Recent Advances in the Valorization of Biodiesel By-Product Glycerol to Solketal by Supongsenla Ao, Samuel Lalthazuala Rokhum

“…As a result, cost-effective glycerol conversions for significant value-added chemicals are essential for the biodiesel production in the long run. Solketal, a glycerol by-product, is obtained as a potential fuel additive in the biodiesel industry. …”
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Program for Studying Intergenerational Transmissions in Infant Mortality Using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) by Luciana Quaranta

“…The current work presents two programs that were developed in STATA to construct a dataset for analysis and run statistical models to study intergenerational transfers in infant mortality using databases that are stored in the IDS. …”
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A Practical Approach for Identity-Embodied 3D Artistic Face Modeling by Tanasai Sucontphunt

“…This approach can enable a novice user to interactively generate various artistic faces quickly using a slider control. Also, it can run in real-time on an off-the-shelf computer without GPU acceleration. …”
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Welfare Conditionality and Social Identity Effect Mechanisms and the Case of Immigrant Support by Lena von Deylen, Philipp C. Wichardt

“…Weighing benefits and potential risks, it is argued that the excessive use of welfare conditionality is likely to backfire in the long run and that this should be taken into account by policy makers. …”
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A LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY ANALYSIS FOR BUZAU COUNTY, ROMANIA by VERONICA ZUMPANO, HAYDAR HUSSIN, PAOLA REICHENBACH, DAN BĂLTEANU, MIHAI MICU, SIMONE STERLACCHINI

“…The susceptibility map was obtained using the weights-ofevidence modeling technique that allows understanding the significance of predisposing factors of shallow and medium-seated failures. The model was run considering eight environmental factors: slope, altitude, internal relief, planar and profile curvature, aspect, soil, land-use. …”
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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS FROM SOUTH AFRICA by Ahmed Oluwatobi Adekunle

“…The results revealed that a significant causal connection from economic growth to renewable energy is observed over the long-run while renewable energy does not granger cause economic growth, a uni-directional causality exist amid the economic growth and renewable energy. …”
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Mugabe's victory spells doom for the media in Zimbabwe by George Nyabuga

“… This article explores recent events in Zimbabwe, the violence and intimidation that marred the 2002 presidential elections and the war Robert Mugabe, the country's president since independence in 1980, waged against whoever was opposed to or challenged his leadership - especially white farmers and journalists - in the run-up to the crucial polls. I opine that even though Mugabe won 56 per cent of the country's vote, his leadership lacks legitimacy because a sizeable number of people, especially in the opposition areas, were denied the right to exercise their democratic right to cast their vote. …”
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The Stable Equilibrium Analysis of Nonlinear Renewable Resource Stock Evolution by Gökhan Güven, Selim İnançli

“…This paper aims to contribute the renewable open-access resources literature by providing formal solutions of stable equilibrium analysis in a closed economy within the long run.…”
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The pot, the cup and the jar: Coming together in/for stories by İnce Şengül

“…We, eight women, came together to run an event for the March 8th, International Women’s Day in 2014 and talked about what we had been experiencing during the period of writing master’s and PhD dissertations through the help of some ordinary life kitchen objects. …”
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BIST, FOREIGN CAPITAL AND EXCHANGE RATE RELATIONS: 1988-2015 by Ömer Selçuk Emsen, Ensar Ağırman

“…RBIST with Real Exchange Rate (RER) as the short-run variables that either affect RBIST or affected by it, foreign direct investment (FDI) to GDP ratio (FDIY) and the ratio of portfolio investments to GDP (PIY) as both short and long-term indirect capital investments were taken into consideration in this study. …”
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Political economy of televangelism: by Keyan G Tomaselli

“…Teleministries refers to the institutional business operations and structures run by televangelists. …”
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Oxidation of PAHs in water solutions by ultraviolet radiation combined with hydrogen peroxide by Stanislaw Ledakowicz, Jacek S. Miller, Dorota Olejnik

“…The oxidation reactions most rapidly run in neutral and acidic solution at optimal hydrogen peroxide concentration (ca. 0.01 M). …”
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Energy-Efficient Clustering and Localization Technique Using Genetic Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks by Junfeng Chen, Samson Hansen Sackey, Joseph Henry Anajemba, Xuewu Zhang, Yurun He

“…This function is certainly fast to run. The proposed ECGAL exhausts a lesser amount of energy and extends wireless network existence. …”
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Microscopic parametrizations for gate set tomography under coloured noise by P. Viñas, A. Bermudez

“…The standard approach treats QIPs as black boxes only constrained by the laws of physics, attaining full generality at a considerable resource cost: numerous circuits must be run in order to amplify each of the gate set parameters. …”
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Ògún: Bí a ṣe Fi Hàn Nínú Lítíréṣọ ̀ by Ọlátúndé Ọlátúnjí

“…  Ìtàn àbàláyé àwa Yorùbá sọ fún wa pé ògún ló ṣaájú gbogbo àwọn òrìsà yòókù nígbà tí wó n ń ti ìko ̣ ̀ lé o ̣ ̀ run bo ̣ ̀ wáyé. Òun ló ní àdá ti ó fi gán o ̣ ̀ nà ti ̣ gbogbo wó n gbà. …”
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Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect M&A Operations? Evidence from the Brazilian Market by Alexandre Teixeira Norberto Batista, Wagner Moura Lamounier, Poueri do Carmo Mário

“…For this purpose, we have run a binomial logistic regression model to verify the impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on the propensity for Mergers and Acquisitions in the following year. …”
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Program for Studying Intergenerational Transmissions in Infant Mortality Using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) by Luciana Quaranta

“…The current work presents two programs that were developed in STATA to construct a dataset for analysis and run statistical models to study intergenerational transfers in infant mortality using databases that are stored in the IDS. …”
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Location-Routing Problem of Emergency Facilities under Uncertain Demand by Branch-Price and Cut by Xuchen Deng

“…The results show that the robust model can run successfully and maintain its robustness, and the robust model provides better protection against demand uncertainty. …”
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When focus goes wild: An empirical study of two syntactic positions for information focus by Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández

“…This points toward a certain degree of microparametric variation in Spanish syntax (an understudied area), which will be tested by means of a grammaticality judgement task run among both SPS and SS speakers. …”
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The 'Rush Hour' of Life: Insecurities and Strains in Early Life Phases as a Challenge for a Life Course-Oriented, Sustainable Social Policy by Ute Klammer

“…The extent to which precarious employments and other labour market risks in early life phases affect the people concerned in the long run can only be determined by looking at entire biographies, in particular at life and labour courses. …”
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