Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The ‘polluter pays’ principle has been implemented by several pieces of environmental legislation in China as a means to confront the issue of liability in the case of bankrupt polluters. …”
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Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? by Saxena, Anju

“…PaTani (also referred to as Manchati) is spoken in the PaTan valley in Himachal Pradesh, India. There has been very little work done on it. and none of the published works (e.g. …”
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Quad's India problem : no different from Beijing by Gupta, Sourabh

“…Australia, Japan and the US should first get New Delhi to revise its UNCLOS-related rules and regulations, which bear far greater similarity with Beijing’s than that of its Quad partners.…”
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A novel approach to designing a guitar distortion effects pedal by Zheng, Luka

“…Guitar distortion has been an integral part of modern music since the 1960s. …”
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Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…From 18^th­century United States to modern-­day Brazil, governments have relied on tariff and non-­tariff barriers to induce industrial development within their countries' borders. For states seeking to catch up, the acquisition and assimilation of frontier technology has always been paramount (Abramovitz, 1986).…”

Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. Although many mobility based clustering schemes have been proposed to address this problem, majority of these proposals assume the movement of nodes follows group mobility. …”
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Desalination : discharging brine into coastal waters by Cher, Leo Wei Kwang.

“…Both concentration and velocity profiles exhibit the Gaussian-like distribution at the upper layer but due to the buoyancy-induced instabilities, the lower layer tends to deviate away from the centerline trajectory. …”
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Non-equilibrium fluctuations for a spatial logistic branching process with weak competition by Tendron, T

“…We consider the weak competition regime where <em>c</em> tends to zero, corresponding to a local carrying capacity tending to infinity like 1/<em>c</em> as <em>c</em> vanishes.…”

Effects of surface texture on wetting by Kee, Yong How

“…Wetting is a phenomena which occurs when a droplet tends to spread out on a surface. The extreme behaviour of wetting, also known as superhydrophilicity, is found to be useful in many real life applications and has been receiving considerable attention. …”
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Social movements and democratization in Malaysia by Khoo, Ying Hooi

“…The mixture model of democracy and authoritarian political system of Malaysia has long been said to hinder the social movements to expand their influence. …”
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The technological-industrial complex and education : navigating algorithms, datafication, and artificial intelligence in comparative and international education / by Curtis, Sydney Marie Simone, author 654828, Desimoni, Victoria, author 654829, Crumley-Effinger, Max, author 654830, Salajan Florin 654831, Jules, Tavis Deryck 654858, SpringerLink (Online service)

“…The advent of advanced technologies, particularly AI, has been a game changer for research, teaching, and learning methods. …”
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P2P energy trading among isolated microgrids in the remote area by Huang, Rui

“…Based on these analyses, this dissertation tends to use the Nash Bargaining model to build the relationship among MGs during the P2P trading process. …”
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Singapore : the future project cargo hub of Southeast Asia. Part I : project cargo opportunities in Southeast Asia by Rodrigues Shawn Ignatius.

“…The research has been divided into three parts, Part I, II and III. …”
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The effect of build orientation and testing temperature on mechanical properties of polyamide-12 printed by multi jet fusion by Muhammad Fithri Bin Sadar

“…Though the technology is new, extensive research has been conducted on how different parameters impact the qualities of the printed parts. …”
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What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Her account seems able to answer the question of whether reproduction takes place, and who reproduces, when we employ biotechnologies that bear little to no resemblance to naturally occurring human sexual reproduction. …”

Mortality and probability: philosophical considerations in selected contemporary British and Irish literature by Lai, Zaneta Zhi Yan

“…There has been a noticeable increase in the preoccupation with death in contemporary British and Irish literature. …”
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Explaining the decision-making process. by Tan, Veronica., Lee, Mabel Liying.

“…Human behavior has always been a complex area of study. Besides psychologists, behavioral economists have also been exploring possible economic reasons to explain why humans behave the way they do. …”
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Analysis of IMF aid packages during the Asian financial crisis. by Tan, Joyce Meng Hui., Tan, Clarissa Lay Yong., Nur Siti Hikmah Mamat.

“…This report seeks to investigate the present role of the IMF, using the Asian Financial Crisis as a case study. …”
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Class participation in the Nanyang Business School by Gan, Eddie Eng Hui, Tan, Hong Chwee, Wong, Suat Li

“…Class participation has been increasingly used as a grading tool for various subjects taken in Nanyang Business School (NBS). …”
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Phenomenological observations of quinone-mediated zinc oxidation in an alkaline environment by Mallia, Christopher T, Brushett, Fikile R

“…The development of such systems requires knowledge of underlying reaction mechanisms, which bear similarities to the processes that underpin corrosion and semiconductor electrochemistry. …”
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