Pursuing patents for their own sake: How the investment discourse shapes patent quality and quantity
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract Patent systems worldwide face criticisms over declining patent quality and increasing patent quantity. While most research focuses on strengthening examination rigour, this article turns attention to relatively underexplored patenting incentives.
Li Liu
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Public opinion on policy interventions for regulating four unhealthy commodity industries: a cross-sectional online survey of a representative sample of British adults 2023. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthReed E +7 more
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Employee Fraud and the Statute of Limitations in a Search and Matching Model
The Manchester School, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper integrates employee fraud into a Mortensen‐Pissarides search and matching model to analyze labor market dynamics under imperfect legal enforcement. We introduce a time‐dependent punishment structure where the offender's effective liability is governed by the statute of limitations. We characterize both short‐ and long‐run equilibria,
Mauricio Benegas, José Freire Júnior
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
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'Playing to extinction': the commercial determinants of gambling-related harm, suicidality and suicide. [PDF]
Lancet Reg Health West PacRintoul A +3 more
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Social Effects of the Vote of the Majority: An Experiment on the Brexit‐Vote
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2016 EU referendum result was widely perceived as a statement against immigration. This paper investigates whether information about majority voting outcomes influences attitudes towards immigrants. Using a survey experiment conducted in England in 2017–2018, we randomly exposed participants to truthful information indicating that local ...
Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon +1 more
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Integrative neuromuscular training on static and dynamic balance in team sport athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
BMC Sports Sci Med RehabilZhang J, Liu J, Mi J, Liu R.
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Orthodontics &Craniofacial Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Patient safety, defined as the absence of avoidable harm, in orthodontics is still in its early stages of development. Knowledge on the subject is limited. Aim (1) To conduct an incident analysis, (2) to measure avoidability, (3) to investigate the relationship between contributory factors and perceived avoidability of harm from ...
Nikolaos Ferlias +5 more
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Economic evaluation of evidence-based strategies to reduce unhealthy alcohol use: a resource allocation guide. [PDF]
Front Public HealthHendrie D, Miller TR.
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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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