Resilient computer system design by Castano, Victor, Schagaev, Igor

Can PECL help with vexing issues of maritime law? Critical reflections from the example of the Rotterdam Rules by Magklasi, Ioanna

“…This paper studies the trajectory, background and objectives of PECL and identifies the link between contract law and maritime laws (namely carriage of goods by sea and international sale of goods).The author will present the intricacies of these laws, in an attempt to justify why, despite extensive codification and standardisation, maritime law is still in need of legal certainty and occasionally of fairer application of the law to the disputes not only by national courts, but also in the wider European context. …”
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The purpose of expatriation: why women undertake international assignments by Shortland, Susan

“…From these, a model is proposed to link stated organizational assignment purpose with women’s participation rationales and recommendations for practice to increase expatriate gender diversity are set out.…”
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Political economy of development and business: towards decolonisation, transformation and alternative perspectives by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

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Impact of patriarchy and gender stereotypes on working women: exploring its past, present and future by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar, Tabassum, Naznin

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An energy-efficient multi-channel design for distributed wireless sensor networks by Kumar, Sunil

“…This article discusses the importance of designing an efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to optimize energy consumption at the data link layer while transmitting high traffic applications. …”
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Group of five people sitting at a table by London Irish Centre, LIC

“…Black and white group portrait photograph of three men and two women sitting on a long bench behind a table in a bar. Photographer unknown.…”
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Great expectations? Female expatriates’ perceptions of organisational performance and development reviews in supporting access to international assignments by Shortland, Susan, Perkins, Stephen J.

“…Design/methodology/approach A qualitative cross-sectional case study research design is used to analyse performance and development review, and international assignment policies in two firms, together with in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 14 Human Resource policy custodians and 21 female long-term current assignees. Findings Women assignees do not see performance and development reviews as effective mechanisms to access expatriate roles. …”

Exploratory validation study of the individual AUDIT-C items among older people by Stewart, Duncan, Hewitt, Catherine, McCambridge, Jim

“…No significant differences were found in the validity of the three items, though the combined sensitivity and specificity scores and ROC values for item 3 were consistently slightly lower than for items 1 and 2. The findings were similar for men and women, and for participants prescribed medications for long term conditions. …”
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Predicting stock investments based on sentiment and historical price data by Olawale, Idris Olayiwola, Iworiso, Jonathan, Amaunam, Idorenyin

“…The results indicate that both versions of the bot trading strategies, regardless of the machine learning or deep learning model employed, consistently outperform the passive, long-term investment strategy. The findings corroborate the utility of incorporating social media sentiment into traditional stock prediction frameworks, thereby providing valuable insights for investors and financial institutions. …”
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Cultural localisation as a strategy to preserve the persuasive function in the translation of tourism websites from French into English by Cowan, Sally Elizabeth

“…The findings suggest that culturally localised tourism websites are more likely to succeed as instruments of persuasion, with ego-targeting discussed as an effective strategy when adapting the text to appeal to the British market.…”

Stochastic optimisation model of oil refinery industry and uncertainty quantification in scenario tree of pricing and demand by Mohd. Noh, Norshela

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Core power control analysis and design for triga nuclear reactor by Minhat, Mohd. Sabri

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Developing rat testicular organoid models for assessing the reproductive toxicity of antidepression drugs in vitro by Wu, Sixian, Li, Xiaoliang, Li, Peiyu, Li, Tongtong, Huang, Gelin, Sun, Qun, Dinnyés, Andras, Shang, Lijun, Xu, Wenming

“…With the increasing incidence of depression worldwide, antidepressant medications are commonly used in males of reproductive age for long-term treatment of depression, as well as other disorders. …”
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Irish building worker by O'Brien, Joanne

“…Black and white photograph, mounted on paper and laminated, showing a man standing precariously on the bucket of an excavator using a long-handled mallet to demolish a section of brick wall outside a block of flats. …”
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Price Competition, Efficiency and Riskiness in Investment Banking by Radić, Nemanja, Fiordelisi, Franco, Girardone, Claudia

“…Our paper examines the intertemporal relationships between price competition, cost efficiency and riskiness for a sample of investment banks inten large developed countries over 2000-2008.We show that price competition is rather limited in investment banking worldwide thus implying the existence of colluding oligopolies.We also find that although investment banks’ stability was granted by relatively low competitive pressures, banks appeared prone to take more risk thus giving some support to the competition-stability view for the investment banking industry.…”
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Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The empirical evidence rejects VES and CES and supports the Cobb Douglas production function. We find that rural transformation has made a highly significant contribution to total factor productivity and output growth in China irrespective of the production function and capital series employed. …”
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EU banks rating assignments: is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries? by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. …”
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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…The implications of these empirical findings are discussed in the light of the debate about the possible restructuring of the regulatory framework for the Treasury bond market in Europe.…”
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Consumption, Wealth, Stock and Housing Returns: Evidence from Emerging Markets by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Sousa, Ricardo M.

“…We use quarterly data for a panel of 31 emerging economies and find that, when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. …”
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