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Race and Household Income Are Associated With Disease Outcomes in Pediatric Patients With Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody–Associated Vasculitis Hospitalized in the United States

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Race and household income impact outcomes in patients with rheumatic conditions; however, their role in pediatric antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated vasculitis (AAV) remains poorly understood. We aimed to evaluate whether race and ethnicity and household income are associated with severe AAV disease and renal outcomes among
Roberto Alejandro Valdovinos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIVATISATION POLICIES IN LIBYA: ASSESSING FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC, LEGAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL REQUIREMENTS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Critical Perspectives on the Efficient Implementation of Privatisation Policies in Libya: Assessing Financial, Economic, Legal, Administrative and Social Requirements By Hesham F.
SHERNANNA, HESHAM,FARHAT
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Social Security Privatisation in the UK: a means to whose end? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper investigates how privatisation trends have affected the right to social security in the UK since 1979. Privatisation has regularly been posited as a solution to more efficiently and effectively target public services.
Daniel Edmiston, Edmiston, D
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A Return to Normality: A Descriptive Qualitative Interview Study Exploring the Patient Experience of Gout Flare Resolution

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Although the definition of a gout flare is well established, the state of gout flare resolution has not yet been defined. This study aimed to explore patients’ experiences and perceptions of gout flare resolution. Methods Semistructured interviews were conducted with 24 people with gout, guided by open‐ended questions exploring their ...
Sarah Stewart   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Privatisation of New Zealand Rail [PDF]

open access: yes
The methodology for the study involves determining the nature and amount of economic welfare gains and losses resulting from the privatisation of New Zealand Rail, and the incidence among groups in society.
NZ Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation Inc
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Privatisation is no salvation. CEPS Commentary, 23 June 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Protests continue in Greece as its leaders debate the latest suggestions for dealing with its crippling debt. One proposal is for Greece to privatise several of its assets. This Commentary argues that privatisation is a mirage. If solvency is the problem,
Gros, Daniel.
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Shadow education as local education policy: how secretariats of education promote privatisation of test preparation services for the Saber 11 exam in Colombia’s public schools

open access: yesEducation Inquiry
This article investigates how Colombia’s decentralised Secretariats of Education (SoE) institutionalise exam-oriented preparation for Sabre 11, the mandatory upper-secondary exit exam governing higher-education access.
Jorge Celis
doaj   +1 more source

Fostering Innovation: Streamlining Magnetocaloric Materials Research by Digitalization

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Magnetocaloric cooling (MCE) is an environmentally friendly refrigeration method with great potential. Optimizing MCE materials involves the preparation and screening of large quantities of samples, which in turn generates a large amount of data. A digitalization approach is presented that uses ontologies, knowledge graphs, and digital workflows to ...
Simon Bekemeier   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Actualising economic development through privatisation legal reform: a general assessment of privatisation in Africa with a specific case study of Nigeria and sub focus on the Nigerian electricity sector

open access: yes, 2009
PhDThis dissertation analysed the outcome of the adoption and implementation of privatisation by Nigeria, of which a legal framework has been put in place by the government to legalise the process of transferring the ownership and/or control of public
Ewelukwa, Nnaemeka Onyebuchi
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Enrolling the child in private early childhood education and care in the context of universal service provision

open access: yesEducation Inquiry
Finland has traditionally had a universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system like the other Nordic countries, but in the last 15 years this system has undergone considerable marketisation and privatisation suggested to enable parental ...
Maarit Alasuutari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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