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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
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Association between weight-adjusted waist index and risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 in United States adults and the predictive value of obesity indicators

BMC Public Health
Background The weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) is a quantitative anthropometric index that can be applied to evaluate obesity. This study examined the relationship between adult United States (US) residents’ risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) and ...
XinMeng Li, Dan Zhao, Hongkun Wang
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Knowledge Will Always Get through: Inventors, International Networks, and Flows of Technological Knowledge between Britain and the United States in the Interwar Deglobalization Period

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Researchers have highlighted that institutional contexts affect the transnational diffusion of knowledge. However, the influence of institutions on the flow of knowledge through cross‐national networks remains under‐theorized, limiting our understanding of the dynamics of knowledge creation and the factors that may hinder it.
Anna Spadavecchia
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How Are “Financial Balances” Financed? Wicksell, (Keynes) and the US Mainstream Don't Fit Today's Institutions; Kalecki, Triffin, and Minsky Got it Right

Metroeconomica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the financial balances of the US economy. Government is the main borrower and households and the foreign sector the main lenders. Business net lending is minimal. The balances and their underlying transactions contradict the loanable funds theory and its “global savings glut” variation.
Michalis Nikiforos, Lance Taylor
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Weight-adjusted-waist index is positively associated with urinary incontinence: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001–2018

European Journal of Medical Research
Background Urinary incontinence (UI) is closely related to obesity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association of a novel anthropometric indicator weight-adjusted-waist index (WWI) with UI.
Shangqi Cao, Xu Hu, Yaxiong Tang, Kang Wu, Weixiao Yang, Xiang Li   +5 more
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The relationship between weight-adjusted waist index and peripheral artery disease

Frontiers in Nutrition
BackgroundObesity is a significant risk factor for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) is a novel obesity metric that better reflects abdominal obesity than traditional body mass index (BMI).
Zhe Wu, Yang Liu, Bin Wang
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The Renal Activity Index for Lupus Identifies Active Renal Disease and Treatment Response in Adult Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Lupus Nephritis

Arthritis Care &Research, Volume 78, Issue 6, Page 723-732, June 2026.
Objective We evaluated the ability of the Renal Activity Index for Lupus (RAIL) to discriminate active lupus nephritis (LN) in adult patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and differentiate LN treatment response. Methods Urine samples from adults with biopsy‐proven active class III and IV LN from TULIP‐LN (active LN group ...
Hermine I. Brunner, Ellen M. Cody, Prasad Devarajan, Bin Huang, Chen Chen, Dominic Sinibaldi, Madhu Ramaswamy, Jacob Knagenhjelm, Frederick Jones, Philip Z. Brohawn, Raj Tummala, Catharina Lindholm, Wendy I. White   +12 more
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Joint association of weight-adjusted waist index and serum cotinine levels with systemic inflammatory index in adults

BMC Public Health
Background Systemic immune inflammation index (SII) and systemic inflammation response index (SIRI) have recently emerged as more comprehensive indicators of systemic inflammation.
Yican Wang, Wanting He, Yong Zhou, Xiaoqiang Qiu, Qian Liao, Peng Tang   +5 more
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The Linear Association Between A Body Shape Index and Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Individuals With Hypertension

Clinical Cardiology, Volume 49, Issue 6, June 2026.
Higher A Body Shape Index (ABSI) was independently associated with increased abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) risk in hypertensive individuals and showed a linear positive relationship with AAC risk. ABSI may serve as a supplementary risk indicator, although its discriminative ability was limited. ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to evaluate the
Xinyi Qiu, Zhenwei Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Gender differences in weight-adjusted waist index in elderly inhabitants of a geriatric center [PDF]

Folia Medica
Introduction and aim: Weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) represents a novel anthropometric measure for assessing obesity. Bearing in mind that there is insufficient data in the literature regarding gender differences in WWI values, the aim of the current ...
Amila Huremović, Amela Dervišević, Orhan Lepara, Amina Valjevac, Asija Začiragić   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources