Tournament induced incentives and analysts' boldness. by Yin, Huifang.

“…Using data from 1991 to 2007, I find that interim losers are more likely to increase the boldness of their forecasts in the remainder of the tournament period than interim winners. …”
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Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823 by Dal Bó, E, Hutkova, K, Leucht, L, Yuchman, N

“…Influential work, e.g., Brewer’s Sinews of Power, attributed increased fiscal capacity to the taxation of domestic, rather than traded, goods: excise revenues, coarsely associated with domestic goods, grew faster than customs revenues. …”

The Influence of Digital Sketching Tools on Concept Novelty and Evolution by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Xu, Christine, Yang, Maria C

“…Additionally, we find no strong differences in overall concept evolution quantities between the two tools, though we see that iPad sketches exhibited more cases of consecutive concept evolution than nonconsecutive whereas paper and pen sketches showed an equal amount of both consecutive and nonconsecutive concept evolution. …”
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Leveling the playing field: the selection and motivation effects of tournament prize spread information by Cardinaels, Eddy, Chen, Clara Xiaoling, Yin, Huaxiang

“…Thus, the availability of prize spread information produces a separation of employees based on ability. We also find that employees exert more effort when they can select into a tournament than when they are randomly assigned to one (which proxies for an environment where prize spread information is absent). …”
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Response of geostationary communications satellite solid-state power amplifiers to high-energy electron fluence. by Lohmeyer, Whitney, Carlton, Ashley, Wong, Frankie, Bodeau, Michael, Kennedy, Andrew, Cahoy, Kerri

“…Building on the work of Lohmeyer and Cahoy (2013), we find that anomalies occur at a rate higher than just by chance when the >2 MeV electron fluence accumulated over 14 and 21 days is elevated. …”
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Accelerating convolutional neural networks through enhanced designs by Gennari do Nascimento, M

“…It is expected that some layers need higher precision than others, and to avoid bottlenecks on compression, it is necessary to find the lowest bitwidth for each layer without losing overall accuracy. …”

Sport volunteers' motivation and their life aspirations by Cheng, Rui Ting

“…The results revealed that non-volunteers focused more on extrinsic life goals than volunteers; (p<.01). Individual sports player emphasised more on intrinsic life goals than non-sports players; (p<.05). …”
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Experimental and numerical studies of S960 ultra-high strength steel welded I-section columns by Su, Andi, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The existing codes in Europe, America and Australia only cover the design of steel structures with nominal material yield stresses less than or equal to 700 MPa (or 690 MPa), and design of S960 ultra-high strength steel welded I-section columns is therefore out of their application scopes. …”
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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. …”

Exoplanet Albedo Spectra and Colors as a Function of Planet Phase, Separation, and Metallicity by Cahoy, Kerri, Marley, Mark, Fortney, Jonathan

“…We consider the range of these combined effects on spectra and colors. For example, we find that the spectral influence of clouds depends more on planet-star separation and hence atmospheric temperature than metallicity, and it is easier to discriminate between cloudy 1× and 3× Jupiters than between 10× and 30× Neptunes. …”
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Response of geostationary communications satellite solid-state power amplifiers to high-energy electron fluence by Lohmeyer, Whitney, Carlton, Ashley, Wong, Frankie, Bodeau, Michael, Kennedy, Andrew, Cahoy, Kerri

“…Building on the work of Lohmeyer and Cahoy (2013), we find that anomalies occur at a rate higher than just by chance when the >2 MeV electron fluence accumulated over 14 and 21 days is elevated. …”
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Evaluating geospatial accuracy for equity analyses: a case study of the U.S. National Bridge Inventory by Gandy, CA, Kang, X, Ritsch, N, Armanios, DE

“…We find that 98.8% and 95.4% of the NBI records matched the reported state and county tag respectively, according to their reported latitude and longitude. …”

Structural performance of recycled aggregate concrete-filled stainless steel tube columns by Tan, Chia Wei

“…The experiment involved 12 RACFSST columns tested under pin-ended condition, as well as material tests and initial global geometric imperfection measurements. …”
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Design and 3D printing of reconfigurable structures by Teo, Ee Hian

“…The structure is made up of single modular units being repeatedly fixed together, this leads to the structure to isolate single modular units that are damaged, allowing it to be easily pin-pointed and replaced by fabricating another similar single unit, this cut cost as the structure can be salvaged by replacing a single unit instead of the whole structure.…”
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Tie the knot - a step by step wedding planner by Alex Arvin S Susaipillai

“…The creation comprises essential management tools such as wedding checklist, reminders, budget tracker, guestlist, online electronic invitation and RSVP system with SMS function, seating plan, calendar function, vendor list, pin board, wedding day scheduler and chat function…”
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Open-hole tensile behavior of bamboo fiber-reinforced polymer composites by Syakir Ariffin Bin Amran

“…In general, composites reinforced with synthetic fibers often have better mechanical properties than those reinforced with natural fibers. However, there is still room for research on natural fiber-reinforced composites and their mechanical properties to find for specific applications. …”
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Supernova by Leong, Fernandez Jun Yi

“…Faced with multiple transitions in a period where we could question our place in the world, this project aims to find ways in which loneliness can openly be discussed and dealt with in ways supportive of all, rather than a one-size-fit-all solution. …”
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Communication satellite power amplifiers: current and future SSPA and TWTA technologies by Aniceto, Raichelle, Cahoy, Kerri, Lohmeyer, Whitney

“…The ratio of operational to redundant amplifiers is 10 times higher for TWTAs than SSPAs, and the majority of amplifiers over the past 30 years operate with bandwidth less than 100 MHz. …”
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Demographic differences in International students' information source uses and everyday information seeking challenges by Sin, Sei-Ching Joanna

“…Six everyday information domains (e.g., legal, financial, and personal development information) ranked more difficult to find than academic information. Non-credible, irrelevant, and outdated information were found to be the top problems. …”
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Piezoelectric single crystal based one-dimensional phased array for breast tissue imaging by Du, Wenya

“…The 1D array exhibits promising acoustic performance with i) a maximum imaging depth of 80 mm, ii) contrast sensitivity of 3 dB, iii) axial/lateral resolutions of 0.25/1.0 mm at 30 mm depth, and iv) a larger field of view than the commercial handheld linear probe at depths of approximately 30 mm or deeper, indicating a potential reliable capability to detect early-stage breast tumors. …”
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