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An extension of the slash-elliptical distribution

This paper introduces an extension of the slash-elliptical distribution. This new distribution is generated as the quotient between two independent random variables, one from the elliptical family (numerator) and the other (denominator) a beta ...
Bolfarine, Heleno, Gómez, Héctor W., Rojas, Mario A.   +2 more
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Political Connections, Subsidized Loans, and Capital Markets Development

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the relationship between political connections and firms' financing decisions in Brazil using large datasets on campaign contributions, loans from the Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), and financial variables from Capital IQ.
Eduardo Kazuo Kayo
wiley   +1 more source

Rituximab-Conjugated DART Nanoformulation for CD20-Targeted Drug Delivery in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. [PDF]

Int J Nanomedicine
Mahmud MM, Kong B, Lee D, Pinzon Burgos EF, Heredia A, Suk JS, Kim AJ.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Technological Frames of Reference and Conceptions of Workers' Agency: A New Framework From UK Warehousing

New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the diverse assumptions and priorities that managers and technology developers assign to workplace technologies in UK warehousing. Rooted in labour process theory (LPT), and its concern for worker agency and management control, it addresses a need for finer‐grained theorisations of management and developer agency in ...
Abbie Winton, Charles Umney, Gabriella Alberti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adolescent and Young Adult versus Older Adult Philadelphia-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Single-Center Experience from the MENA Region. [PDF]

J Blood Med
Mohamed SF, Alshurafa A, Soliman DS, Al-Mashdali AF, Abdulgayoom M, Babiker AM, Osman M, Fadul A, Abdalla E, Alsayed AA, Aweer NA, Abdel-Rahman ME, Ismail OM, Yousaf A, Yassin M.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

Maximum likelihood parameter estimation for the multivariate skew-slash distribution

In this paper we consider the parameter estimation of the multivariate skew-slash distribution introduced by Arslan [Arslan, O. 2008. An alternative multivariate skew-slash distribution.
Arslan, Olcay
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Learning From 25 Years of Changes in Business Tax Policy

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarizes the significant changes to the taxation of business income in the United States over the last 25 years and how the resulting policy variation has helped inform research on business taxation. The survey of research on the topic covers investment incentives, international taxation, corporate financial policy, issues with ...
Jason DeBacker, Aerfate Haimiti
wiley   +1 more source

Postoperative Contrast Sensitivity and Its Association with Lenticule Surface Regularity After KLEx with the VisuMax 800. [PDF]

Clin Ophthalmol
Hu J, Bao Y, Wang Z, Wang Y, Yu J, Xu H, Qian Y, Wang X, Zhou X, Zhao J.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source