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Association Between Copayments and Attendance in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Nationwide Analysis From the AACVPR Registry. [PDF]

J Am Heart Assoc
Thapa S, Naser M, Farah M, Zhang Y, Howard G, Lagu T, Lindenauer PK, Pack QR.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Analysis of Private Military and Security Companies

, 2011
The increasing relevance of PMCs and PSCs is related to the progressive ‘privatization’ of war in all of its new expressions: the present scenarios of asymmetric warfare are characterised by the actions of non-State armed groups, which reject the traditional military and legally accepted methods of fighting The present analysis will first assess the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Mercenaries Unleashed: The Brave New World of Private Military and Security Companies [PDF]

, 2016
Raphael, S.
core  

Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Global value chains (GVCs) have connected firms in complex networks within and across national borders. However, political economy models often assume away production linkages and thus fail to explain pervasive and diverse trade coalitions cutting across industries and firms. I develop a GVC‐centered framework where production linkages through
Hao Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Private provision of health services in Georgia: a qualitative exploration of governance behaviours. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Tvaliashvili M, Hellowell M, Roubal T, Zoidze A, Clarke D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, Yiqing Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Suppression of Depression as Multimediation: Psychiatric Diagnoses Under Myanmar's Military Dictatorship. [PDF]

Cult Med Psychiatry
Ecks S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum technologies and geopolitics: comparing parliamentary rhetoric. [PDF]

EPJ Quantum Technol
Suter V, Pöhlmann G, Ma C, Meckel M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source