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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Ordered choice models of international banks' ratings with an indicator variable for country effects by Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Using data on international banks’ ratings we find that banks with a greater capitalisation, larger assets, and a higher return on assets have higher bank ratings. …”
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Book review : Streetwalking: LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara by López, María E.

“…In a similar vein, Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic gives priority to the narration of the LGBTQ victims of police repression and political violence—those lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer individuals who hang out in parks and streets and find refuge in each other.…”
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The possibilities of disruption: serendipity, accidents and impasse driven search by Ross, Wendy

“…The feeling of impasse, when problem-solvers are stuck and unable to find a solution, is also explored as an important generative state for creativity. …”
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A comprehensive survey of fake review detection technology by Quyyam, Tayybaha, Qicheng, Yu

“…The survey also offers future research directions and an easy way to find datasets, carry out pre-processing, and extract multiple features. …”
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Glycerol steam reforming over copper and nickel supported on ZSM-5 zeolite by Mohamed, Mahadhir

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Neural network-based ammonium aeration control of wastewater treatment plant by Huja Husin, Maimun

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An IPA exploration of women’s experiences of being undecided about motherhood in their late thirties by Barnett, Georgina

“…Consequently, some women find themselves in their late thirties and undecided about motherhood in the face of the relentless ticking of the biological clock. …”
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Making Assessment Meaningful by Hirst, Laura Lea

“…With larger student numbers it is becoming harder for academics to find the time to engage in formative assessment. …”
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Is the Future in T-Bond Trading? by Bojkova, Viara

“…These expectations predetermined the interest in looking at the investment decisions, particularly of institutional investors, to find out whether there is a shift towards T-bond holdings.…”
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Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus by Bojcun, Marko

“…All of them are now recovering in terms of GDP output, but insofar as this is a truly global crisis, no one country, no region, let alone one that accounts for less than 2% of world GDP1 can find a lasting solution to the problems the crisis has thrown up.…”
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A tabular source approach to modelling and simulating device and circuit noise in the time domain by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…It is also unusual to find circuit simulators that extend noise simulation to the time domain. …”
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Green-lean operations evaluation framework: a case from Iranian automotive industry by Ojani, Shabnam, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…Companies have been forced to find alternatives to balance productivity and the environment in their operations and products as they move to greener operations and products. …”
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Marta Czok EX_PATRIA by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Czok, Marta

“…Migration, political asylum, xenophobia and nationalist populism relate to this principle, reinforcing its symbolic meaning and the lived experience of those directly affected by this. In these works, we find a gap between those who need to leave their countries and those who have the power to determine their destiny. …”
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Visually induced motion sickness can be alleviated by pleasant odours by Keshavarz, Behrang, Stelzmann, Daniela, Paillard, Aurore, Hecht, Heiko

“…Sixty-two participants were exposed to a 15-min-long video showing a first-person-view bicycle ride that had successfully induced VIMS in previous studies. …”
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Internal service quality in the Malaysian telecommunication industries by Mohd Yusoff , Ainan

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Pembangunan instrumen penilaian akhlak pelajar di institusi pengajian tinggi awam by Abdul Latif , Adibah

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Managing transitions into UK Higher Education : experiences of international students from a pre-sessional English course by McKee, Susannah

“…This study seeks to examine individual accounts of a small number of international students at London Metropolitan University who had completed a pre-sessional Academic English course before their disciplinary studies. The aim was to find out how effectively they felt that the Pre-sessional course had prepared them for those studies, and to help inform the future development of the course, as well as gaining wider insight into the support needs of international students.…”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency data on the US dollar / British pound spot exchange rate by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for the error term. In brief, we find evidence that a lower degree of integration is associated with lower data frequencies. …”
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Web service based Grid workflow application in quantitative remote sensing retrieval by Liu, Longli, Xue, Yong, Zhang, Jingzun, Liu, Jia, Yu, Qicheng, Li, Chi

“…Through the experiment, we can find that web service can work well with Grid workflow and provide a management ability of remote sensing model. …”
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