Asset Prices and Exchange Rates by Pavlova, Anna, Rigobon, Roberto

“…We also derive agents' portfolio holdings and identify economic environments under which they exhibit a home bias, and demonstrate that an international CAPM obtaining in our model has two additional factor…”
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Does hazardous water matter? : evidence from the housing market and the Superfund program by Greenstone, Michael, Gallagher, Justin

“…We find that Superfund clean-ups are associated with economically small and statistically indistinguishable from zero local changes in residential property values, property rental rates, housing supply, total population, and the types of individuals living near the sites. …”
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The Social Construction of Napster by Spitz, David, Hunter, Starling

“…Our approach examines discourse about Napster in several areas - legal, economic, social, and cultural. This approach enables us to understand "the technology" as an ongoing encounter, rather than the accomplishment of any one inventor, team of inventors, dominant institution, or rule of law. …”
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The Effects of Scale Differences on Inferences in Accounting Research: Coefficient Estimates, Tests of Incremental Association, and Relative Value Relevance by Lo, Kin

“…Reconciling this result with the opposing conclusion of Barth and Kallapur (1996, Contemporary Accounting Research) reveals that the prior results depend on assumptions that are economically and statistically unreasonable. Second, the deflation approach results in more accurate tests of incremental association in terms of mean squared error. …”
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4.181 Architectural Design Workshop - Rethinking Office Development, Spring 2003 by Duffy, Francis, 1940-, Tsakonas, Konstantinos G.

“…The main qualification for taking part in the Workshop is an interest in, and an urgent desire to do something about, specifying the type, quality, image and performance of the new wave of speculative office buildings that will be needed in the next cycle of economic recovery. The questions the workshop will address are: What has and has not changed over the last three decades in the context of office development in the US? …”
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Controlling acid rain : policy issues by Fay, James A., Golomb, D.

“…For a receptor-oriented strategy, a detailed economic analysis needs to be performed to select the least-cost emission control method for the individual sources. …”
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Creating an Interdisciplinary Introductory Chemistry Course without Time-Intensive Curriculum Changes by Taylor, Elizabeth Vogel, Mitchell, Rudolph, Drennan, Catherine L.

“…Additionally, early exposure to the applications of chemistry may be particularly relevant for the recruitment of underrepresented minorities and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds into the sciences, since research indicates that students from lower economic backgrounds value college majors with clear career applications (5).…”
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Quantification of excess risk for diabetes for those born in times of hunger, in an entire population of a nation, across a century by Szell, Michael, Thurner, Stefan, Klimek, Peter, Duftschmid, Georg, Endel, Gottfried, Kautzky-Willer, Alexandra, Kasper, David C.

“…We show that diabetes rates exhibit nontrivial, age-specific sex differences, and correlate with the economic wealth of the region. Our results might be of relevance for establishing higher awareness in the health system for those born in high-risk years, and underline the importance of ensuring sufficient nutrition in prenatal and early stages of life.…”
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Refugee Rights and Wrongs: Global Cultural Diffusion among the Congolese in South Africa by Levitt, Peggy, Wagner, Sarah

“…Every day the media is filled with examples of the ways in which contemporary social, economic, and political life transcends national borders. …”
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Disconnected from Discourse: Women's Radio Listening in Rural Samangan, Afghanistan by Kamal, Sarah

“…Understanding women’s radio access and listening, particularly in economically depressed, remote areas of Afghanistan is an important step in understanding the impact and effectiveness of the investments being made in the media sector. …”
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An Enterprise Control Assessment Method for Variable Energy Resource-Induced Power System Imbalances--Part I: Methodology by Muzhikyan, Aramazd, Farid, Amro M., Youcef-Toumi, Kamal

“…The control layers include a resource scheduling layer composed of a security-constrained unit commitment, a balancing layer composed of a security-constrained economic dispatch, and a regulation layer. The proposed method is validated by a set of numerical simulations. …”
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Solving water quality management problem through combined genetic algorithm and fuzzy simulation by Xu, T. Y., Qin, Xiaosheng

“…A conservative planning scheme could bring a more reliable system, but would be less economically attractive. Conversely, planning towards a higher system benefit would lead to a higher risk of system failure. …”
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A hierarchical cooperation formation model for downlink data transmission in mobile infostation networks by Li, Yifan, Wang, Ping, Niyato, Dusit, Han, Zhu

“…Mobile infostation network is proposed as a new network paradigm to provide users with wireless data services, and a good tradeoff between the connectivity requirement and economic investment can be achieved. Mobile infostation network can offload delay-tolerant traffic from cellular network leaving more resource for mobile real-time applications. …”
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Platform chemical production from food wastes using a biorefinery concept by Uçkun Kıran, Esra, Trzcinski, Antoine P., Liu, Yu

“…Compared with animal feed or traditional fuel for transportation, platform chemicals obviously have higher economic value, i.e. more profitable. Recently, technologies for production of value added bio-products (e.g. organic acids, biodegradable polymers, etc.) from various kinds of food wastes have gained more and more interest. …”
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An exploratory study on consumers' purchase of counterfeits in the context of luxury designer brands. by Koh, Christabel Sze Yinn., Lim, Serene Joo Shi., Ng, Carine Kai Ling.

“…Counterfeiting has become an economic problem that is of international importance and it has led to the formulation of various countermeasures that are based on lawful, political, administrative/business techniques. …”
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EMRQ : an efficient multi-keyword range query scheme in smart grid auction market by Lu, Rongxing, Li, Hongwei, Yang, Yi, Wen, Mi, Luo, Hongwei

“…With the increasing electricity consumption and the wide application of renewable energy sources, energy auction attracts a lot of attention due to its economic benefits. Many schemes have been proposed to support energy auction in smart grid. …”
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Development of 3D printable construction materials by Toh, Fen Hui

“…This comes from the fact that the construction industry is risk adverse and conservative in its practice, but it is also due to some technical, economic and social challenges that need to be overcome to unlock the possible opportunities from 3DCP in the building sector. …”
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The history of the Kallang River and Kallang Basin : filling in a gap in Singapore’s colonial historiography by Cheang, Tze Mun

“…It argues that the Kallang Basin developed into a regional hub for Southeast Asia and the Kallang River developed into a waterway connecting the inland settlements economic activities with the regional trade at the Basin while becoming a centre of new industries and local infrastructure. …”
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The life of a matriarch : a social history of Nyonyas in British Singapore, 1880-1940 by Yew, Charmaine Qian Le

“…The advantages reaped by Chinese baba men and their role in perpetuating this communal identity have been widely studied to justify their high socio-economic status under the British colonial administration. …”
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The value of sharing inland transportation services in a dry port system by Qiu, Xuan, Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee

“…Numerical studies are conducted to investigate the sensitivity of the economic and environmental value of sharing with respect to various system parameters. …”
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