Personnel Formalization and the Enhancement Of Teamwork: A public–private comparison by Chen, Chung-An, Rainey, Hal G.

“…The authors test this view by using variables from the National Organization Survey (NOS) data set and find strong statistical support. Therefore, personnel formalization is not necessarily equivalent to red tape and not always detrimental to the public sector. …”
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State Budget Periodicity and General Expenditure Volatility: An Empirical Analysis by Kim, Soojin, Wang, Qiushi

“…Using a large panel dataset for fifty states over the years 1960–2012, after controlling for institutional, economic, and political factors, we find general expenditure of biennial states has been significantly less volatile than that of annual states. …”
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Multiscale approach to nematic liquid crystals via statistical field theory by Lu, Bing-Sui

“…In particular, for the case of a fully occupied lattice, we compute the values of the isotropic-nematic transition temperature and the order parameter discontinuity predicted by (i) a continuum approximation of the nearest-neighbor Lebwohl-Lasher model and (ii) a Lebwohl-Lasher-type model with a nematogenic interaction of finite range. We find that the predictions of (i) are in reasonably good agreement with known results of Monte Carlo simulation.…”
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The role of institutional environments in cross-border mergers : a perspective from bidders’ earnings management behavior by Baik, Bok, Cho, Kwanghee, Choi, Wooseok, Kang, Jun-Koo

“…Consistent with our hypothesis, we find that the earnings management behavior of US bidders becomes more evident when they acquire targets from countries with greater institutional differences, such as non-Christian countries, countries with a low level of political stability, countries with a low level of democracy and freedom of the press and media, countries with high corruption and countries with a low level of government effectiveness. …”
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Formation of the postmitotic nuclear envelope from extended ER cisternae precedes nuclear pore assembly by Lu, Lei, Ladinsky, Mark S., Kirchhausen, Tomas.

“…Using live-cell imaging and electron microscope tomography, we find that the mitotic assembly of the nuclear envelope primarily originates from ER cisternae. …”
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Geometric point interpolation method in R3 space with tangent directional constraint by Chen, Xiao-Diao, Ma, Weiyin

“…Given mm points and their tangent directional vectors as well, the interpolation problem is to find a cubic BB-spline curve which interpolates both the positions of the points and their tangent directional vectors. …”
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Adaptive function modal learning neural networks by Kang, Miao

“…A multi-layer approach, a Multi-layer ADFUNN (MADFUNN) is introduced to solve highly complex datasets. It aims to find a suitably restricted subset of neuron activation functions which has a good representational capacity and enables efficient learning for complex models with large datasets. …”
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‘You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land’: exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England by Saddington, L, McConnell, FR

“…This paper draws upon participation observation of this activity with 441 pupils from 17 classes across 10 state-maintained primary schools in England. We find that children have complex geopolitical understandings of the world which encompass nuanced articulations of the politics of difference, legitimacy, the act of recognition, and legacies of colonial practices. …”

Competitive overlap as a signal in expert partner choice: evidence from patent law firm selection by Borchhardt, G, Kovacs, B, Rogan, M

“…Hence, firms may prefer partners with competitive overlap. We find support for our claims in the patent law firm selection context. …”

Broadleaf afforestation impacts on terrestrial hydrology insignificant compared to climate change in Great Britain by Buechel, M, Slater, L, Dadson, S

“…For these three aims we run simulations using (i) past climate with proposed land cover changes and known floods and drought events; (ii) past climate with independent changes in precipitation, temperature, and CO₂; and (iii) a potential future climate (2020–2050). We find the proposed scale of afforestation is unlikely to significantly alter regional hydrology; however, it can noticeably decrease low flows whilst not reducing high flows. …”

Network analysis and data science for finance: from traditional markets to decentralised exchanges by Miori, D

“…Lastly, we analyse data on liquidity provision, consumption, and price formation on competing decentralised exchange venues, to find a model for the prediction of incoming trading volume at block-level.…”

Do the ‘big four’ orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? by Février, PJ, Barraclough, T

“…Analysing orthologous genes from whole genome sequence data for multiple species per order, we find that, in most genes, selection on roughly one fifth of codons is conserved within each order but differs significantly among orders. …”

Brain change trajectories in healthy adults correlate with Alzheimer's related genetic variation and memory decline across life by Roe, J, Vidal Pineiro, D, Sørensen, Ø, Grydeland, H, Leonardsen, E, Iakunchykova, O, Pan, M, Mowinckel, A, Strømstad, M, Nawijn, L, Milaneschi, Y, Andersson, M, Pudas, S, Bråthen, AC, Kransberg, J, Falch, E, Øverbye, K, Kievit, R, Ebmeier, KP, Lindenberger, U, Ghisletta, P, Demnitz, N, Boraxbekk, C-J, Drevon, C, Penninx, B, Bertram, L, Nyberg, L, Walhovd, K, Fjell, A, Wang, Y

“…We first show genetic risk links with more brain loss than expected for age in early Braak regions, and find this extends beyond APOE genotype. Next, we run machine learning on AD-control data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative using brain change trajectories conditioned on age, to identify AD-sensitive features and model their change in healthy adults. …”

Essays on time series econometrics and financial econometrics by Xu, W

“…We apply the test to a panel of macroeconomic and financial variables in the UK and find the evidence of unstable factor structure during the recent financial crisis.…”

Another world is possible: reconceptualizing the “safe space”metaphor at a feminist safer space in New York City by Dlugatch, R

“…I argue that Pocketbooks act as a feminist counterpublic whereby people of subordinated and sociospatially-excluded populations can find community and self-expression, acquire skills to reduce the extent of their marginalization elsewhere, develop language to articulate their identities and experiences, and even unlearn violent habitus. …”

Mucosal signatures of pathogenic T cells in HLA-B*27+ anterior uveitis and axial spondyloarthritis by Paley, MA, Yang, X, Hassman, LM, Penkava, F, Garner, LI, Paley, GL, Linskey, N, Agnew, R, Arantes de Faria, PH, Feng, A, Li, SY, Simone, D, Roberson, EDO, Ruzycki, PA, Esaulova, E, Laurent, J, Feigl-Lenzen, L, Springer, LE, Liu, C, Gillespie, GM, Bowness, P, Garcia, KC, Yokoyama, WM

“…Here, we analyze ocular, synovial, and blood T cells in B27AAU and axSpA, showing that YeiH-specific CD8 T cells express a mucosal gene set and surface proteins consistent with intestinal differentiation, including CD161, integrin α4β7, and CCR6. In addition, we find an expansion of YeiH-specific CD8 T cells in the blood of axSpA and B27AAU over healthy controls, whereas influenza-specific CD8 T cells were equivalent across groups. …”

Edge-on orientation of thermally evaporated metal phthalocyanines thin films for humidity sensing application by Natashah, Fadlan Arif, Hisamuddin, Syaza Nafisah, Coffey, Aidan H., Zhu, Chenhui, Bawazeer, Tahani M., Alsoufi, Mohammad S., Roslan, Nur Adilah, Supangat, Azzuliani

“…Comparative molecular analysis of three different MPcs sensing layers, namely MnPc, VOPc, and VTTBNc, using the powerful tool of grazing-incidence wide-angle and small-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS/GISAXS), were made to find the correlation between molecule orientation of the sensing layers and their humidity sensing performances. …”

Molecular insights into evolution, mutations and receptor-binding specificity of influenza A and B viruses from outpatients and hospitalized patients in Singapore by Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius, Zhou, Xinrui, Lau, Suk Hiang, Rashid, Shamima, Teo, Jasmine S. M., Lee, Hong Kai, Koay, Evelyn S., Chan, Kwai Peng, Leo, Yee Sin, Chen, Mark I. Cheng, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Chow, Vincent T.

“…Conclusions: Overall, our findings extend our understanding of the molecular and structural evolution of influenza virus strains in Singapore within the global context of these dynamic viruses.…”
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Butler, AR, McRobbie, H, Bullen, C, Hajek, P, Begh, R, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, NA, Turner, T, Livingstone-Banks, J, Morris, T, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…Of the included studies, we rated ten (all but one contributing to our main comparisons) at low risk of bias overall, 58 at high risk overall (including all non-randomized studies), and the remainder at unclear risk. …”

A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400 – 146 BC) by Blomley, AM

“…</p> <br> <p>In chapters 5–7, the study turns to the analysis of the Late Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications in the Argolid. …”