Three essays on the funds allocation of U.S. Firms by Shih, Chia Mei

“…In essay one, we distinguish between two types of equity capital namely, proceeds collected from the exercise of employee stock options and those raised from all other equity issues. We examine the spending patterns of these proceeds and find that firms do not have a greater tendency to spend option proceeds than they do with other equity proceeds. …”
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NEVER FULLY INVEST AT ALL TIMES: Award-Winning Fund Manager Shares His 47 Years Of Proven Strategies For Investing Success / by Tan, Chong Koay, author 594095, Lee, Min Keong, editor 655434

Directed collaboration patterns in funded teams: a perspective of knowledge flow by Zou, Bentao, Wang, Yuefen, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Cen, Yonghua

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Is it who you know or what you know? Evidence from ipo allocations and mutual fund performance by Hwang, Chuan-Yang, Titman, Sheridan, Wang, Yuxi

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Examining patient choice and provider competition under the National Health Insurance Fund outpatient cover in Kenya: does it enhance access and quality of care? by Kazungu, J, Barasa, E, Quaife, M, Nonvignon, J

“…Results: NHIF members’ choice of outpatient facilities compelled private and faith-based providers to compete for members while public providers did not view choice as a way of spurring competition. Besides, all providers did not receive any information regarding the exit of NHIF members from their facilities. …”

Finding Bukit Brown. by Chee, Janie Alison Hui-Yen., Shiu, Pedro Pui Kar., Siti Nurbaya Rameh.

“…“Finding Bukit Brown” is an 18-minute documentary about Bukit Brown Cemetery prior to its redevelopment. …”
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Curtain call : a final bow for the traditional arts. by Chen, Shanshan., Khew, Carolyn Jin-Ny., Koh, Valerie Swee Fang.

“…But with a $23 million kitty and a five-year Traditional Arts Plan proposed by the National Arts Council, the languishing state of the industry looks set to change. Curtain Call explores the challenges that today's traditional artists battle on a daily basis, from making a living to finding a successor to hand over the ropes to. …”
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The call to complain : antecedents to complaint behaviour (telecommunications industry). by Lim, An Qi., Ng, Shi Hui., Tan, Ming Hui.

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Mastering Blockchain : Inner workings of blockchain, from cryptography and decentralized identities, to DeFi, NFTs and Web3 / by Bashir, Imran, author 396608

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Hierarchical NiCo-LDH core/shell homostructural electrodes with MOF-derived shell for electrochemical energy storage by Zheng, Kun, Liao, Leiping, Zhang, Yu, Tan, Hua, Liu, Jingquan, Li, Chenwei, Jia, Dedong

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Dopamine Nation : Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence / by Lembke, Anna, Dr., author 655980, Penguin Publishing Group (Online service) 655981

“…Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. …”
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All-weather thermal regulation coatings by Hippalgaonkar, Kedar

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Understanding customer retrials in call centers: preferences for service quality and service speed by Hu, K, Allon, G, Bassamboo, A

“…According to industry reports, retrials are listed as a top annoying issue for customers and hurt call centers’ profits. Though recognizing this problem, call centers find it challenging to reduce retrials without overshooting their operating expenses. …”

Finding bugs inside IoT devices via static analysis by Lim, Gerald Ze Yang

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All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…We present the first results from an all-sky all-frequency (ASAF) search for an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using the data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. …”
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The 'Clisurean' finds from Climente II cave, Iron Gates, Romania by Bonsall, C, Boroneanţ, A, Evatt, A, Soficaru, A, Nica, C, Bartosiewicz, L, Cook, G, Higham, TFG, Pickard, C

“…Human remains were recovered from contexts identified as ‘Clisurean’ (Final Epigravettian), along with ca 6000 chipped stone artifacts, bone tools including awls, arrowheads and a fragment of a harpoon, and shell and animal tooth ornaments. This article presents a re-evaluation of the archaeological finds from Climente II. …”

Load-carrying capacity of ultra-thin shells with and without CNTs reinforcement by Nguyen, Tan N., Dang, L. Minh, Lee, Jaehong, Nguyen, Pho Van

“…Isotropic ultra-thin shells or membranes, as well as cable–membrane structures, cannot resist loads at the initial state and always require a form-finding process to reach the steady state. …”
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Single antenna power measurements based direction finding : an FRI solution by Zhang, Song Bai

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Nearbyou: a crowdsourced app for finding the best places for peace and quiet by Muhammad Zufiqqar Bin Jamal

“…The prime objective of this project is to develop a reliable crowdsourced mobile application for finding the best peaceful and quiet places called Nearbyou. …”
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Effectiveness of interpretive exhibits in influencing students’ intention in birdwatching activity at a Bird Interpretive Center, Fraser’s Hill, Pahang, Malaysia by Mokhli, Nuraain Amalina

“…The study has shown that the new interpretive intervention exhibit is more effective in influencing students’ affect and intention to participate in birdwatching compared to the existing non-interpretive exhibit at the Bird Interpretive Centre. These findings indicated that the interpretive exhibit developed in this study successfully delivers the messages and the ‘call for action’ and shapes students’ affect and intention based on the objective of the interpretive exhibit.…”
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