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Università della Svizzera italiana

Causal impacts of epidemics and pandemics on food supply chains : a systematic review

Cardoso, Brenda ; Cunha, Luiza ; Leiras, Adriana ; Gonçalves, Paulo ; Yoshizaki, Hugo ; de Brito Junior, Irineu ; Pedroso, Frederico

In: Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, no. 17, p. 28

The epidemics and pandemics can severely affect food supply chains, including producers, retailers, wholesalers, and customers. To minimize their impacts, it is fundamental to implement effective policies that ensure continuity in the provision, affordability, and distribution of basic food items. This research identifies the main impacts of pandemics and epidemics on food supply chains and ...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Microcredit impacts : evidence from a large-scale observational study in Brazil

Goldszmidt, Rafael ; Behr, Patrick ; Zucco, Cesar ; Lenz, Anna-Katharina ; Gonzalez, Lauro ; Valdivia, Martin

In: The european journal of development research, 2021, p. 27

This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES - Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank - to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients from the South and Northeast...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Testing for symmetry and conditional symmetry using asymmetric kernels

Fernandes, Marcelo ; Mendes, Eduardo ; Scaillet, Olivier

In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2015, vol. 67, no. 4, p. 649-671

Université de Fribourg

Effects of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor olaparib in cerulein-induced pancreatitis

Ahmad, Akbar ; Haas De Mello, Aline ; Szczesny, Bartosz ; Törö, Gábor ; Marcatti, Michela ; Druzhyna, Nadiya ; Liaudet, Lucas ; Tarantini, Stefano ; Salomao, Reinaldo ; Garcia Soriano, Francisco ; Szabo, Csaba

In: Shock, 2020, vol. 53, no. 5, p. 653–665

Objective: Activation of the constitutive nuclear and mitochondrial enzyme poly (ADP- ribose) polymerase (PARP) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cell dysfunction, inflammation, and organ failure in various forms of critical illness. The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the clinically approved PARP inhibitor olaparib in an experimental model of...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Optimizing long-lasting insecticidal nets campaign in Ivory Coast

Brito Junior, Irineu de ; Uneddu, Silvia ; Maspero, Emma ; Gonçalves, Paulo

In: Logistics, 2020, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 21 p

This research supports the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) conceptualization, planning and implementation of a campaign for distribution of more than 12 million mosquito nets in Ivory Coast. Procured from four different suppliers in Asia, the nets were transported to the two ports in Ivory Coast before being pre-positioned at 71 Health Districts across the country, a mixed integer...

Université de Fribourg

Ab initio description of the ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}{\mathrm{CaCu}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{8+{\delta}}$ electronic structure

Nokelainen, Johannes ; Lane, Christopher ; Markiewicz, Robert S. ; Barbiellini, Bernardo ; Pulkkinen, Aki ; Singh, Bahadur ; Sun, Jianwei ; Pussi, Katariina ; Bansil, Arun

In: Physical Review B, 2020, vol. 101, no. 21, p. 214523

Bi-based cuprate superconductors are important materials for both fundamental research and applications. As in other cuprates, the superconducting phase in the Bi compounds lies close to an antiferromagnetic phase. Our density functional theory calculations based on the strongly-constrained-and- appropriately-normed exchange correlation functional in ...