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Insuring against Droughts: Evidence on Agricultural Intensification and Index Insurance Demand from a Randomized Evaluation in Rural Bangladesh

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Ruth Vargas Hill, Neha Kumar, Nicholas Magnan, Simrin Makhija et al.

Journal: RePEc: Research Papers in EconomicsYear: 2017Citations: 6

It is widely acknowledged that unmitigated risks provide a disincentive for otherwise optimal investments in modern farm inputs. Index insurance provides a means for managing risk without the burdens of asymmetric information and high transaction costs that plague traditional indemnity-based crop in...

Life SciencesAgricultural and Biological SciencesSoil ScienceOpen Access
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Triggering Critical Mass: Identifying the Factors for a Successful Defence Transformation

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Laura Cleary

Journal: Defence StudiesYear: 2011Citations: 4

Abstract Since the publication of the UK's Strategic Defence Review in 1998, the Ministry of Defence has sought to make a contribution to conflict prevention and post‐conflict recovery through a series of educational programmes, the aim of which has been to promote good governance and management of ...

Social SciencesSociology and Political SciencePeacebuilding and International Security
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Continuous Positive Airway Pressure and Progression of Enlarged Perivascular Spaces in Adults With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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Rosa Sommer, Elizabeth A. Hill, Joel Ramirez, Roberto Duarte Coello et al.

Journal: NeurologyYear: 2025Citations: 3

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: MRI-visible brain perivascular spaces (PVSs) represent an imaging feature of cerebral small vessel disease that is associated with hypertension, diabetes, and poor sleep quality and correlated with cognitive impairment and dementia. Although research shows that sleep apnea...

Life SciencesNeuroscienceCellular and Molecular Neuroscience
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Fertility differences across immigrant generations in the United Kingdom

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Jiseon Baek, Hill Kulu, Sarah Christison, Francesca Fiori

Journal: Demographic ResearchYear: 2025Citations: 2

BACKGROUNDPrevious studies have investigated immigrant fertility in various European countries, but only a few have compared the fertility rates of women who migrated as children (1.5 Generation), women born in the host society to foreign-born parents (2 Generation), and women born in the host socie...

Social SciencesPsychologyClinical PsychologyOpen Access
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Combining Rapid Antigen Testing and Syndromic Surveillance Improves Community-Based COVID-19 Detection in Low-to-Middle-Income Countries

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Fergus Chadwick, Jessica Clark, Shayan Chowdhury, Tasnuva Chowdhury et al.

Journal: Research SquareYear: 2022Citations: 1

Diagnostics for COVID-19 detection are limited in many settings. Syndromic surveillance is often the only means to identify cases, but lacks specificity. Rapid antigen testing is inexpensive and easy-to-deploy but concerns remain about sensitivity. We examine how combining these approaches can impro...

Health SciencesMedicineInfectious DiseasesOpen Access
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Lessons learned from a review of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (<scp>PNH</scp>) requests: a report from the<scp>UK PNH</scp>Network

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Morag Griffin, Ian J. Neilly, Manos Nikolousis, Srinivasan Narayanan et al.

Journal: British Journal of HaematologyYear: 2017Citations: 1

Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare life-threatening disease, with a UK prevalence of 15·9 per million (Hoffbrand et al, 2011). The UK has a nationally commissioned PNH service which works extensively to educate physicians about PNH. European prevalence is reported to be lower, prob...

Life SciencesImmunology and MicrobiologyImmunologyOpen Access
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Combining Rapid Antigen Testing and Syndromic Surveillance Improves Sensitivity and Specificity of COVID-19 Detection: A Community-Based Prospective Diagnostic Study

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Fergus Chadwick, Jessica Clark, Shayan Chowdhury, Tasnuva Chowdhury et al.

Journal: SSRN Electronic JournalYear: 2021

Background: Diagnostics for COVID-19 detection are limited in many settings. Syndromic surveillance is often the only means to identify cases, despite lack of specificity and asymptomatic cases. Rapid antigen testing is inexpensive and easy-to-deploy but concerns remain about sensitivity. We examine...

Health SciencesMedicineInfectious DiseasesOpen Access
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Insuring Against Drought: Evidence on Agricultural Intensification and Demand for Index Insurance from a Randomized Evaluation in Rural Bangladesh

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Patrick S. Ward, Neha Kumar, Francesca de Nicola, Ruth Vargas Hill et al.

Journal: AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)Year: 2017

International Development, Risk and Uncertainty, Institutional and Behavioral Economics

Life SciencesAgricultural and Biological SciencesSoil ScienceOpen Access
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Zur Komplexität der Überschwemmungen in Bangladesh : mit Bruno Messerli vom "Tiger Hill" (Darjeeling Himalaya) zum "Tiger Point" (Golf von Bengalen)

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Thomas Höfer, Rolf Weingartner, Robeen Dutt, Francesca Escher et al.

Journal: Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)Year: 1996
Social SciencesSociology and Political ScienceEconomic and Social IssuesOpen Access
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Book reviews

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Paul Streeten, Frances Stewart, Homa Katouzian, Nigel Harris et al.

Journal: The Journal of Development StudiesYear: 1990

Debt. Stabilization and Development. Edited by Guillermo Calvo. Ronald Findlay, Pentti Kouri and Jorge Braga de Macedo. Oxford: Basil Blackwell for World Institute for Development Economics Research, 1989. Pp.xv + 462. £45 (hardback). ISBN 0631 156852. Varieties of Stabilization Experience: Towards ...

Social SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceFinance
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Book reviews

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James Dunkerley, Sanjaya Lall, Ali M. El‐Agraa, Ian Richard Netton et al.

Journal: Third World QuarterlyYear: 1984

Abstract Sizing up central America. El Salvador: the face of revolution. Robert Armstrong and Janet Shenk. London: Pluto Press. 1982. 283pp. £3.95. The War of the Dispossessed: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969. Thomas P Anderson. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 1981. 203pp. £8.95. Arc...

Social SciencesPolitical Science and International RelationsPolitics and Society in Latin America
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Book reviews

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José Pablo Arellano, Alasdair I. MacBean, Ann Weston, Hazem El‐Beblawi et al.

Journal: The Journal of Development StudiesYear: 1983

First Things First: Meeting Basic Human Needs in Developing Countries. By Paul Streeten with S. K. Burki, M.ul Haq, N. Hicks and F. Stewart. Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1982. Pp. xii + 206. £10 and £3.95. ISBN 0 19 520368 2 and 520369 0. The Political Economy of New and Old Industria...

Physical SciencesComputer ScienceInformation Systems
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New books in review

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William R. Brown, Don Edward Beck, Thomas W. Benson, Dan F. Hahn et al.

Journal: Quarterly Journal of SpeechYear: 1972

Abstract THE PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY. Edited by Benjamin B. Wolman. Foreword by Wiliam L. Langer. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1971; pp. x+240. $8.95. PUBLIC OPINION AND HISTORIANS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES. Edited by Melvin Small. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1970; pp. 19...

Social SciencesArts and HumanitiesHistory
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New books in review

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Robert G. Gunderson, Pat Ryan, Marie Hochmuth, Edward B. Partridge et al.

Journal: Quarterly Journal of SpeechYear: 1957

KING RICHARD II. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Peter Ure. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956; pp. lxxxiii+207. $3.85. KING HENRY VI, PART 2. By William Shakespeare. Edited by Andrew S. Cairncross. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957; pp. liv+197. $4.50. KING HENRY VIII. By William S...

Social SciencesArts and HumanitiesLiterature and Literary Theory
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