Ten Years After the 2008 Crisis: Has Risk Aversion Won? by Eliana Marcia Martins Fittipaldi Torga, Carolina Magda da Silva Roma, Paula Magda Roma, Bruno Pérez Ferreira

“…The design of the strategies used both twelve- and thirty-month rolling windows for the standard deviation and conditional volatility estimates. …”
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Preparing for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Norwegian Compulsory Schools: Student Teachers’ Encounters With Multicultural Education by Artëm Ingmar Benediktsson

“…Through analysing individual interviews with twelve Norwegian student teachers, this paper explores their encounters with multicultural education in compulsory school settings. …”
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Terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in the Upper Mežica valley by Petra Štern, Primož Zidar

“…Isopods were collected from April to October 2022 by hand from 49 localities in the wider area of two towns – Žerjav and Črna na Koroškem in the area of Podpeca, the area above the Bistra Valley, and in the areas Spodnje Javorje and Javorje. Twelve different taxa of terrestrial isopods were determined, eleven of them to the species level. …”
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Influence of Concrete Compressive Strength on CFRP Strengthening and Repairing of RC Two-Way Slabs by Mohammed F. Ojaimi, Meyyada Y. Alabdulhady, Kadhim Z. Naser

“…The experimental program includes testing twelve samples. Four samples served as control panels, while four samples were strengthened using CFRP sheets to study the effect of carbon sheets on the ultimate load capacity. …”
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Comparison of Two Methods for Assaying Reducing Sugars in the Determination of Carbohydrase Activities by Alexander V. Gusakov, Elena G. Kondratyeva, Arkady P. Sinitsyn

“…The Nelson-Somogyi (NS) and 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) assays for reducing sugars are widely used in measurements of carbohydrase activities against different polysaccharides. Using twelve commercial enzyme preparations, the comparison of the NS and DNS assays in determination of cellulase, β-glucanase, xylanase, and β-mannanase activities was carried out. …”
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A Crude Oil Spot Price Forecasting Method Incorporating Quadratic Decomposition and Residual Forecasting by Yonghui Duan, Ziru Ming, Xiang Wang

“…-VMD -SOA-SVR combination prediction model presented in this paper are assessed and compared with those of the other twelve comparative models. The empirical evidence shows that the combination model being proposed in this paper outperforms the other related comparative models and improves the accuracy of the crude oil price forecasting model.…”
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Multiproduct Multiperiod Newsvendor Problem with Dynamic Market Efforts by Jianmai Shi, Yiping Bao

“…A Lagrangian relaxation based solution approach is developed to solve the problem, in which the subgradient algorithm is used to find an upper bound of the solution and a feasibility heuristic algorithm is proposed to search for a feasible lower bound. Twelve kinds of instances with different problem size involving up to 50 products and 15 planning periods are randomly generated and used to test the Lagrangian heuristic algorithm. …”
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The Effects of Red and Blue Lights on Circadian Variations in Cortisol, Alpha Amylase, and Melatonin by Mariana G. Figueiro, Mark S. Rea

“…In a within-subjects experimental design, twelve subjects periodically received one-hour corneal exposures of 40 lux from the blue or from the red lights while continuously awake for 27 hours. …”
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Étude paléodémographique et utilisation du feu à Hili N, une sépulture collective en fosse de la fin de l’âge du Bronze ancien aux Émirats Arabes Unis by Esther Gatto, Gautier Basset, Sophie Méry, Kathleen McSweeney

“…However, some of the babies aged less than twelve months were probably buried elsewhere.At least four fires occurred during the last phases of use of the grave. …”
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SELECTION OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS USING FUZZY PROMETHEE METHOD WITH DIFFERENT SCENARIO TYPES by MELİKE KÜBRA EKİZ BOZDEMİR, ATAKAN ALKAN

“…Therefore, we have created twelve different scenarios that are different weights and thresholds and handled the selection and ranking of SMPs by fuzzy Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE) I and II. …”
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Women’s leadership in Ethiopian higher education: development, contribution, quality and preference by Abebaw Yirga Adamu

“…The present paper aims to address this lacuna by examining women senior leadership development, contribution, quality and preference based on the views and experiences of twelve women senior leaders drawn from ten public universities. …”
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Physicians’ Perceptions of the Quality of Palliative Care and of the Importance of Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Teams in Norwegian Nursing Homes by Skomakerstuen Ødbehr L, Hov R, Sanaker H, Sandsdalen T

“…The aim of the study was thus to investigate physicians’ perceptions of factors that influence the quality of palliative care in Norwegian nursing homes and their descriptions of the importance of the team’s collaboration.Materials and Methods: The study has a qualitative research design based on interviews with twelve nursing home physicians in Eastern Norway. …”
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Evolución del Empleo en el Sector Terciario en Venezuela by ELIZABETH TORRES RIVAS

“…Los segundos surgen por la presión de la oferta laboral, y genera empleos que suelen ser poco productivos y de mala calidad (Weller, 2004). En este artículo se analizan las características del empleo en el sector terciario en Venezuela en el período 1978 a 2004. …”
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Cosmic Rays Report from the Structure of Space by A. Annila

“…Spectrum of cosmic rays follows a broken power law over twelve orders of magnitude. Since ubiquitous power laws are manifestations of the principle of least action, we interpret the spectrum accordingly. …”
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Computational Prediction of Electronic and Photovoltaic Properties of Anthracene-Based Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Hongbo Wang, Qian Liu, Dejiang Liu, Runzhou Su, Jinglin Liu, Yuanzuo Li

“…This structural modification also improves the light capturing and the electron injection capability, making it excellent in photoelectric conversion efficiency (PCE). In addition, twelve molecules have been designed to regulate photovoltaic performance.…”
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Embryologic Association of Tornwaldt's Cyst with Cerebral Artery Abnormalities and Infarction: A Case Report by Michael F. Osborn, Benjamin K. Buchanan, Nassim Akle, Ahmed Badr, Jun Zhang

“…Summary of Case. We reported a twelve-year-old female stroke patient with Tornwaldt's cysts, whose father also suffered a stroke at age fifty two with the presence of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, suggesting a genetic influence in this case. …”
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Large Language Models lack essential metacognition for reliable medical reasoning by Maxime Griot, Coralie Hemptinne, Jean Vanderdonckt, Demet Yuksel

“…To address this gap, we developed MetaMedQA, a benchmark incorporating confidence scores and metacognitive tasks into multiple-choice medical questions. We evaluated twelve models on dimensions including confidence-based accuracy, missing answer recall, and unknown recall. …”
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A Case Series of Breast Metastases from Different Extramammary Malignancies and Their Literature Review by Liliana Moreno-Astudillo, Yolanda Villaseñor-Navarro, Vyanka Sánchez-Goytia, Fany Porras-Reyes, Alfredo Lara-Mercado, Isabel Sollozo-Dupont

“…Metastasis to the breast from all other primary sites is unusual. Twelve patients were diagnosed between 2007 and 2017 at National Cancer Institute, Mexico. …”
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Trusting the trustless blockchain for its adoption in accounting: theorizing the mediating role of technology-organization-environment framework by Sujata Seshadrinathan, Shalini Chandra

“…The model was validated based on qualitative semi-structured interviews of twelve industry leaders and was comprehensively tested using a quantitative survey-based methodology with accounting professionals knowledgeable about blockchain technology. …”
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SCREENING OF RICE ACCESSIONS FOR GREENBUG RESISTANCE by P. I. Kostylev, E. V. Krasnova, E. E. Radchenko, T. L. Kuznetsova, M. A. Chumakov, L. M. Kostyleva

“…The overwhelming majority of the studied forms were heterogeneous in their resistance. Twelve forms (5.5%) with the resistance score 2.2-3.0 were identified. …”
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