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Revisiting the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Crime: A Global Analysis

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon extensive literature on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers, we hypothesize that FDI inflow represents a double‐edged sword with respect to crime in host countries. On one hand, FDI can contribute to economic growth and social well‐being by infusing capital and knowledge into the host countries, thereby potentially ...
Yuan Chen, Zheming Liang, Ciqiao Wang, Zhengle Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comércio: perfil, reestruturação e tendências

Educação & Sociedade, 1997
Este texto visa apresentar reflexões sobre as transformações organizacionais e tecnológicas que vêm ocorrendo no ramo do comércio. Nos últimos anos vem crescendo o número de pessoas ocupadas neste ramo que, tal como ocorre em outros ramos, está ...
Almeida Marilis Lemos de
doaj  

Impacts of Low‐Level Jets on Moisture Transport to the Pantanal, Brazil

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
The moisture transports from the tropics to the subtropics by the low‐level jets (LLJs) east of the Andes crossing the Pantanal region. Four LLJs, east of the Andes, were identified and selected with correspondent Lagrangian moisture transport. The LLJ moisture source regions contribute to Pantanal (~63.5%) and precipitation increased (~30%) during LLJ
Nilson Oliveira da Silva, Ana Maria Pereira Nunes, Raquel Nieto, Milica Stojanovic, Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha   +4 more
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Relationships between periodontitis, tooth loss, and metabolic syndrome indicators

Journal of Periodontology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background This study investigates how poor oral health impacts metabolic alterations, specifically evaluating the effects of periodontitis and tooth loss, either individually or in combination, on the number of metabolic syndrome (MetS) indicators.
Verbênia Silva Conceição, Isaac Suzart Gomes‐Filho, Simone Seixas da Cruz, Michelle Santana Xavier Ramos, Ana Claudia Morais Godoy Figueiredo, Soraya Castro Trindade, Daiane Silva Sampaio, Maria Clara Azevedo Moreira, Eneida de Moraes Marcílio Cerqueira, Josicélia Estrela Tuy Batista, Alexandre Marcelo Hintz, Gregory John Seymour, Frank Andrew Scannapieco, Peter Michael Loomer, Johelle de Santana Passos‐Soares   +14 more
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Internationalization, Dynamic Capabilities, and Innovation: Unveiling the Impact on Hotel Chain Performance

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The indirect effect of dynamic capabilities on performance has recently emerged as a topic of significant interest and debate in management research. In turbulent environments such as the international hotel industry, where companies constantly innovate to improve their performance, it is important to consider the effect of these dynamic ...
Laura Rienda, Rosario Andreu, Lorena Ruiz‐Fernández   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essential and toxic elements intake from botanical extracts: a probabilistic risk–benefit evaluation within the Italian dietary context

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Botanical extracts are widely consumed for their claimed health benefits, yet their safety profile with respect to chronic consumption remains poorly characterized. Understanding the potential health risks associated with their inorganic content is a crucial issue for ensuring safe use, along with a characterization of the ...
Giovanni Tommaso Lanza, Maria Olga Varrà, Lenka Husáková, Martina Piroutková, Jan Patočka, Emanuela Zanardi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Features requirement elicitation process for designing a chatbot application

IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
This article seeks to assist the chatbot community by outlining the characteristics that a chatbot needs to possess and explaining how to create a chatbot for a bank. In order to determine which capabilities are most crucial to ending users, a study of a small sample of chatbot users was conducted.
Nurul Muizzah Johari, Puteri N. E. Nohuddin, Ahmad Hanif Ahmad Baharin, Noor Azuddin Yakob, Mohammad Javad Ebadi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of a Trench Combined With Exclosure on Recovery of Herbaceous Biomass in Degraded Mountain Areas in Hawasa Watershed, Southern Ethiopia

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to evaluate the restoration of herbaceous biomass in degraded mountain lands by comparing the impact of trenches established alongside exclosures (EX‐SWC) to exclosures alone (EX). To achieve the objective, herbaceous biomass was collected from areas restored using EX‐SWC and EX over three consecutive years ...
Shiferaw Alem, Tesfaye Hankamo, Hana Habrova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Usability of a gamified antibiotic resistance awareness mobile application: A qualitative evaluation

IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
The purpose of this study is to reveal the findings from the usability evaluation of an antibiotic resistance awareness app (SEDAR) app and present the necessary critical revisions made to improve the usability further. This study adopted guerrilla testing, observation, and retrospective probing methods to evaluate the usability of the SEDAR app ...
Ummul Hanan Mohamad, Intan Nadiah Abdul Hakim, Mahdi Ali‐Akbari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Sediment Connectivity Indices to Improve the Prediction of the Spatiotemporal Variability of Sediment Yield for a Large River Basin (Wei River, China)

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sediment connectivity between source areas and the main streams or local sinks is a complex and dynamic process, especially in large basins due to multiple heterogeneities and interactions between connectivity components. Sediment connectivity indices are promising tools to investigate sediment transport, especially in data‐scarce or large ...
Zhenni Wu, Jantiene E. M. Baartman, João Pedro Nunes, Manuel López‐Vicente   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source