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The Contingency Thesis of Collective Bargaining Institutions

Traxler, Franz - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 34-39

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Size and Impact of Privatisation – A Survey of Empirical Studies

Chahyadi, Candra S.; Megginson, William L.; Netter, … - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 1, pp. 03-11

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Effects of Tax Depreciation Rules on Firms' Investment Decisions: A Comparison of European Transition Countries

Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 52-55

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A journey without maps: The regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government

O'Hara, Glen - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1183-1195

O'Hara G. (2005) A journey without maps: the regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government, Regional Studies 39 , 1183-1195. This paper examines four influences on British regional policy in the late 1960s: party politics in the context of the economic environment; the structure of...

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Natural disasters in China: 1900–2011

Chen, Sha; Luo, Zhongkui; Pan, Xubin - In: Natural Hazards 69 (2013) 3, pp. 1597-1605

1900 to 2011, the major disaster types include drought, earthquake, epidemic, extreme temperature, flood, mass movement wet …

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Post-Cyclone Sidr illness patterns in coastal Bangladesh: an empirical study

Paul, Bimal; Rahman, Munshi; Rakshit, Bankim - In: Natural Hazards 56 (2011) 3, pp. 841-852

After the landfall of Cyclone Sidr along the southwestern coast of Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, emergency and public health personnel within and beyond Bangladesh anticipated a massive outbreak of water-borne and other diseases in most affected areas. Fortunately, such an outbreak did not...

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Effective vaccination strategies for realistic social networks

Miller, Joel C.; Hyman, James M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 386 (2007) 2, pp. 780-785

We consider the effectiveness of targeted vaccination at preventing the spread of infectious disease in a realistic social network. We compare vaccination strategies based on no information (random vaccination) to complete information (PageRank) about the network. The most effective strategy we...

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Crossover from weak to strong disorder regime in the duration of epidemics

Buono, C.; Lagorio, C.; Macri, P.A.; Braunstein, L.A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 16, pp. 4181-4185

transmissibility related to the strength of the disorder. Using percolation theory, we find that the duration of the epidemic scales as … epidemic has a crossover with the system size, from a power-law regime to a logarithmic regime depending on the …

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Extending the SIR epidemic model

Satsuma, J; Willox, R; Ramani, A; Grammaticos, B; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 336 (2004) 3, pp. 369-375

We investigate possible extensions of the susceptible–infective-removed (SIR) epidemic model. We show that there exists … the non-infected population at the end of the epidemic. A cellular automaton SIR is also constructed on the basis of the …

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Perfecting Beauty under the Knife: The Determinants of Global Cosmetic Surgery Consumption

Beghin, John C.; Teshome, Yalem - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2014

Brazil fall short of epidemic proportions at less than 0.6% of their population. However, consistent with idealized …

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