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Assessing the performance of the public sector [PDF]
Amazingly, one is used to hearing harsh statements about inefficient public services. Nor is it surprising to see public sector performance questioned.
Pierre Pestieau
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This study reveals that the small GTPase Rab14 is necessary for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and plays an essential role in the transport of virions to the trans‐Golgi network (TGN). HPV in the early endosome (EE), which harbors GTP‐bound Rab14, is transported to the TGN through the switch of Rab14 from its GTP‐bound to GDP‐bound form.
Yoshiyuki Ishii, Iwao Kukimoto
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Credit constraints and productive entrepreneurship in Africa [PDF]
Limited access of entrepreneurs to credit constrains the creation and growth of private firms. In Africa, access to credit is particularly limited for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to unclear property rights and the lack of assets that can be ...
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz +2 more
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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth [PDF]
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing ...
Johanna Kühnel, Andreas Irmen
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Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto +3 more
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Firms’ International Status and Heterogeneity in Performance: Evidence From Italy [PDF]
This paper revisits the empirical evidence about the link between firms’ performance and their international status, based on a large sample of Italian enterprises.
Valeria Gattai +2 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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AgricultureThe queen, as the reproductive core of a honeybee colony, has declining reproductive capacity with age, making it necessary to rear new queens to replace older ones.
Yueyang Hu +6 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Proteostasis and the gut microbiota play a key role in shaping host physiology. Microbiota‐derived metabolites, vitamins, and RNA modulate host proteostasis. Findings from model systems, including C. elegans, indicate microbes can either stabilize or disrupt host proteostasis.
Abhishek Anil Dubey, Maria Ermolaeva
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The Use of Parametric and Non Parametric Frontier Methods to Measure the Productive Efficiency in the Industrial Sector. A Comparative Study [PDF]
Parametric frontier models and non-parametric methods have monopolised the recent literature on productive efficiency measurement. Empirical applications have usually dealt with either one or the other group of techniques.
Luis R. Murillo-Zamorano +1 more
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