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Merger Efficiency and Coordinated Effects: Nothing to Sneeze at? Evidence From Cough and Cold Medicines in the Philippines

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the competitive effects of a merger in the cough and cold medicines segment between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer. The parties offered efficiency gains, and authorities concluded the merger would not lessen competition. Using product‐level data from the Philippines, we estimate a structural demand model to assess efficiency ...
Farasat A. S. Bokhari, Sean Ennis, Carlos Vega, Weijie Yan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testicular Echobiometry and Sperm Characterization in Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) From the Caatinga Biome

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
We describe testicular echobiometry and sperm characterization in oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) from the Caatinga biome, Ceará, Brazil. ABSTRACT Among neotropical small felids, the Leopardus tigrinus is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but studies on reproductive morphology and physiology are scarce for ...
Yuri Gonçalves Matos, Herlon Victor Rodrigues Silva, Bruna Farias Brito, Patrícia Vasconcelos Alves, Romário Parente dos Santos, Andreia Maria da Silva, Alexsandra Fernandes Pereira, Wojciech Janusz Niżański, Alexandre Rodrigues Silva   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feeding Practices and Welfare of Zoo‐Housed Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) on a Global Scale

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
We collected feeding and stereotypy information on 702 giraffes from 146 zoos from all over the world. Less appropriate diets were linked to more oral stereotypies. ABSTRACT Since giraffe feeding practices have only been reported for European and US facilities, this study aimed to achieve a comprehensive overview of the current giraffe feeding ...
Rosalyn Pardave, Gernot Osthoff, Marcus Clauss, Francois Deacon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acute stress and resilient coping: Their demographic and psychosocial determinants during Covid-19 pandemic in Costa Rica

Cogent Psychology
Two cross-sectional studies aimed to describe acute stress and resilient coping responses in samples of adults living in Costa Rica during the COVID-19 pandemic at two time points, and to identify the contribution of sociodemographic and psychosocial ...
Benjamín Reyes-Fernández, Ana Jurado-Solórzano, Henriette Raventós-Vorst, Vanessa Smith-Castro, Gloriana Rodríguez-Arauz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genesis and development of UCR Index at the University of Costa Rica

, 2016
En el artículo se describe cómo ha funcionado UCR Índex y se demuestra que su aplicación provoca un aumento en la visibilidad y el prestigio de las revistas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, así como mayor cumplimiento de los indicadores a través de los años. Para ello, se describen los indicadores utilizados en UCR Índex y se compara el cumplimiento de
Córdoba González, Saray, Murillo Goussen, Guillermo, Polanco-Cortés, Jorge   +2 more
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Level of satisfaction with their life of officials of a state university in Costa Rica

UNED Research Journal, 2015
Personal satisfaction is an indicator of life quality. Labor and country conditions have their effect, but individual factors dominate satisfaction, including family, sex life, educational level and neighborhood. I surveyed 1000 staff members of a Costa Rican public university via email.
openaire   +3 more sources

Unravelling the Effects of Indonesia's Oil Palm Export Ban on Global Stock Markets

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Export bans are frequently used as trade policy instruments to stabilise domestic prices, but they often generate unintended consequences. This study examines the effects of Indonesia's palm oil export ban, introduced in April 2022 and lifted in May 2022, on the performance of the global agricultural sector and the stock markets of palm oil ...
Tim Ölkers, Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Anna Roeland, Oliver Mußhoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

US Life Expectancy and Increasing Mortality Rates: An Analysis of the Crisis

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points US life expectancy is shorter than in other high‐income countries and the gap has widened dramatically over time, driven in particular by rising mortality rates that threaten the probability that youth can survive to middle age, or even adulthood.
STEVEN H. WOOLF
wiley   +1 more source

[Nutritional assessment and phytoestrogen exposure in a diet of students of the University of Costa Rica].

Nutricion hospitalaria, 2019
Resumen Introducción: este estudio presenta resultados respecto a dieta y un análisis más en profundidad de la exposición a estrógenos naturales (fitoestrógenos) en la ingesta, y como este tipo de compuestos influye y se relaciona con otros aspectos importantes que pueden modular funciones biológicas relacionadas con la salud en estudiantes ...
Hernández-Elizondo, Jessenia, Solera-Herrera, Andrea, Carpio-Rivera, Elizabeth, Salicetti-Fonseca, Alejandro, Hortigüela-Alcalá, David   +4 more
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source