Fail?

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pay‐TV firms compete both downstream to attract viewers and upstream to acquire broadcasting rights. Because profits inherited from downstream competition satisfy a convexity property, allocating rights to the dominant firm maximizes the industry profit.
David Martimort, Jerome Pouyet
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A Review on A.R Wirawan’s Novel The Adventure of Wanara Trilogy: Garuda Riders Book one [PDF]

, 2015
Novel merupakan salah satu karya sastra yang paling digemari banyak orang. Dari bermacam-macam jenis novel, novel fantasi merupakan salah satu alternatif bagi para pembaca, terutama kaum remaja.
Purnawan, Isa Anggeva Setia
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Audit Quality From a Service Perspective: A Systematic Literature Review

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Audit quality is a multidimensional and latent construct that researchers struggle to evaluate and interpret. This paper follows an interdisciplinary approach by systematically reviewing the literature on audit quality evaluation from a service quality perspective.
Lise Muriel Botha, Phillip de Jager, Francois Toerien, Ezelda Swanepoel   +3 more
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Black vine weevil and other wingless weevils: are there any effective conrol methods applicable in outdoor strawberry in Nordic countries? [PDF]

, 2006
The black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) is a common pest in Central Europe but rather new on outdoor crops in Finland. Spreading of enthomopathogenic nematodes against weevils by drip irrigation was tested at MTT during 2003-2004.
Lindqvist, Isa, Tuovinen, Tuomo
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Auditor Task Prioritization Hiérarchisation des tâches d’audit

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how auditors prioritize tasks and how variations in task order influence auditors' performance. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we develop and test our hypotheses through three experiments involving over 350 professional auditors. The first two experiments assess the impact of task order on performance.
Bart Dierynck, Christian P. H. Peters
wiley   +1 more source

When Is an Audit “Good Enough”? Professional Ambiguity and Strategic Sensemaking During an Audit Oversight Inspection Quand un audit est‐il « assez réussi » ? Ambiguïté professionnelle et construction stratégique de sens lors d'une surveillance des audits

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on the social control and sensemaking literatures to study how a Big 4 audit firm in the Netherlands sought to contest the national oversight body's inspection findings on one of its audit engagements. Our case study leads us to develop the concept of professional ambiguity to capture the multiple, coexisting meanings and ...
Wendy Groot, Dominic Detzen, Anna Gold
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