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The World’s Best-Kept Financial Inclusion Secret Revealed: The Untold Success Story of BRI Microbanking Since 1895
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-11)Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), Indonesia People’s Bank, has been the most successful promoter of financial inclusion in Indonesia since the country declared independence in 1945. BRI’s first major financial inclusion ... -
Worming my way into onychophorology: a multilevel approach to an enigmatic panarthropod
(2023-05-09)The field of onychophorology has come a long way since the description of the first onychophoran as a legged mollusk that often walks backwards. Lansdown Guilding had only found one individual for his description in 1826 ... -
Worse health-related quality of life and hip function in female patients with elevated chromium levels: A prospective study of 659 patients with a recalled THR metal-on-metal implant
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Background and purpose Blood metal ion levels can be an indicator for detecting implant failure in metal-on-metal (MoM) hip arthroplasties. Little is known about the effect of bilateral MoM implants on metal ion levels and ... -
Worse Prognosis in Papillary, Compared to Tubular, Early Gastric Carcinoma
(Ivyspring International Publisher, 2017)Purpose: Papillary early gastric carcinoma (EGC) is uncommon but shows worse prognosis in our most recent study in a Chinese population with unknown reasons. The aim of the present study was to further investigate risk ... -
Worse than Exemption
(Emory Law Journal, 2009)In this article, we discuss how various defects in the current U.S. international tax system - deferral, defective income-sourcing and cost allocation rules, lenient transfer-pricing rules, generous cross-crediting, the ... -
Worst-Case and Average-Case Floating Codes for Flash Memory
(2009)Flash memory is used in portable electronic devices like cell phones, mp3 players, digital cameras, and PDAs. The question of how to code information in flash memory is a difficult one whose answer can have effects on the ... -
Worth the wait: effects of age of onset of marijuana use on white matter and impulsivity
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)Rationale: Marijuana (MJ) use continues to rise, and as the perceived risk of using MJ approaches an all-time historic low, initiation of MJ use is occurring at even younger ages. As adolescence is a critical period of ... -
Would the Dream of Political Equality Turn out to Be a Nightmare?
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Would You Ask Turkeys To Mandate Thanksgiving?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)PAPER #1: The Dismal Politics of Legislative Transparency The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prevents legislators from infringing on the freedom of the press. But, of necessity, legislators have been granted ... -
The wounds of war: A tale of two cities
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Wölfflin, Architecture and the Problem of Stilwandlung
(University of Birmingham, 2012) -
Wrapped \(M2/M5\) Duality
(Institute of Physics, 2009)A microscopic accounting of the entropy of a generic 5D supersymmetric rotating black hole, arising from wrapped \(M2\)-branes in Calabi-Yau compactified \(M\)-theory, is an outstanding unsolved problem. In this paper we ... -
Wrestling with Covenant in Unitarian Universalism: Building a Congregational Culture of Covenant
As the Unitarian Universalist denomination attempts, again, to address its structural racism, a focus on covenant and covenantal theology may build a foundation of trust and mutuality. This focus on covenant must be a full ... -
Wrestling with the “fallacious doctrine of racial superiority”: The Discursive Construction of “Race” in American Bahá'í Periodicals
(2023-04-25)American Bahá'í periodicals have said much about race and racial prejudice. This thesis brings to light the variations of that discourse to provide insight on how American Bahá'ís understood these concepts in relation to ... -
Wrinkling Instability of an Inhomogeneously Stretched Viscous Sheet
(American Physical Society (APS), 2017-07-27)Motivated by the redrawing of hot glass into thin sheets, we investigate the shape and stability of a thin viscous sheet that is inhomogeneously stretched in an imposed nonuniform temperature field. We first determine the ... -
Wrinkling Phenomena in Neo-Hookean Film/Substrate Bilayers
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012)Wrinkling modes are determined for a two-layer system comprised of a neo-Hookean film bonded to an infinitely deep neo-Hookean substrate with the entire bilayer undergoing compression. The full range of the film/substrate ... -
The Writer's Art: Tao Yuanqing and the Formation of Modern Chinese Design (1900-1930)
(2015-05-15)The dissertation examines the history of modern design in early 20th-century China. The emergent field of design looked to replace the specific cultural and historical references of visual art with an international language ... -
A writer's collaborative assistant
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2002)In traditional human-computer interfaces, a human master directs a computer system as a servant, telling it not only what to do, but also how to do it. Collaborative interfaces attempt to realign the roles, making the ... -
Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature
(2014-10-22)My dissertation, Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature is an examination of this cross-cultural literary encounter primarily through fictional prose written in Arabic from the beginning of ...