It is widely accepted that intellectual property legal requirements such as patents and data exclusivity can affect access to medicines, but to date there has not been a comprehensive review of the empirical evidence on this topic. The World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects ...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) causes high levels of global mortality. There is a global need to develop new antimicrobials to replace those whose efficacy is being eroded, but limited incentive for companies to engage in R&D, and a limited pipeline
Cooperation is vital for the survival of many species and has been extensively researched at the ultimate level however, there is a considerable degree of variation within a given species in the extent of cooperative behaviours exhibited. Possible factors that have been discussed to contribute to thi...
Understanding factors influencing fertility is essential for development programs. Moreover, it’s crucial to study the parameters that affect the intention for childbearing in any society. Therefore, through a systematic scoping review, the present study investigates the factors influencing couples’ ...
What we have here is the spread on Greek 10-year bonds over bunds (German government bonds, Bundeswertpapiere in German, short: bunds). A spread is a difference in yields, which are measured in basis points. There are 100 basis points in 1%. Or 1 basis points equals 0.01%. Such a...
To the best of our knowledge, our study is one of the first to provide empirical data on human behaviours captured during the lockdown, at a national scale. Fig. 1: French context of the Covid-19 until the last lockdown day. Part a reports the key dates (top panel) and the ...
In its brief lifetime, the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) has come to own the regulatory services agenda to a large extent and has produced an impressive amount of research. However, it has focused mostly on the public sector – which is only a small, and hardly the most effective...
The effect is enhanced when firms suffer from more negative effect of trade disputes and weaker external environment. • Firms affected by multiple investigations or multiple countries at the same time may use more whitewashed words. • A change in textual disclosure leads to a positive market...
Null is beautiful: on the importance of publishing null results. J. Psychopharmacol. 30, 585–585 (2016). Article PubMed Google Scholar Goodchild, L. & Hilten, V. Why it’s time to publish research ‘failures’. Publishing bias favors positive results; now there’s a movement to change...
The relative abundance of each code category is shown in Fig. 6. Even though such information was not explicitly requested on the questionnaire, perhaps it should not be surprising that codes categorised as positive were most abundant given that the dataset spans a period of no or relatively mi...