Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Social network structure in autistic individuals: a systematic review by Lei, J, Qian, X, Kim, KM

“…Results indicate that autistic children experience greater isolation with more peripheral status and lower peer acceptance compared with their neurotypical peers. …”

Health economic aspects of childhood excess weight by Onyimadu, O

“…My analyses of CPRD-HES data revealed that children living with overweight and obesity incurred significantly higher direct healthcare costs than their peers with a healthy weight. In comparison to children with healthy weight, those living with overweight generated additional costs of £133.93 and £66.32, on average, in the year preceding and following a BMI measurement, respectively, while children with obesity incurred additional costs of £115.47 and £154.51, on average, during the same periods. …”

A comparative analysis of ENCODE and Cistrome in the context of TF binding signal by Perna, Stefano, Pinoli, Pietro, Ceri, Stefano, Wong, Limsoon

“…Moreover, the output format of the processing (BED narrowPeak) exposes a feature, the signalValue, which is seldom used in consistency checks, but can offer valuable insight on the quality of the data. …”
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Cadê o Kauê? Co-design and acceptability testing of a chat-story aimed at enhancing youth participation in the promotion of mental health in Brazil by Pavarini, G, Murta, SG, Mendes, JAA, Siston, FR, Souza, RRA, Cunha, RO, Ferreira, JA, Santos, VHL, Seabra, BTR, Talk2U, Singh, I

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:&nbsp;</strong>Participants aspired to support their peers' mental health in schools, both one-to-one and collectively, but felt unprepared. …”

Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: the importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties by van Eeden, S, McKean, C, Stringer, H

“…There is growing evidence of concomitant language difficulties in children with CP ± L and of a higher prevalence of developmental speech errors in children compared with non-CP ± L peers. The impact of underlying phonological and language skills on speech production in children with CP ± L is poorly understood. …”

A Performance Analysis between Conventional and Shariah Private Retirement Scheme in Malaysia (S/O 14551) by Sofi, Mohd Fikri

“…They do not only beat the market over the period, but also strive against the peers ferociously to attain the objective and the interest of fund holders for a better protection of future retirement. …”
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Social Development / by Parke, Ross D., author 450250, Roisman, Glenn I., author 655021, Rose, Amanda J. (Amanda Janel), 1971-, author 655022, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

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Development of an application to improve mental health (A) by Khor, Chin Yi

“…It is crucial to implement peer support in tackling mental health issues, as information provided by peers is usually seen as more credible and up-to-date than that offered by professionals. …”
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Essays on development economics by Wang, Wen

“…The estimation results remain robust when subjected to further checks and sensitivity tests. In addition, we consider alternative channels including pathogen stress, historical population density and colonization, which may also influence the degree of institutionalized democracy via the cultural dimension of collectivism / individualism. …”
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Habit Formation and Political Persuasion: A Behavioral and Statistical Approach by Tohidi Kalorazi, Amir

“…Surprisingly, findings reveal discordant predictions: deniers anticipate a backfire effect among peers, climate believers foresee negligible effects. …”
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The effect of biculturalism on executive functions by Xie, Wenhan

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Design and investigation of block copolymers for dispersion of carbon nanotubes in polymer matrices by Liu, Chengyin

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Algebraic identifiability of partial differential equation models by Byrne, HM, Harrington, HA, Ovchinnikov, A, Pogudin, G, Rahkooy, H, Soto, P

“…This problem has been intensively studied for ordinary differential equation models, where theory, several efficient algorithms and software packages have been developed. …”

The influence of nutrition on obesity by Ee, Xing Min

“…While these two factors may be crucial in the regulation of body weight, the impact of nutrition on obesity has often been overlooked. People in modern days consume copious amounts of carbohydrate-rich foods and sugary products, having the misconception that as long as their calorie intake is kept to a minimum, their weight would be kept in check as well. …”
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A computer vision software to automatically measure dimensions of flat surfaces in a photograph by Wang, Qifeng

“…A previous project has been conducted and a substantial amount of work have been done on objects and contours detection. …”
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Interval elimination method for stochastic spanning tree problem by Mohd, Ismail

“…The optimum spanning tree problem has been well considered and until now several powerful algorithms have been proposed. …”
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Geometric primitive feature extraction : concepts, algorithms and applications by Prasad, Dilip Kumar.

“…For the problem of polygonal approximation, two fundamental problems have been addressed. First, the nature of the performance evaluation metrics in relation to the local and global fitting characteristics has been studied. …”
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Development of isolated type DC/DC converter for on-board power supply by Enrique Alejandro, Nunes Di Pierri

“…A 20 kW high frequency DC/DC converter composed of two identical 10 kW units has been constructed for a hybrid vehicle application. …”
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Detailed turbulent structures investigation around piers group induced flow by Ikani, Nima, H. Pu, Jaan, Zang, Shuyan, Hussein Al-Qadami, Ebrahim Hamid, Razi, Adib

“…To investigate the flow turbulence, critical locations have been observed from high vortex-influenced regions. …”
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