Dividend policies and managerial ability beyond financial constraints: insights from China by Dan Hou, Ziyan Yuan, Alina Taran-Bozbay, R. M. Ammar Zahid

“…Alternative empirical estimations on a sample of 18,011 firm-year data of Chinese A-share listed companies between 2010 and 2019 indicate that managerial ability has a positive influence over cash dividend distribution, enhancing shareholders’ returns and the attractiveness of the companies on the financial market. …”
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STUDIES CONCERNING THE BEHAVIOR OF THE SUSPENDED SOLIDS IN THE MIXING PROCESS by MIHAELA-ELENA DASCĂLU, EMILIAN MOŞNEGUŢU, VALENTIN NEDEFF, ALEXANDRA-DANA CHIȚIMUȘ, NARCIS BÂRSAN

“…The main purpose of this paper is to determine and to identify the behavior of the dispersed phase, in this case, the solid particle, during the mixing process. …”
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Analysis on the Temporal and Spatial Heterogeneity of Factors Affecting Urbanization Development Based on the GTWR Model: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt by Wenbo Ma, Weiteng Tian, Qian Zhou, Qianqian Miao

“…Taking 110 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) as the sample, this paper explores the driving mechanism of urbanization development during 2007–2016 by using Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression Model (GTWR). …”
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Investigations of the relationship betw een disease and airborne (1→3)-β-D-glucan in buildings by Ragnar Rylander

“…Studies on the relationship between symptoms in indoor air and the amount of airborne (1→3)-β-D-glucan were reviewed. …”
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Flexible Bench-Scale Recirculating Flow CPC Photoreactor for Solar Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue Using Removable TiO2 Immobilized on PET Sheets by Doaa M. EL-Mekkawi, Norhan Nady, Nourelhoda A. Abdelwahab, Walied A. A. Mohamed, M. S. A. Abdel-Mottaleb

“…TiO2/PET sheets were wrapped on removable Teflon rods inside home-made bench-scale recirculating flow Compound Parabolic Concentrator (CPC) photoreactor prototype (platform 0.7 × 0.2 × 0.4 m3). …”
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Thermal Stability of Betalains in By-Products of the Blanching and Cutting of Beta vulgaris L. var conditiva by Carlos Mauricio Otalora, Evelyn Bonifazi, Eliana Noemi Fissore, Florencia Basanta, Lia Noemi Gerschenson

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Interaction between Bees and the Tristylous Flowers of Oxalis cytisoides Mart. & Zucc. (Oxalidaceae) by Cristiane Krug, Cláudia Inês Silva, Isabel Alves-dos-Santos

“…The interaction of bees with the tristylous flowers of Oxalis cytisoides Mart. & Zucc. …”
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Interaction between Dark Matter and Dark Energy and the Cosmological Coincidence Problem by Kourosh Nozari, Noushin Behrouz, Narges Rashidi

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The Beneficial Effect of IL-12 and IL-18 Transduced Dendritic Cells Stimulated with Tumor Antigens on Generation of an Antitumor Response in a Mouse Colon Carcinoma Model by Jagoda Mierzejewska, Katarzyna Węgierek-Ciura, Joanna Rossowska, Agnieszka Szczygieł, Natalia Anger-Góra, Bożena Szermer-Olearnik, Magdalena Geneja, Elżbieta Pajtasz-Piasecka

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Goji Berry: a Novel Nutraceutical "Superfruit" for Florida Master Gardeners by Yujie Jiao, Guodong Liu

“… Goji berries have been used in both fresh and processed forms for food and medicine for more than 4,000 years in China. …”
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Similarities and differences between exosystem-model-based disturbance observer and model error compensator by Kana Shikada, Noboru Sebe

“…This paper clarifies the theoretical similarities and differences between the exosystem-model-based disturbance observer and the model error compensator. …”
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Can Gastric Cancer Patients with High Mandard Score Benefit from Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy? by Wen-Zhe Kang, Bing-Zhi Wang, Deng-Feng Li, Zhi-Chao Jiang, Jian-Ping Xiong, Yang Li, Peng Jin, Xin-Xin Shao, Hai-Tao Hu, Yan-Tao Tian

“…The radiologist compared the tumor regression before and after chemotherapy by computed tomography (CT). …”
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Introduction to Pasture-Raised Poultry: Maximizing Foraging Behavior by Brad Burbaugh, Elena Toro, Abel Gernat

“…AN237, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by Brad Burbaugh, Elena Toro, and Abel Gernat, discusses foraging behavior, pasture management, pasture rotation, and other benefits of foraging. …”
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Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels before and after Intravitreous Ranibizumab Injection for Retinopathy of Prematurity by Xuting Chen, Lin Zhou, Qi Zhang, Yu Xu, Peiquan Zhao, Hongping Xia

“…This prospective investigation assessed the serum concentrations of VEGF in ROP patients before and after IVR therapy. All the infants had binocular retinopathy and received IVR 0.25 mg per eye as the primary treatment. …”
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ANALISIS KUALITAS GAS BUANG PADA STEAM BOILER BERBAHAN BAKAR BIO-SOLAR DAN BATU BARA by Moh. Rizal Ar Rasyid, Samsudin Anis, Susanto Susanto, Setio Wardana Danang

“…Therefore, analysis of flue gas emissions in steam boiler installations equipped with filtration devices (cyclones, water scrubbers, and electrostatic precipitators) before being discharged into the environment is of important. …”
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Association between previous work experience in general healthcare and recovery orientation among mental health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan by Miharu Nakanishi, Tomohiro Takahashi, Keita Toshi, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii

“…We investigated the association between work experience in general healthcare and recovery orientation. …”
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Soil Conservation Benefits of Ecological Programs Promote Sustainable Restoration by Renjie Zong, Nufang Fang, Yi Zeng, Xixi Lu, Zhen Wang, Wei Dai, Zhihua Shi

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Nutrition at early stages of life determines the future growth and reproductive performance of beef calves by Philipe Moriel

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The Impact of Risk Preference in Decision Behavior on Urban Expansion Morphology by Zhangwei Lu, Lihua Xu, Yaqi Wu, Yijun Shi, Jinyang Deng, Xiaoqiang Shen

“…With the rapid development of urbanization, the urban expansion morphology has been changing with complex driving mechanisms behind the urban evolution process. …”
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Bifurcation Behavior Analysis in a Predator-Prey Model by Nan Wang, Min Zhao, Hengguo Yu, Chuanjun Dai, Beibei Wang, Pengfei Wang

“…The aim is to explore how some key factors influence dynamic evolutionary mechanism of steady conversion and bifurcation behavior in predator-prey model. The theoretical works have been pursuing the investigation of the existence and stability of the equilibria, as well as the occurrence of bifurcation behaviors (transcritical bifurcation, saddle-node bifurcation, and Hopf bifurcation), which can deduce a standard parameter controlled relationship and in turn provide a theoretical basis for the numerical simulation. …”
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