Do higher politician salaries reduce corruption and improve governance? by Chin, Hong Xiang, Low, Guo Quan, Wang, Yiwei

“…Our paper addresses this gap by gathering a novel primary dataset of 963 top politician and cabinet minister salaries through official and non-official sources, which spans across 144 countries from the period of 1873 to 2015. …”
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Understanding liver transplantation outcomes through the lens of its tissue-resident immunobiome by Prosser, AC, Klenerman, P, Lucas, M

“…The heterogeneous TRL population spans the innate to adaptive immune continuum, with roles during normal physiology in homeostatic maintenance, tissue repair, pathogen detection, and rapid mounting of immune responses. …”

A function-based mapping of sensory integration along the cortical hierarchy by Wei, W, Benn, RA, Scholz, R, Shevchenko, V, Klatzmann, U, Alberti, F, Chiou, R, Wassermann, D, Vanderwal, T, Smallwood, J, Margulies, DS

“…Sensory information mainly travels along a hierarchy spanning unimodal to transmodal regions, forming multisensory integrative representations crucial for higher-order cognitive functions. …”

SP.776 / SP.786 Design for Demining, Spring 2005 by Heafitz, Andrew, Linder, Benjamin M.

“…MIT Design for Demining is a design course that spans the entire product design and development process from identification of needs and idea generation to prototyping and blast testing to manufacture and deployment. …”
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Large deflection of composite beams in bending by Teo, Chin Yao

“…Three-point bending tests will be conducted at spans of 150mm, 175mm, and 200mm. Load and displacement data are extracted from the Instron-5569 and plots are to be made in excel using the extracted data. …”
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The use of mobile phones among trishaw operators in Myanmar by Ling, Rich, Aricat, Rajiv George, Oreglia, Elisa, Panchapakesan, Chitra, Lwin, May Oo

“…Trishaw operators transport people and goods in a physically demanding job that often earns them as little as US$2 per day. Spanning the period before and after the widespread commercialization of mobile phones in the country, this research draws from interviews with trishaw operators in several locations. …”
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Corporate governance as a catalyst for sustainability: insights from Malaysian Public listed companies by Normarliana Laili, Romlah Jaffar, Mohamat Sabri Hassan, Ahmad Monir Abdullah

“…The study sample comprised 762 listed companies in Malaysia, spanning 2020 to 2022. Using content analysis on company annual reports, the results established the positive and significant influence of CG on CSP as consistent with the stakeholder theory. …”
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Reverse logistic operations in Asia-Pacific : an emprical study by Ho, Alex Chew Kin.

“…A 12-page survey is launched covering three main sections — Part 1: Company Profile; Part 2: Reverse Logistics Process; and Part 3: Reverse Logistics Information System. 145 companies were surveyed with a 15.7% response rate. Companies selected spanned across different industrial sectors: electronic/semi-conductor, consumer electronics, telecommunications, computer, data storage/disk drive, machinery/heavy metal, chemical and medical equipment supplies. …”
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Crepuscularis. by Lim, Aaron Zhe Yu.

“…This is achieved with the project spanning from the domain of design to that of art, where the designing of a product and the process of artistic creation convene. …”
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Bella's empowerment - why the twilight saga is not anti-feminist. by See, Shawn Kai Sheng.

“…Meyer’s compelling work is immensely popular among its young adult audience. The Twilight series spans four novels and focuses on the love story of Meyer’s female protagonist Isabella Swan (better known as Bella), and her vampire beau Edward Cullen. …”
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As firm as their foundations: creating transferable adversarial examples across downstream tasks with CLIP by Hu, A, Gu, J, Pinto, F, Kamnitsas, K, Torr, PHS

“…Solely based on open-sourced CLIP vision encoders, this method can produce highly effective adversaries that simultaneously fool more than 20 downstream models spanning 4 common vision-language tasks (semantic segmentation, object detection, image captioning and visual question-answering). …”

Continent-wide drivers of spatial synchrony in breeding demographic structure across wild great tit populations by Woodman, JP, Vriend, SJG, Adriaensen, F, Cole, E, Evans, Park, JS, Firth, JA, Sheldon, B

“…Using 32 great tit populations, spanning 4°W–33°E and 35–65°N involving >130,000 birds across 67 years, we quantify spatial synchrony in breeding demographic structure (subadult vs. adult breeders) and its drivers. …”

Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…We carry out the searches in the LIGO data from the first six months of the third Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run, using the Weave semi-coherent method, which sums matched-filter detection-statistic values over many time segments spanning the observation period. No gravitational wave signal is detected in the search band of 20--976 Hz for assumed source ages greater than 300 years for Cas A and greater than 700 years for Vela Jr. …”
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Cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives and its application to backdoor design by Wang, Haoyang

“…This thesis focuses on the cryptanalysis of symmetric-key cryptography, one of the most important branches of modern cryptography. The research spans two aspects of cryptanalysis. Studying cryptanalysis provides better evaluation on the security of symmetric-key primitives. …”
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Theoretical models for performance analysis of spintronic THz emitters by Yang, Yingshu, Dal Forno, Stefano, Battiato, Marco

“…The terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum, spanning from 0.1 to 10 THz, offers unique opportunities for imaging, spectroscopy, and communication applications. …”
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Risk management framework for construction project managers by Tan, Ying Ling

“…With an emphasis on process-driven projects, the research identifies the critical need for an integrated approach to risk management, spanning from project initiation through to operational and maintenance phases. …”
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Mg2SnO4 ceramicsII. Electrical characterization by Azad, Abdul-Majeed, Min, Liew Jing, Alim, Mohammad A

“…The inverse spinel-structured Mg2SnO4 possessing steady capacitance over the temperature range between 27 and 300°C in a frequency domain spanning nearly four decades has been examined by an a.c. technique. …”
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Understanding conflict in the franchised restaurant industry: insights from court records by Siti Nurhayati Khairatun, Zheng, Tianshu

“…This exploratory study employed a content analysis using a data triangulation of New York court records (23 cases, 3 dismissed) spanning from 1957 to 2016 and IFA corporate databases to explore the causes of conflict in the franchised restaurant industry. …”
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To What Extent Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Coal and Oil in Electricity Generation? A Mean-Group Panel Analysis by Liddle, Brantley

“…It does so by employing a first-difference model and a mean-group estimator applied to a panel that spans 1985–2019 for 27 high- and 13 middle-income countries. …”
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Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…The viscoelastic sheet spans over the entire water depth, and is tensioned and hinged on both ends. …”
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