FIRM SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS AND DIVIDEND PAYOUT RATIO: AN INSIGHT OF QUOTED COMPANIES ON THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE by Oluwaseyi Ayodele Adedipe, Sunday Azeita Okoughenu

“…Hence, this study recommends that managers of Nigerian quoted firms should lower the amount of cash spent on capital intensity, labour intensity and R&D intensity so that the value of profitability will increase; and the same time, dividend pay-out ratio will equally increase. …”
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Surfing with the tide: Real estate as a hedge against inflation by Malović Marko, Roganović Miloš

“…After a multi-year period of low interest rates and monetary expansions following the so-called great moderation, the issue of how to protect capital from value erosion became highly relevant once again. …”
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Study protocol for virtual leisure investigating the effect of virtual reality-delivered stress reduction, entertainment and distraction on the use of coercion and need-based medic... by Julie Midtgaard, Lars Clemmensen, Louise Birkedal Glenthøj, Gry Jørgensen, Kristina Ballestad Gundersen, Lisa Charlotte Smith, Stephane Bouchard, Christina Plambøck Thomsen, Louise Turgut

“…The study began on 1 January 2023, and we expect to complete data collection by 31 December 2024.Ethics and dissemination The study is registered at Danish Data Protection Agency (j.no P-2022-466) and is approved by the Committee on Health Research Ethics of the capital region of Denmark (j.no 22013313). All patients will be required to provide informed consent. …”
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Eucalyptus-based livelihoods: enhancing household food security and resilience in Northwest Ethiopia by Fasika Belay, Fasika Belay, Messay Mulugeta, Teferee Makonnen

“…However, households that own eucalyptus plantations demonstrate a lower index for human capital than those without eucalyptus plantations. …”
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Effect of Small and Medium Enterprises on Growth of Business in Kabale Municipality: A Case Study of Kabale Central Market. by Atukunzire, Pross

“…The study highlighted that the primary source of startup capital for many of these businesses was personal savings. …”
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Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it? by Shmuel Amir

“…For this to happen, individual and social impatience-lowering adaptations should be adopted, and the capital of the system, both economic and natural, has to be redistributed among the system interacting components to result in an ever more complex organizational web. …”
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Education and Research Policy as an Instrument of Soft Power in Germany by N. Bolshova

“…In today's global struggle for leadership Germany relies on "soft" and "smart" power («soft and smart power»): education, research, innovation and human capital. This article discusses the most important initiatives the federal government and lands in the past five years, aiming at strengthening the position of Germany as a world center of higher education and advanced research and the most attractive location for highly qualified specialists from around the world.…”
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Pasteur : sous le savant l’artiste by Perrot, Annick

“…In particular these talents led him to one of his capital discoveries, the chirality of chemical compounds. …”
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LINKING SMALL-SCALE FARMERS TO MARKET THROUGH AN EFFICIENT SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT by Lê Như Bích

“…For smallholder farmers, their participation in such value-added chains is contingent upon the formation of formal or informal groups, thereby providing some economies of scale and a greater capacity to meet the needs of their downstream customers. Trust and social capital is instrumental in the formation of these groups.…”
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Quand les héritiers deviennent des « entrepreneurs » : les nouveaux appuis rhétoriques et pratiques de l’accumulation by Camille Herlin-Giret

“…These transformations blur common divisions - labor and capital, private and professional wealth, inheritance and recent fortunes - which have yet been echoed by the success of an entrepreneurial rhetoric. …”
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L’essor de l’activité minière à l’Ouest du Kenya by Joseph Bohbot

“…However, artisanal miners remain limited in the exploitation of gold resources due to their lack of capital and technical knowledge. Other actors, with greater resources, are able to position themselves in gold mining while cohabiting with these artisanal gold miners. …”
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INVESTMENT EVALUATION: INTERNATIONAL AND RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE by S. Bychkova, I. Morozov

“…In Russia the analysis of dynamics of investments in fixed capital by kinds of economic activities are considered sources of financing. …”
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Growth and Debt Effects of a Credit-Financed Public Investment Offensive by Sebastian Dullien, Ekaterina Jürgens, Christoph Paetz, Sebastian Watzka

“…These effects are amplified when an increase in the productivity of the private capital stock due to improved public infrastructure is taken into account.…”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Ulaanbaatar: what Signs and People tell about by Erzhen V. Khilkhanova

“…The paper analyzes the linguistic landscape of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar in an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological context: at the junction of social semiotics, ethnography, and linguistic landscape studies as a subdiscipline of sociolinguistics. …”
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ADMINISTRATIVE PREREQUISITES FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING OF SMALL BUSINESSES AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL by Natalia Koval, Oksana Kubai, Natalia Germaniuk

“…The differences concern: shares in authorised capital; average number of employees; amount of turnover. …”
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HCoV‐HKU1 and TMPRSS2 interaction: uncovering mechanisms of viral invasion by Zehan Pang, Huahao Fan, Xiaolong Xu

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North American Integration after 20 Years by G. M. Kostyunina

“…NAFTA covers trade in goods, services and movement of capital, intellectual property rights, environmental cooperation and labor cooperation. …”
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Geospatial Analysis and Research on Social and Spatial Inequality of Compulsory Education: A Case Study of Hangzhou, China by Ge He, Qinshi Huang

“…In this paper, an improved Gaussian two-step floating catchment area model is developed taking into consideration the school district system, while the bivariate local spatial analysis method and geographically weighted regression model are employed to study the social and spatial differentiation of compulsory education accessibility and its capitalization effects in Hangzhou. Results show that (1) the improved Gaussian two-step floating catchment area model is more in line with the national condition of China’s “nearby schooling” policy; (2) the accessibility of compulsory schools in Hangzhou shows an obvious core-periphery typology, and the aggregation effect of primary school accessibility is more significant than that of secondary schools; (3) compared to groups with high socioeconomic status, vulnerable groups are highly disadvantaged in terms of access to educational services; (4) spatial heterogeneity exists in education capitalization, and the areas where education accessibility has the strongest impact on housing prices are in the central city with rich high-quality educational resources; (5) high-quality educational resources, high-priced communities, clusters of high socioeconomic status groups, and communities enjoying high-level education accessibility are highly consistent in all spaces, which is the spatial expression of educational inequality. …”
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Association of Lumican Gene with Susceptibility to Pathological Myopia in the Northern Han Ethnic Chinese by Fengju Zhang, Tingzhun Zhu, Zhongjun Zhou, Yudong Wu, Yang Li

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Public-Private Partnerships in Republic of Korea: Experience and Results by Lee Jae Sung

“…The PPP periods are much related to various amendments to the basic PPP law, initially adopted in August 1994 as the Act on Promotion of Private Capital Investment in Social Overhead Capital which was transformed into the Act on Private Participation in Infrastructure (briefly called the PPP Act) in December 1998. …”
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