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Astronomical time can help us put lockdown into perspective

The coronavirus pandemic is making life feel slower than ever, but observing timescales across the universe can bring us some comfort, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein




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Coronavirus: Three perspectives on furloughing

Three people react to the furloughing scheme put in place in response to the coronavirus outbreak.




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Insider Trading : An Indian Perspective....

The buying or selling of a security by someone who has access to material, nonpublic information about the security.




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US health care system from an international perspective

Data from OECD Health Data 2012 focusing on key US issues: why is the US health spending so high? Is US health spending higher due to higher prices or higher service provision? (or both?)? Is the quality of care better in the US? What are the trends in key risk factors to health in the US?




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A USA and International Perspective on 2012 PISA Results

PISA provides the most comprehensive international comparison of the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds around the world in mathematics, science and reading. We take stock in three year periods and run the numbers and publish them a year later. Thus, these results correspond to the 2010-2012 period and they are the 5th set we prepare and publish since 2000.




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A strategic perspective on the prevention, detection and investigation of international tax crime

Heads of tax crime investigation in 44 countries, as well as the Financial Action Task Force and World Customs Organisation, have come together this week at Europol Headquarters in the Hague for the second meeting of the OECD Forum of Heads of Tax Crime Investigation.




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Southeast Asia Investment Policy Perspectives

The Southeast Asian region has the potential to attract significant amounts of international investment in the coming years. To help ASEAN countries address the challenges that arise from an increased openness to investment, this report analyses the region's investment climate and suggests ways to bring about a greater convergence of both policies and outcomes for the countries involved.




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Overcoming international co-operation challenges in corruption cases: Perspectives from the April 2016 Beijing Workshop

The paper summarises views expressed by practitioners at a workshop in Beijing on 13-14 April 2016 with respect to contemporary challenges in international co-operation in corruption cases and possible solutions to mitigate these challenges. It has a practical orientation and is intended to contribute to ongoing dialogue at national and multilateral levels on enhancing international co-operation.




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US health care system from an international perspective

Data from OECD Health Data 2012 focusing on key US issues: why is the US health spending so high? Is US health spending higher due to higher prices or higher service provision? (or both?)? Is the quality of care better in the US? What are the trends in key risk factors to health in the US?




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Finance and climate: The transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy from a financial sector perspective

Climate change is a major political and economic challenge. This paper sketches out its relevance for the financial sector. Necessary low-carbon investments imply a significant yet manageable financing gap. Beyond capital mobilisation that has attracted most attention until now, the main challenge is ensuring a transition-consistent capital reallocation.




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Video series: Perspectives on green finance and investment

Leading actors across the green finance and investment community talk to the OECD about what has to be done to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the broader set of environmental objectives linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).




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Growth perspectives for 2012

Given current levels of uncertainty, it is quite a challenge to discuss the outlook for the global economy in the months to come. But I will take the risk, and share the OECD’s assessment of the forces shaping the near-term outlook, the risks surrounding our projections and the major policy challenges facing many OECD countries.




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Global Perspectives Conference: Development Beyond 2015 – Sustainable, Equitable and Truly Global

The Secretary-General presents the OECD’s views on “new approaches to economic development” at the 4th Annual Global Perspectives Conference, one of the most important gatherings of Civil Society Organisations.




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Youth labour market performance in Spain and its determinants - a micro-level perspective

This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth labour market dimensions.




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Judicial performance and its determinants: a cross-country perspective

Judicial performance and its determinants: a cross-country perspective




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Economic growth from the household perspective: GDP and income distribution developments across OECD countries

This paper provides an assessment of how households’ income has fared compared with GDP. While the prime focus is on incomes around the median, attention is paid also to the bottom of the income distribution.




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The demand for skills 1995-2008: a global supply chain perspective

Demand for jobs, characterized by skill type and industry of employment, is driven by changes in technology, trade and consumption. Using structural decomposition analysis, we study the relative importance of these drivers for the period 1995-2008.




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Do environmental policies affect global value chains? A new perspective on the pollution haven hypothesis

Using a gravity model of bilateral trade in manufacturing industries for selected OECD and BRIICS countries over 1990s-2000s, this paper studies how exports are related to national environmental policies.




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A new perspective on inequality: The income distribution across advanced countries

What is the relevant perspective for evaluating people’s living standards in advanced countries? According to standard assessments of inequality it is fellow citizens within the country.




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The UK productivity puzzle through the magnifying glass: A sectoral perspective

Since the start of the Great Recession, labour productivity growth has been weak in the United Kingdom, weaker than in many other OECD countries.




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Appointment without perspective


The Chair of the EAC should necessarily have an overarching environmental perspective, as s/he is supposed to ensure the environmental sustainability of projects that come to the committee. Shripad Dharmadhikary reports.




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Stephenie Meyer Releasing Twilight Prequel Book Written From Vampire Edward's Perspective

Author Stephenie Meyer said she hoped the book would be a welcome distraction from the global COVID-19 pandemic.




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'Twilight' prequel book coming, written from vampire Edward's perspective

Author Stephenie Meyer thrilled fans of her best-selling "Twilight" novels on Monday by announcing she will release a prequel that explores the characters' love story from the perspective of vampire Edward Cullen.




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[ASAP] A Perspective on the Confident Comparison of Glycoprotein Site-Specific Glycosylation in Sample Cohorts

Biochemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00730




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[ASAP] Antibodies from Lampreys as Smart Anti-Glycan Reagents (SAGRs): Perspectives on Their Specificity, Structure, and Glyco-genomics

Biochemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b01015




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Young adult drinking styles : current perspectives on research, policy and practice [Electronic book] / Dominic Conroy, Fiona Measham, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




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Whales of the Southern Ocean : Biology, Whaling and Perspectives of Population Recovery [Electronic book] / Yuri Makhalev.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]




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Varieties of understanding : new perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and theology [Electronic book] / Stephen R. Grimm.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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Spaces of dissension [Electronic book] : towards a new perspective on contradiction / Julia Lossau, Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Ingo H. Warnke, editors.

Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2019]




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Science and Technology Parks and Regional Economic Development [Electronic book] : An International Perspective / Sara Amoroso, Albert N. Link, Mike Wright, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, c2019.




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The reshaping of West European party politics : agenda-setting and party competition in comparative perspective [Electronic book] / Christoffer Green-Pedersen.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.




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PERSPECTIVES ON VIETNAM'S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & INNOVATION POLICIES [Electronic book].

[S.l.] : SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPOR, 2020.




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Perspectives of System Informatics [Electronic book] : 12th International Andrei P. Ershov Informatics Conference, PSI 2019, Novosibirsk, Russia, July 2-5, 2019, Revised Selected Papers / Nikolaj Bjørner, Irina Virbitskaite, Andrei Voronkov (eds.).

Cham : Springer, 2019.




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New Frontiers in the Neolithic Archaeology of Taiwan (5600-1800 BP) [Electronic book] : A Perspective of Maritime Cultural Interaction / Su-chiu Kuo.

Singapore : Springer, c2019.




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Modernity and Cultural Decline [Electronic book] : A Biobehavioral Perspective / Matthew Alexander Sarraf, Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie, Colin Feltham.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, c2019.




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Leibniz and the structure of sciences [Electronic book] : modern perspectives on the history of logic, mathematics, epistemology / Vincenzo De Risi, editor.

Cham : Springer, c2019.




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Interdisciplinary perspectives on virtual place-based learning [Electronic book] / Reneta D. Lansiquot, Sean P. MacDonald, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, c2019.




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INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON VIRTUAL PLACE BASED LEARNING [Electronic book].

[S.l.] : PALGRAVE PIVOT, 2020.




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Environmental and sustainability education in teacher education [Electronic book] : Canadian perspectives / Douglas D. Karrow, Maurice DiGiuseppe, editors.

[S.l.] : Springer, 2019.




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Enacting the university : Danish university reform in an ethnographic perspective [Electronic book] / Susan Wright [and four others].

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, 2019.




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Designing integrated care ecosystems : a socio-technical perspective [Electronic book] / Bernard J. Mohr, Ezra Dessers, editors.

Cham : Springer, [2019]




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Current perspectives on the TESOL Practicum [Electronic book] : cases from around the globe / Andrzej Cirocki, Irshat Madyarov, Laura Baecher.

Cham : Springer, c2019.




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The core-periphery divide in the European Union : a dependency perspective [Electronic book] / Rudy Weissenbacher.

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




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Children and mental health talk [Electronic book] : perspectives on social competence / Joyce Lamerichs, Susan J. Danby, Amanda Bateman, Stuart Ekberg, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, c2019.




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Brazilian estuaries : a benthic perspective [Electronic book] / Paulo da Cunha Lana, Angelo Fraga Bernardino, editors.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]




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Australian mothering : historical and sociological perspectives [Electronic book] / C. Pascoe Leahy, P. Bueskens, editors.

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]




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Manga vision: cultural and communicative perspectives / edited by Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou and Cathy Sell ; with manga artist Queenie Chan

Hayden Library - PN6790.J3 M37 2016




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Nuclear waste management strategies: an international perspective / Mark C. Sanders and Charlotta E. Sanders

Barker Library - TD898.14.M35 S26 2020




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Inevitably toxic: historical perspectives on contamination, exposure and expertise / edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie

Barker Library - TD179.I54 2018