The effect of China's weak institutional environment on the quality of Big 4 audits by Ke, Bin, Lennox, Clive S., Xin, Qingquan

“…Finally, companies listed only in China have larger signed abnormal accruals than do companies cross-listed in Hong Kong. …”
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How clicktivism enables moral licensing : the effects of social observability and impression management on subsequent prosocial behaviour by Tan, Si Jin, Wang, Kelvin Wen Hsing, Ong, Kheng Hian

“…Participants in the present study were assigned to one of three experimental groups: reading an article without signing a petition, or signing a public or private online petition. …”
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Taxis, passengers and stable marriage-stable simultaneous assignment of taxis to passenger booking re-quests by Kümmel, Michal

“…The proposed methodology is de-signed for a centralized system that assigns and re-assigns the bookings simultaneously in decision epochs in real-time. …”
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16-bit low-power CMOS multiplier IC design by Zhang, Jingyao

“…In the combinatorial designs, an improved full adder cell design is compared to the full adder built with two half adders; two different approaches to signed multiplication are explored; and a carry save adder array multiplier is compared to the benchmark ripple carry adder array multiplier. …”
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Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA): a response to a regime change. by Siti Tiefryani Fahlyah

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Modeling and optimization of ACMV systems for energy efficient smart buildings by Zhai, Deqing

“…According to Paris Protocol signed in 2015, energy efficient, smart and green buildings are imperative concerns. …”
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The impact and effectiveness of local content policy on oil exploration and production in Brazil by de Almeida, E, Martinez-Prieto, D

“…For contracts already signed that are unable to meet local content requirements, there is a range of pragmatic adjustments that could be considered in addition to those already mentioned.…”

Positive geometries and differential forms with non-logarithmic singularities. Part I by Benincasa, P, Parisi, M

“…Whereas meromorphic forms in covariant pairing with a polytope are associated to a specific (signed) triangulation, in which poles on spurious boundaries do not cancel completely, but their order is lowered. …”

A BIT does go a long way: the positive effect of bilateral investment treaties on China's foreign direct investment inflows by Liow, Karyn Sze Min

“…However, a further analysis reveals that the average positive effect of China’s BITs on its FDI inflows are significantly influenced by BITs signed between China and its partner countries in the 1980s. …”
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Effect of blood flow restriction on leg extension exercise on post activation potentiation in countermovement jump performance/standing broad jump performance by Liew, Zen Yew

“…The BFR bands were placed with a perceived tightness of about 7 out of 10. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to analyze the results. …”
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Design methodologies for complexity reduction of FIR filters by Faust, Mathias

“…By making use of the existing registers in the tapdelay line of SA block, only a small percentage of additional registers need to be introduced to allows for pipelining. …”
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PlaneSDF-Based Change Detection for Long-Term Dense Mapping by Fu, Jiahui, Lin, Chengyuan, Taguchi, Yuichi, Cohen, Andrea, Zhang, Yifu, Mylabathula, Stephen, Leonard, John J.

“…In this letter, we look into the problem of change detection based on a novel map representation, dubbed Plane Signed Distance Fields (PlaneSDF), where dense maps are represented as a collection of planes and their associated geometric components in SDF volumes. …”
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Rapid response : email, immediacy, and medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia by Grayman, Jesse Hession

“…After more than 20 years of sporadic separatist insurgency, the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government signed an internationally brokered peace agreement in August 2005, just eight months after the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated Aceh’s coastal communities. …”
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Why did China seldom claim? : Overseas investment and bilateral investment treaties by Chen, Jiaxin

“…Meanwhile, although China has signed a large number of BITs, Chinese investors seldom claimed the loss in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). …”
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Influence of court surfaces on impact cushioning during basketball lay-up by Quek, Raymond Kai Kiat

“…The contact area was analysed as a whole step. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used for statistical analysis. …”
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Bursting on a vortex tube with initial axial core-size perturbations by Ji, Lingbo, Van Rees, Wim M.

“…To further assess the relevance and prevalence of bursting in practical settings, subsequent investigations in the stability and sensitivity of our results to varying Reynolds number, nonrectilinear vortex center lines, and external strain fields are needed.…”
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Proof of Travel for Trust-Based Data Validation in V2I Communication by Suo, Dajiang, Mo, Baichuan, Zhao, Jinhua, Sarma, Sanjay E.

“…In particular, the total vehicle miles traveled for a vehicle must be testified by digital signatures signed by each infrastructure component along the path of its movement. …”
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A procedure for the motion of particle-encapsulated droplets in microchannels by Yap, Yit Fatt, Chai, J. C., Wong, Teck Neng, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Toh, Kok Chuan, Zhang, H. Y., Yobas, Levent

“…Surface tension is modeled using the continuum surface force model. An additional signed distance function is employed to define the droplet–particle interface. …”
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No Oral Modification clauses to the test: how relevant are they in the COVID-19 shock and beyond? by Magklasi, Ioanna, Magklasi, Eleni

“…A No Oral Modification clause is a contractual term prescribing that an agreement may not be amended save in writing signed by or on behalf of the parties. An entire agreement clause prevents statements or representations that are not set out in a written agreement from having contractual force. …”
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Early, very high-titre convalescent plasma therapy in clinically vulnerable individuals with mild COVID-19 (COVIC-19): protocol for a randomised, open-label trial by Desmarets, M, Hoffmann, S, Vauchy, C, Rijnders, BJA, Toussirot, E, Durrbach, A, Körper, S, Schrezenmeier, E, van der Schoot, CE, Harvala, H, Brunotte, G, Appl, T, Seifried, E, Tiberghien, P, Bradshaw, D, Roberts, DJ, Estcourt, LJ, Schrezenmeier, H

“…</p> <p><strong>Ethics and dissemination:</strong>&nbsp;Ethical approval has been granted by the University of Ulm ethics committee (#41/22) (lead ethics committee for Germany), Comit&eacute; de protection des personnes Sud-Est I (CPP Sud-Est I) (#2022-A01307-36) (ethics committee for France), and ErasmusMC ethics committee (#MEC-2022-0365) (ethics committee for the Netherlands). Signed informed consent will be obtained from all included patients. …”