Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. The book tracks how authorities have transitioned from an enforcement led to a public health approachh to tacking violence. …”
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Mothers’ social networks and socioeconomic gradients of isolation by Andrew, AR, Attanasio, O, Augsburg, B, Behrman, J, Day, M, Jervis, P, Meghir, C, Phimister, A

“…We track 2,170 mothers’ networks over four years and find a high degree of isolation. Wealthier women and women from more-advantaged castes and tribes have smaller networks than their less-advantaged peers, primarily because they know fewer women within their own socioeconomic group. …”

Herding in equity crowdfunding by Åstebro, T, Fernández, M, Lovo, S, Vulkan, N

“…We test predictions using data from a leading European equity crowdfunding platform and find support. Results are consistent with rational information aggregation. …”

Misconduct by voters' own representatives does not affect voters' generalized political trust by Kelly, E, Tilley, J

“…Yet, using a multilevel analysis of survey and representative implication data, we find no evidence for these effects. This is despite voters being aware of their MP's scandal implication, and this awareness affecting voters' support for their own MP. …”

Moment conditions for dynamic panel logit models with fixed effects by Honoré, BE, Weidner, M

“…Our approach is closely related to the numerical "functional differencing" construction in Bonhomme (2012), but our emphasis is to find explicit analytic expressions for the moment functions. …”

Digest: islands promote population differentiation in dispersive swallows by Estandía, A, Merino Recalde, N

“…Broyles and Myers sequence the genomes of almost 150 individuals from the island-dwelling Pacific swallow (<i>Hirundo tahitica</i>) and its continental counterpart, the welcome swallow (<i>H. neoxena</i>). They find strong population structure only among island populations and attribute this to a behavioral reduction in dispersal propensity following island colonization. …”

Why the rule of law? A historical perspective by Pirie, F

“…Around the world, systems of accountability are weak and dictators find ways to avoid the constraints of both national and international laws. …”

Perception and salience of social security contribution incentives: evidence from voluntary contributions by Iraizoz, A

“…Using quasi-experimental variations from three pension reforms, I find that most self-employed workers fail to take advantage of the extraordinary contribution incentives available in Spain, and often make suboptimal contribution choices. …”

The uniqueness trap by Flyvbjerg, B, Budzier, A, Christodoulou, MD, Zottoli, M

“…<br> The cure is to always assume that someone, somewhere has undertaken a project like yours. If you can’t find an analogue, break your project into components, which may prove comparable with other projects. …”

Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823 by Dal Bó, E, Hutkova, K, Leucht, L, Yuchman, N

“…We construct new historical revenue series disaggregating excise revenues from traded and domestic goods. We find substantial growth in revenue from traded goods, accounting for over half of indirect taxation around 1800. …”

The cost of mass gatherings during a pandemic by Phalippou, L, Zhang, D

“…We exploit variation in rainfall during the protest period as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We find that good weather coincides with both more people protesting and more subsequent COVID-19 cases and deaths. …”

Measuring Outsourcing Performance of Malaysian Economic Transformation Program by Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali, Abdullah, Rohani, Razalli, Mohd. Rizal

“…The focus of this research is to find out the strategic relationship among the environmental dynamism, outsourcing success, and the performance of the relationship. …”
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Characterisation of red palm oil microcapsule with solution-enhanced dispersion by supercritical carbon dioxide technology by Lee, Wan Jun

“…The RPO was then microencapsulated with SEDS at 10.0– 15.0 MPa, 40– 60°C, and feed injection flow rate 2.5 mL/min. The microcapsules were characterised in terms of their physical, structural, and thermal properties and also their oxidative stability. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…The study also finds a link between frequency of sketching and having higher maximum sketch quality scores (i.e. at least one excellent sketch) as well as a correlation between individuals’ maximum sketch quality scores and their overall design outcomes. …”
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Sustainable structural design optimisation of steel truss by Wicaksana, Enrian

“…The program is developed using Visual Basic for Application (VBA) with ETABS Application Programming Interface (API) to link between Excel and ETABS as the analysis and design software. …”
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The impact of the digital economy on industrial structure upgrading and sustainable entrepreneurial growth by Deevi, Durga Praveen, Allur, Naga Sushma, Dondapati, Koteswararao, Chetlapalli, Himabindu, Kodadi, Sharadha, Perumal, Thinagaran

“…The paper’s statistical foundation has been data collected from 25 Chinese regions between 2014 and 2022. The findings support that the DE’s growth positively impacts the ISU. …”

Monitoring of singlet fission via two-dimensional photon-echo and transient-absorption spectroscopy : simulations by multiple Davydov trial states by Sun, Kewei, Huang, Zhongkai, Gelin, Maxim F., Chen, Lipeng, Zhao, Yang

“…The simulated transient absorption signals show a fast decay of the first excited singlet state and exhibit multiple peaks revealing the tuning mode. These findings could be regarded as signatures of the CI in the singlet fission process.…”
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Transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2) exfoliation technique has strong influence upon their capacitance by Ambrosi, Adriano, Eng, Alex Yong Sheng, Sofer, Zdeněk, Pumera, Martin, Mayorga-Martinez, Carmen Clotilde

“…We found that both the metal/chalcogen composition and the type of intercalator strongly affect the capacitance of the exfoliated materials. These findings shall have profound implications on the construction of high-performance energy storage devices based on TMD.…”
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Direct observation of deterministic domain wall trajectory in magnetic network structures by Sethi, Pankaj, Murapaka, Chandrasekhar, Goolaup, Sarjoosing, Chen, Yun Jie, Leong, Siang Huei, Lew, Wen Siang

“…The DW propagation in the network structure is governed by the geometrically induced potential barrier and pinning strength against the propagation. This technique can be extended for controlling the trajectory of magnetic charge carriers in an artificial spin ice lattice.…”
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Evolutionary game for mining pool selection in blockchain networks by Liu, Xiaojun, Wang, Wenbo, Niyato, Dusit, Zhao, Narisa, Wang, Ping

“…Numerical simulations support our theoretical findings as well as demonstrate the stability in the evolution of miners' strategies in a general case.…”
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