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Future Kuwait: Prosperity, Stagnation, or Decline?

open access: yesProceedings, 2023
This study is a qualitative meta-analysis employing a critical interpretive synthesis to describe three equally probable future social and economic growth scenarios for the State of Kuwait over the next 15 years.
Andri Ottesen   +3 more
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Towards a Politics of Restraint.

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2021
Public choice theory, an analysis of politics based on economic principles, is often considered to be one of the major innovations in economics and political sciences in the second half of the twentieth century.
Thomas Kayzel
doaj   +1 more source

Frank Knight and the Origins of Public Choice

open access: yesŒconomia, 2021
Did Frank Knight play a role in the formation of public choice theory? We argue that the dimensions of James Buchanan’s thought that form many of the core insights of public choice become clearer when seen against the work of his teacher, Frank Knight ...
David C. Coker, Ross B. Emmett
doaj   +1 more source

Calvinball: Users’ Rights, Public Choice Theory and Rules Mutable Games

open access: yesThe Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2018
This article proposes the “rules mutable game” as a metaphor for understanding the operation of copyright reform. Using the game of Calvinball (created by artist Bill Watterson in his long-running comic strip Calvin & Hobbes) as an illustrative device ...
Bob Tarantino
doaj   +1 more source

Choosing with confidence: Self-efficacy and preferences for choice [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2012
Previous research on the role of choice set size in decision making has focused on decision outcomes and satisfaction. In contrast, little is known about interindividual differences in preferences for larger versus smaller choice sets, let alone the ...
Andrew E. Reed   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Simpson's aggregation paradox in nonparametric statistical analysis: Theory, computation, and susceptibility in public health data

open access: yesFrontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023
This study establishes sufficient conditions for observing instances of Simpson's (data aggregation) Paradox under rank sum scoring (RSS), as used, e.g., in the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) rank sum test.
Shane Sanders   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Required conditionalities in applying public choice theory in the field of public utility services

open access: yesAudit Financiar, 2017
Adapting public policies on public utilities to collective expectations of the population has always been a challenge for both central and local public authorities in Romania.
Alexandru BOCIU
doaj   +1 more source

Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE EFFECTS OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ON PUBLIC ECONOMICS ANALYSIS: A THEORETICAL REVIEW

open access: yesJournal of Business Administration and Social Studies, 2021
Seen the coronavirus outbreak worldwide has led to the questioning of the Public Choice Theory, which minimizes the state in the field of public economy, and reveals the significance of the prescriptions presented by the Orthodox (Traditional) theory ...
Berkan KARAGÖZ
doaj  

Serum Myonectin Levels Are Positively Associated With Physical Function and Lower Frailty‐Related Limitation in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: A Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients frequently suffer from frailty, characterized by reduced physical function and poor prognosis. Myokines, such as myonectin, secreted by muscle, are emerging regulators of systemic health. This study investigated the relationship between serum myonectin, adipokines (adiponectin, omentin), and ...
Kenichi Kono   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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