This nationwide claims‐based study analyzed recent trends in pancreatic cancer incidence (2016–2021) and surgery (2016–2023) in Japan. The study revealed a rising incidence of pancreatic cancer, notably among young women, and an increasing use of distal pancreatectomy among older adults.
Masamitsu Kido +10 more
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No Loan Comes Without a Price: Financial Literacy, Mental Health, and Consumer Loan Use Among Young Adults in Sweden. [PDF]
Levinsson H +3 more
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Abstract Electrification of distillation offers a promising route to reducing scope‐1 emissions from one of the chemical industry's most energy‐intensive unit operations. However, conventional adiabatic columns are dynamically inflexible: Long, energy‐intensive start‐ups make shutdown and restart impractical under variable electricity prices and ...
Samuel Mercer, Michael Baldea
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Converting donor dependence to domestic ownership: The realignment of tuberculosis financing for sustainability. [PDF]
Wells WA +5 more
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A Unifying Approach to Self‐Organizing Systems Interacting via Conservation Laws
The article develops a unified way to model and analyze self‐organizing systems whose interactions are constrained by conservation laws. It represents physical/biological/engineered networks as graphs and builds projection operators (from incidence/cycle structure) that enforce those constraints and decompose network variables into constrained versus ...
F. Barrows +7 more
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"It's a Last Resort. But It's a First Resort": A Relational Perspective of Payday Loan Use. [PDF]
Amorim M, Bea MD, Aydagul A.
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Gender gaps in reading increase during unplanned and planned school closures. [PDF]
Smith E +3 more
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Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen +3 more
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"Stay indoors with Purdah, men will make the money": A qualitative study investigating women's microfinance participation and mobility practices in Bangladesh. [PDF]
Bristi KFA +4 more
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