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Neurovascular coupling in bone regeneration: Mechanisms, advanced biomaterials and challenges

BMEMat, EarlyView.
This figure illustrates various material strategies for neurovascularized bone regeneration, including electroactive scaffolds, ion‐loaded materials, drug delivery systems, surface modifications, cells/cell products, growth factors, and peptides. These approaches aim to synergistically promote the regeneration of neural, vascular, and bone tissues ...
Yixin Ma, Nan Jiang, Liyuan Chen, He Zhang, Xinjia Cai, Karan Gulati, Danqing He, Zhigang Cai, Yan Liu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Privatization and Cooperative Management in the Provision of Public Services in the Rural United States [PDF]

Local governments in the U.S. are struggling with financial shortfalls due to economic downturns, loss of federal assistance, and resistance to raising more revenue through property taxes.
John Halstead, Peter Girard
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Global Trends and Advances in Traumatic Brain Injury

Brain Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a major global public health challenge, contributing substantially to morbidity and mortality while imposing a significant socioeconomic burden. In recent years, notable progress has been made in understanding TBI pathophysiology, classification, monitoring, and treatment.
Yuan Zhuang, Xixian Liao, Jiyao Jiang, Guoyi Gao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Picking up Savings: The Benefits of Competition in Municipal Waste Services [PDF]

Cities save money through competitive tendering of waste services contracts. This study finds municipalities that have their waste services provided through contracted operations have substantially lower average costs per household than municipalities ...
Benjamin Dachis
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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
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Integrated Reporting in the Public Sector: Theoretical Foundations and Determinants of Quality

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Integrated reporting (IR) has gained attention as the IFRS Foundation promotes its use through the International Integrated Reporting Council framework (IIRF). Public sector (PS) organizations, as key drivers of economic, social and environmental sustainability, are increasingly adopting IR to enhance transparency and accountability.
Ana Zorio‐Grima, Andreea Hancu‐Budui
wiley   +1 more source

Is debt replacing equity in regulated privatized infrastructure in developing countries? [PDF]

The main purpose of this paper is to describe the evolution of the financing structure of regulated privatized utilities and transport companies. To do so, the authors rely on a sample of 121 utilities distributed over 16 countries, and 23 transport ...
da Silva, Luis Correia, Estache, Antonio, Jarvela, Sakari   +2 more
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Designing Payments for Ecosystem Services [PDF]

, 2010
This Policy Series by James Salzman brings attention to a rapidly developing phenomenon—payments for ecosystem services (PES). Salzman, the Samuel F.
Salzman, James
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli, Davide Calandra, Federico Lanzalonga, Paolo Biancone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making voice work : the report card on Banglalore's public service [PDF]

The author reports how a"report card"on public services in the Indian city of Bangalore was used by citizen groups to creategreater public awareness about the poor performance of public service providers and to challenge them to be more efficient and ...
Paul, Samuel
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