Two Paths: Why States Join or Avoid China’s Belt and Road Initiative by Atkins, Eleanor, Fravel, M Taylor, Wang, Raymond, Ackert, Nick, Huang, Sihao

“…We hypothesize, and find support for, the argument that democracies are less likely to join because they view participating in a Chinese-led initiative as more costly than non-democracies. …”
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A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets by Ranganathan, Meghana, Minchew, Brent

“…Our results yield a map of the dominant deformation mechanisms in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, showing that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, dislocation creep, characterized by a value of the stress exponent, likely dominates in all fast-flowing areas. This increase from the canonical value of dramatically alters the climate conditions under which marine ice sheets may become unstable and drive rapid rates of sea-level rise.…”
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Asymmetric pathways in the electrochemical conversion reaction of NiO as battery electrode with high storage capacity by McDermott, Eamon, Shukla, Alpesh K., Yi, Tanghong, Boesenberg, Ulrike, Marcus, Matthew A., Teh, Pei Fen, Srinivasan, Madhavi, Moewes, Alexander, Cabana, Jordi

“…This asymmetry is enabled by the presence of small metallic clusters and, thus, is likely to apply to other transition metal oxide systems. …”
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The potential of smartphone apps in informing protobacco and antitobacco messaging efforts among underserved communities : longitudinal observational study by Lee, Edmund Wei Jian, Bekalu, Mesfin Awoke, McCloud, Rachel, Vallone, Donna, Arya, Monisha, Osgood, Nathaniel, Li, Xiaoyan, Minsky, Sara, Viswanath, Kasisomayajula

“…Health apps could be used to assess individual-level exposure to tobacco marketing, particularly in relation to the locations of TROs as well as locations where they were most likely to smoke. To date, it remains unclear how health apps could be used practically by health promotion organizations to better reach underserved communities in their tobacco control efforts.…”
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Do auditors change their individual style? Examining the effects of client importance and competition on auditors' influence on earnings comparability in China by Chi, Wuchun, Koh, Kevin, Liu, Yanghui, Long, Xiaohai

“…Individual auditor style implies that two client firms audited by the same individual auditors are likely to have more comparable earnings than two client firms audited by different individual auditors within the same audit firm. …”
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Unearthing ATCO decision instructional pattern from simulator data by Zakaria, Zainuddin, Lye, Sun Woh, Endy, Susanto

“…It was found that ATCOs were about twice more likely to choose only vertical maneuvers in conflict resolution compared to horizontal maneuvers or a combination of both vertical and horizontal maneuvers.…”
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The effects of fear appeal message repetition on perceived threat, perceived efficacy, and behavioral intention in the extended parallel process model by Shi, Jingyuan (Jolie), Smith, Sandi W.

“…The findings demonstrated that the predictions in the EPPM are likely to be operative after three exposures to a persuasive message.…”
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Fixing global finance: unfinished business by Grenville, Stephen

“…Together with the other measures taken, this makes a repetition of 2008 less likely. However, the crisis also taught us that financial markets do not work as well as we thought. …”
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Proteome mapping of Plasmodium: identification of the P. yoelii remodellome by Siau, Anthony, Huang, Ximei, Weng, Mei, Sze, Siu Kwan, Preiser, Peter R.

“…This approach identified a significant number of conserved remodelling proteins across plasmodium that likely represent key conserved functions in the parasite and provides new insights into parasite evolution and biology.…”
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Directed trust and trustworthiness in a social network : an experimental investigation by Riyanto, Yohanes Eko, Yeo, Jonathan X. W.

“…Levels of trust and trustworthiness are likely to depend on “social” utility; the magnitude of which is influenced by the social context governing individual relationships. …”
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The nature of historical representation on Wikipedia : dominant or alterative historiography? by Luyt, Brendan

“…However, this article suggests that the achievement of this promise is fraught with difficulty and that a more likely outcome is a mapping of the status quo in historical representation onto the new media. …”
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Autonomous control of interlinking converter with energy storage in hybrid AC–DC microgrid by Loh, Poh Chiang, Li, Ding, Chai, Yi Kang, Blaabjerg, Frede

“…The coexistence of ac and dc subgrids in a hybrid microgrid is likely given that modern distributed sources can either be ac or dc. …”
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new urban giants : the ultimate skyscrapers / by Spirito, Gianpaola, author 496164, Terranova, Antonino, 1942-, author editor 656235

“…Dubai is the current record holder, but is likely to lose the title in the near future. In teh meantime, the world's metropolises accumulate impressive arrays of tall buildings, while the old western cities are dotted with new smaller but bizarre towers. …”

Gender and political participation : news consumption, political efficacy and interpersonal communication by Wen, Nainan, Hao, Xiaoming, George, Cherian

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Sexual violence at higher education institutions: prevalence, nature, and opportunities for prevention by Steele, B

“…Using the OUR SPACE data, I also found that gendered differences persisted across willingness to engage in bystander behaviour to prevent or respond to SV, with men being less likely to engage in bystander behaviour to prevent SV and more likely to endorse attitudes that place the blame of SV on victims or survivors. …”

Instrumentation optimisation for unicompartmental knee replacement by Arthur, LW

“…No patient, implant, or surgical factors were found to be associated with TCS, likely due to the small number of TCS cases identified. …”

Fragments and Lies by Brinkema, Eugenie

“…This experimental video sets spoken accounts from the perspective of the likes of Ted Bundy and Charles Manson alongside grainy, ambiguous imagery. …”
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Advanced electrode materials for Al on batteries by Pang, Jun Kai

“…As a result, a novel rechargeable aluminium ion battery has been fabricated with nanoparticle-liked copper phosphorus trichalcogenides (CuPS3) as cathode materials and ionic liquid electrolyte of AlCl3-[EMIm]Cl. …”
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Image analysis for building facade inspection by Fan, Yaxi

“…The introduction of an artificial vision based inspection system is likely to be an effective solution ranging from data acquisition, data processing to report delivery to these problems. …”
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The profile of running and running injuries in Singapore by Phua, Joel Chia Keng

“…Results: Across the 50 respondents when comparing demographic and running profile factors, a runner from the Singapore running community is likely to have 1 running-related injury at any given year. …”
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