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Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition : Evidence from East Germany and Poland
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to…
RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information
The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate history. This book documents the many advances, as well as the prejudices…
RNA Viruses and Antibody Response
Infectious diseases represent a major, global-level public health concern. Clinically important RNA viruses (for example, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), influenza virus and SARS) garner increased attention due to…
River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads
Human Rights; Human Geography; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Anthropology; Development Economics
Risk-Based Evidence for Animal Health Policy
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With…
Risk Stratification of Thyroid Nodule: From Ultrasound Features to TIRADS
Since the 1990s, ultrasound (US) has played a major role in the assessment of thyroid nodules and their risk of malignancy. Over the last decade, the most eminent international societies have published US-based systems for the risk stratification of…
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners
Risk Quantification and Allocation Methods for Practitioners offers a practical approach to risk management in the financial industry. This in-depth study provides quantitative tools to better describe qualitative issues, as well as clear…
Risk Measures with Applications in Finance and Economics
Risk measures play a vital role in many subfields of economics and finance. It has been proposed that risk measures could be analysed in relation to the performance of variables extracted from empirical real-world data. For example, risk measures may…
Risk Management in Crisis: Winners and Losers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Risk management is a domain of management which comes to the fore in crisis. This book looks at risk management under crisis conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic context. The book synthesizes existing concepts, strategies, approaches and methods of…