Trade Policy Options for ASEAN Countries and Their Regional Dialogue Partners: “Preference Ordering” Using CGE Analysis by Chia, Wai-Mun, Ji, Xianbai, Rana, Pradumna B., Li, Chang Tai

“…First, when multilateral agreements are not possible, countries are better off with a narrower regional trading agreement than without one. Second, in the region, RCEP has higher beneficial impacts than the CPTPP. …”
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Nutritional quality of germinated cowpea flour (Vigna unguiculata) and its application in home prepared powdered weaning foods by Jirapa, P., Normah, H., Zamaliah, M.M., Asmah, R., Mohamad, K.

“…The PDCAAS of 24 h germinated cowpea flour (GCF) weaning food was higher (55.49%) than CCF-weaning food (46.74%). Vitamin A activity in 24 h GCF weaning food was higher than in CCF-weaning food. …”

Empirical analysis of investors' reaction to individual vs group-written research reports by Chow, Cheong Yean, Fong, Pak Ho, Loh, Hui Min

“…The objective of this research is to investigate whether investors perceive that research reports written by a team of analysts is of higher quality than those written by an individual analyst. The statistical tests show that investors react more strongly to team-analyst reports than individual-analyst reports. …”
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Sport volunteers' motivation and their life aspirations by Cheng, Rui Ting

“…The results revealed that non-volunteers focused more on extrinsic life goals than volunteers; (p<.01). Individual sports player emphasised more on intrinsic life goals than non-sports players; (p<.05). …”
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Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020 by Gupta, A, Hathi, P, Banaji, M, Gupta, P, Kashyap, R, Paikra, V, Sharma, K, Somanchi, A, Sudharsanan, N, Vyas, S

“…In contrast to global patterns, females in India experienced a life expectancy decline that was 1 year larger than losses for males. Marginalized social groups experienced greater declines than the most privileged social group. …”

Background matters, but not whether parents are immigrants: outcomes of children born in Denmark by Jensen, M, Manning, A

“…In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents (first-generation locals) have lower earnings, higher unemployment, less education, more welfare transfers, and more criminal convictions than children with local-born parents. …”

Physiological stress responses and meat quality of rabbits subjected to different road transportation and slaughter methods by Khadijah, Nakyinsige

“…However, at d 7, HS presented significantly greater glycogen than GK. At d 0, HS had significantly lower pHi than GK. …”
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Effects of predictability and controllability on task performance under time constraints. by Tan, Kenley Soon Chew., Ng, Zhichao., Low, Liang Neng.

“…Specifically, subjects provided with control performed better than subjects without control, only in the absence of time warning. …”
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Postural stability in cyclists by Preece, Mia, Grainger, Karl, Starrs, Paul

“…Results: RC had significantly better balance than CN (p <0.001); MTB had significantly better balance than CN (p = 0.004); RC had significantly better balance than MTB (p = 0.046). …”
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Essays on commodities and international macroeconomic interactions by Kim, M

“…Consistently with the empirical evidence, in the model an expansionary monetary policy shock to the U.S. increases aggregate output of commodity-exporting countries by more than that of commodity-importing countries. This is because the increased U.S. aggregate demand triggered by the shock leads to rises in its demand for commodities and real commodity prices, and thus exports of commodity-exporting countries go up by more than those of commodity-importing countries.…”

Grading and prognostic factors of papillary renal cell carcinoma by Zhang, Stella Yun Ting

“…More tumours occur on the left side of the kidney than the right side; and incidence of PRCC more or less follows the population proportion that more Chinese are affected by PRCC than the rest of the population.…”
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Populist attitudes, subjective social status, and resentment in Italy by Melli, G, Scherer, S

“…This study finds that subjective status matters more than objective conditions for populist attitudes. …”

Multilevel converter-based grid-connected energy storage systems by Deng, Han

“…Singapore enjoys more solar irradiance than other temperate countries, thus the solar Photovoltaic (PV) is one of the most promising renewable energy sources for the electricity generation in Singapore. …”
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Investigation on energy output structure of explosives near-ground explosion by Xu, Wen-long, Wang, Cheng, Yuan, Jian-ming, Goh, Wei-liang, Li, Tao

“…Owing to the exothermic effect of aluminum powder, the pressure drop of aluminized explosives is slower than that of RDX explosives. At 5.0 m from the initiation point, the peak overpressure of aluminized explosives is larger than that of RDX explosives. …”
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Effects of variety and stage of fruit ripeness on the physicochemical and sensory characteristics of deep‐fat‐fried banana chips by Ammawath, Wanna, Che Man, Yaakob, Yusof, Salmah, A Rahman, Russly

“…The moisture content and water activity of Abu chips were lower than those of Nangka chips. The texture of chips prepared from Abu at stage 'green' showed more crispness than the other three samples. …”
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A scalable variational inference approach for increased mixed-model association power by Loya, H, Kalantzis, G, Cooper, F, Palamara, PF

“…We applied Quickdraws to 79 quantitative and 50 binary traits in 405,088 UK Biobank samples, identifying 4.97% and 3.25% more associations than REGENIE and 22.71% and 7.07% more than FastGWA. …”

Probability and Random Processes / by Grimmett, Geoffrey R., author 208677, Stirzaker, David R., author 656424

“…This third edition emphasizes modeling and understanding rather than abstraction. Many important random processes are developed in the text through examples. …”

Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…An examination of the mean scores indicated a significantly lower level of LRB in the experimental group (M=22.00, SD=7.59) than in the control group (M=31.11, SD=8.28) (p .01); a significantly lower level of CRB in the experimental group (M=21.14, SD=7.24) than in the control group (M=31.17, SD=9.40) (p .01); a significantly higher level of IM in the experimental group (M=62.52, SD=12.07) than in the control group (M=54.30, SD=14.35) (p .01); a significantly higher level of PE in the experimental group (M=28.43, SD=6.29) than in the control group (M=25.51, SD=5.41) (p .01); a significantly higher level of TAR in the experimental group (M=9.27, SD=5.70) than in the control group (M=5.48, SD=4.01) (p .01). …”
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Analysis of visitors’ mobility patterns through random walk in the Louvre Museum by Yoshimura, Yuji, Sinatra, Roberta, Krebs, Anne, Ratti, Carlo

“…Since the probability of the appearance of short combinations of nodes is higher than that of long combinations of nodes, shorter path sequences tend to appear more frequently than longer path sequences. …”
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Towards Buffer Management with Tiered Main Memory by Hao, Xiangpeng, Zhou, Xinjing, Yu, Xiangyao, Stonebraker, Michael

“…Remote memory (i.e., tiered memory), connected to host servers via high-speed interconnect protocols such as RDMA and CXL, is expected to deliver 100x (less than 1us) lower latency than SSD and be more cost-effective than local DRAM through pooling or adopting cheaper memory technologies. …”
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