Browsing by Subject "Growth"
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Do institutions rule? The role of heterogeneity in the institutions vs. geography debate
(2010)We uncover evidence of substantial heterogeneity in the growth experience of countries using a structural threshold regression methodology. Our findings suggest that studies that seek to promote mono-causal explanations ...
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The effect of inhaled budesonide on adrenal and growth suppression in asthmatic children
(2006)The present authors evaluated adrenal reserve in asthmatic children on long-term inhaled corticosteroids and whether possible adrenal suppression could be predicted by growth retardation. Low-dose synacthen test (0.5 μg·1.73 ...
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Exploring the biology of cancer of unknown primary: Breakthroughs and drawbacks
(2013)Background: Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) ranks among the ten most common malignancies worldwide. Cancer of unknown primary presents as disseminated disease, has a dismal prognosis and remains a diagnosis of exclusion. ...
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Real options in capital investment: models, strategies, and applications
(Praeger, 1995)
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Solid Tumors Are Poroelastic Solids with a Chemo-mechanical Feedback on Growth
(2017)The experimental evidence that a feedback exists between growth and stress in tumors poses challenging questions. First, the rheological properties (the “constitutive equations”) of aggregates of malignant cells are still ...