Standardization catch-up strategy of latecomer enterprises: a longitudinal case of Huawei by Wei Yang, Yurong Zhang

“…In order to address this gap, we conducted a comprehensive and structured case study on Huawei’s standardization strategy. …”
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Salivary Lipid Peroxidation and Total Sialic Acid Levels in Smokers and Smokeless Tobacco Users as Maraş Powder by Naciye Kurtul, Engin Gökpınar

“…Maraş powder (MP), a different type of smokeless tobacco (ST) and prepared from a tobacco of species Nicotiana rustica Linn, is widely used in Turkey. We aimed to investigate the effects of MP on salivary total sialic acid (TSA) and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels and to compare these parameters in smokers and MP users (MPUs). …”
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La prefectura y las subprefecturas ayacuchanas como artífices del nacionalismo ante el litigio fronterizo entre Perú y Ecuador (1910) by Miriam Encarnación-Pinedo, Carmen Cazorla-Zen

“…Methodology: We use discourse and documentary analysis of telegrams and memos sent from and to the prefectura and subprefecturas of Ayacucho. …”
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Container Freight Rates and International Trade Causality Nexus: Evidence from Panel VAR Approach for Shanghai and ASEAN-6 Countries by Xingong Ding, Mengzhen Wang

“…We use the freight rate data are from the Southeast Asia Freight Index, which is used for the first time in an empirical study. …”
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Cycle Intersection for SOp,q-Flag Domains by Faten Abu Shoga

“…Furthermore, we give an explicit description of the points of intersection in terms of flags and their number. …”
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Blowup Phenomena for the Compressible Euler and Euler-Poisson Equations with Initial Functional Conditions by Sen Wong, Manwai Yuen

“…We study, in the radial symmetric case, the finite time life span of the compressible Euler or Euler-Poisson equations in RN. …”
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Gliptins and Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Comparative and Critical Analysis after TECOS by Samit Ghosal, Binayak Sinha

“…Hence, all eyes were on TECOS, which was published this year. We take a microscopic look at these trials trying to understand where we stand as from now on this issue.…”
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Provocation: Journal experiments in overlay, data and provisionality by Tim Boon

“…Being online rather than on paper always conferred potential benefits that we were keen to promote: the ability to feature very high-definition photographs, to draw on the Museum’s extensive image library, to embed sound and film files, to link elsewhere on the internet. …”
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Correlation functions in scalar field theory at large charge by G. Arias-Tamargo, D. Rodriguez-Gomez, J. G. Russo

“…Abstract We compute general higher-point functions in the sector of large charge operators ϕn, ϕ ¯ n $$ {\overline{\phi}}^n $$ at large charge in O(2) ϕ ¯ ϕ 2 $$ {\left(\overline{\phi}\phi \right)}^2 $$ theory. …”
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CoTF-reg reveals cooperative transcription factors in oligodendrocyte gene regulation using single-cell multi-omics by Jerome J. Choi, John Svaren, Daifeng Wang

“…First, we identify co-binding TF pairs in the same oligodendrocyte-specific regulatory regions. …”
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Production Scheduling considering Outsourcing Options and Carrier Costs by Byung-Cheon Choi, Yunhong Min, Myoung-Ju Park, Kyung Min Kim

“…We consider a single-machine scheduling problem with outsourcing options in an environment where the cost information of the downstream is available via some information sharing technologies. …”
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Des talus pleins les yeux by Denis Delbaere, Sabine Ehrmann

“…As a result, embankments, ever present in the view most of us have of the places we travel through every day when using motorways or railways, are also the ones we take the least notice of since we perceive them simply as green spaces devoid of any intrinsic value. …”
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Horizontally Differentiated Store Brands: Production Outsourcing to National Brand Manufacturers by Shun Shindo, Nobuo Matsubayashi

“…We study a retailer's strategic decision with regard to outsourcing the production of such types of store brands (SBs) to national brand (NB) manufacturers. …”
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Metrics used in quality improvement publications addressing environmental sustainability in healthcare: A scoping review protocol. by Colin Sue-Chue-Lam, Sezgi Yanikomeroglu, Doulia Hamad, Brian Wong, Karen Born

“…Charted data will be synthesized narratively as well as with descriptive tables, figures, and summary statistics. In doing so, we will map areas of relative focus as well as gaps in the measurement of ecological impact across quality improvement initiatives. …”
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Development of a Novel Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Robot Enabling Complete Remote Control of All Operations: Endoscopic Therapeutic Robot System (ETRS) by Keiichiro Kume, Nobuo Sakai, Toru Ueda

“…Method. We carried out endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in porcine stomachs using the ETRS. …”
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Evaluating healthy cities: A scoping review protocol. by Michelle Amri, Safa Ali, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Kathryn Barrett, Jesse Boardman Bump

“…<h4>Methods</h4>To develop a scoping review protocol that could identify experiences evaluating the Healthy Cities project, we followed the PRISMA guidelines for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). …”
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metaGE: Investigating genotype x environment interactions through GWAS meta-analysis. by Annaïg De Walsche, Alexis Vergne, Renaud Rincent, Fabrice Roux, Stéphane Nicolas, Claude Welcker, Sofiane Mezmouk, Alain Charcosset, Tristan Mary-Huard

“…We also applied metaGE to two emblematic examples: the detection of flowering QTLs whose effects are modulated by competition in Arabidopsis and the detection of yield QTLs impacted by drought stresses in maize. …”
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A method for analyzing the stability of the resting state for a model ofpacemaker cells surrounded by stable cells by Robert Artebrant, Aslak Tveito, Glenn T. Lines

“…The purpose of this paper is to derive and analyze methods for examining the stability of solutions of partial differential equations modeling collections of excitable cells. In particular, we derive methods for estimating the principal eigenvalue of a linearized version of the Luo-Rudy I model close to an equilibrium solution. …”
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Guaranteed Stability of Sparse Recovery in Distributed Compressive Sensing MIMO Radar by Yu Tao, Gong Zhang, Jindong Zhang

“…Low SNR condition has been a big challenge in the face of distributed compressive sensing MIMO radar (DCS-MIMO radar) and noise in measurements would decrease performance of radar system. In this paper, we first devise the scheme of DCS-MIMO radar including the joint sparse basis and the joint measurement matrix. …”
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Multi-pulse Fourier codes for bit transmission at the quantum limit by Matteo Rosati

“…We compute the rate of these codes exactly, and provide a comprehensive study of their performance. …”
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