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This research paper investigates the determinants of inflation in Pakistan from 1991 to 2022, focusing on key macroeconomic variables such as imports, GDP growth rate, GDP per capita, military expenditure, population growth, total debt service, and ...
I. Ali, S. V. Kumar, V. D. Gusev
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The pore throat structure of the dolomite reservoir of the Buqu Formation in the Middle Jurassic in the Qiangtang Basin was evaluated by using the cast thin section image method combined with fractal theory. The results were combined with the reservoir space formation process to discuss the possible controlling factors of pore formation.
Zhonglin Wang+4 more
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Abstract Offshore wind farms will play a vital role in the global ambition of net zero energy generation. Future offshore wind farms will be larger and further from the coast, meaning that traditional human‐based operations and maintenance approaches will become infeasible due to safety, cost, and skills shortages.
Zhengyi Jiang+7 more
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Assessing Racial Disparities in Healthcare Expenditures Using Causal Path-Specific Effects [PDF]
Racial disparities in healthcare expenditures are well-documented, yet the underlying drivers remain complex and require further investigation. This study employs causal and counterfactual path-specific effects to quantify how various factors, including socioeconomic status, insurance access, health behaviors, and health status, mediate these ...
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Enhanced Objectivity of AHP for More Reliable Solar Farm Site Selection
While the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was originally designed for subjectively relatable criteria, there may also be objectively defined relationships or consensus on certain criteria pairs. To incorporate these objective relationships and consensuses, this study introduces the analytical hierarchy process with optimized hierarchy (AHP‐OH).
A. E. Dinçer, A. Demir, K. Yılmaz
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A Note on the International Comparison of Military Expenditures
The comparison of military expenditures raises a number of technical, economic and political difficulties.1 These are due to differing monetary units from one country to another, conceptual differences, secrecy, and the statistical difficulty of treating different kinds of armament on the same footing.
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(Im)mobile intimacies: Commodities and marriage at the crossroads of Asia
Abstract This article follows traders and entrepreneurs that live and work between Kyrgyzstan and China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. Looking specifically at Islamic marriage and business partnerships forged between persecuted Uyghurs and their Uzbek partners, it argues that commodity‐mediated forms of transnational intimacy create spaces of ...
Grace H. Zhou
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THE DEMAND FOR MILITARY EXPENDITURE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: HOSTILITY VERSUS CAPABILITY [PDF]
J. Paul Dunne+2 more
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Military Expenditures of Dictatorial Regimes: A Strategic Theory [PDF]
Unlike usual approaches to military expenditures that concentrate on foreign affairs, this paper analyzes a strategic structure for a dictatorialgovernment to plan military expenditures concenrrating on domestic affairs.
Tetsuya, Saito
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This study complements the pathogenesis of depression, and the effects of APS from the perspective of “gut microbiome ‐ immunity ‐ metabolome” axis. This study also provides a novel research strategy and approaches for demonstrating the anti‐depression effects of plant polysaccharides, and lays a solid foundation for discovering new medicines from ...
Xiaojie Liu+9 more
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