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Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program [PDF]

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market.
Douglas O. Staiger, Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane   +2 more
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Vascular Disease, Non‐Steroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Drugs and Risk of Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives A history of vascular disease has been shown to be associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, but this may be due to reverse causation. In addition, non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs are thought to reduce Parkinson's disease risk, but evidence is inconsistent and confounding by prior vascular disease is possible ...
Clare Wotton, Carol Hermon, Sarah Floud, Gillian Reeves, Isobel Barnes   +4 more
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LA EFICIENCIA PRODUCTIVA Y LA TITULARIDAD PÚBLICA/PRIVADA: UNA BREVE REVISIÓN DE LA LITERATURA ECONÓMICA

Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, 2015
RESUMEN El presente trabajo pretende realizar una exhaustiva sistematización histórica y actual de la literatura académica respecto a la relación entre la titularidad pública/privada de la empresa y su eficiencia.
Darío Ezequiel Díaz
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CSF Cytokine Network Organization Predicts Progression Independent of Relapse and MRI Activity in Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Progression independent of relapse activity is a major determinant of long‐term disability in multiple sclerosis, but its immunopathologic basis remains incompletely understood. We investigated whether relapse‐independent progression in radiologically stable relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis is associated with distinct ...
Antonio Bruno, Matteo Conti, Ettore Dolcetti, Federica Azzolini, Angela Borrelli, Roberta Fantozzi, Mario Stampanoni Bassi, Giovanni Galifi, Giuseppe Maccarrone, Luca Montaguti, Marco Cervigni, Maddalena Dal Pozzo, Roberto Furlan, Annamaria Finardi, Girolama Alessandra Marfia, Marco Salvetti, Antonella Conte, Fabio Buttari, Diego Centonze, Luana Gilio   +19 more
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Religiosity and corruption tolerance in Muslim-majority countries. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Elkamel H, Al Mahri B.
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Evaluation of Dried Plasma Spot‐Based Quantification of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein as a Disease‐Associated Biomarker in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) measured in dried plasma spots versus conventional plasma‐ and serum‐GFAP testing for assessment of disease severity in aquaporin‐4 immunoglobulin G–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4‐IgG+ NMOSD).
Felix Wohlrab, Evelyn Alvarez, Roua Hamdi, Bingqing Zhang, Hayeun Ji, Niyati Jhaveri, Patrick Schindler, Pedro Sanchez, Pia S. Sperber, Tanja Schmitz‐Hübsch, Frederike C. Oertel, Nisa Vorasoot, Najib Kissani, Falko Böhringer, Jens Kuhle, Anne‐Katrin Pröbstel, Xiao‐Jun Ma, Péter Körtvelyessy, Patrick Waters, Friedemann Paul   +19 more
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Rational choice theory

Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2017
Yurdagul Kilinc Adanali
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Risk translation in a compressed meritocracy: a sociological and social-psychological analysis of the Zhang Xuefeng phenomenon. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Liu HJ.
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Diffuse MRI Edema Predicts Relapse in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy–Related Inflammation

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To identify MRI predictors of relapse and quantify relapse and mortality risk in cerebral amyloid angiopathy–related inflammation (CAA‐RI). A secondary objective was to assess the association between mycophenolate mofetil use and relapse risk. Methods We performed a retrospective cohort study of 36 patients with CAA‐RI treated at the
G. Abbas Kharal, Gowtham Yerneni, Kim J. Griffin, Nicolas Thompson, Ken Uchino, Irene Katzan, Dolora Wisco, Abeer Farrag, Jayashree Sundarajan, Andrew Russman, M. Shazam Hussain   +10 more
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Analytical public-choice planning theory: A response to Poulton

, 1998
This paper is principally a response to Michael Poulton's (1997) paper in which he argues in favour of a public-choice theory of planning. While Poulton's high view of public-choice theory might be justified, the case he builds is weakened by a somewhat ...
Webster, C
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