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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith, Kaitlyn Clancy, Siwen Xie, Xiaochen Li, Sarah Khalife, Benjamin van der Woerd, Onaizah Onaizah   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Un)sustainability in a Monetary Union: Main Factors in the Escudo Zone Monetary Union (1963-71)

Essays in Economic and Business History, 2023
An extensive literature praises economic integration and monetary unions as powerful means for economic convergence between, and the growth of, nations.
Maria Eugénia Mata, Mário João Salvador Roldão   +1 more
doaj  

Drug Repurposing for Treating NCOR‐Related Intellectual Disability

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
An autism‐associated NCOR1 heterozygous mutation upregulates NRGs and activates NRG backward signaling in hypothalamic GABAergic neurons in mouse models, leading to Gabra2 downregulation and cognitive deficits, which can be therapeutically targeted by repurposing FDA‐approved drugs.
Yan Kong, Wenjun Zhou, Yuxiang Sun, Zihan Huang, Zhiyue Liu, Udhaya Kumar. S, Chenyan Li, Yi Lu, Chengchuang Song, Veronica C. Ciliberto, Makenna Mack, Lana E. Kim, Zhaoyong Hu, Fang Luo, Aihua Cao, Zheng Sun   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Banking and monetary policy in a monetary union

International Review of Economics & Finance
We model the banking systems of a two-country monetary area with a single central bank. Banks can operate either locally or in national loan markets and participate in an area-wide interbank market.
Enzo Dia, David VanHoose
doaj   +1 more source

THE APPLICATION OF OPTIMUM CURRENCY AREA CRITERIA TO EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2011
Debt crisis in several Member States of the euro area has reopened discussions regarding the sustainability of European Monetary Union. Adoption of the single currency has proven to be more costly for the economies which are structurally divergent from ...
CRISTIAN SOCOL, MARIUS-CORNELIU MARINAS, AURA-GABRIELA SOCOL   +2 more
doaj  

Debt Spillovers in a Monetary Union: A Novel Rationale for Central Bank Independence

Economics: Journal Articles, 2022
Central bank independence has been championed on the grounds that it avoids political business cycles, the time-inconsistency problem of discretionary monetary policy, and political conflicts.
Campoy Juan Cristóbal, Negrete Juan Carlos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting Healthier Drinking: Evidence From a Vignette Experiment on Contextual and Informational Drivers of Dealcoholized Wine Choices

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing demand for healthier beverages is driving innovation in the wine sector, with dealcoholized wine emerging as a promising alternative. However, little is known about the contextual conditions under which consumers would choose dealcoholized wine, particularly in countries with strong wine traditions. To fill this gap, this work examines
Giovanna Piracci, Giulia Maesano, Leonardo Casini, Maurizio Canavari, Marija Cerjak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Premises and Consequences of the Adoption of the Euro as the Single Currency in Romania [PDF]

Risk in Contemporary Economy, 2017
For joining the Economic and Monetary Union, the intermediate objective for Romania is the fulfilment of the requirements of the Treaty of Maastricht which provide the obtaining of concrete results regarding the deficits/budget surpluses, public debt ...
Violeta Elena DRAGOI, Mariana CONSTANTINESCU, Larisa Elena PREDA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park, Seong D. Yun, Brandy E. Phipps, Tyler Mark, Craig Schluttenhofer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
wiley   +1 more source