Kick-starting the shale boom in Argentina? The new reforms in context by Mares, DR

“…Not only has the country been a major supplier of natural gas to neighbouring Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, and Bolivia in the past, but its domestic use is so large that it has become an important importer of natural gas via pipeline from Bolivia and it has built two LNG import facilities. …”

Collective effect of self-learning and social learning on language dynamics: a naming game approach in social networks by Wen, T, Chen, Y-W, Lambiotte, R

“…However, there are always irregular exceptions to regular rules, with one of the most notable being the past tense of verbs in English. In this work, a naming game approach is developed to investigate the collective effect of social behaviours on language dynamics, which encompasses social learning, self-learning with preference and forgetting due to memory constraints. …”

Eddy transport with a beta effect: a joint experimental and numerical study by Qian, C

“…Annulus measurements in the f-plane configuration do not support the assumption of down-gradient diffusion of temperature and this result is consistent with past simulation studies. The hypotheses of energetic constraints in the GEOMETRIC parameterization theory are not rejected but the data distribution is not as approximately linear as the tests with a beta effect. …”

Institutionalizing US-ROK-Japan trilateral cooperation: recent progress and future prospects by Govella, K

“…Over the past two years, there has been dramatic progress in cooperation among the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the United States. …”

Phenomenological study on the psychological well-being of tahfiz students by Adzim, Afa Fauzul, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Badayai, Syaidatun Nazirah Abu Zahrin

“…The other psychological functions also reflect a desire to grow in becoming a better person, accept one’s strengths, weaknesses, the past, manage daily activities, self-autonomy and establish positive relationships with others. …”
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A proposed framework of job resources influencing work engagement towards academics of public universities in Beijing and Shanghai in China by Sun, Mengmeng, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah

“…Over the past, work engagement underwent a rigorous verification process in different occupational background. …”
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Effect of Malaysian Manufacturing Firm's Flexibility and New Product Performance by Teoh, Bak Aun, Abu, Noor Hidayah

“…In addition, manufacturing flexibility has been receiving attentions over the past decades as firm’s flexibility-related functional capabilities are internal competencies and resources of the firm. …”
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Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…<p><b>Interpretation</b></p> Global adult mortality rates markedly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, reversing past decreasing trends, while child mortality rates continued to decline, albeit more slowly than in earlier years. …”

Underlying factors and strategies for organizational BIM capabilities : The case of Iran by Rajabi, Mohammad Sadra, Rezaeiashtiani, Mohammad, Afiqah, Radzi, Famili, Alireza, Rezaeiashtiani, Amirhossein, Abdul Rahimi, Abdul Rahman

“…To analyze the collected data, first, an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was performed. Then, Partial Least-Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed. …”
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Emotional and spiritual quotient for sustainable education’s service quality by Mazni, Saad, Norliana, Ahmad Shah, Kamisah, Supian, Anita, Abdul Rani, Imaduddin, Abidin

“…The data of 127 respondents were analyzed using the structural equation model with partial least square. The results confirmed that both types of quotients positively influence the lecturers’ teaching progression at the university. …”
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Environmental, social, and governance and hierarchical network data envelopment analysis firm efficiencies of Japan Airlines' supply chain by Kweh, Qian Long, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong, Asif, Jawad, Lu, Wen-Min

“…Second, we run ordinary least squares regression analyses with 5000 bootstrap replications and determine that overall ESG and its three main elements are positively linked with firm efficiencies. …”
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Experimental study on heat transfer characteristics of a ⊥-shaped oscillating heat pipe used in the battery thermal management system by Hongkun, Lu, Noor, M. M., Ning, Shuigen, K., Kadirgama, Badruddin, Irfan Anjum, Kamangar, S.

“…When employing mixed working fluids, the acetone-ethanol and acetone-methanol combinations display the least and most temperature fluctuations, respectively. …”
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Integrated annotation prioritizes metabolites with bioactivity in inflammatory bowel disease by Bhosle, Amrisha, Bae, Sena, Zhang, Yancong, Chun, Eunyoung, Avila-Pacheco, Julian, Geistlinger, Ludwig, Pishchany, Gleb, Glickman, Jonathan N, Michaud, Monia, Waldron, Levi, Clish, Clary B, Xavier, Ramnik J, Vlamakis, Hera, Franzosa, Eric A, Garrett, Wendy S, Huttenhower, Curtis

“…This suggested &gt;1000 metabolic features as potentially bioactive in IBD and associated ~43% of prevalent, unannotated features with at least one well-characterized metabolite, thereby providing initial information for further characterization of a significant portion of the fecal metabolome. …”
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Predicting the influence of geometric imperfections on the mechanical response of 2D and 3D periodic trusses by Glaesener, R.N., Kumar, S., Lestringant, C., Butruille, T., Portela, C.M., Kochmann, D.M.

“…Information about the nature and expected magnitude of geometric defects that emerge from the additive manufacturing processes would allow for new designs that aim to mitigate (or at least account for) the effects of defects and to reduce the uncertainty in the effective properties. …”
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Measurement of the top quark mass using a profile likelihood approach with the lepton + jets final states in proton–proton collisions at... by Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Del Valle, A. E., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Pitters, F. M., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Sonawane, M.

“…The measurement uses a sample of top quark pair candidate events containing one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets in the final state. For each event, the mass is reconstructed from a kinematic fit of the decay products to a top quark pair hypothesis. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…The study also finds a link between frequency of sketching and having higher maximum sketch quality scores (i.e. at least one excellent sketch) as well as a correlation between individuals’ maximum sketch quality scores and their overall design outcomes. …”
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No Free Lunch: Analyzing the Cost of Deep Decarbonizing Residential Heating Systems by Sitaraman, Anupama, Bashir, Noman, Irwin, David, Shenoy, Prashant

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Near Optimal Alphabet-Soundness Tradeoff PCPs by Minzer, Dor, Zheng, Kai Zhe

“…We show that for all > 0, for su ciently large prime power ∈ N, for all > 0, it is NP-hard to distinguish whether a 2-Prover1-Round projection game with alphabet size has value at least 1 − , or value at most 1/ 1− . This establishes a nearly optimal alphabet-to-soundness tradeo for 2-query PCPs with alphabet size , improving upon a result of [Chan 2016]. …”
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Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbW+W− decay mode in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Sonawane, M.

“…The final states considered include at least one leptonically decaying W boson. No evidence for the presence of a signal is observed and corresponding upper limits on the HH production cross section are derived. …”
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Complexity of High-Dimensional Identity Testing with Coordinate Conditional Sampling by Blanca, Antonio, Chen, Zongchen, Stefankovic, Daniel, Vigoda, Eric

“…Given as input an explicit distribution , an > 0, and access to sampling oracle(s) for a hidden distribution , the goal in identity testing is to distinguish whether the two distributions and are identical or are at least -far apart. When there is only access to full samples from the hidden distribution , it is known that exponentially many samples (in the dimension) may be needed for identity testing, and hence previous works have studied identity testing with additional access to various “conditional” sampling oracles. …”
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