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Suicidality, Economic Shocks, and Egalitarian Gender Norms [PDF]
European Sociological Review, 2015 Durkheim conceived of suicide as a product of social integration and regulation. Although the sociology of suicide has focused on the role of disintegration, to our knowledge, the interaction between integration and regulation has yet to be empirically evaluated.
Reeves, Aaron, Stuckler, David
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is essential for competitiveness in agribusiness facing dynamic environments. This study examines how market orientation, marketing, relational, and social capabilities influence innovation performance. Using data from 751 Spanish firms and a multi‐method approach that integrates Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM), Necessary ...
Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez‐Azúa +1 more
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Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Precision agriculture is sometimes assumed to diffuse steadily over time, and industry planning frequently extrapolates early adoption trends forward. This study evaluates the accuracy of such expectations by comparing agricultural input dealers' forecasts of future service offerings with the actual levels of offerings that dealerships ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Les enjeux de la fondation d’une science économique dite islamique
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2018 After the 1970s, some political-religious activists aim at founding scientifically an economic discipline in compliance with what would be the homo islamicus.
Frédéric Coste
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Using a nationwide Japanese inpatient database, we evaluated whether broad‐spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis improves postoperative outcomes after pancreatoduodenectomy compared with narrow‐spectrum antibiotics. In propensity score–weighted analyses of 45 099 patients, broad‐spectrum prophylaxis was associated with significantly lower rates of intra ...
Hiroki Kitagawa +10 more
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Evaluation du bien-être et de la pauvreté en économie : théorie normative et expérimentation
Études Caribéennes, 2013 The objective of this chapter is to present the conceptual framework generally used by economists to understand and assess poverty. First and foremost, our goal is to demonstrate that the measures used in economics are not simple statistical indicators ...
Brice Magdalou
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Asking the 5 W's for designing next‐generation bioprocessing
AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Biotechnology is expanding beyond traditional, centralized fermentation and toward next‐generation bioprocessing paradigms that emphasize flexible deployment outside the laboratory with application‐specific performance. However, many bioprocesses fail to translate beyond proof‐of‐concept into industrially viable systems because early design ...
Sangdo Yook +4 more
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SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, 2019 From the financial crisis of 2007/2008 mainstream economic theory is in crisis. Most mainstream economists not only did not anticipate the depth of the crisis but not even considered that something like that was possible.
Victor A. Beker
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Social norms and economic welfare
European Economic Review, 1998 Abstract A norm is an established and self-reinforcing pattern of behaviour: everyone wants to play their part given the expectation that everyone else will continue to play theirs. It is, in short, an equilibrium of a game. This paper surveys some of the ways in which norms structure economic life: in the definition (and division) of property, in ...
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Efficiency, Practices, and the Moral Point of View: Limits of Economic Interpretations of Law [PDF]
, 2009 This paper points to some limitations of law and economics as both an explanative and a normative theory. In explaining law as the result of efficiency promoting decisions, law and economics theorists often dismiss the reasons actors in the legal system ...
Tunick, Mark
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