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Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the effect of bribery on innovation performance and whether bank finance serves as an effective channel of the impact. In doing so, we compute an innovation performance index for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. We then conduct mediation analysis on the triad of bribery, bank finance and innovation performance
Thanh Le, Thang Ngoc Bach, Mai Vu, Giang Nguyen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What's in a Name? Psychiatric Concept Creep and the Moral Legibility of Student Suffering within the Canadian University Context

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how students experiencing mental unwellness negotiate psychiatric constructs of mental health to make their suffering morally legible within the North American University context. I argue while the psychiatric construct remains pervasive, students are ambivalent toward it as a metaphor for their distress.
Adrianna Nicole Wiley
wiley   +1 more source

Potential Impact of Large‐Scale Food Fortification in Ethiopia: Coverage and Knowledge of Fortifiable Foods

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
Coverage of fortifiable oil, salt, and wheat flour by wealth quintiles. ABSTRACT Large‐scale food fortification (LSFF) is an effective public health measure because it may reach a large number of populations at risk using current food delivery systems.
Aregash Samuel, Ramadhani Noor, Nahom Tefera, Alemayehu Hussien, Genet Gebremedhin, Mduduzi Mbuya, Endale Amare, Meseret Woldeyohannes, Getinet Fikresilassie, Meron Girma, Alemnesh Petros, Anbissa Muleta, Bedasa Tessema, Feyissa Chala, Kaleab Baye, Arnaud Laillou, Tesfaye Chuko, Getachew Tollera, Mesay Hailu, Stanley Chitekwe, Masresha Tessema   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disorienting the Vietnam War: GB Tran’s \u3ci\u3eVietnamerica\u3c/i\u3e as Transnational and Transhistorical Graphic Memoir [PDF]

, 2014
Hong, Caroline Kyungah
core   +1 more source

Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As calls intensify for language education to provide authentic exposure to linguistic and cultural diversity—an essential condition for preparing learners to navigate an interconnected world—concerns about the declining status of additional language study reveal an important challenge.
Koen Van Gorp
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic Equality in a Populist Anti‐Multicultural Era

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores what the future role of multiculturalism is, or may be, in Europe by looking at the case of the Netherlands. It focuses on how to respond to the tensions between, on the one hand, prevalent discourses on the dangers, demise and reckoning of multiculturalism and, on the other hand, the promotion of equal citizenship and ...
Tamar de Waal
wiley   +1 more source

Using an intersectional life course perspective to understand familial environment and its impact on sexuality development among Asian American sexual minority college students. [PDF]

Cult Health Sex
Kieu TK, Galper EF, Sorin CR, Bloom BE.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Economic Effects of ‘Excessive’ Financial Deepening

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the causal implications of high levels of financial deepening for economic development and banking crises in a panel of countries over the past seven decades. We adopt a factor‐augmented heterogeneous difference‐in‐differences estimator and find, in contrast to the existing literature, that very high levels of financial development do
Rachel Cho, Rodolphe Desbordes, Markus Eberhardt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment in EMDEs: Nonlinear Effects of the Business Cycle, Fiscal Space, Capital Stock and Efficiency

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov, Benedict Clements, João Tovar Jalles   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Porphyromonas gingivalis GroEL exacerbates orthotopic allograft transplantation vasculopathy via impairment of endothelial cell function

Molecular Oral Microbiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Orthotopic allograft transplantation (OAT) is a significant approach to addressing organ failure. However, persistent immune responses to the allograft affect chronic rejection, which induces OAT vasculopathy (OATV) and organ failure. Porphyromonas gingivalis can infiltrate remote organs via the bloodstream, thereby intensifying the severity ...
Chien‐Sung Tsai, Chun‐Yao Huang, Yi‐Ting Tsai, Chun‐Ming Shih, Ze‐Hao Lai, Chen‐Wei Liu, Yi‐Wen Lin, Feng‐Yen Lin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source