Essays on the market for corporate bonds by Levonmaa, A

“…Chapter 1 studies the impact of credit rating changes on corporate bond returns. This study uses a large dataset of corporate bond transactions from the TRACE database for the US corporate bond market, combined with credit rating changes from Fitch, Moody's and Standard and Poor's (S&P), to analyse over 22,000 bonds, coupled with approximately 28,400 rating events over nearly six years. …”

The impacts of US Fed interest rate liftoff on Southwest Asia stock markets, sovereign bond and currencies by Ooi, Teik Khim

“…While, the second model traces the announcement effect of Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) figure. …”
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Energy Management: A Case Study on the Malaysian Government Office Building by Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Baharum, Faizal, Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal, Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Tahir, Mohamad Zamhari

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Migrants in between: rural migrant families' practices of settlement in a small but rapidly urbanizing Chinese city by Zhao, Haoyu

“…However, the rural housing and land system, under the influence of land-centered urbanization, has transitioned from an inclusive system to a static exclusive system subject to urban development plans. …”
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Water‐binding‐mediated gelation/crystallization and thermosensitive superchirality by Xing, Pengyao, Li, Yongxin, Wang, Yang, Li, Pei-Zhou, Chen, Hongzhong, Phua, Fiona Soo Zeng, Zhao, Yanli

“…Water binding was a key factor in leading trace water‐induced crystallization against gelation in apolar solvent. …”
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New Purification Strategies and Monomer Platforms for Ruthenium-Initiated Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization by Kilgallon, Landon J.

“…Ruthenium-initiated living ROMP remains an extraordinary tool for polymer synthesis, but removal of trace ruthenium from the polymeric product remains a difficult task due to the wide scope of polymer compositions, the lack of a complete understanding of initiator decomposition, and the unknown identities of trace ruthenium products generated during ROMP. …”
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Cognitive Systems and Signal Processing : 5th International Conference, ICCSIP 2020, Zhuhai, China, December 25-27, 2020, Revised Selected Papers / by ICCSIP (Conference) (5th : 2020 : Zhuhai, China), organiser 642897, Sun, Fuchun, 1964-, editor 600994, Liu, Huaping, 1976-, editor 600996, Fang, Bin, editor 642896

Unjust energy transition: vignettes from the COPs, climate finance and a coal hotspot by Sud, N

“…This paper has two objectives. First, it traces the trajectory of justice claims in the lead-up to the just transition agenda. …”

Structural and functional studies of C-nucleoside formation enzymes by Li, W

“…</p> <br> <p>The thesis overviews the history of natural product discovery, tracing its evolution from ancient folk traditions to the contemporary application of advanced genetics and chemical modifications for biosynthesis. …”

Development of in-line fiber-optic interferometric sensors by using biopolymer : chitosan. by Chen, Li Han.

“…In addition, these sensors are able to trace the presence of an analyte in a tested medium in real time and estimate the concentration of analyte by kinetics analysis.…”
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Institutions and agricultural transformation: a study of induced innovation in the Philippine rice sector by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P.

“…Research findings supported the hypotheses that agricultural transformation was impeded by the three factors: 1) an industrialisation-inspired de-facto currency overvaluation regime removed farmers’ potential to capture export markets, the latter serving as a “carrot” for adopting innovation; 2) trade protectionist policies in the rice sector removed import competition as a “stick” for adopting innovation; and 3) industrialisation- and land reform-related capital scarcity among smallholder farmers hindered the dynamics of IIA from taking place. …”
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