Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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Investigating factors affecting the increase in cesarean section rates in primiparity women. [PDF]
Saghari S +4 more
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Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies
Abstract Globalization can introduce new employment opportunities to emerging economies in multinational corporations and exporting firms. Who is best positioned to benefit, and what are the political consequences for “left behind” areas? We argue that primarily advantaged groups seize these opportunities through internal migration toward centers of ...
Benjamin Helms, Junghyun Lim
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Retention of general practitioners with compulsory rural areas: evidence from a 5-year prospective cohort study in China. [PDF]
Zheng H +8 more
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Breaking Barriers: The History of Women's Education and the Training of Female Surgeons
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Medicine and surgery have been practised by women since the earliest of times, but as these activities became professionalised, they became excluded by various barriers. The aims of this review are to identify these obstacles and how they were overcome.
John P. Collins
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Factors associated with the mental health of early-career dementia researchers: An international cross-sectional survey. [PDF]
Waters-Harvey B +7 more
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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Reimagining Singlehood in Urban India Through Intersectional Narratives and Support Systems: An Ethnographic Study. [PDF]
Mukherjee S, Kumar P, Mukherjee A.
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Marital Contracting in a Post-\u3cem\u3eWindsor\u3c/em\u3e World [PDF]
Ertman, Martha M.
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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