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A Review of Privatization in Iran [PDF]

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2014
Privatization has become a popular panacea for solving the organizational problems of governments by reducing the role of the state and encouraging the growth of the private sector enterprises.
Leila Sedighikamal, Ghodratollah Talebnia   +1 more
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ATP13A2 is involved in intracellular polyamine transport in lung epithelial cells

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Spermidine transport in lung epithelial cells involves the polyamine transporter ATP13A2. Cell proliferation is associated with the upregulation of ATP13A2. Polyamines are present in all living cells and are implicated in various crucial cellular processes such as proliferation, apoptosis and autophagy.
Yuta Hatori, Kohei Kawabata, Takanori Kubo, Takeo Kitazawa, Sae Kanai, Madoka Iwashita, Ami Hayashi, Hiroyuki Nishi, Mikihisa Takano   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring firm-level drivers of international financial reporting standards adoption readiness in an emerging economy: evidence from Vietnamese listed and unlisted companies

Cogent Business & Management
This study explores firm-level determinants influencing the adoption readiness of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Vietnam. Rather than the binary treatment used in earlier studies, we evaluate readiness across firms’ technical ...
Xuan Thuy Ho, Thi Mai Khanh Hoang, Quoc Thuan Pham   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who owns the media? [PDF]

The authors examine patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world. They find that almost universally the largest media firms are controlled by the government or by private families.
Djankov, Simeon, McLeish, Caralee, Nenova, Tatiana, Shleifer, Andrei   +3 more
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Metformin promotes mitochondrial integrity through AMPK‐signaling in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Metformin mediates mitochondrial quality control in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) fibroblasts carrying mtDNA mutations. At therapeutic levels, metformin activates AMPK signaling to restore mitochondrial dynamics by promoting fusion and restraining fission, while preserving mitochondrial mass, enhancing autophagy/mitophagy and biogenesis ...
Chatnapa Panusatid, Rapasviranda Soiyangsuk, Maneeluck Tanadjindarat, Chayanon Peerapittayamongkol   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bank ownership and efficiency in China: what lies ahead in the world’s largest nation? [PDF]

China is reforming its banking system, partially privatizing and permitting minority foreign ownership of three of the dominant ‘big four’ state-owned banks.
Berger , Allen N, Hasan , Iftekhar, Zhou, Mingming   +2 more
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dUTPase is essential in zebrafish development and possesses several single‐nucleotide variants with pronounced structural and functional consequences

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
dUTPases are involved in balancing the appropriate nucleotide pools. We showed that dUTPase is essential for normal development in zebrafish. The different zebrafish genomes contain several single‐nucleotide variations (SNPs) of the dut gene. One of the dUTPase variants displayed drastically lower protein stability and catalytic efficiency as compared ...
Viktória Perey‐Simon, Angéla Békesi, Latifa Kazzazy, Jázmin Mihály, Máté Varga, Beáta G. Vértessy, Kinga Nyíri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Federalism and Privatization on Productivity in Chinese Firms [PDF]

This study offers empirical evidence about how the structure of government and private ownership affects productivity in Chinese firms. It uses the microdata of China's most recent decennial industrial census, covering all of the 23,000 large and medium ...
Robert H. McGuckin, Sean M. Dougherty
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Enzymatic degradation of biopolymers in amorphous and molten states: mechanisms and applications

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This review explains how polymer morphology and thermal state shape enzymatic degradation pathways, comparing amorphous and molten biopolymer structures. By integrating structure–reactivity principles with insights from thermodynamics and enzyme engineering, it highlights mechanisms that enable efficient polymer breakdown.
Anđela Pustak, Aleksandra Maršavelski
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of State and Foreign Ownership on Post-Transition Industrial Concentration: The Case of Polish Manufacturing [PDF]

This paper reports an analysis of the determinants of the level and changes in Polish industrial concentration in the early post-transition era. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 144 Polish manufacturing industries over the period 1989-1993 ...
Barbara Roberts, Kevin Amess
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