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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What can we learn from Police data about timeliness in rape and serious sexual offence investigations in England and Wales? by Lovett, Jo, Hales, Gavin, Kelly, Liz, Khan, Aneela, Hardiman, Margaret, Trott, Louise

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Leadership for sustainability in higher education amidst the COVID-19 crisis: exploring female educational leaders' strategies for transformation by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Drawing on diversity, gender, and upper echelon theories, the authors propose that the addition of unique female perspectives and leadership styles will afford gender-diverse senior leadership teams (SLTs) a leadership capability advantage over equally talented yet homogeneous male teams. This link between gender diversity and leadership capability is more pronounced in times of crisis such as the current pandemic. …”

Populist foreign policy in Southern Europe by Chryssogelos, Angelos, Giurlando, Philip, Wajner, Daniel

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Machine learning techniques for Secure Edge SDN by Maleh, Yassine, Sahid, Abdelkebir, Abd El-Latif, Ahmed A., Ouazzane, Karim

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Topological radicals, IX. Relations in ideals of C*-algebras by Kissin, Edward, Shulman, Victor, Turovskii, Yuri

“…Our third aim is to study the link between the radicals of relations ≪P in the lattices IdA and the topological radicals on A.…”
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Strength and compressibility of soft soil reinforced with bottom ash columns by Hasan, Muzamir

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Highly infectious prions are not directly neurotoxic by Benilova, Iryna, Reilly, Madeleine, Terry, Cassandra, Wenborn, Adam, Schmidt, Christian, Marinho, Aline T., Risse, Emmanuel, Al-Doujaily, Huda, Wiggins De Oliveira, Michael, Sandberga, Malin K., Wadsworth, Jonathan D. F., Jat, Parmjit S, Collinge, John

“…Prions are infectious agents which cause rapidly lethal neurode- generative diseases in humans and animals following long, clini- cally silent incubation periods. They are composed of multichain assemblies of misfolded cellular prion protein. …”
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Experience, skill and competence: boundary spanning capabilities for leadership and management of transnational education by Messenger, Hazel, Bloisi, Wendy

“…Despite the growth of TNE internationally, little detailed attention has been paid to these individuals, often called academic liaison (or link) tutors. They are good examples of “boundary spanners” (Williams, 2013, p. 17) or “third space professionals” (Whitchurch, 2008, p. 378). …”
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A review of hijack events by airline employees, with a particular reference to Pilot Suicide Using an Aircraft (PSUA): an analysis of the triggering factors and current mitigation by Nori, Hani

“…Hence, it was decided to compile an academically accredited and professionally filtered reference that lists relevant events, establish PSUA triggering factors, identify an effective mitigation and immediately bridge the current measures identified gaps. The research findings, short and long term recommendations are backed up by the author's 30 years of aviation experience and are validated by recognised aviation experts. …”
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A comprehensive review on theoretical framework-based electric vehicle consumer adoption research by Adnan, Nadia, Nordin, Shahrina Md, Rahman, Imran, Vasant, Pandian M., Noor, Amir

“…As a part of long-term benefits, the adoption of EVs gives environmentally friendly innovation to society. …”

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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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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