AN EVALUATION OF THE SALE OF PUBLIC ASSETS AS ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC DEBT REDUCTION STRATEGY IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

An Evaluation of the Sale of Public Assets as Alternative Public Debt Reduction Strategy in European Countries

Against the backdrop of the recent crisis, many European countries have been confronted to high and unsustainable public debts, the issue of conceiving and implementing debt reduction strategies becoming one of great interest to both the scientific community and public policy-makers.Several options have been put forward, some of them (like fiscal c

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Comparative Study and Multi-Objective Crashworthiness Optimization Design of Foam and Honeycomb-Filled Novel Aluminum Thin-Walled Tubes

Due to their lightweight, porous and excellent energy absorption characteristics, foam and honeycomb materials have been widely used for filling energy absorbing devices.For further improving the energy absorption performance of the novel tube proposed in our recent work, the nonlinear dynamics software Abaqus was firstly used to establish and veri

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The effect of bovine leukemia virus on dairy cow longevity

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a retrovirus of cattle that infects approximately 45% of all US dairy cattle, with about 90% of US dairy herds having at 3HV least one infected animal.Studies have found BLV infection to be associated with multiple measures of decreased immune function, which may explain the observed economic losses from milk producti

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