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Import Uncertainty and Export Dynamics Get access
The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 38, Issue 1, February 2024, Pages 24–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad043
Published: 18 December 2023
... process as discussed above, from vessel berthing to Customs clearance. 14 The WBES database provides quantitative and qualitative information on the characteristics of firms operating in the manufacturing and services sectors in developing countries, as well as their business environment (e.g...
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Global value chains, private governance and multiple end-markets: insights from Kenyan leather Open Access
Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 129–157, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbab018
Published: 02 June 2021
..., 1995 ; Glückler, 2005 ; Brancati et al., 2017 ). For instance, drawing on China’s customs data, Dallas (2015) conceptualises governance in terms of ‘transactional stability’, quantified through the coefficient of variation of a firm’s monthly transactions with a specific buyer. Similarly, focusing...
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‘My Gunners will burn your houses, my soldiers will pillage them’: what French people were singing about when they sang about Napoleon Open Access
French History, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 100–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crab018
Published: 22 May 2021
... of this song. sieges customs of war broadside ballad Napoleon Bonaparte Mantua folk song pastourelle Patrice Coirault (1875–1959), the leading twentieth-century scholar of French folk song, undertook the vast project of cataloguing French song types. His Répertoire des chansons françaises de...
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Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change Get access
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 88, Issue 4, July 2021, Pages 1541–1581, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa074
Published: 27 December 2020
... variable. Our final strategy examines Indigenous populations of the U.S. and Canada. Like immigrants, these populations are minority groups whose cultural traditions differ from those of the majority population. They are, therefore, also faced with pressure to change their traditions and customs. We...
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Countries of origin of imported COVID-19 cases into China and measures to prevent onward transmission Free
Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 8, December 2020, taaa139, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taaa139
Published: 25 August 2020
.../open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Coronavirus disease 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 imported cases customs inspection quarantine Guangzhou China Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly throughout the world. Compared with severe acute...
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Trade Effects of Customs Reform: Evidence from Albania Get access
The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2021, Pages 34–57, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhz017
Published: 09 November 2019
... imports are tariff-free. trade facilitation customs trade costs risk management border costs An enormous literature attempts to measure the size of implicit international trade costs and to explain them. 1 Despite all this research activity, there is little hard evidence...
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Development and validation of a multi-locus DNA metabarcoding method to identify endangered species in complex samples Open Access
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GigaScience, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2017, gix080, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix080
Published: 19 August 2017
... resolution for species identification, while verifying species with multiple DNA barcodes contributes to an enhanced quality assurance. Endangered species CITES Traditional medicines DNA metabarcoding Customs agencies COI matK rbcL cyt b mini-barcodes The demand...
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The Development of Chinese Marriage and Sexual Life Customs for Two Thousand Years Get access
The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 14, Issue Supplement_4b, May 2017, Page e328, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.04.709
Published: 01 May 2017
... Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) ancient and modern China customs of marriage and sexual life 2000 years development In this historical review, the development and changing of Chinese...
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Decoupling Policy and Practice in the Fight Against Wildlife Smuggling Get access
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2017, Pages 132–151, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv109
Published: 10 October 2015
...Chang-Ryung Han; Hans Nelen The extent of ‘legitimate’ trade in wildlife is measured using two sources: the annual report compiled by parties to the CITES secretariat and trade data compiled by customs administrations. As the purposes for which the two data are compiled differ, so do...
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The Paradox of Discretion: Customs and the Changing Occupational Identity of Canadian Border Officers Get access
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 49–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv023
Published: 02 April 2015
... on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2015 Abstract This article challenges the assumption that border officers enjoy a high level of discretion. By studying customs, it provides insight into how...
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Russia’s commercial policy, 2008–11: modernization, crisis, and the WTO accession Get access
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 28, Issue 2, SUMMER 2012, Pages 301–323, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grs004
Published: 27 June 2012
... 2009 concerning the accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, in the form of a Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, after 16 years of the WTO accession process, caused some considerable controversy. Russia had suspended its unilateral WTO accession process for about a year, conducting anti...
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England and German Christmas Festlichkeit, c.1800–1914 Get access
German History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2008, Pages 486–503, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghn047
Published: 01 October 2008
...Neil Armstrong [email protected] © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved. 2008 Abstract This article examines the cultural transfer of Christmas customs from Germany to England in the long nineteenth century...
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Active Euthanasia in Pre-Modern Society, 1500–1800: Learned Debates and Popular Practices Get access
Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 2, August 2007, Pages 205–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkm034
Published: 07 July 2007
... preferred to kill themselves with poppy seeds or hemlock rather than endure the troubles and pains of old age. These, Ranchin stressed, were ‘barbarian and pagan’ customs, however, which Christians must not imitate. The Christian physician's duty was to heal and not to kill. 13 So far, the most...
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Tularemia: Association with hunting and farming Free
FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 1996, Pages 197–199, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-695X.1996.tb00236.x
Published: 01 March 1996
... with hunting and farming
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Krrls: Tularemia: Social customs; Oropharyngeal tularemia: Tularemia pneumonia...
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Import Substitution for Livestock Feed the Caribbean Community Get access
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 64, Issue 1, February 1982, Pages 70–79, https://doi.org/10.2307/1241174
Published: 01 February 1982
...Clifton Charles; David Blandford; Richard N. Boisvert customs unions import substitution international trade policy less developed countries linear programming livestock feed Abstract This paper evaluates the economic feasibility of substituting domestically produced corn and soya for imports...
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Malnutrition in Sudanese Children as a Function of Socioeconomic Change Get access
Nutrition Reviews, Volume 38, Issue 2, February 1980, Pages 76–79, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1980.tb05845.x
Published: 01 February 1980
... © 1980 International Life Sciences Institute 1980 Abstract After an irrigation scheme was introduced into the Sudan, nutritional practices altered and child malnutrition increased. Persisting customs reinforced earlier foodways that were detrimental to nutritional well-being. malnutrition...
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TWO FUNERAL-ASSOCIATED SMALLPOX OUTBREAKS IN SIERRA LEONE Get access
American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 94, Issue 4, October 1971, Pages 341–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a121328
Published: 01 October 1971
..., may account for the difference in size of the two outbreaks. mortuary customs smallpox vaccination AMERICAN JOURNAL OP EPIDEMIOLOGY Vol. 94, No. 4
Copyright © 1971 by The Johns Hopkins University Printed in U.S.A...
