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Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016 This paper explores the institutional factors that encourage opportunity entrepreneurship in order to achieve higher rates of economic growth. We suggest that institutions may not have an automatic effect, as is typically assumed in growth models. Rather,
Sebastian Aparicio +2 more
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Committer Assessment Practice in Blockchain Project: A Systematic Literature Review
Journal of ICT, 2023 As Blockchain projects gain popularity among developers, the number of patched codes rapidly increases. With such growth, it is difficult for the few committers to maintain it in a timely manner.
Dr. Alawiyah Abd Wahab +2 more
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Friend Effects and Racial Disparities in Academic Achievement [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2014 Racial disparities in achievement are a persistent fact of the US educational system. An often cited but rarely directly studied explanation for these disparities is that adolescents from different racial and ethnic backgrounds are exposed to different ...
Jennifer Flashman
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The COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity for escaping the unsustainable global tourism path
Tourism Geographies, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has halted mobility globally on an unprecedented scale, causing the neoliberal market mechanisms of global tourism to be severely disrupted.
D. Ioannides, Szilvia Gyimóthy
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Oral Candidiasis: A Disease of Opportunity
Journal of Fungi, 2020 Oral candidiasis, commonly referred to as “thrush,” is an opportunistic fungal infection that commonly affects the oral mucosa. The main causative agent, Candida albicans, is a highly versatile commensal organism that is well adapted to its human host ...
T. Vila +3 more
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Despicable ‘other’ and innocent ‘us’: emotion politics in the time of the pandemic
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This study investigates the emotional management strategies employed by the Chinese maintream media Huanqiu Shibao (HQSB), through the use of nationalistic rhetoric during the Covid-19 pandemic. By conducting a discourse analysis of the coverage of Covid-
Chang Zhang, Zi Wang
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021 BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 disease has resulted in an almost complete shutdown of all services worldwide. Hospitals continued to provide emergency services and treatment for COVID-19 disease. Teaching hospitals like ours had another responsibility at hand;
Tushar Aditya Narain +3 more
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An analysis of student performance in Chicago’s charter schools
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016 Charter schools have become the cornerstone of school reform in Chicago and in many other large cities. Enrollments in Chicago charters increased by more than ten times between 2000 and 2014 and, with strong support from the current mayor and his ...
Myron Orfield, Thomas Luce
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Ensuring women have information, support and access to family planning (FP) services will allow women to exercise their reproductive autonomy and reduce maternal mortality, which remains high in countries such as Madagascar.
Alison B. Comfort +10 more
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Disability in Higher Education: Explanations and Legitimisation from Teachers at Leipzig University
Social Inclusion, 2018 In 2009, Germany ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD) and committed itself to allow for “the full and effective participation [of people with disabilities] in society” (United Nations, 2006, §3), especially in ...
Robert Aust
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