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Time-varying parameters of Croatian import demand [PDF]

Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2019
The paper aims to examine Croatian import demand elasticities to changes in income and relative prices while allowing time variation in parameters of import demand.
Mile Bošnjak, Vlatka Bilas, Domagoj Račić   +2 more
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Regional cooperation is essential to combatting health emergencies in the Global South

Globalization and Health, 2021
Since COVID-19 was first discovered, it exploded into a pandemic resulting in devastating effects on human lives and a global recession. While there have been discussions that COVID-19 will accelerate the ‘end of globalization and multilateralism’, we ...
Ana B. Amaya, Philippe De Lombaerde
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An Ocean Free of Nuclear Weapons? Regional Security Governance in the South Atlantic

Politics and Governance, 2022
Even though oceans are pivotal for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, they constitute a blind spot in the global non-proliferation regime. This article analyses how regional security governance mechanisms may fill such gaps by bringing a maritime ...
Frank Mattheis, Pedro Seabra
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Estimating the Health State of Lithium-Ion Batteries Using an Adaptive Gated Sequence Network and Hierarchical Feature Construction

Batteries
State of health (SOH) estimation plays a vital role in ensuring the safe and stable operation of lithium-ion battery management systems (BMSs). Data-driven methods are widely used to estimate SOH; however, existing methods often suffer from fixed or ...
Ke Wang, Qingzhong Gao, Xinfu Pang, Haibo Li, Wei Liu   +4 more
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Progress of the Malabo Declaration as a Regional Agenda Towards Addressing Hunger in Africa

Geographies
The Malabo Declaration commits African Union member states to eliminating hunger by 2025. Progress toward this target has been uneven and poorly understood.
Chibuzor Charles Ubah, Nidhi Nagabhatla
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An adaptive load forecasting model in microgrids: A cloud-edge orchestrated approach tailored for accuracy, real-time response, and privacy needs

International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
The load forecasting tasks in different types of microgrids offer diversified requirements on application, such as forecasting accuracy, model complexity restrictions, and hardware environment.
Yan Zhao, Jiaqi Shi, Donglai Wang, He Jiang, Xiang Zhang   +4 more
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Transcultural adaptation and psychometric properties of Family Quality of Life Survey for caregivers of people with neurodegenerative disease: a study of Spanish families who live in the rural Spain–Portugal cross-border

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2021
Background Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are one of the main causes of disability and dependence that have a great impact both on the quality of life of people with disabilities and their families.
Marta Badia, M. Begoña Orgaz, Isabel Vicario-Molina, Eva González-Ortega, María Gómez-Vela, Alba Aza, M. Antonia Martín-Delgado   +6 more
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Mechanisms of parasite‐mediated disruption of brain vessels

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Parasites can affect the blood vessels of the brain, often causing serious neurological problems. This review explains how different parasites interact with and disrupt these vessels, what this means for brain health, and why these processes matter. Understanding these mechanisms may help us develop better ways to prevent or treat brain infections in ...
Leonor Loira, Sílvia Arroz‐Madeira, Cláudio A. Franco, Sara Silva Pereira   +3 more
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Characterizing the salivary RNA landscape to identify potential diagnostic, prognostic, and follow‐up biomarkers for breast cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study explores salivary RNA for breast cancer (BC) diagnosis, prognosis, and follow‐up. High‐throughput RNA sequencing identified distinct salivary RNA signatures, including novel transcripts, that differentiate BC from healthy controls, characterize histological and molecular subtypes, and indicate lymph node involvement.
Nicholas Rajan, Irina Primac, Emre Etlioglu, Laurens Debruyne, Ann Janssen, Magy Sallam, Kevin Tabury, Roel Quintens, Wiebren Tjalma, Mohammed Abderrafi Benotmane   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

Ecology and Society, 2015
Increasingly, the world is becoming socioeconomically and environmentally connected, but many studies have focused on human-environment interactions within a particular area. Although some studies have considered the impacts of external factors, there is
Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Junyan Luo, Wu Yang, Wei Liu, Andrés Viña, Christine Vogt, Zhenci Xu, Hongbo Yang, Jindong Zhang, Li An, Xiaodong Chen, Shuxin Li, Zhiyun Ouyang, Weihua Xu, Hemin Zhang   +15 more
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