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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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The Effect of Pension Reform on Pension-Benefit Expectations and Savings Decisions in Japan [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Using the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR), which is a new Japanese panel survey of people aged 50 and over, we find that more Japanese in their early 50s expect their level of public pension benefits to decline compared with those in their late 50s and early 60s.
OKUMURA Tsunao, USUI Emiko
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Comparative Economic Research, 2023 This article aims to verify the development prospects of the Pan‑European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) in the European Union (EU). It focuses on the relationship between the quality of domestic public pension schemes and household savings for old age ...
Katarzyna Kochaniak +4 more
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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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The contributory pension scheme and the financial system development in Nigeria [PDF]
Innovative Marketing, 2016 The article examined the influence of the contributory pension scheme on the financial system development in Nigeria. Evidence accumulated from both theoretical and empirical literature point to the power of contributory pension to deepen the financial ...
Cosmas O. ODO, Okeke Chinedu
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Uncertain Pension Income and Household Saving [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 AbstractThis paper investigates the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimates both the displacement effect of pensions on private saving and the precautionary saving effect due to uncertainty in pension income. I estimate the savings equation implied by a simple life‐cycle model featuring income uncertainty using survey data for
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AKPIN fintech application as one of the drivers for non-state pension system development
Вестник университетаThe article studies the subject of improving the non-state pension provision mechanism considering the fintech application implementation into the system.
E. V. Knyazev, M. L. Dorofeev
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Information Bidding System for Old-age Pension Savings [PDF]
Societas et Iurisprudentia, 2018 Old-age pension savings is a system functionally linked to the general pension insurance scheme which focuses on the capitalization of savings accumulated by the savers in their personal pension accounts. From the administrative-procedural point of view,
Miloš Lacko
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Accumulating approach to the life-cycle pension model: practical advantages
Financial Theory and Practice, 2016 In the present study, we make an effort to enhance the practical advantages of the life-cycle pension model. We observe that previous studies are based on a “switching”approach, that is, on the assumption that when a pension fund member reaches a certain
Yaniv Azoulay +2 more
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