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The Changing Structure of Global Value Chains: Are Central Hubs Key for Productivity? [PDF]

International Productivity Monitor, 2018
This article uses “centrality” metrics reflecting position within Global Value Chains (GVCs) to identify central hubs and peripheral European economies and sectors.
Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis
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Enhanced Endoscopic Internal Drainage of Gastric Abscess Through Additively Manufactured Stents

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Postoperative gastric leaks are often treated with off‐label biliary double‐pigtail stents, yet conventional extruded designs are not optimized for leak anatomy, can migrate, and may limit abscess evacuation. PETALS is introduced to optimize transmural drainage geometry and enable patient‐specific 3D‐printable stents.
Parima Phowarasoontorn, Yongbin Ko, Juan S. Barajas‐Gamboa, Juan P. Pantoja, Oraib Al‐Ketan, Mohamed Ali, Sungyun Sohn, Heba Tageldeen Naser, Abdel‐Hameed Dabbour, Batoul Khlaifat, Ahmed AlZubaidi, Carlos Abril Vega, John Rodriguez, Matthew Kroh, Khalil B. Ramadi   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

A meeting report: cross-cultural comparability of questionnaire measures in large-scale international surveys

Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2019
The value of cross-country comparisons is at the heart of large-scale international surveys. Yet the validity of such comparisons is often challenged, particularly in the case of latent traits whose estimates are based on self-reported answers to a small
Francesco Avvisati, Noémie Le Donné, Marco Paccagnella   +2 more
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Systems practice and the design of learning systems: orchestrating an ecological conversation [PDF]

, 2002
Human beings live in language and only they can take responsibility for how they think and act. So what understandings of response are possible? The relationship between responsibility and response-abilty is explored in the light of emerging critiques of
Ison, Ray L.
core  

Diversity of Pharmaceuticals Enhances Antibiotic Resistance in the Invertebrate Gut via Biofilm‐Mediated Mechanisms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Pharmaceutical diversity acts as an independent driver of antibiotic resistance in soil invertebrates. While bulk soil remains unaffected, the collembolan gut microbiome exhibits significant resistance gene enrichment under complex chemical exposure and diurnal warming.
Yi‐Fei Wang, Ya‐Ning Wang, Da Lin, Jia‐Yang Xu, Feng‐Yuan Qi, Hui‐Ling Cui, Hui‐Jie Lu, Min Qiao, Edward Topp, Dong Zhu, Matthias C. Rillig, Yong‐Guan Zhu   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Action Impacts on Steelmaking Emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants Highlight a Gap Between the Paris Agreement and the Stockholm Convention

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Emissions of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UPOPs) and global warming are two major environmental challenges. But their governance has largely evolved in parallel, leaving the toxicity implications of climate‐driven industrial transitions poorly understood.
Yuxiang Sun, Qiuting Yang, Jianghui Yun, Yujue Yang, Junhao Tang, Qian Liu, Minghui Zheng, Guorui Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benchmarking and validation activities within JEFF project

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
The challenge for any nuclear data evaluation project is to periodically release a revised, fully consistent and complete library, with all needed data and covariances, and ensure that it is robust and reliable for a variety of applications.
Cabellos O., Alvarez-Velarde F., Angelone M., Diez C.J., Dyrda J., Fiorito L., Fischer U., Fleming M., Haeck W., Hill I., Ichou R., Kim D. H., Klix A., Kodeli I., Leconte P., Michel-Sendis F., Nunnenmann E., Pecchia M., Peneliau Y., Plompen A., Rochman D., Romojaro P., Stankovskiy A., Sublet J.Ch., Tamagno P., Marck S. van der   +25 more
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Why Do Governments Sell Privatised Companies Abroad? [PDF]

, 2000
This paper provides an empirical analysis of Governments' decisions to sell privatised companies on both international and domestic markets in a sample of 392 privatisations in 42 countries.
Bortolotti, Bernardo, Fantini, Marcella, Scarpa, Carlo   +2 more
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Functional Mapping of Neurodevelopmental Disease Pathways to Key Neurodevelopmental Processes Represented in the Developmental Neurotoxicity In Vitro Testing Battery

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Human‐relevant methods are essential for modern chemical safety assessment. This study helps define the capabilities and boundaries of an in vitro testing battery for developmental neurotoxicity by exploring its biological applicability domain. By linking neurodevelopmental disease‐related pathways to key neurodevelopmental processes, the work enhances
Eliska Kuchovska, Kristina Bartmann, Georgea Raad, Mats Schade, Luiz Ladeira, Arif Dönmez, Jördis Klose, Nicolai Görts, Denis Polozij, Lynn‐Christin Saborowski, Farina Bendt, Bernard Staumont, Liesbet Geris, Katharina Koch, Ellen Fritsche   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source