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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

Cet article étudie l’impact du microcrédit au Brésil. Nous utilisons la méthode d’appariemment sur score de propension sur des données primaires originales issues de résultats commerciaux et personnels pour comparer les clients de longue date de la BNDES - la plus grande banque de développement appartenant au gouvernement du Brésil - à un échantillon apparié de clients plus...

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

Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria

Ezcurra, Martín D. ; Nesbitt, Sterling J. ; Bronzati, Mario ; Vecchia, Fabio Marco Dalla ; Agnolin, Federico L. ; Benson, Roger B. J. ; Egli, Federico Brissón ; Cabreira, Sergio F. ; Evers, Serjoscha W. ; Gentil, Adriel R. ; Irmis, Randall B. ; Martinelli, Agustín G. ; Novas, Fernando E. ; Silva, Lúcio Roberto da ; Smith, Nathan D. ; Stocker, Michelle R. ; Turner, Alan H. ; Langer, Max C.

In: Nature, 2020, vol. 588, no. 2020-7838, p. 445–449

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight1 and comprised one of the main evolutionary radiations in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mesozoic era (approximately 252–66 million years ago), but their origin has remained an unresolved enigma in palaeontology since the nineteenth century2,3,4. These flying reptiles have been hypothesized to be the close relatives of a wide...

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...