CEO Characteristics and Earnings Management: A Study of Manager Tenure, Age, Gender, and Overconfidence by Chen Sitao, Tzavara Dionisia, Argyropoulou Maria, Koufopoulos Dimitrios, Argyropoulou Rachel

“…While previous studies mainly use data from US companies, this research contributes to the literature by using data from non-US companies, addressing the call for more empirical studies to understand how top executives’ demographic characteristics impact earnings management in different contexts.…”
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Tips on Establishing a Robotics Program in an Academic Setting by William D. Steers

“…Driving this trend has been the large number of robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomies performed throughout the U.S. Nearly a quarter of the prostatectomies done for prostate cancer in the U.S. in 2006 will use robotic assistance, yet reports fail to confirm cost effectiveness. …”
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Moloch en expansion by Agnès Bouvier

“…First of all, molochism is at work in Greece, and that means “us” in the sense implied by Flaubert when he replied to Sainte-Beuve’s criticism for “not having introduced among the Greeks a philosopher, a man of reason who could have lectured us on morals, or done good deeds, a gentleman, in a word, ‘who feels as we feel’”. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Ground Shock Coupling Factor for Near-Surface Detonations by Timothy W. Shelton, John Q. Ehrgott, Ramon J. Moral, Michele Barbato

“…This paper presents the results of recent ground shock experiments conducted by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to further investigate the adequacy of the coupling factor approach to shallow-buried or near-surface detonations. …”
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High level modeling of Dynamic Reconfigurable FPGAs by Imran Rafiq Quadri, Samy Meftali, Jean-Luc Dekeyser

“…Extensions of this methodology have enabled us to integrate new features such as Partial Dynamic Reconfiguration supported by Modern FPGAs. …”
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Quantitative estimates for perturbed sampling Kantorovich operators in Orlicz spaces by Costarelli Danilo, De Angelis Eleonora, Vinti Gianluca

“…The possibility of using a direct approach allows us to improve the estimate that can be deduced as a consequence of the one achieved in Orlicz spaces. …”
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Factors of employment of graduates of higher educational institutions in Guinea by A. Traore, N. V. Kazantseva

“…This study demonstrates the variables influencing the employment of young tertiary graduates. The model used allows us to establish economic relationships between exogenous and endogenous variables. …”
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Embracing peer review of teaching: promoting the ‘why’ within third space education. by Avril Buchanan, Kate Haley, Chad McDonald

“…Consequently, we suggest that our peer-review process is an enabler for us as third-space educators to articulate the impact of our practice through both theoretical and practical lenses, helping us to influence positive change within contemporary higher education. …”
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High survival promotes bunchgrass persistence in old‐growth savannas under different fire regimes by Jennifer M. Fill, Raelene M. Crandall

“…The patterns we observed in wiregrass mirror inferences from other studies of dominant grass dynamics in old‐growth tropical savannas and support the inclusion of old‐growth US pine savannas in global savanna ecology.…”
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Exhibiting the West at the Paris Exposition of 1867: Towards a New American Aesthetic Identity? by François Brunet, Jessica Talley

“…The United States was only a second-tier player; however, for the U.S. organizers the Paris Exposition was a crucial opportunity for the country as it just emerged from the Civil War and entered Reconstruction. …”
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“The Road of War” and “The Path of Peace”: William Morris’s Representation of Violence by Eleonora Sasso

“…I will reflect on the conflict between the life instinct—Eros—and the death instinct—Thanatos—, and interpret the violence shown by Morrisean proper men of war as “an outpouring of innate aggressiveness”, one which introduces man’s failure of restraining his instinctual motives, reminding us that the principal task of civilization is to “defend us against nature”. …”
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TRANSATLANTIC INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES COMPETITIVENESS PROBLEMS by A. A. Sidorov

“…Results of TTIP econometric modelling are critically assessed. Problems of the EU-US non-tariff liberalization are analyzed. Efficiency of the EU and US labor markets is compared. …”
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Ecosystem Understanding of the City-Human Being Relationship by Krystyna Najder-Stefaniak

“…The paradigm of the ecosystem relationship makes us realize the complexity of dependencies in the dynamic, open and relatively isolated system of activity. …”
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L’illusion de la désillusion : Essai d’interprétation génétique de L’Éducation sentimentale by Kazuhiro Matsuzawa

“…In the draft Madame Arnoux’s initial sentence was: “I came to pay back 15 thousand francs”. Let us not forget that in the novel’s second part the Arnoux couple borrowed this sum from the young man who had become rich thanks to an uncle’s legacy. …”
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Roof renewal disparities widen the equity gap in residential wildfire protection by Sebastian Reining, Moritz Wussow, Chad Zanocco, Dirk Neumann

“…Abstract Wildfires are having disproportionate impacts on U.S. households. Notably, in California, over half of wildfire-destroyed homes (54%) are in low-income areas. …”
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Utilization of Kabale University Library Services by Academic Staff in Teaching and Research. by Kobusingye, Gloria

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Protection of Patients’ Medical Records: A Case Study of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital. by Alirumboyo, Aisha

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The Impact of Religion on Moral Development in Kabale Diocese; A Case Study of Southern Division Kabale Municipality. by Musiimenta, Asia

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Teenage Motherhood and its Effect on the Social Welfare of The Victims: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality. by Kwesiga, Siifa

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Design and Construction of an Improvised Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. by Owamaani, Babrah

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