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Prioritizing Feasible and Impactful Actions to Enable Secure AI Development and Use in Biology
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As artificial intelligence continues to enhance biological innovation, the potential for misuse must be addressed to fully unlock the potential societal benefits. While significant work has been done to evaluate general‐purpose AI and specialized biological design tools (BDTs) for biothreat creation risks, actionable steps to mitigate the risk
Josh Dettman +4 more
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Classifying avian drinking behaviour: ecological insights and implications in a changing world
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Water is a fundamental currency of life, and its availability significantly influences animal behaviour, physiology and distributions. However, our knowledge around the dependence on water for drinking and the direct and indirect mechanisms driving related behaviours remains partial in the context of changing climates. Here, we review patterns
Shannon R. Conradie, Marc T. Freeman
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Fresh Assessment of the Underground Economy and Tax Evasion in Pakistan: Causes, Consequences, and Linkages with the Formal Economy [PDF]
Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budgets balance might have been zero and positive for some ...
Kemal, M. Ali
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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The Estimation of Volume of Dirty Money in Iran [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2007 Laundering money is a way to use legally dirty money obtained from illegal actions, so this will threat the nature of economic activities. In this paper, in addition to surveying of studies related to underground economy, will be calculated the capacity ...
Ali Arabmazar Yazdi, Leila Khodkari
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Estimating the Size and Structure of the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in Eight Major U.S. Cities [PDF]
, 2014 The underground commercial sex economy (UCSE) generates millions of dollars annually, yet investigation and data collection remain under resourced. Our study aimed to unveil the scale of the UCSE in eight major US cities.
Bilal Khan +7 more
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"COMBATING THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY"
, 2023 The underground economy, often characterized by unreported income, tax evasion, and informal labor, poses significant challenges to governments, economies, and society at large. This scientific article delves into the multifaceted issue of the underground economy, discussing its causes, consequences, and the strategies employed to combat it. We explore
Qo'zimurodova Sabohat Mamatmuso qizi +3 more
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini +2 more
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IMPACT OF UNDERGROUND ECONOMY UPON THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY [PDF]
Strategii Manageriale, 2012 The present article shows estimates the size of underground economy in Romania during 1999 - 2012 (as a percentage of real GDP), carried out by Schneider by means of the MIMIC method.
Sorin-Daniel, Manole
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The size of the underground economy in Japan [PDF]
This paper empirically analyzes the size of the underground economy in Japan. The results show that (i) the size of the underground GDP peaked in the early 1990s but has been declining since; (ii) the underground economy reached its peak in around 1992 ...
Hamori, Shigeyuki, Kanao, Koji
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