Annual budgets and rolling budgets use in UK and Australian firms by Bhimani, A, Sivabalan, P, Soonawalla, K, Wakefield, J

“…We find that of the firms using annual and rolling budgets, 75 percent indicated they are equally important, with both budgeting forms used jointly rather than as substitutes. …”

Financial optimization problems by Law, SL

“…Then we study the equivalent problem based on a market model with transaction costs. We find that there is a relationship between these two solutions. …”

Three essays on corporate finance by Koh, Jee Youn

“…In Chapter 1, we examine externalities of tunneling carried out by business group firms. We find that acquirers belonging to Korean business groups (i.e., chaebols) and their targets in intragroup M&As realize negative and positive returns around the M&A announcement dates, respectively. …”
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Dynamics of a self-interacting sheet in shear flow by Funkenbusch, William T., Silmore, Kevin S., Doyle, Patrick S.

“…Finally, we calculate the stresslet and find that, even in the absence of thermal fluctuations and multiple sheet interactions, shear-thinning followed by shear-thickening behavior can appear.…”
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Behavior-based pricing: an analysis of the impact of anticipated regret by Zhou, Qin, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…Contrary to prior research which generally shows that firms performing BBP yield lower profits, we find that firms’ profits can increase or decrease in the presence of anticipated regret. …”
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Knee joint measurement using CT scans for knee joint implant selection by Jing, Mei

“…Then surgeons will place several different sizes of implant on it in order to find out the best fit one. (1) The objective of this project is to develop an efficient way to find out the suitable size of implant using CT scans or photo taking, to measure anterior-posterior and media-lateral lengths of the knee joint. …”
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Social media, misinformation, and age inequality in online political engagement by Ahmed, Saifuddin, Madrid-Morales, Dani, Tully, Melissa

“…However, we also find that perceived exposure to misinformation has varying effects on political engagement across age groups. …”
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Flourishing in burnout society by Lim, Aaron Wei Heng

“…Our worths are measured in output and achievements. We find ourselves under the constant shadow of deadlines and societal expectations, which coerce us to achieve, produce, and work more. …”
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Open-hole tensile behavior of bamboo fiber-reinforced polymer composites by Syakir Ariffin Bin Amran

“…However, there is a shift in the industry to find an alternative material to combat the environmental problems caused by the manufacturing and disposal of synthetic fiber-reinforced composites. …”
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Impact of jet fuel hedging on firm value : a study on global airlines. by Quah, Hui Li., Tan, Jazreel Yan Zhen., Teo, Lay Hui.

“…In our sub-sample study on US and non-US airlines, we find that hedging for US airlines is significantly and positively correlated with firm value while there is no significant relationship for non-US airlines. …”
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Experiencing non-places through soundscapes. by Tan, Emily Sze Hui.

“…And also, to encourage viewers to find their little pleasures in what might seem as the mundane process of commuting and everyday life.…”
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Variation of stiffness of two magnetically coupled beams for broadband energy harvesting by Xiao, Jincheng

“…The distances between the tip magnets was changed to find the optimal configuration for this non-linear PEH system. …”
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Face recognition in color space by Zhao, Tiansi

“…This means researchers need to find the reliable and discriminative features from the amount of face features in the face image, which has been enhanced by tools provided by machine learning technology. …”
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Dynamics of housing markets by Tay, Darrell Jiajie

“…While reviewing previous works on housing bubbles, we find that housing bubbles are often poorly defined. …”
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Brand- and price-based usage pattern analysis on peer-to-peer car-sharing platform by Tan, Xuan Yi

“…This can help future researches to find out the underlying social or emotional factors consumers have to make a decision to make rent or a purchase.…”
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Supernova by Leong, Fernandez Jun Yi

“…How do we find ways to support people on their own terms, be it their preference in creating social connections or the preference of people who prefer solitude? …”
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Tablets, Pens, and Pencils: The Influence of Tools on Sketching in Early Stage Design by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Yang, Maria C

“…We also find that concept novelty is negatively correlated with how understandable the concept is. …”
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The Relationship between Linguistic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks by Kauf, Carina

“…Then I use fMRI to probe the computations that drive the language network’s response. I find evidence for a generalized reliance of language comprehension on syntactic processing, contra claims that language comprehension relies on shallow/associative processing, and for only a superficial encoding of sentence meaning. …”
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Investigating the inner controls on explosive eruptions using textural analyses and petrology by Bernard, Olivier

“…First, I focus on the Rabaul caldera system (Papua-New-Guinea) where effusive, strombolian, vulcanian and sub-plinian eruptions occured in the past 120 years without any noticeable chemical changes in the magma compositions. I find that slight changes in the pre-eruptive state of the magma such as phenocryst-content and exsolved volatile contents influenced magma ascent rates and subsequent eruption styles. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Sun, Rui

“…The above pattern remains robust if we apply various matching schemes or if we only look at the transitory cash flow shock. To find out what is the driving force of private firms’ cash flow allocation, we attempt to draw parallel evidence from public firms, but find that the analysis within public firms cannot be applied mechanically to private firms. …”
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