Wage-setting Behavior in France: Additional Evidence from an Ad-hoc Survey by Jérémi Montornès, Jacques-Bernard Sauner-Leroy

“…Wage changes occur at regular intervals during the year and are concentrated in January and July. ii) We find a lower degree of downward real wage rigidity and nominal wage rigidity in France compared to the European average. iii) About one third of companies have an internal policy to grant wage increases according to inflation. iv) When companies are faced with adverse shocks, the latter are partially transmitted into prices. …”
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Big Data Technology：Current Applications and Prospects by Jianxin Liao

“…The research includes computer science，information science，management science，psychology，etc.Four key technologies in big data research，data collection，preprocessing and storage，data analysis and mining，data privacy protection，data center system structure were discussed and the hot research topics from domestic and overseas research groups were demonstrated in order to have comprehensive and systematic understanding of big data.The application status of big data was introduced from three perspectives，application platforms，relevant products and standardization.Meanwhile，description of current business in big data and other field was presented.Eventually，the opportunities and challenges in big data research were revealed through big data analysis strategies，privacy protection and data quality，which provide the guideline for future research.…”
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Mathematical Modelling and Optimal Control Strategies of a Multistrain COVID-19 Spread by Bouchaib Khajji, Lahoucine Boujallal, Omar Balatif, Mostafa Rachik

“…Finally, numerical simulations are performed in the case of two strains of COVID-19 and with four control strategies. By using the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) method, we show that combining vaccination with diagnosis provides the most cost-effective strategy.…”
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The Relationship between Academic Coping, Approach Achievement Goals and the Fear of Shame and Embarrassment in Science Class by Pelin Mete, Munevver Subasi

“…Academic coping was handled in four dimensions: positive, projective, denial, and non-coping. …”
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Three Generations of Experience and Thought in Microbiology and Infection by Morris Goldner

“…All three are medically qualified. Four questions were posed to each:…”
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A Similarity Classifier with Bonferroni Mean Operators by Onesfole Kurama, Pasi Luukka, Mikael Collan

“…The new proposed similarity classifier variants are tested on four real world medical research related data sets. …”
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TWO SIDES OF THE COIN: A PERSON- AND PROCESS-CENTERED ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO SCHOOL BULLYING PHENOMENON by Aleksandra Tłuściak-Deliowska

“…Over the past four decades of research on school bullying have produced an extensive body of knowledge about the nature of this phenomenon, its determinants and consequences. …”
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Vietnamese immigration in Poland: issues of education and integration for children by Nguyen DuyKhang, Phan Thi Tuyet Van

“…Regardless of the limitation of a perhaps not significantly substantial range of data, the study led to the outlining of some concerns connected with the process of education and integration of the children in these Vietnamese families. The main four findings which are related to the research question are: the cultural differences and expectations of the parents, the language barriers of the parents, the typical stereotypes of educating children at home, and the conflicts of self-identification in the future. …”
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Reflections on Educational Issues among Modern Language Students by Anna Carolina Peñaloza, Jhonatan Vasquez Guarnizo

“…The students began by analyzing four murals located within the university. Then, they created their own artwork and provided reflections on each other’s pieces of art. …”
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De novo transcriptome assembly of the Perna viridis: A novel invertebrate model for ecotoxicological studies by V. G. Vysakh, Sandhya Sukumaran, Gopalakrishnan A.

“…We generated a gill-specific reference transcriptome for Perna viridis using 292 million short Illumina reads from eight pooled gill tissue samples isolated from twenty-four individuals. The Trinity assembler generated 438,842 transcripts with an N50 of 1,958 bp. …”
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Measuring and mapping the existence of phantom borders at a local scale: example of Sudetenland in Czechia by Pavlína Netrdová, Matěj Korčák, Vojtěch Nosek

“…Two main maps show the effect size of the phantom border and its variability in space and time. Four additional maps visualise the results of hot spot analysis and their relationship to the phantom border.…”
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Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns: What we know about the cannabis and the Hashish trade in Afghanistan by James Bradford, David Mansfield

“…In the past four decades, much of the contemporary narrative of Afghanistan has been defined by opium. …”
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Fault Recognition Method of Transmission Gear based on Morphological Wavelet and Permutation Entropy by Ding Wei, Zhang Zhigang, Yao Lianhong, Huang Jie

“…Then，the permutation entropy is used as the eigenvalue of gear fault to extract the vibration signal, which included four working conditions: normal，slight-worn, medium-worn and broken teeth. …”
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Statistical Physics Modelling of Dye Adsorption on Modified Cotton by M. Khalfaoui, M.H.V. Baouab, R. Gauthier, A. Ben Lamine

“…Experimental adsorption isotherms for four anionic dyes (Acid Blue 25, Acid Yellow 99, Reactive Yellow 23 and Acid Blue 74) on to cationized cotton have been analyzed using a multilayer adsorption model. …”
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Fire and Invasive Plant Interactions by Deb Stone, Michael Andreu

“…For this review we chose four invasive species in the southeastern United States that cover a range of interactions with fire: Cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica), Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera), old world climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum), and Japanese climbing fern (L. japonicum). …”
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Poultry Litter Feeding Ban: Implications of the 2nd Interim Rule for Animal Feeding by Matt Hersom, Dale Dubberly, Kelly Friend

“… On January 26, 2004, the FDA issued four interim rules as a result of the first confirmed case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle in the United States. …”
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Analysis of the innovation and investment state in the sphere of industrial production of the Russian Federation by V. V. Degtyareva

“…The main methods used in the study are analysis and generalisation, and the construction of chain indices based on statistical information on industrial indicators, the Global Innovation Index and the level of assessment of the digital competitiveness of four countries. Conclusions are drawn about the impact of the studied indicators on the economy and, at the moment, the Russia’s position is not entirely positive according to these indicators. …”
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The Social Construction of Motherhood in Bengali Folklore by Sraboni Chatterjee, Pranab Chatterjee

“…Four contexts are identified in Bengali folklore where the word mā (meaning ‘mother’) is used. …”
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Novel Design of High-Gain Planar Dipole-Array Antenna for RFID 2.45 GHz by Danpeng Xie, Xueguan Liu, Huiping Guo, Xinmi Yang

“…This paper presents a novel high-gain planar dipole-array antenna for 2.45 GHz which consists of four planar dipole elements placed in two parallel lines. …”
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Spectral Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Simplification by Shubham Chitnis, Aditya Sole, Sharat Chandran

“…We propose a multi-layer perceptron for compact spectral material representations, with 31 wavelengths for four real-world packaging materials. Our neural-based scenario reduces measurement requirements while maintaining significant saliency. …”
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