Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Moreover, from the principal customers’ perspective, a higher level of environmental risk lowers a supplier firm’s probability of being selected relative to its industry peers by its potential customer. Conditional on an ongoing relationship with principal customers, supplier firms with high environmental risk have lower sales to principal customers and shorter relationship durations. …”
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Health economic aspects of childhood excess weight by Onyimadu, O

“…My analyses of CPRD-HES data revealed that children living with overweight and obesity incurred significantly higher direct healthcare costs than their peers with a healthy weight. In comparison to children with healthy weight, those living with overweight generated additional costs of £133.93 and £66.32, on average, in the year preceding and following a BMI measurement, respectively, while children with obesity incurred additional costs of £115.47 and £154.51, on average, during the same periods. …”

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…For men, high systolic blood pressure or tobacco use are the leading risks in nearly all high-income countries, in north Africa and the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. …”

Improving the Bit Complexity of Communication for Distributed Convex Optimization by Ghadiri, Mehrdad, Lee, Yin Tat, Padmanabhan, Swati, Swartworth, William, Woodruff, David P., Ye, Guanghao

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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Nipah has caused smaller outbreaks in nearby Bangladesh nearly every year since then. The Malaysian farmers appeared to have been infected directly from their pigs, rather than from each other. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The data set used in this paper are the apartments sold-price in Toronto from 2005 to 2010, which holds nearly 81 features. This study stratifies the dataset chronologically, segregating it into training and validation sets in an 8:2 proportion. …”
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Effects of surface texture on wetting by Kee, Yong How

“…The experimental results showed that sanding a stainless steel and an aluminium surface with unidirectional texture, using a coarse grit sandpaper reduced the contact angles of droplets to nearly half of the Young’s contact angle.…”
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Electrochemical scrutinizing techniques on initial development of pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (PAO1) biofilms by Foo, Yu Hao

“…Bacteria are ubiquitous, forming biofilms on nearly any surface in an aqueous environment. The accumulation of biofilms on the surface of industrial equipment is natural yet often detrimental. …”
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Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber by Box, F, Moulton, DE, Vella, D, Lowe, T, Goriely, A, Thorogood, C, Bhagotra, Y

“…We demonstrate how together these mechanical features contribute to a nearly uniform distribution of seeds away from the parent plant. …”

Image segmentation with minimal human supervision by Shin, G

“…</p> <br> <p>In the first part, we demonstrate that considering a model's uncertainty in predictions can significantly reduce the number of annotations required to train a segmenter that performs nearly as well as a fully-supervised one. This finding underscores the critical role of pixels around semantic boundaries in helping the model to learn representations suitable for segmentation.…”

Editable supercapacitors with customizable stretchability based on mechanically strengthened ultralong MnO2 nanowire composite by Lv, Zhisheng, Luo, Yifei, Tang, Yuxin, Wei, Jiaqi, Zhu, Zhiqiang, Zhou, Xinran, Li, Wenlong, Zeng, Yi, Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Yanyan, Qi, Dianpeng, Pan, Shaowu, Loh, Xian Jun, Chen, Xiaodong

“…In addition, it maintains nearly 98% of the initial capacitance after 10 000 stretch-and-release cycles under 400% tensile strain. …”
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Ultrastable shear jammed granular material by Zhao, Yiqiu, Zhao, Yuchen, Wang, Dong, Zheng, Hu, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Socolar, Joshua E. S.

“…The stress response of these states to small imposed shear is nearly elastic, in contrast to the original shear jammed state.…”
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Personality traits bias the perceived quality of sonic environments by Lindborg, PerMagnus, Friberg, Anders

“…Emotional stability and noise sensitivity were notable predictors whose contribution to explaining the variation in quality ratings was between one-tenth and nearly half of the soundscape indicators, as measured by squared semipartial correlation. …”
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The Expansion of Incentive (Performance-Based) Regulation of Electricity Distribution and Transmission in the United States by Joskow, Paul L.

“…The new obligations are a consequence primarily of aggressive targets for decarbonizing the electricity sector in nearly half the states and the goal of using “clean” electricity to electrify transportation, buildings, and other sectors. …”
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Assessing United States Energy Poverty Policy: Regulatory Design Alternatives and Resource Allocation by Heller, Peter J.

“…Specifically, current allocations under the US Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to states have been nearly static since 1984, while the distribution of energy poverty is dynamic in location and time. …”
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Nature-Centered Materiomics: Experimental and Computational Design by Shen, Sabrina C.

“…Industrial material production simultaneously contributes nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year, which in conjunction with solid waste accumulation and deterioration of ecological processes, threatens the livelihood of current and future generations of both human and non-human species. …”
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Multi-view human action recognition in meeting scenarios by Yin, Haixiang

“…The method proposed in this project can improve by up to nearly 10 percent of the mAP (Mean Average Precision) on AMI meeting corpus compared to single-view recognition approaches.…”
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Insights into thermal hydrolyzed sludge liquor - identification of plant-growth-promoting compounds by Lu, Dan, Qian, Tingting, Le, Chencheng, Pan, Chaozhi, Cao, Shenbin, Ng, Wun Jern, Zhou, Yan

“…The holistic approach of using TH liquor as organic fertilizer and producing biochar could realize nearly zero-waste discharge in sludge management.…”
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How gender influence translation-a comparative case study on two Chinese versions of the Villette from the feminist translation perspective by Jiang, Yang

“…Feminist translation theory sought to identify and criticize the causes for the marginalization of women and translation, as well as to increase the visibility of women in society and translation. In the nearly thirty years since feminist translation entered China, Chinese scholar’s research perspectives on feminist translation have developed from the theoretical to translation practice in the context of China. …”
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Beyond the pause by Loke, Eden Hui Yi, Leong, Nicia Qiao Xin, Priyanka D/O Tamilarasan Thevar, See, Wenwei

“…Despite being a critical life phase for nearly half of the population, perimenopause remains shrouded in ambiguity, contributing to significant delays in seeking and receiving appropriate care and support. …”
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