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Early Retirement in the Italian Social Security System: Some Critical Insights
Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2020 This paper examines the age and contributory requirements needed to take retirement in Italy. The focus is on one of the novelties introduced by Decree Law No.
Davide Casale
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This study presents the first entirely isogenic heart‐on‐chip, unifying cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells from a single iPSC source. The platform reveals a critical biological insight: the endothelium actively shields cardiac tissue from drug‐induced toxicity, challenging the predictive accuracy of conventional, avascular models for ...
Karine Tadevosyan +12 more
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International Journal of Health ProfessionsTelerehabilitation may stabilize the results of a previous phase 2 rehabilitation program through remote rehabilitation sessions. We evaluated a new telerehabilitation service (PV RehaTRAIN®) during its initial implementation, focusing on its usability ...
Stöhr Doreen +8 more
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The Effectiveness of the Pension System in Latvia: pensioner’s point of view [PDF]
, 2010 Purpose system, which is considered the most progressive and modern system in the world, for the pensioners themselves. Scientific aim The aim of the paper is to analyze the effectiveness of the Latvian pension system and find out minimal values of the ...
Kozlovskis, Konstantins
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Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Bionanotechnology: Current Advances and Future Perspectives
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) enables the nanoscale mapping of electrostatic surface potentials. While widely applied in materials science, its use in biological systems remains emerging. This review presents recent advances in KPFM applied to biological samples and provides a critical perspective on current limitations and future directions for
Ehsan Rahimi +4 more
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Dynamic Liability-Driven Investment under Sponsor’s Loss Aversion
RisksThis paper investigates a dynamic liability-driven investment policy for defined-benefit (DB) plans by incorporating the loss aversion of a sponsor, who is assumed to be more sensitive to underfunding than overfunding. Through the lens of prospect theory,
Dong-Hwa Lee, Joo-Ho Sung
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Performance Persistence of Dutch Pension Funds [PDF]
, 2012 This paper studies the investment performance of pension funds with a focus on their ability in implementing their intended investment strategy. We use a sample of Dutch industry-wide pension funds, which are obliged by law to report their investment ...
Huang, X., Mahieu, R.
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A Colloidal Quantum Dot Thermistor and Bolometer
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work introduces colloidal quantum dot thermistors employing a potential barrier structure to tune the activation energy of transport and hence the temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR). Upon integration with plasmonic absorbers, the CQD‐based bolometer device enables room‐temperature wavelength‐selective photodetection across the mid‐ to ...
Gaurav Kumar +7 more
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Nordic welfare financiers made global portfolio investors : institutional change in pension fund governance in Sweden and Finland [PDF]
, 2010 Pension funds have lately emerged as an essential field of study in various disciplines within social sciences. Political economists, economic geographers and some social policy researchers have studied the role of pension funds very broadly for instance
Roumpakis, Antonios, Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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