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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Firms Ready for Workforce Ageing? Evidence From Small‐Medium Sized Firms in Italy

LABOUR, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate age‐related human resource management (AR‐HRM) practices within SME in Italy. Using firm‐level survey data with information on age‐related attitudes and practices, we analyze the determinants of age management and outplacement practices, along with the role of collective bargaining.
Claudio Lucifora, Marco Piotti
wiley   +1 more source

More Than Their Bodies. Aesthetic Dimensions of Nursing Care to People With Eating Disorders. [PDF]

Scand J Caring Sci
Herholdt-Lomholdt SM, Brinchmann BS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gendered Harmony and Unsung Collections: Two Debussy Rabbit Holes

Music Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review article on Mark McFarland's The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky (2024) offers a critical reading of this recent text and treats its content as a springboard for the exploration of two issues untapped in existing musicological discourse.
Rajan Lal
wiley   +1 more source

Virtuous Deferral

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Virtue epistemology has long struggled with the “Creditability Dilemma”: how can knowledge gained through deference be creditable to the knower if it primarily depends on others’ cognitive work? We propose a novel solution by developing a telic account of doxastic deference as a distinctive kind of social‐epistemic performance.
J. Adam Carter, Jesper Kallestrup
wiley   +1 more source

Sliding physical invariant neural operator for long-term prediction of complex dynamics in physical systems. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev
Wang Y, Li Y, Peng Y, Ying S.
europepmc   +1 more source

An international survey of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy recipients

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to address the paucity of studies of the relatives and friends of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) patients. Methods A total of 1144 people responded to an online survey. Results The respondents included 286 relatives and friends of ECT recipients, from 22 countries.
Christopher Harrop, Sue Cunliffe, Sarah Price Hancock, Lucy Johnstone, Lisa Morrison, John Read   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Fusion Between Common Bean Phaseolin and the N‐Terminal Domain of Maize 16 kDa Gamma Zein: Clues for Designing Nutritionally Improved Seed Storage Proteins

Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing the nutritional value of seed storage proteins (SSPs) has been largely hindered by limited knowledge of how the features of the various SSP domains determine high accumulation in protein storage vacuoles (PSV) or as endoplasmic reticulum (ER)‐located insoluble protein bodies (PB).
Emma Costa, Lucrezia Luciani, Mahsa Taghipour Rahimi, Alessandro Vitale, Emanuela Pedrazzini   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rainbows in my ears-Synesthetic color perception with partial-reduced and morphed musical instrument timbres. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Reuter C, Czedik-Eysenberg I, Ambros S, Siddiq S, Glasser S, Ward J, Jewanski J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Piano nomade et piano écosophique

Chimères, 2012
openaire   +1 more source