The role of institutional environments in cross-border mergers : a perspective from bidders’ earnings management behavior by Baik, Bok, Cho, Kwanghee, Choi, Wooseok, Kang, Jun-Koo

“…Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the earnings management behavior of US bidders becomes more evident when they acquire targets from countries with greater institutional differences, such as non-Christian countries, countries with a low level of political stability, countries with a low level of democracy and freedom of the press and media, countries with high corruption and countries with a low level of government effectiveness. …”
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Formation of the postmitotic nuclear envelope from extended ER cisternae precedes nuclear pore assembly by Lu, Lei, Ladinsky, Mark S., Kirchhausen, Tomas.

“…Using live-cell imaging and electron microscope tomography, we find that the mitotic assembly of the nuclear envelope primarily originates from ER cisternae. …”
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Theoretical investigation of injection-locked high modulation bandwidth quantum cascade lasers by Meng, Bo, Wang, Qi Jie

“…By applying the injection locking scheme, we find that the modulation bandwidths of up to ~30 GHz and ~70 GHz can be achieved for QCLs at 4.6 μm and 9 μm, respectively, with an injection ratio of 5 dB. …”
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Excitation of surface electromagnetic waves in a graphene-based Bragg grating by Sreekanth, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu, Zeng, Shuwen, Shang, Jingzhi, Yong, Ken-Tye, Yu, Ting

“…The proposed graphene based Bragg grating can find a variety of potential surface electromagnetic wave applications such as sensors, fluorescence emission enhancement, modulators, etc.…”
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Geometric point interpolation method in R3 space with tangent directional constraint by Chen, Xiao-Diao, Ma, Weiyin

“…Given mm points and their tangent directional vectors as well, the interpolation problem is to find a cubic BB-spline curve which interpolates both the positions of the points and their tangent directional vectors. …”
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Multi-criteria decision framework for seismic retrofitting of low-rise buildings by Pashaei, Reza

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Adaptive function modal learning neural networks by Kang, Miao

“…A multi-layer approach, a Multi-layer ADFUNN (MADFUNN) is introduced to solve highly complex datasets. It aims to find a suitably restricted subset of neuron activation functions which has a good representational capacity and enables efficient learning for complex models with large datasets. …”
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‘You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land’: exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England by Saddington, L, McConnell, FR

“…This paper draws upon participation observation of this activity with 441 pupils from 17 classes across 10 state-maintained primary schools in England. We find that children have complex geopolitical understandings of the world which encompass nuanced articulations of the politics of difference, legitimacy, the act of recognition, and legacies of colonial practices. …”

Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making in the fruit fly by Wong, LHT

“…Third, I bidirectionally manipulate the activity of these neurons during the perceptual task to test for behavioural consequences in speed and accuracy. I find that photostimulation quickens reaction times as a function of odour contrast and light intensity. …”

Wages, family background, on-campus performance and gender: an investigation of Chinese graduates’ first job salaries by Liu, S

“…This thesis provides little evidence to support the marketized transition theory, as we find graduates’ first job salaries are still largely affected by their political/ideological attainments in university. …”

The influence of L1 Tibetan and L2 Chinese on Tibetan university students' L3 English listening and speaking: an exploratory analysis by Weber, J

“…The Scalpel Model best predicted the results, but the study did not find conclusive evidence that any model can fully explain L3 phonological acquisition. …”

Competitive overlap as a signal in expert partner choice: evidence from patent law firm selection by Borchhardt, G, Kovacs, B, Rogan, M

“…Hence, firms may prefer partners with competitive overlap. We find support for our claims in the patent law firm selection context. …”

Broadleaf afforestation impacts on terrestrial hydrology insignificant compared to climate change in Great Britain by Buechel, M, Slater, L, Dadson, S

“…For these three aims we run simulations using (i) past climate with proposed land cover changes and known floods and drought events; (ii) past climate with independent changes in precipitation, temperature, and CO₂; and (iii) a potential future climate (2020–2050). We find the proposed scale of afforestation is unlikely to significantly alter regional hydrology; however, it can noticeably decrease low flows whilst not reducing high flows. …”

Strategy and regeneration in the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries by Parr, A

“…</p> <br> <p>Progressing from history to law and agriculture, the research seeks not only to learn the lessons of history but to find ways to apply them urgently and strategically in this ‘crisis of time’, in Culpeper’s words.…”

Leadership-as-spiritual practice: a practical pneumatology of leadership in the Church of England by Bennet, HJ

“…Through content analysis, I find the person of the Spirit is under-represented as subject in leadership texts.…”

Network analysis and data science for finance: from traditional markets to decentralised exchanges by Miori, D

“…Lastly, we analyse data on liquidity provision, consumption, and price formation on competing decentralised exchange venues, to find a model for the prediction of incoming trading volume at block-level.…”

Performance and stability analysis of all-perovskite tandem photovoltaics in light-driven electrochemical water splitting by Wang, J, Branco, B, Remmerswaal, WHM, Hu, S, Schipper, NRM, Zardetto, V, Bellini, L, Daub, N, Wienk, MM, Wakamiya, A, Snaith, HJ, Janssen, RAJ

“…The system retains over 60% of its peak performance after operating for more than 180 h. We find that the performance loss is mainly due to the degradation of the photovoltaic component. …”

The Athenian dramatic chorus in the fourth century BC by Jackson, LCM

“…Amid the recent scholarly interest in the rapid expansion of the theatre industry from the late fifth-century BC onwards, no study has been made of a central, defining even, element of ancient Greek drama at that time – the chorus. Instead, what we find is a widespread assumption concerning the fourth-century dramatic chorus, particularly with regard to the comic chorus, still prevalent in today’s scholarship: ‘The history of the dramatic chorus is one of decline both quantitatively and qualitatively’, states one of the more detailed recent reviews of the evidence for dramatic choral culture in the ancient world (Csapo and Slater 1995:349).…”

Income change and sympathy for right-wing populist parties in the Netherlands: the role of gender and income inequality within households by Roll, Y, De Graaf, N

“…The implications of these findings are discussed.…”

Do the ‘big four’ orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? by Février, PJ, Barraclough, T

“…Analysing orthologous genes from whole genome sequence data for multiple species per order, we find that, in most genes, selection on roughly one fifth of codons is conserved within each order but differs significantly among orders. …”