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Challenges in the future of cancer screening

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of cancer screening is to reduce mortality, and ideally incidence, from the cancer screened for. Until recently, cancer screening has been offered to all persons in pre‐defined sex‐ and age‐groups. The exception is lung screening which is targeted to high‐risk individuals.
Elsebeth Lynge, Berit Andersen, Stig E. Bojesen, Lone Kjeld Petersen, Mickael Bech, Martin Bøgsted, Mie Seest Dam, Søren Egstrand, Anne Mette Fløe Hvass, Camilla J. Kobylecki, Kristina Lång, Mads Nielsen, Giorgi Paolo Rossi, Michael Stenger, Ilse Vejborg, Future of Cancer Screening Working Group, Vibe Munk Bertelsen, Janne Bigaard, Karen Omann Binderup, Lennart Friis‐Hansen, Stine Bisgaard Greve, Jessica Xin Hjaltelin, Rikke Hedegaard Jensen, Gitte Jessing, Pia Kirkegaard, Mette Hartmann Nonboe, Tina Bech Olesen, Katrine Stolberg, Signe Bülow Therkildsen, Mette Kielsholm Thomsen   +29 more
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DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MARKET OF MANDATORY PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS IN ROMANIA [PDF]

Annals of the University of Craiova: Economic Sciences Series, 2016
Starting from 2008, Romania has a pension system that is based on three pillars: re-distributive type pension scheme (Pay As You Go) - Pillar I, mandatory private pension funds - Pillar II and facultative pensions - Pillar III. This system is inspired by
Gheorghe Matei, Constantin Durac
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Sustainability Performance and Corporate Risk: Evidence From the Tourism Industry

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of sustainability performance (Refinitiv Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG] scores) on corporate risk (CR). We apply stakeholder theory and the resource‐based view to an international sample of 247 tourism firms from 2002 to 2018.
Omneya Abdelsalam, Antonios Chantziaras, Vassiliki Grougiou, Stergios Leventis, Nikolaos Tsileponis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pension funds, national savings and financial development: unpacking conditional effects using U.S. time series data

Cogent Economics & Finance
The relationship between pension funds and national savings (NS) varies depending on the existing level of savings within an economy. Similarly, the structural impacts of pension funds on financial development are influenced by these savings levels. This
Kazeem Abimbola Sanusi, Zandri Dickason-Koekemoer   +1 more
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Regulating private pension funds’ structure, performance and investments: cross-country evidence

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2000
Because defined-contribution systems expose pensions to a number of risks, reforming governments have often strictly regulated the pension fund industry's structure, performance, and investments.
P. Srinivas, Edward R. Whitehouse, Juan Yermo   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are Workplace Friendships Nothing for Older Workers? Decoding the Psychological Mechanisms Linking Age to Workplace Friendship

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the benefits of workplace friendship, understanding its maintenance is essential. Age is particularly relevant due to the aging and increasingly age‐diverse workforce, yet its relationship with workplace friendship remains unclear, with prior studies reporting positive, negative, or null correlations. As age itself is a proxy for further
Ulrike Fasbender, Nina M. Junker
wiley   +1 more source

THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATELY ADMINISTERED PENSION SYSTEM IN ROMANIA IN FINANCING AND SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRIPHOTOVOLTAICS [PDF]

Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
In this article, the authors analyzed the strategic connection between the private pension system in Romania and the agriphotovoltaic potential, emphasizing the importance of these funds as a source of institutional capital for the energy transition ...
ANGHEL MĂDĂLINA-GABRIELA, STRIJEK DENIS-ARTHUR   +1 more
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Opening the Black Box of Nonprofit Reputation and Volunteer Attraction With Supervised Machine Learning

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the aim to explore the potential of machine learning for nonprofit research, this article contrasts traditional linear regression with four contemporary supervised machine learning approaches. Concretely, we predict (1) reputation ratings and (2) the total number of volunteers for 4021 non‐profit organizations in the U.S.
Moritz Schmid, Hannes Lampe, Jurgen Willems   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maximising Participation in the Australian National Lung Cancer Screening Program: A Discrete Choice Experiment of Eligible, High‐Risk Individuals

Respirology, EarlyView.
A discrete choice experiment of lung cancer screening attributes. Study results demonstrate that lung cancer screening uptake could be significantly increased by offering program navigators and personalised invitations. The findings contribute significant insights to inform future improvements to the design and implementation of the Australian National
Peiwen Jiang, Caitlin Paton, Richard Norman, Marianne Weber, Henry M. Marshall, Fraser Brims, Kuan Pim Lim, Sarah York, Georgia Bartlett, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Nicole M. Rankin   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal pension fund composition for an Italian private pension plan sponsor

Computational Management Science, 2016
We address the problem of a private pension plan sponsor who has to find the best pension funds for its members. Starting from a descriptive analysis of the pension plan members we identify a set of representative subscribers. Then, the optimal allocation for each representative will become a pension fund of the pension plan.
VITALI, Sebastiano, MORIGGIA, Vittorio, Kopa, Miloš   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source