Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Distributed execution of workflow by Khademi Hedayat, Maryam

“…The main reasons which led us to this selection are: (i) there is few existing work on partitioning workflow, specially as a means of accelerating workflow execution; (ii) several systems have been developed using three main enactment models (i.e., centralized, hierarchical, and distributed models), but most of them focus on centralized execution control while the existing hierarchical and distributed models still have problems such as high overhead in communication amongst the distributed parties; and (iii) data movement mechanisms are divided into: centralized, mediated, and peer-to-peer models. …”
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Novel statistical emulator construction for volcanic ash transport model Ash3d with physically motivated measures by Yang, Qingyuan, Pitman, E. Bruce, Spiller, Elaine, Bursik, Marcus, Bevilacqua, Andrea

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Turning the virtual into reality: China's role in the metaverse by Gong, Xue

“…According to the state’s news mouthpiece Xinhua, the development of the metaverse could have significant impacts on this geopolitical competition.3 The CCP sees the metaverse as an area where China can beat the West, making the question of how to materialize the concept to advance Beijing’s geopolitical agenda salient in China’s technological development.4 The Chinese government is redefining how the metaverse works at the domestic and the global level. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

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Health economic aspects of childhood excess weight by Onyimadu, O

“…My analyses of CPRD-HES data revealed that children living with overweight and obesity incurred significantly higher direct healthcare costs than their peers with a healthy weight. In comparison to children with healthy weight, those living with overweight generated additional costs of £133.93 and £66.32, on average, in the year preceding and following a BMI measurement, respectively, while children with obesity incurred additional costs of £115.47 and £154.51, on average, during the same periods. …”

Lean Six Sigma in healthcare: a systematic literature review on motivations and benefits by McDermott, Olivia, Antony, Jiju, Bhat, Shreeranga, Jayaraman, Raja, Rosa, Angelo, Marolla, Giuliano, Parida, Ratri

“…While Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been applied extensively in healthcare organisations, there has been limited research on the trends of LSS application in healthcare in recent years. …”
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Interval elimination method for stochastic spanning tree problem by Mohd, Ismail

“…The optimum spanning tree problem has been well considered and until now several powerful algorithms have been proposed. …”
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Their sacrifices paid off, parents excited for their childrens admission at UMPSA by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PAYA BESAR, 30 October 2023 - The parents could not have been prouder to see their children enrol in universities.…”
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Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: the importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties by van Eeden, S, McKean, C, Stringer, H

“…There is growing evidence of concomitant language difficulties in children with CP ± L and of a higher prevalence of developmental speech errors in children compared with non-CP ± L peers. The impact of underlying phonological and language skills on speech production in children with CP ± L is poorly understood. …”

P4-network : a networking infrastructure for intra-aircraft cabin wireless communication by Pham, Chau Khoa.

“…The project focuses on peer-to-peer communication schemes, and en-compasses the use of redundant communication paths as a method to address the problem of line-of-sight blocking. …”
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Lean Six Sigma in healthcare: a systematic literature review on challenges, organisational readiness and critical success factors by McDermott, Olivia, Antony, Jiju, Bhat, Shreeranga, Jayaraman, Raja, Rosa, Angelo, Marolla, Giuliano, Parida, Ratri

“…Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been applied in many healthcare organisations, but there has been limited research on the evolution of LSS application in healthcare. …”
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Distribution of an enzyme in porous polymer beads by Ampon, Kamaruzaman

“…Trypsin has been immobilized by adsorption onto Amberlite XAD‐7 beads. …”

Exploring Literature Anxiety among Students Studying Literature in English at Universiti Sains Malaysia by Wei, Agnes Lin Liau

“…Although there have been efforts to research on anxiety and students' performance in the learning situations, there has not been any recorded research to date on literature anxiety. …”
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Internalisation of externalities: who bears the cost of pollution control? by Rahim, Khalid Abdul

“…The estimated incremental effects of effluent standards and changes have been specifically rather small, with the exception of those upon the growers, but the cumulative effects have been considerable.…”
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Initiation, marketing and branding of smart city projects: a study of decision processes by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Today, smart city areas and initiatives are found throughout the world, yet little research has been completed into the processes whereby decisions concerning the initiation, marketing, and branding of smart city projects have been taken. …”
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A comparison between the use of interactional strategies by native Japanese and Singaporean Japanese speakers by Tan, Jia Xuan

“…Although features of Japanese communication have gathered a lot of interest, there has been little research done on the use of these features in an intercultural situation, especially by non-native speakers of Japanese. …”
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A large scale test of the gaming-enhancement hypothesis by Przybylski, Andrew K., Wang, John C.

“…Most evidence supporting this idea, the gaming-enhancement hypothesis, has been collected in small-scale studies of university students and older adults. …”
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Acetic Acid Catalysed One-Pot Synthesis of Pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinox- aline Derivatives by Allan, Pia N. M., Ostrowska, Martyna I., Patel, Bhaven

“…A range of structures have been synthesised in very good to excellent yields. …”
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Town centre recovery report by Jamieson, Claire

“…The resulting findings, combined with the learnings from the literature review, have been synthesised into a series of eight recommendations, which can help local authorities to ensure better high street recovery and more resilient places.…”
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