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Resources for Peace? Managing Revenues from Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Environments [PDF]
Revenues from extractive sectors such as oil and gas, minerals, and logging play an important role in many post-conflict environments, often providing more than 30% of state fiscal receipts.
Philippe Le Billon
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Information Technology, Revenues and Profits: Exploring the Role of Foreign and Domestic Operations
How does information technology (IT) enable firms to globalize their operations and achieve higher foreign profits? We use archival data for multinational firms publicly traded in the United States for the years 1999–2006, and find indirect evidence for ...
Sunil Mithas +2 more
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis
ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
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ANALYSIS OF BUDGET POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION UNTIL 2020
This article discusses the direction of long-term development budget policyof the Russian Federation based on its analysis of the main structural elements(income, expenditure, budget balance andpublic debt).
Mikhail S. Gordienko
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Optimal Density for Municipal Revenues [PDF]
The distribution of lot sizes and associated improvements affect property values. Hence, zoning affects municipal property tax revenues. If optimal lot size is inconsistent with the targeted zoning density in a community, municipal revenue can be ...
Adelaja, Adesoji O., Chaudhuri, Malika
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The government’s new Digital Economy Act will do little to prevent file sharing – the music industry must continue to innovate online if it is to survive [PDF]
Nearly as old as the internet, the peer-to-peer file sharing of music online has been a constant bugbear for the music industry, with claims of billions in lost revenues over the past decade. Bart Cammaerts and Bingchun Meng have found that despite these
Cammaerts, Bart, Meng, Bingchun
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ABSTRACT Objective To determine the concentration of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma in Alexander disease (AxD) and whether GFAP levels are predictive of disease phenotypes. Methods CSF and plasma were collected (longitudinally when available) from AxD participants and non‐AxD controls.
Amy T. Waldman +9 more
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Efficient consumption of revenues from natural resources – An application to Norwegian petroleum revenues [PDF]
This paper addresses the so-called natural resource curse by devising a rule that can reduce macroeconomic costs associated with the consumption of revenues from natural resources.
Q. Farooq Akram
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Traumatic Microhemorrhages Are Not Synonymous With Axonal Injury
ABSTRACT Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is caused by acceleration‐deceleration forces during trauma that shear white matter tracts. Susceptibility‐weighted MRI (SWI) identifies microbleeds that are considered the radiologic hallmark of DAI and are used in clinical prognostication.
Karinn Sytsma +9 more
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ABSTRACT Objectives WHO grade 4 astrocytomas are associated with poor prognosis, and their prognostic factors remain controversial. This study aimed to identify the prognostic factors and develop a management algorithm for these patients. Methods This study retrospectively included 151 CNS5 adult grade 4 astrocytomas from two medical centers.
Jiawei Cai +13 more
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