Conflict and contract use in cross-cultural buyer–supplier relationships: the role of cultural context by Roehrich, J, Sarafan, M, Squire, B, Lawson, B, Bouazzaoui, M

“…Conflict is common within global supply chains, especially where the buyer and supplier span different cultures. In such settings, formal contracts assume an important role in providing a common language that specifies each party's roles, responsibilities, and liabilities. …”

Hyperbolic volume estimates via train tracks by De Capua, A

“…In this thesis we describe how to estimate the distance spanned in the pants graph by a train track splitting sequence on a surface, up to multiplicative and additive constants. …”

The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. Spanning the interwar period to the post-communist era, their works register, mediate and work through the lived experiences of a constantly changing (semi)periphery, marked by visions and plans of accelerated progress, technological advancement, and triumphant sovereignty. …”

Practices, attitudes and motives for domestic waste recycling by Aini, M. S., Fakhru'l-Razi, A., Lad, S. M., Hashim, A. H.

“…The 15 000 tonnes of garbage produced daily are thrown into 230 landfills nationwide, where 80% of them have only two years of life span left. Although recycling programmes were launched as early as 1990, only 5% of the wastes are recycled. …”

Estimation of crown characters and leaf biomass from leaf litter in a Malaysian canopy species, Elateriospermum tapos (Euphorbiaceae) by Osada, Noriyuki, Takeda, Hiroshi, Kawaguchi, Hideyuki, Furukawa, Akio, Awang, Muhamad

“…Leaf fall rate was estimated to be 2.0-28.1 kg per tree per year in the five trees of various heights, and was greater in taller trees. Since leaf life span was smaller for taller trees, leaf biomass was estimated to be 2.6-30.5 kg per tree, and was also greater in taller trees. …”
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Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…Mojiang, located in the southern region of Yunnan Province, China, serves as the historical abode of the industrious and intellectually rich Hani community, boasting a heritage spanning thousands of years. The traditional costumes of the Mojiang Hani people stand as integral bearers of their national culture, adorned with intricately handwoven elements. …”
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A radio frequency tagging continuous-wave optical spectrometer with megahertz refreshing rate by Ren, Xiaojing, Hsieh, Chao-Mao, Malik, Mohammad O. A., Su, Joshua Weiming, Liu, Quan

“…Optical spectrometers capable of fast spectral measurements are useful in many fields spanning from industrial manufacturing to scientific research. …”
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Electronic band structure and optical gain of GaNxBiyAs1−x−y/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots by Song, Zhi-Gang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Wei-Jun, Li, Shu-Shen

“…The effective band gap falls as we increase the composition of nitrogen (N) and bismuth (Bi) and with an appropriate choice of composition we can tune the emission wavelength to span within 1.3 μm–1.55 μm, for device application in fiber technology. …”
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Long term surface deformation of Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat from GPS geodesy : inferences from simple elastic inverse models by Herd, Richard A., Strutt, Michael H., Ryan, Graham., Widiwijayanti, Christina., Voight, Barry., Mattioli, Glen.

“…Campaign and continuous GPS geodetic measurements on Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat are reported from 1995 to 2009, spanning three dome growth and repose episodes. Uniform elastic half-space inversions were used to examine how crustal pressure sources evolved by inverting subsets of all available 3D site data for any given episode using a single Mogi-source. …”
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Tax Incentives, Common Institutional Ownership, and Corporate ESG Performance by Huang, Chengjie, Zhou, Hang, Wan Ahmad, Wan Norhayati, Saad, Ram Al Jaffri, Zhang, Xinrui

“…Drawing upon panel data spanning from 2010 to 2021 at the level of China's A-share listed companies and grounded in the context of accelerated depreciation policy for fixed assets, this study commitment to both identify and empirically test the presence of a significant positive correlation between tax incentives and corporate ESG performance. …”
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The development and application of mass-spectrometry-based tools to monitor proteome remodeling in microbes by Telusma, Bertina

“…Although each pathway will contribute, ultimately, whether cells mount a response primarily driven by synthesis or by degradation hinges on the nature and duration of the stress, as well as the cell type involved. …”
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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…The Flexible Job Scheduling problem aims at determining the starting times of flexible jobs that do not have to be started immediately at their arrivals to minimize the span of all the jobs, where the span is the time duration in which at least one job is running. …”
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EITPose: Wearable and Practical Electrical Impedance Tomography for Continuous Hand Pose Estimation by Kyu, Alexander, Mao, Hongyu, Zhu, Junyi, Goel, Mayank, Ahuja, Karan

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Crowd estimation in images by Pui, Chin See

“…Crowd counting technologies, have in recent times, seen an upsurge in popularity due to the wide range of practical applications they offer, spanning from safety monitoring to disaster management, and public space design, among others. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The initial 80% of the dataset, spanning from 2005 to 2009, is designated for model training. …”
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Intermittent demand forecasting by Mishra, Prerna.

“…The project paper deals with comparative assessment of the of forecast for “in-sample” as well as “out of sample” periods derived by various methods of intermittent demand forecasting on historical data set of fifteen hundred products for a span of twenty four months obtained by several numerical modelling tools – classical to contemporary and evaluate the superiority of models by comparison of achievement of different methods in respect of degree of accuracy of forecast for future periods and judge the robustness of forecasting methodology.…”
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Development of communication links between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV traffic management (UTM) systems via the cellular network by Holmberg, Carl Oswald

“…The usefulness of such vehicles span many areas, as it advantageously aids in areas ranging from, agricultural monitoring, surveillance and even to goods delivery. …”
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Heat transfer study of a cold plate with fractal designs by Ow Yong, Daniel Zhao Yi

“…A new experiment rig was built and experimental investigations were carried out using the rig for the entire span of the project. A test on the reliability of the experiment rig was conducted using the numerical simulation software “COSMOL Multiphysics”. …”
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The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…Its 1956 production of <em>La Traviata</em> was the first opera produced by non-white people in South Africa, and initiated an operatic career that spanned twelve opera seasons and ten operas. The group was under the administration of white directors and received funding from the apartheid government. …”

Modelling the rheology of living cell cytoplasm: poroviscoelasticity and fluid-to-solid transition by Thekkethil, Namshad, Köry, Jakub, Guo, Ming, Stewart, Peter S., Hill, Nicholas A., Luo, Xiaoyu

“…Baseline simulations (neglecting the viscosity of the cytosol) indicate that the system exhibits seven different regimes across the parameter space spanned by the viscoelastic relaxation timescale of the cytoskeleton and the poroelastic diffusion timescale; these regimes agree qualitatively with experimental measurements. …”
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