Conflict and the formation of political beliefs in Africa by Adhvaryu, A, Fenske, J

“…Exposure from ages 0 to 14 has a very small standardized impact on later attitudes and behaviors. This finding is robust to migration and holds across a variety of definitions, specifications, and sources of data. …”

Asymptotic analysis of deep residual networks by Cont, R, Rossier, A, Xu, R

“…We study the convergence of the hidden state dynamics in these scaling regimes, showing that one may obtain an ODE, a stochastic differential equation (SDE) or neither of these. In particular, our findings point to the existence of a diffusive regime in which the deep network limit is described by a class of stochastic differential equations (SDEs). …”

Time series forecasting for tourism industry in Malaysia by Noratikah, Abu, Siti Aishah @Tsamienah, Taib, Nurul Amira, Zainal, Nor Azuana, Ramli, Go, Clark Kendrick

“…The forecast evaluation methods used to validate the best Box-Jenkins model before proceeding to forecasting stage are MAPE and RMSE, and the analysis was performed by using Python. The findings show that SARIMA (2,1,1)(0,1,1)12 was considered as highly accurate forecasting model based on its least error produced.…”
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Religious restrictions, country wealth, and religious violence : a global analysis by Tan, Malcolm Si-An

“…Utilising cross-national time-series analysis of data from 175 countries spanning 1991 – 2018, this study finds that countries which spend a larger share of their wealth to impose restrictions on minority, majority, or all religions are more likely to experience higher levels of religious hostilities and violence. …”
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新加坡大考学生语码杂现象研究 = A study of code-mixing among tertiary students in Singapore by 许珮琳 Koh, Pei Ling

“…This seven-chapter thesis presents the findings of a research investigating the widespread phenomenon of code-mixing among tertiary students in Singapore. …”
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‘Russian military censorship, like the Russian warship, can go f*** itself.’ An analysis of Russian independent media response to wartime media freedom restrictions by Raspopina, Aleksandra

“…It examines editorials published by six independent online media outlets on their websites and social media. This chapter finds that journalists use editorials as spaces to provide practical information to their audiences, to explain editorial decisions, to discuss the laws restricting coverage of the war as military censorship, and to emphasize the professional norms and values of journalism. …”
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Elite capture of foreign aid: evidence from offshore bank accounts by Andersen, JJ, Johannesen, N, Rijkers, B

“…The implied leakage rate is around 7.5% at the sample mean and tends to increase with the ratio of aid to GDP. The findings are consistent with aid capture in the most aid-dependent countries.…”

Organic electronics and beyond (Advanced Optical Materials 14/2021) by Gather, MC, Lüssem, B, Reineke, S, Riede, M

“…This OLED-cube has become an iconic object representing the continuous research and development in and around the Dresden Organic Electronics hub that finds its roots in the visionary research of Karl Leo. …”

Impact of fiscal spending, financial inclusion on financial stability by Duan, Chengyonghui, Soh, Wei Ni

“…This empirical study analyzes the impact of fiscal expenditure and financial inclusion on financial stability using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) from 2011 to 2022. The study findings suggest that fiscal expenditures, financial inclusion, and technological development all improve financial stability. …”
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Effectiveness evaluation of Construction 4.0 technologies in improving built environment resilience by Hazwani, Shafei, Rahimi, A. Rahman, Lee, Yong Siang

“…Industry professionals, researchers and policymakers can use the study findings to make well-informed decisions on selecting Construction 4.0 technologies that improve built environment resilience to climatic disasters.…”
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Visualization and networking analysis of processing seafood towards future trends: A bibliometric analysis from 2010 to 2024 by Baarimah, Abdullah O., Mokaizh, Aiman A., Alazaiza, Motasem Y. D., Al-Zghoul, Tharaa

“…This bibliometric study aims to comprehensively map the research landscape of seafood waste valorization by analyzing 1,109 publications from the Scopus database between 2010 and 2024. The findings indicate a dramatic increase in research output, particularly in the last five years, with over 35 % of studies published during this period, reflecting a heightened global interest in sustainable treatment methods for seafood waste. …”
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Information technology capability, supply chain practices and leagility: A systematic literature review by Mustafa Al Dirawi, Ammar Nazar, Khudari, Mohamed, Salina, Daud

“…Moreover, most leagility studies are quantitative. These findings challenge previous studies claiming that a majority of the studies are qualitative. …”
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In Tension: Computational exploration of the design space of tensile network structures by Burke, Adam T.

“…Instead a process of form-finding must be used to establish a geometry where all edges of the network carry only tensile forces. …”
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Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese by Peck, Jeeyoung, Lin, Jingxia

“…Yet, our observation of Chinese finds that adjunct locative PPs that are not an event delimiter (e.g. directional 向 xiàng/往 wǎng ‘toward’ PPs or non-directional 在 zài ‘at’ PPs) can also allow their prepositional object to appear as the verbal object. …”
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Modelling self-awareness in social robot by Zhang, Jiaheng

“…These methods have been demonstrated to successfully extract sentiments and emotions from the text. Finding Direction of Sentiment and Scope of Analysis with OpenIE was rated at 93.3% accuracy and Depedency Algorithm was rated at 90.7%. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance and research methodology by Li, Wei

“…Chapter one aims to understand whether investor-paid credit rating agency (CRA) can improve rated firms’ information transparency. It has two main findings. First, the coverage of Egan Jones Ratings (EJR) – an investor-paid CRA – leads to an increase in rated firms’ stock price informativeness. …”
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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…The results showed that there was no superiority of usage of worked examples found which conformed with the Expertise Reversal Effect. The findings also showed that there was no superiority of delayed testing over immediate testing for the group of primary 4 participants which is contrary to the initial expectations. …”
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A scoping review of cognitive bias in internet addiction and internet gaming disorders by Chia, Doris X. Y., Zhang, Melvyn

“…However, there have not been any reviews that have synthesized the findings related to cognitive biases for Internet addiction and Internet gaming disorders. …”
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Wearable activity trackers for promoting physical activity : a systematic meta-analytic review by Li, Caining, Chen, Xiaoyu, Bi, Xinhua

“…Future studies are called to validate the findings and to offer theoretical explanations.…”
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Credit card cue effect : how mere exposure to credit card cues promotes consumers’ perceived financial well-being and spending by Wong, King Yin, Lynn, Michael

“…Some showed that credit-card cues stimulate spending, whereas others were unable to replicate the findings or found that cues discourage consumer spending. …”
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