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Evaluation of the 3rd pillar pension funds in Lithuania

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2014
The article emphasizes the increasing importance of the 3rd pillar pension funds and necessity of their assessment in Lithuania. Identified private pension funds evaluation criteria and the expert survey carried out in this paper allowed to ascertain ...
Daiva Jurevičienė, Marina Volkova
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Fees, Fees and More Fees: How Private Equity Abuses its Limited Partners and U.S. Taxpayers [PDF]

, 2016
The private equity industry receives billions of dollars in income each year from a variety of fees that it collects from investors as well as from companies it buys with investors' money.
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt
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Kidney Organoids in Drug Development: Integrating Technological Advances and Standardization for Effective Implementation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines how emerging enabling technologies enhance the physiological relevance, scalability, and reproducibility of kidney organoids, while advanced analytical approaches support model validation and deepen mechanistic insight into nephrotoxicity.
Helen Kearney, Silvia M. Mihăilă, Lorenzo Moroni, Carlos Mota   +3 more
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A Synovium‐on‐Chip Platform to Study Multicellular Interactions in Arthritis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The Synovium‐on‐Chip comprises a thin microporous PDMS membrane to support co‐culture of fibroblast‐like synoviocytes (FLS), THP‐1‐derived macrophages, and endothelial cells, enabling real‐time analysis of synovial‐vascular interactions. FLS migration through the pores drives endothelial remodeling, while TNF‐α stimulation induces robust inflammatory ...
Laurens R. Spoelstra, Fleur R. Semmekrot, Nuno Araújo‐Gomes, Daniël Wijnperle, Monique M. A. Helsen, Martijn H.J. Van Den Bosch, Loes. I. Segerink, Séverine Le Gac, Marcel Karperien   +8 more
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Stiff to Soft: A Protein‐Based Buffer Layer for Improving the Long‐Term Performance of Microneedle Sensors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
To enhance stability and long‐term biocompatibility of wearable microneedle sensors, a crosslinking‐recombination bovine serum albumin material is used as a buffer layer coated on microneedle sensors. This coating layer possesses a unique stiff‐to‐soft transition function balancing the mechanical stiffness desired for puncturing and soft required for ...
Lihao Guo, Youbin Zheng, Shuxiang Xu, Bingbing Feng, Kan Wang, Rou Huang, Gandong Zhou, Chutong Liu, Rawan Omar, Danyao Qu, Jinbao Li, Min Zhang, Weiwei Wu, Guangjian Zhang, Lina Huang, Hossam Haick, Miaomiao Yuan   +16 more
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Accelerating Discovery to Deployment: Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) and Its Role in Scaling Materials Technologies for Water and Resource Solutions

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this Perspective, we highlight the processing science and scale‐up capabilities of the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with an emphasis on practical solutions for sustainable water and critical resource recovery. We demonstrate how national laboratories bridge fundamental
Yuepeng Zhang, Bratin Sengupta, Xiaoao Shi, Haihui Pu, Jeffrey W. Elam, Gregory K. Krumdick, Jessica Durham Macholz, Allison Bennett Irion, Junhong Chen, Seth B. Darling   +9 more
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Referral Burden and Cost of Outpatient Care of Patients Covered by the Rural Insurance Fund before and after the Implementation of Electronic Referral System in Golestan Province

Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2021
Background: Part of the major health costs is related to outpatient care. Since the costs of diagnosis and treatment are increasing rapidly and increasingly, this study was conducted to determine the referral burden and cost of outpatient care of ...
Anis Abbasi, Mohammad Javad Kabir, Fatemeh Kavian Telouri, Alireza Heidari, Zahra Khatirnamani, Narges Rafiei, Anahita Keshavarzi   +6 more
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Evaluation of pillar II pension funds‘ return on investment considering risk

Business: Theory and Practice, 2012
The article deals with the topic of Lithuanian pillar II private pension funds investments’ evaluation. Private pension funds’ features and stand in Lithuanian pension funds’ system are analyzed.
Daiva Jurevičienė, Šarūnė Samoškaitė   +1 more
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European private equity funds: A cash flow based performance analysis [PDF]

This paper presents a cash flow based analysis of the return and risk characteristics of European Private Equity Funds. For that purpose a comprehensive data set has been provided by Thomson Venture Economics. We document the typical time pattern of cash
Diller, Christian, Kaserer, Christoph
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Hydrogel‐Based Functional Materials: Classifications, Properties, and Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Conductive hydrogels have emerged as promising materials for smart wearable devices due to their outstanding flexibility, multifunctionality, and biocompatibility. This review systematically summarizes recent progress in their design strategies, focusing on monomer systems and conductive components, and highlights key multifunctional properties such as
Zeyu Zhang, Zao Cheng, Patrizio Raffa
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