Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The empirical evidence rejects VES and CES and supports the Cobb Douglas production function. We find that rural transformation has made a highly significant contribution to total factor productivity and output growth in China irrespective of the production function and capital series employed. …”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for the error term. In brief, we find evidence that a lower degree of integration is associated with lower data frequencies. …”
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EU banks rating assignments: is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries? by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. …”
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Consumption, Wealth, Stock and Housing Returns: Evidence from Emerging Markets by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Sousa, Ricardo M.

“…We use quarterly data for a panel of 31 emerging economies and find that, when agents expect future stock returns to be higher, they will temporarily allow consumption to rise. …”
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Ordered choice models of international banks' ratings with an indicator variable for country effects by Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Using data on international banks’ ratings we find that banks with a greater capitalisation, larger assets, and a higher return on assets have higher bank ratings. …”
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Book review : Streetwalking: LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara by López, María E.

“…In a similar vein, Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic gives priority to the narration of the LGBTQ victims of police repression and political violence—those lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, and queer individuals who hang out in parks and streets and find refuge in each other.…”
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Neural network-based ammonium aeration control of wastewater treatment plant by Huja Husin, Maimun

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An IPA exploration of women’s experiences of being undecided about motherhood in their late thirties by Barnett, Georgina

“…Consequently, some women find themselves in their late thirties and undecided about motherhood in the face of the relentless ticking of the biological clock. …”
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Making Assessment Meaningful by Hirst, Laura Lea

“…With larger student numbers it is becoming harder for academics to find the time to engage in formative assessment. …”
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Is the Future in T-Bond Trading? by Bojkova, Viara

“…These expectations predetermined the interest in looking at the investment decisions, particularly of institutional investors, to find out whether there is a shift towards T-bond holdings.…”
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A tabular source approach to modelling and simulating device and circuit noise in the time domain by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…It is also unusual to find circuit simulators that extend noise simulation to the time domain. …”
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Green-lean operations evaluation framework: a case from Iranian automotive industry by Ojani, Shabnam, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…Companies have been forced to find alternatives to balance productivity and the environment in their operations and products as they move to greener operations and products. …”
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Marta Czok EX_PATRIA by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Czok, Marta

“…Migration, political asylum, xenophobia and nationalist populism relate to this principle, reinforcing its symbolic meaning and the lived experience of those directly affected by this. In these works, we find a gap between those who need to leave their countries and those who have the power to determine their destiny. …”
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The glacial geomorphology of part of the Western Grampians of Scotland, with especial reference to the limits of the Loch Lomond Advance by Thorp, Peter William

“…The limits of a large ice mass that built up in the western Grampians during the Loch Lomond Stadial were mapped using O.S. maps to scales of 1 : 10,000 and 1 : 25,000. The main forms of mapped glacial evidence comprised moraines, thick till, fluvioglacial landforms, erratics, boulder spreads, ice-moulded bedforms, striae and friction cracks. …”
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Studies of 1,2-naphthoquinone mono-oximato complexes by Musa, Yusuf

“…The oxidation involved oxidative cleavage of the aromatic ring of catechol by molecular oxygen to give muconic acid anhydride and 2H-pyran-2-one in addition to benzoquinone. …”
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Novel narrowband microstrip filters for wireless communications systems by Farhat, Mohamad

“…The various ‘C-shape’ open-loop ring resonators were developed and fabricated, namely ‘Embedded-Square’ and ‘Embedded-Triangle’ resonators, exhibited a quasielliptic function bandpass filter response free from spurii across an ultra-wide bandwidth. …”
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Experiences of geophagy during pregnancy among African migrant women in London: implications for public health interventions by Madziva, Cathrine, Chinouya, Martha J., Njoroge, Kezia

“…Vomiting, nausea, spitting, appetite challenges, and cravings were cited as the main reasons for clay ingestion during pregnancy. …”
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Exploring men's experiences and understanding of binge eating disorder : an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Spyrou, Spyroula

“…However, men with BED have been overlooked in research as studies have mainly focused on women. As a result, there appears to be a limited understanding of men’s experiences and treatment needs of BED, including from a Counselling Psychology perspective. …”
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Rhetoric of economic nationalism by Uzelac, Gordana

“…Seen as such a set of policies, Economic Nationalism is construed as the main obstacle to the true free market economies. …”
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An investigation into performance, stress level, auditing and evaluation of core skills training among staff working in emergency operation services, search and rescue and disaster... by Al-Raisi, Ahmed Naser

“…All participants were working at the time in the Emergency and Public Safety Administration and some were members of the International Search and Rescue team ADP GHQ. The main literature relevant to this investigation is covered in two main chapters (I.e. chapters 1 and 2) of this research project. …”
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