Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional ch...
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Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal
Kenya one of the African countries has pledged to reduce neonatal death as per the 2030 World Health Organization target. Providing high-quality newborn care is critical in mini...
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RESUMENEvaluación del efecto de un curso nivelatorio de matemáticas en educación superior: el caso de Matemáticas Básicas La investigación evalúa los efectos de tomar un curso d...
Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
Abstract This article presents global cancer statistics by world region for the year 2022 based on updated estimates from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)....
The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence
The December, 2019 coronavirus disease outbreak has seen many countries ask people who have potentially come into contact with the infection to isolate themselves at home or in ...
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital lengt...
Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding
In late December, 2019, patients presenting with viral pneumonia due to an unidentified microbial agent were reported in Wuhan, China. A novel coronavirus was subsequently ident...
Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome
Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this...
The weirdest people in the world?
Abstract Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educa...
Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
* Introduction: Who Are We? How The Embodied Mind Challenges The Western Philosophical Tradition * The Cognitive Unconscious * The Embodied Mind * Primary Metaphor and Subjectiv...
The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review
There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A ...
<i>Review</i> : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2
Knowledge is a broad and abstract notion that has defined epistemological debate in western philosophy since the classical Greek era. In the past few years, however, there has b...