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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Environmental governance of transportation infrastructure under Belt and Road Initiative : A unified framework by Wang, Xueqin, Wong, Yiik Diew, Yuen, Kum Fai, Li, Kevin X.

“…Herein, smooth implementation of the TI projects would depend on the capacity of all the concerned actors to conduct collaborative planning and integrate environmental considerations. …”
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An experimental study into the effect of micro-textures on the performance of cutting tool by Durairaj, Shanmugasundaram, Guo, Jiang, Aramcharoen, Ampara, Castagne, Sylvie

“…The best combination of texture parameters was identified considering all the responses and the range of parameters.…”
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Compositional dependence of spintronic properties in Pt/GdCo films by Suzuki, Daniel H, Lee, Byung Hun, Beach, Geoffrey SD

“…Additionally, we estimate the exchange stiffness of all three interactions in GdCo as a function of composition. …”
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The effectiveness of different types of monetary incentives to download the TraceTogether application by Lim, Mei Hui, Liu, Lingshan, Ng, Shu Min

“…This group was asked whether they would download it without any mention of monetary incentives. The main findings of this study were (i) Participants were more willing to download the TraceTogether application with monetary incentives compared to no monetary incentives, (ii) All participants in the “choice” group chose to receive direct payment, (iii) Most participants believed that direct payment would result in the highest number of people downloading a contact tracing application, (iv) “Direct payment”, “gift card” and “choice” had statistically lower minimum WTA than “charity donation” and (v) There is no statistically significant difference between the minimum WTA of “choice” and “direct payment”, “direct payment” and “gift card”, as well as “gift card” and “choice”.…”
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The transfer and maximisation of dry-land strength & power into in-water thrust in competitive swimming by Tan, Quah Jian

“…Participants also completed a 25-m swim using the Aquanex Analysis System at slow, moderate and all-out pace with the front-crawl stroke. RESULTS: Significant correlation (p < 0.05) were found between dry-land power and in-water swimming power at all three swim speeds. …”
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Investigating factors contributing to enhancer-promoter interaction by Cornell, LJ

“…However, when all 9 CTCF sites across the locus are deleted, ⍺-globin transcription is reduced. …”

Challenges of online collaborative learning among special needs university students by Hidayu Shafie, Ireena Nasiha Ibnu, Noori, Abdullah, Nurhilleny Rosly, Nadia Anuar, Nur Husna Serip Mohamad

“…In conclusion, to ensure that SNS have a meaningful learning experience in collaborative learning, all parties should be made aware of and given exposure on working with SNS in all educational institutions in the online setting.…”
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The Use of Co-Worker Peer-Review as an Alternative Assessment in Leadership Courses to Evaluate Student’s Leadership Qualities (S/O 14756) by Abd Rahim, Nazahah, Ab Rahman, Faizahani

“…All assessments were performed online via Google form. …”
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Intelligent Solutions for Sustainable Power Grids / by Kumar, L. Ashok, editor 623258, Angalaeswari, S., 1981-, editor 655486, K., Mohanasundaram, 1977-, editor 655487, Bansal, Ramesh C., editor 655488, Patil, Arunkumar, 1985-, editor 655489, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

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Hamiltonian non-Hermicity: accurate dynamics with the multiple Davydov D2 Ansätze by Zhang, Lixing, Shen, Kaijun, Yan, Yiying, Sun, Kewei, Gelin, Maxim F., Zhao, Yang

“…As illustrative examples, three systems of interest have been studied, a non-Hermitian system of dissipative Landau-Zener transitions, a non-Hermitian multimode Jaynes-Cummings model, and a dissipative Holstein-Tavis-Cummings model, all of which are shown to be effectively described by the mDA method. …”
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Galaxy bias in the era of LSST: perturbative bias expansions by Nicola, A, Hadzhiyska, B, Findlay, N, García-García, C, Alonso, D, Slosar, A, Guo, Z, Kokron, N, Angulo, R, Aviles, A, Blazek, J, Dunkley, J, Jain, B, Pellejero, M, Sullivan, J, Walter, CW, Zennaro, M

“…We find significant detections of non-Poissonian stochasticity in all cases considered, and our analysis shows evidence that small-scale galaxy clustering predominantly improves constraints on galaxy bias rather than cosmological parameters. …”

The effects of fear appeal message repetition on perceived threat, perceived efficacy, and behavioral intention in the extended parallel process model by Shi, Jingyuan (Jolie), Smith, Sandi W.

“…The behavioral intentions of all recommended behaviors did not change after repeated exposure to the message. …”
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Are we apathetic? surveying Singaporeans' political attitudes, participation, and knowledge. by Chan, Boon Wee., Wong, Teck Zhung.

“…However, political participation, internal efficacy, external efficacy and political interest all had low means.…”
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Impact of GST on HDB households in Singapore. by Kuek, Hsiao Feng., Ng, Sarah Pei Fong., Ong, Siew Wei.

“…The emergence of the Value-Added Tax/Goods and Services Tax has evoked many debates and arguments all over the world. Many studies have been conducted to look into GST-related issues. …”
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The Najib question by Hamdan, Shahril

“…Casual observers of Malaysian politics often find it difficult to comprehend why UMNO appears to cling to former prime minister Najib Razak. …”
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The narcoleptic boy. by Nguyen Hieu Hanh.

“…A little boy suffers from a sleeping disorder (narcolepsy) which results in him falling asleep under all sorts of unusual circumstances. Luckily, his faithful dog is always there to save him. …”
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Particle reduction of novellus PEP3510 photo resist stripper by Chai, Koh Chin

“…The engineers will be able to use the resolution of the findings and implement across all Novellus Photo Resist Strippers. …”
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The devil is in the detail? Investors’ mispricing of proxy voting outcomes on M&A deals by Li, Lingwei, Zhang, Huai

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Actionable Auditing: Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results of Commercial AI Products by Buolamwini, Joy, Raji, Inioluwa Deborah

“…Within 7 months of the original audit, we find that all three targets released new API versions. …”
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