Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s Third Observing Run by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…These are the tightest limits on spinning subsolar-mass binaries to date.…”
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Structural Characterization of E22G Aβ1-42 Fibrils via 1H detected MAS NMR by Golota, Natalie C., Michael, Brian, Saliba, Edward P., Linse, Sara, Griffin, Robert G.

“…Since the high surface activity of E22G-Aβ1–42 makes it difficult to obtain more than sparse quantities of fibrils, we employed 1H detected magic angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments to characterize the protein. …”
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Maghemite filled poly-vinyl alcohol nanofibres for tissue engineering scaffold. by Ngadiman, Nor Hasrul Akhmal

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Give your money and lose your friend : the roles of social exclusion and money anthropomorphism in charitable giving by Kho, Mandon Jin Cheng

“…Lastly, we predicted that socially excluded people would be less likely to donate money compared to socially included people, but only when money is anthropomorphized. …”
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Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus by Sevtsuk, Andres, Chancey, Bahij, Basu, Rounaq, Mazzarello, Martina

“…Our findings suggest that (a) people whose offices are closer to each other by walking are more likely to exchange E-mails, (b) on the campus as a whole, people who are more likely to walk past each other’s offices on the way to or from work are more likely to exchange E-mails, and (c) people who share access to similar eating venues around their offices are more likely to exchange E-mails. …”
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Design and development of a biopolymer microfiber fabrication device by Yap, Yi-Liang.

“…Molten polymer within a holding cup with a tiny orifice below is drawn by a needle and stuck onto a spinning mandrel for collection. As the melt is pulled from the orifice, extensional flow causes the thinning in the melt diameter and the atmosphere cools the melt down into a fiber before it is collected on the mandrel. …”
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3D articulated skeleton extraction using a single consumer-grade depth camera by Lu, Xuequan, Deng, Zhigang, Luo, Jun, Chen, Wenzhi, Yeung, Sai-Kit, He, Ying

“…We lastly present an iterative Linear Blend Skinning based algorithm for accurate joints learning. …”
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Urban Big Data: City Management and Real Estate Markets by Barkham, Richard, Bokhari, Sheharyar, Saiz, Albert

“…Nevertheless, smaller scale interventions are likely to crop up everywhere, even in the short run. …”
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Effects of maze appearance on maze solving by Semizer, Yelda, Yu, Dian, Wan, Qianqian, Balas, Benjamin, Rosenholtz, Ruth

“…As mazes are typically complex, cluttered stimuli, solving them is likely limited by visual crowding. Thus, several aspects of the appearance of the maze – the thickness, spacing, and curvature of the paths, as well as the texture of both paths and walls – likely influence the performance. …”
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Basel II implementation challenges and solutions by Ang, Shawn Chee Ann, Cheng, Ryan Kam Wai, Lim, Gabriel Geok Chuan

“…To review the Basel 2 Accord in order to investigate the likely impact of its implementation on the banks in Singapore.…”
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E-commerce regulation and trader compliance: a comparative and empirical inquiry by Pflücke, F

“…The ambition of the thesis is to define and measure the levels of compliance and to test four hypotheses: (H1) traders do not comply in full with their legal obligations; (H2) large traders are more likely to be compliant compared to SMEs; (H3) traders that are older are more likely to be compliant compared to companies that were incorporated more recently; (H4) traders that base their terms and conditions on pre-drafted standard contract terms are more likely to be in compliance with the selected legal obligations. …”

Three essays on family firms by Lim, So-Yeon

“…Relative to single-family founding firms, multi-family cofounding firms are more likely to force out founders and less likely to allow descendants to take control after founders retire.…”
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When money can’t buy political love: lab experiments on vote buying in Ghana and Uganda by Burbidge, D, Cheeseman, N, Panin, A

“…Participants play the roles of voters and candidates with opportunities to bribe. Voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who had the opportunity to bribe but refrained from doing so. …”

Simulation expectation by Thomas, T

“…I present a new argument that we are much more likely to be living in a computer simulation than in the ground-level of reality. …”

Jokowi’s cabinet reshuffle : juggling performance, patronage and politics by Sebastian, Leonard C., Tiola Javadi, Adhi Priamarizki

“…While performance is one determining factor, it is likely to be overshadowed by patronage and political calculations.…”
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Sponsorship of television programs by Gan, Ser Hui, Puah, Sor Bee, Woo, Mui Kwee

“…However, it is television sponsorship which is likely to be the area of greatest sponsor attention. …”
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A temporal study of the effects of online opinions : information sources matter by Huang, Jianxiong, Boh, Wai Fong, Goh, Kim Huat

“…Premised on the theory of information search, we hypothesize that consumers are more likely to engage in active search in the early stages of a movie’s release due to greater choice uncertainty, and passive attention is more likely to kick in for later stages of a movie’s release, as uncertainty decreases. …”
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The impact of antimicrobial stewardship ward rounds on antimicrobial use and predictors of advice, uptake, and outcomes by Eyre, D, Pill, G, Ng, B, Herin, C, O’Riordan, B, Izzard, D, Dunsmure, L, Paulus, S, Jeffery, K, Jones, N

“…Senior doctors were more likely than pharmacists or specialist doctors in training to recommend de-escalation/stopping antibiotics and to have their advice followed. …”

Sex-role stereotyping in Vietnamese television commercials. by Nguyen, Kien Trung.

“…Results showed that advertising in Vietnam portrayed more men than women in occupational roles. Men were more likely to be depicted in occupational settings while women were more likely to be shown in the home. …”
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Examining discrimination in home improvement financing (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act 2012–2016) and neighborhood health in the United States by Davis, Brigette A., Arcaya, Mariana C., Williams, David R., Metzger, Molly, Krieger, Nancy

“…We find non-Hispanic Black applicants are significantly more likely to be denied loans (OR: 2.28 p < 0.01), and that loans for areas with a high proportion of non-Hispanic Black residents (OR: 1.09, p < 0.01) are most likely to be denied, while applications in tracts with the highest proportion of non-Hispanic white residents (OR: 0.90, p < 0.01) are least likely to be denied. …”
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