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Quantifying the benefits of entry into local phone service [PDF]

, 2007
Local telecommunications competition was an important goal of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September 1999 to ...
Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business, Seim, Katja - University of Pennsylvania, Viard, V. Brian - Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business   +2 more
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Dietary nitrate and nitrite protect against doxorubicin‐induced cardiac fibrosis and oxidative protein damage in tumor‐bearing mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Chemotherapies such as doxorubicin can have toxic effects on healthy cardiovascular/heart tissue. Following up on a doxorubicin toxicity study in mice without tumors where nitrate water was cardioprotective (lessened toxicity), this study with tumor‐bearing mice undergoing doxorubicin treatment showed no negative effect of nitrate and nitrite on drug ...
Rama D. Yammani, Xiaofei Chen, Nildris Cruz‐Diaz, Xuewei Zhu, Swati Basu, Daniel B. Kim‐Shapiro, David R. Soto‐Pantoja, Leslie B. Poole   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Välfärdsfantasier

Kulturella Perspektiv, 2015
The article shows how personalisation in the UK has become part of a particular public service reform trajectory, in which it is argued that the threat of an ageing population makes it imperative to transform public services if the welfare state is not ...
Karen West, Anna Sofia Lundgren
doaj   +1 more source

Corporate social responsibility in the first years of Caja de Pensiones para la Vejez y de Ahorros [PDF]

When Caja de Pensiones para la Vejez y de Ahorros, 'la Caixa', was created in 1905, it was not just a transient response to a serious social, political, and economic problem; it also provided a permanent solution by creating a long-lasting social welfare
Argandoña, Antonio, Moreno, Carlos M., Sola, Joan M.   +2 more
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dUTPase is essential in zebrafish development and possesses several single‐nucleotide variants with pronounced structural and functional consequences

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
dUTPases are involved in balancing the appropriate nucleotide pools. We showed that dUTPase is essential for normal development in zebrafish. The different zebrafish genomes contain several single‐nucleotide variations (SNPs) of the dut gene. One of the dUTPase variants displayed drastically lower protein stability and catalytic efficiency as compared ...
Viktória Perey‐Simon, Angéla Békesi, Latifa Kazzazy, Jázmin Mihály, Máté Varga, Beáta G. Vértessy, Kinga Nyíri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organic and conventional public food procurement for youth in Finland [PDF]

, 2008
Public catering in Finland has strong historical roots from the 19th century, connected with the rise of the national state, industrialisation, democracy and modern times in general.
Mikkola, Minna
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Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s [PDF]

, 1998
In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built.
Alcock, P., Alder, J., Beresford, P., Blair, T., Blair, T., Blunkett, D., C.P.A.G., Conservative Party, Conservative Party, D.E.T.R, Deacon, A., E.R.A.S., Etzioni, A., Field, F., Giddens, A., Gosling, P., Harman, H., Harman, H., Harman, H., Hetherington, P., Home Office, Hurd, D., Jeavans, C., Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour Party, Lister, R., Mann, K., Marshall, T.H., Meikle, J., Milne, S., N.H.F., Oliver, D., Peter Dwyer, Roche, M., Selbourne, D., Selbourne, D., Titmuss, R.M., Williams, F., Young, M.   +39 more
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Applicability of mitotic figure counting by deep learning: a development and pan‐cancer validation study

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In this study, we developed a deep learning method for mitotic figure counting in H&E‐stained whole‐slide images and evaluated its prognostic impact in 13 external validation cohorts from seven different cancer types. Patients with more mitotic figures per mm2 had significantly worse patient outcome in all the studied cancer types except colorectal ...
Joakim Kalsnes, Maria X. Isaksen, Frida Julbø, Manohar Pradhan, Andreas Kleppe, Sepp De Raedt, Ole‐Johan Skrede, Turid Torheim, John Arne Nesheim, Hans Martin Mohn, Hanne A. Askautrud, Karolina Cyll, Wanja Kildal, Emma Rewcastle, Melinda Lillesand, Vebjørn Kvikstad, Emiel Janssen, Robert Jones, Odd Terje Brustugun, Bjørn Brennhovd, Erik Skaaheim Haug, Lill‐Tove Rasmussen Busund, Elin Richardsen, Sigve Andersen, Tom Dønnem, Kristina Lindemann, Gunnar Kristensen, Neil A. Shepherd, Marco Novelli, Knut Liestøl, David Kerr, Håvard E. Danielsen, Tarjei S. Hveem   +32 more
wiley   +1 more source

The state of state and local government finance [PDF]

This paper provides an overview of the state-local government sector, a review of the short-run impact of the 2007-09 recession on state and local governments, and a brief summary of key long-run challenges state and local governments will encounter in ...
Ronald C. Fisher
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Family Preservation in Child Welfare: Its Base and Its Future [PDF]

, 2002
This is the eleventh issue of the Family Preservation Journal, and we have chosen to focus this special issue on the use of family preservation services in child welfare.
Berry, Marianne
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