Do higher politician salaries reduce corruption and improve governance? by Chin, Hong Xiang, Low, Guo Quan, Wang, Yiwei

“…Our paper addresses this gap by gathering a novel primary dataset of 963 top politician and cabinet minister salaries through official and non-official sources, which spans across 144 countries from the period of 1873 to 2015. …”
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Understanding liver transplantation outcomes through the lens of its tissue-resident immunobiome by Prosser, AC, Klenerman, P, Lucas, M

“…The heterogeneous TRL population spans the innate to adaptive immune continuum, with roles during normal physiology in homeostatic maintenance, tissue repair, pathogen detection, and rapid mounting of immune responses. …”

Large deflection of composite beams in bending by Teo, Chin Yao

“…Three-point bending tests will be conducted at spans of 150mm, 175mm, and 200mm. Load and displacement data are extracted from the Instron-5569 and plots are to be made in excel using the extracted data. …”
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Bella's empowerment - why the twilight saga is not anti-feminist. by See, Shawn Kai Sheng.

“…Meyer’s compelling work is immensely popular among its young adult audience. The Twilight series spans four novels and focuses on the love story of Meyer’s female protagonist Isabella Swan (better known as Bella), and her vampire beau Edward Cullen. …”
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Effective and efficient topic mining and exploration from geo-textual data by Zhao, Kaiqi

“…Secondly, the existing studies on learning topics of regions only allow users to explore the topics in predefined regions and time spans. A user may want to query topics within a specified region and time span. …”
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Cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives and its application to backdoor design by Wang, Haoyang

“…This thesis focuses on the cryptanalysis of symmetric-key cryptography, one of the most important branches of modern cryptography. The research spans two aspects of cryptanalysis. Studying cryptanalysis provides better evaluation on the security of symmetric-key primitives. …”
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Redefining Ancient Epirus

“…Covering a region that today spans parts of south Albania and north-west Greece, Epirus was an important crossroad in antiquity, a meeting place of different peoples and cultures. …”

To What Extent Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Coal and Oil in Electricity Generation? A Mean-Group Panel Analysis by Liddle, Brantley

“…It does so by employing a first-difference model and a mean-group estimator applied to a panel that spans 1985–2019 for 27 high- and 13 middle-income countries. …”
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Perceptual distortion analysis for images by Dong, Li

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A move by Yuan, Jiaqi

“…“A Move” is a story about family relationships in contemporary China, set within a large family spanning four generations. The narrative uses a move to highlight internal family conflicts and contradictions. …”
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A proposed framework of research on the influencing factors of burnout-based on the perspective of individual work scenarios by Lu, Guangguo, Kanjanapathy, Malini, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah

“…Job burnout is a pervasive issue that spans all sectors, exerting profound impacts on individuals, teams, organizations, and societies. …”
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Study on mechanical behaviors of cable-supported ribbed beam composite slab structure during construction phase by Qiao, W. T., Zhao, Ming Shan, An, Q., Wang, D.

“…Scheme one indicates that each span of CBS has certain level of mechanical independence such that the construction of a span is not significantly affected by the adjacent spans. …”
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Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…The viscoelastic sheet spans over the entire water depth, and is tensioned and hinged on both ends. …”
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Chimpanzee self-medication in Budongo Forest: investigating the use of putative self-medicative resources in the Sonso and Waibira communities by Freymann, E

“…<p>This DPhil project explores established and putative self-medicative behaviors amongst wild chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii</em>) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. The study spans eight and a half months of multidisciplinary data from two wild chimpanzee communities, Sonso and Waibira, supplemented by thirty years of longitudinal data. …”

Structure of mushy layers grown from perfectly and imperfectly conducting boundaries. Part 1. Diffusive solidification by Hitchen, JR, Wells, AJ

“…For low concentration ratio the high porosity zone spans the full mush depth at early times, before localising near the mush–liquid interface at later times. …”

Bibliometric analysis of global media representations of marginalized groups by Li, Caiwei, Mohd. Nor Shahizan Ali, Ammar Redza Ahmad Rizal, Xu, Jingwen

“…The study identifies five main clusters: mass media, anthropology, public health, gender studies, and sexual minority health, showing the evolving diversity in media research on marginalized groups. Research progression spans three stages: the Preparatory Development Period (2014–2016), Growth Challenge Period (2017–2019), and Hotspot Research Period (2020–2023).…”
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Water electrolysis: from textbook knowledge to the latest scientific strategies and industrial developments by Chatenet, Marian, Pollet, Bruno G., Dekel, Dario R., Dionigi, Fabio, Deseure, Jonathan, Millet, Pierre, Braatz, Richard D., Bazant, Martin Z., Eikerling, Michael, Staffell, Iain, Balcombe, Paul, Shao-Horn, Yang, Schäfer, Helmut

“…The viability of water electrolysis still hinges on the availability of durable earth-abundant electrocatalyst materials and the overall process efficiency. This review spans from the fundamentals of electrocatalytically initiated water splitting to the very latest scientific findings from university and institutional research, also covering specifications and special features of the current industrial processes and those processes currently being tested in large-scale applications. …”
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Unjust energy transition: vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot by Sud, N

“…Contributing to critical climate and energy studies, the paper spans scale, space, and time in its interrogation of the unjust energy transition.…”

Study of microstrip-fed slot antennas by Li, Quan.

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Investigation into the barkward wave in a dielectric-filled waveguide by Wu, Nan.

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