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Assessing the Effects of Military Expenditure on Growth [PDF]

open access: yes
Military spending is an expenditure by governments that has influence beyond the resources it takes up, especially when it leads to or facilitates conflicts.
Giorgio d'Agostino   +2 more
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Using Military Build-Ups to Capture Fiscal Shocks: A Reassessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Ramey (2011a) and others argue that increases in government spending associated with wars and military build-ups constitute a good instrument for measuring the macroeconomic effects of fiscal shocks.
Fidrmuc, Jan   +2 more
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Enhanced Objectivity of AHP for More Reliable Solar Farm Site Selection

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A multirobot system for autonomous deployment and recovery of a blade crawler for operations and maintenance of offshore wind turbine blades

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 73-93, January 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

SIZE OF THE MILITARY SECTOR AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS OF AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA [PDF]

open access: yes
We estimate the influence of defense spending and military labor use on economic growth in African and Latin American countries. Our model integrates disparate implications from the defense economics literature into a Barro-style model of economic growth
Jac C. Heckelman, Michael D. Stroup
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(Im)mobile intimacies: Commodities and marriage at the crossroads of Asia

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Military, Education, and Healthcare Spending

open access: yes, 2021
The purpose of this project is to compare the spending of all G20 countries over the past 10 years. To do so, I will be comparing education, healthcare, and military spending to each country's respective GDP spending. The goal of this project will be to see which countries lead and fall back on spending financial resources on vital aspects of their ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Peace Through Partnership: IGO Membership and Military Spending [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper examines the role International Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) memberships have on defense expenditures, arguing that state leaders substitute high military spending rates for IGO membership as the information transmission mechanisms of ...
Castellano, Isaac M.
core   +1 more source

Prophylactic Effects of Astragalus Polysaccharides on Depression‐Like Behaviors in Rats With Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress: A Role of Gut‐Microbiota–Brain Axis

open access: yesFood Frontiers, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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