Three essays on corporate finance by Sun, Rui

“…This implies that honest managers prefer to maintain the trust placed in them and take more care not to accidentally misstate, while dishonest managers dismiss or exploit public trust. …”
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Metal sulfides for electrochemical energy storage and conversion by Wang, Jin

“…The cause for enhanced performance has been also carefully explored. It is hoped that all these studies could shed more light on the fundamental understanding.…”
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Theoretical analysis of structures and electronic spectra in molecular cadmium chalcogenide clusters by Nguyen, Kiet A., Pachter, Ruth, Day, Paul N., Su, Haibin

“…Due to weakly absorbing and forbidden transitions underlying the one-photon spectra, more care is needed in interpreting the quantum confinement from the clusters’ lowest-energy absorption bands.…”
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An epigenetic locus associated with loss of smell in COVID-19 by Aslan, Elif Sibel, White, Kenneth, Meral, Gulsen, Akcay, Zeyneb Nur, Altundag, Aytug, Gur, Savas, Dokur, Mehmet, Baktir, Mehmet Akif, Batur, Lutfiye Karcioglu

“…Methods: We analysed DNA methylation patterns in blood samples from two carefully matched cohorts of 20 COVID-19 patients each, which are differentiated by their olfactory function—those with normal smell (normosmia) and those suffering from smell loss (anosmia). …”
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Translated and culturally adapted internet-delivered cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder in Japanese clinical settings: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Yoshinaga, N, Thew, G, Hayashi, Y, Tanoue, H, Nakai, M, Clark, DM

“…This trial will provide valuable insights into the effects of iCT-SAD combined with usual care, and how this treatment could be delivered in routine clinical settings in Japan. …”

Defining and risk-stratifying immunosuppression (the DESTINIES study): protocol for an electronic Delphi study by Leston, M, Ordóñez-Mena, J, Joy, M, de Lusignan, S, Hobbs, R, McInnes, I, Lee, L

“…This is detrimental to the precision and comparability of disease surveillance efforts—which has negative implications for the care of those who are immunosuppressed and their health outcomes. …”

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance before invasive coronary angiography in suspected non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction by Shanmuganathan, M, Nikolaidou, C, Burrage, MK, Borlotti, A, Kotronias, R, Scarsini, R, Banerjee, A, Terentes-Printzios, D, Pitcher, A, Gara, E, Langrish, J, Lucking, A, Choudhury, R, Luigi De Maria, G, Banning, A, Oxford Acute Myocardial Infarction (OxAMI) Study Investigators, Piechnik, SK, Channon, KM, Ferreira, VM

“…CMR images were interpreted blinded to ICA findings. The clinical care and ICA teams were blinded to CMR findings until post-ICA.…”

A mixed methods study investigating factors affecting adherence to Plasmodium vivax malaria primaquine radical cure regimens among migrants along the Myanmar-Thailand border by Ansari, AT, Aung, KK, Win, HH, Beau, C, Nu, B, Soe, NL, Htoo, K, San, T, Wah, TG, Keereevijit, A, Phyo, AP, Chotivanich, K, White, NJ, Nosten, F, Hashmi, AH, Chu, CS

“…Key themes related to the social cognitive theory included behavioral factors where work outweighed the choice to complete treatment; environmental factors where access to care determined primaquine treatment completion; and cognitive factors having a positive but limited influence on treatment completion. …”

Recurrent urinary tract infections and prophylactic antibiotic use in women: cross-sectional study by Sanyaolu, L, Best, V, Cannings-John, R, Wood, F, Edwards, A, Akbari, A, Hayward, G, Ahmed, H

“…</p> <p><strong>Aim</strong> To describe the prevalence, characteristics, and urine profiles of women with rUTIs with and without prophylactic antibiotic use in Welsh primary care.</p> <p><strong>Design and setting</strong> This was a retrospective cross-sectional study in Welsh general practice using the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank.…”

Investigating surgical site infection after hip fracture surgery by Masters, JPM

“…Finally a randomised controlled feasibility trial was undertaken comparing standard care to incisional negative pressure wound therapy in 464 patients. …”

Food Expenditure of the B40 Households: Developing a Decision-Support System for Food Price Determination in Malaysia (S/O14168) by Jan, Soon Jan, Applanaidu, Shri Dewi, Abdul Adzis, Azira, Zainal Abidin, Norhaslinda

“…Food prices will have serious repercussions on the food expenditure of B40 households, and therefore need to be regulated carefully. Consequently, the food price determination decision-support system we are proposing, is a part of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 component which utilises data for improved decision-making. …”
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Dynamic Expansion and Merging of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly During the 10–11 May 2024 Super Geomagnetic Storm by Aa, Ercha, Chen, Yanhong, Luo, Bingxian

“…first_pagesettingsOrder Article Reprints Open AccessTechnical Note Dynamic Expansion and Merging of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly During the 10–11 May 2024 Super Geomagnetic Storm by Ercha Aa 1,2,*ORCID,Yanhong Chen 2ORCID andBingxian Luo 2ORCID 1 Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, MA 01886, USA 2 National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. …”
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Clinacanthus nutans crude polysaccharide extract as a green platform for microwave-assisted synthesis of silver nanoparticles: optimization, characterization, and evaluation of bio... by Devasvaran, Kogilavanee, Alallam, Batoul, Lee, Carmen, Yong, Yoke Keong, Lim, Vuanghao

“…An X-ray diffraction analysis exhibited intense Bragg's reflection peaks at (111), (200), (220), and (311), having a face-centered cubic structure of AgNP. Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy further confirmed the presence of silver in the synthesized UL_AgNP. …”
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Clinacanthus nutans crude polysaccharide extract as a green platform for microwave-assisted synthesis of silver nanoparticles: Optimization, characterization, and evaluation of bio... by Devasvaran, Kogilavanee, Alallam, Batoul, Lee, Carmen, Yong, Yoke Keong, Lim, Vuanghao

“…An X-ray diffraction analysis exhibited intense Bragg's reflection peaks at (111), (200), (220), and (311), having a face-centered cubic structure of AgNP. Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy further confirmed the presence of silver in the synthesized UL_AgNP. …”
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Efficient and Homogenous Precipitation of Sulfur Within a 3D Electrospun Heterocatalytic Rutile/Anatase TiO2-x Framework in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries by Feng, Ping, Dong, Kang, Xu, Yaolin, Zhang, Xia, Jia, Haojun, Prell, Henrik, Tovar, Michael, Manke, Ingo, Liu, Fuyao, Xiang, Hengxue, Zhu, Meifang, Lu, Yan

“…Herein, free-standing carbon nanofibers embedded with oxygen-deficient titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-x/CNFs) has been fabricated by a facile electrospinning method, which can support active electrode materials without the need for conductive carbon and binders. By carefully controlling the calcination temperature, a mixed phase of rutile and anatase was achieved in the TiO2-x nanoparticles. …”
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Antibiotic therapy in the treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia: who and when? by Ng, Tat Ming, Ong, Sean W. X., Loo, Audrey Y. X., Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Lye, David C., Lee, Tau Hong, Young, Barnaby Edward

“…Among 278 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, those treated with antibiotics had more diarrhoea (26, 34.7% vs. 24, 11.8%, p < 0.01), while subsequent admissions to the intensive care unit were not lower (6, 8.0% vs. 10, 4.9% p = 0.384). …”
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Proteomic network of antibiotic-induced outer membrane vesicles released by extensively drug-resistant Elizabethkingia anophelis by Chiang, Ming-Hsien, Chang, Fang-Ju, Kesavan, Dinesh Kumar, Vasudevan, Aparna, Xu, Huaxi, Lan, Kuo-Lun, Huang, Shu-Wei, Shang, Hung-Sheng, Chuang, Yi-Ping, Yang, Ya-Sung, Chen, Te-Li

“…Elizabethkingia anophelis, a nonfermenting Gram-negative bacterium, causes life-threatening health care-associated infections. E. anophelis harbors multidrug resistance (MDR) genes and is intrinsically resistant to various classes of antibiotics. …”
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Characterizing dry mass and volume changes in human multiple myeloma cells upon treatment with proteotoxic and genotoxic drugs by Liu, Xili, Moscvin, Maria, Oh, Seungeun, Chen, Tianzeng, Choi, Wonshik, Evans, Benjamin, Rowell, Sean M., Nadeem, Omar, Mo, Clifton C., Sperling, Adam S., Anderson, Kenneth C., Yaqoob, Zahid, Bianchi, Giada, Sung, Yongjin

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Selective Recovery of Gold from E-Wastewater Using Poly-<i>m</i>-phenylenediamine Nanoparticles and Assembled Membranes by Chen, Yuchao, Wang, Li, Shu, Yufei, Han, Qi, Chen, Beizhao, Wang, Mengxia, Liu, Xun, Rehman, Danyal, Liu, Bei, Wang, Zhongying, Lienhard, John H

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Ketamine can produce oscillatory dynamics by engaging mechanisms dependent on the kinetics of NMDA receptors by Adam, Elie, Kowalski, Marek, Akeju, Oluwaseun, Miller, Earl K., Brown, Emery N., McCarthy, Michelle M., Kopell, Nancy

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