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Impact of International Sporting Events on the Economy: Foreign Experience

Управленческое консультирование, 2019
The contribution of sporting mega-events to the growth of the host economy remains an open question in the academic and expert communities. Their preparation requires enormous investments in the construction and modernization of infrastructure, as well ...
E. A. Pospelova, M. V. Kazakova
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
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The Crisis of 1825 in Parliament: Economic Ideas at the Dawn of the Modern British Financial System

Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
The crisis of 1825 showed the fragility of the British banking system and the need for reforms to avoid future crises. The debates in the British parliament after the panic discussed the causes and the measures to be taken to avoid another meltdown.
Javier San Julian Arrupe
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Hollow State; Contexts, Implications, and Encounter [PDF]

دولت‌پژوهی
Extended AbstractIntroductionThe metaphor of "hollow " is used to express the changing nature of the public sector. "hollowing out " is used to describe the nature of devolution of power and decentralization of services from central governments to local ...
Ali Khaje Naieni
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When work disappears: new implications for race and urban poverty in the global economy

Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2019
This paper discusses the impact of growing joblessness and dwindling work opportunities on inner-city areas in America. The lack of low-skilled manual work in the inner city is linked to poverty, crime, family dissolution and the social life of ...
William Julius Wilson
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An Increasing Misalignment Between Crop Distribution and Environmental Resources Under Climate Change in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su, Zhentao Zhang, Jin Zhao, Xia Liang, Chuang Zhao, Zhijuan Liu, Minghao Zhuang, Jing Sun, Bo Lu, Ke Liu, Johannes W. M. Pullens, Matthew T. Harrison, Deli Chen, Xiaoguang Yang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

KCNJ2 is Required for NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation That Drives Allergic Airway Inflammation and Remodeling

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study aims to evaluate the impact of the potassium channel KCNJ2 on asthma development. KCNJ2 promotes NLRP3 inflammasome activation through both Ca2+ influx and K+ efflux in airway epithelial cells, which drives allergic airway inflammation and remodeling, suggesting a promising therapeutic target for asthma.
Yachao Cui, Shumei Wu, Yang Peng, Yiqi Liu, Li Che, Shiying Chen, Feng Zhang, Dajiang Qin, Shiyue Li, Pixin Ran, Wenguang Yin   +10 more
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Carbon pricing in climate policy: seven reasons, complementary instruments, and political economy considerations

, 2017
Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. Discarded at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen, it remained part of deliberations for a climate agreement in subsequent years.
A. Baranzini, Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh, S. Carattini, R. Howarth, Emilio Padilla, Jordi Roca   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Profiting from innovation in the digital economy: Enabling technologies, standards, and licensing models in the wireless world

Research Policy, 2018
The value-capture problem for innovators in the digital economy involves some different challenges from those in the industrial economy. It inevitably requires understanding the dynamics of platforms and ecosystems.
D. Teece
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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