Peer effects, industry concentration and capital structure: evidence from emerging market economies by Isma Zaighum, Ameenullah Aman, Mohd Zaini B. Abd Karim

“…Moreover, peers matter more when firms are operating in the competitive environments and same is not true for firms belonging to concentrated environment. …”
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New forgery attack on the authenticated cipher SCREAM and iSCREAM by Yu-dan TIAN, Yong-zhuang WEI

“…It is shown that this new attack is more flexible and effective. Furthermore, the success probability of the forgery will be one.…”
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Isokinetic strength and experience: Analyzing key attributes in professional soccer players by Hacı Ahmet Taşpınar, Alparslan İnce, Necdet Apaydın, Cengiz Ölmez

“…Soccer is one of the sports where performance is shaped by the coming together of numerous variables. The importance of strength, a physical variable that determines performance, is thought to be as crucial as the experience levels of athletes, which are also considered important for performance. …”
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Review of Design and Implementation of Automated Drugs Mixer by Hayder Ajmi Beshet, Ahmed Rashid Ajel, Aws Basil Hamed, Noaman Mohammad Noaman

“… Macromixing and drug control are becoming more essential in a wide range of chemical and biological applications. …”
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INFLUENCE OF UTILIZED LOAD OF DRIVE OF COMPRESSING STATION UPON PARAMETERS OF GTP by A. A. Abrazovski

“…Today it is required to use secondary energy resources (STR), which we have in gas-transport system of the country, more efficiently. In this system (STR) smoke gases of gas transforming aggregates with turbogas drive installations are presented primarily.For using STR of turbogas drives it is necessary to forecast heat exchange equipment installation, this causes the growth of aerodynamic resistance of exhaust channel. …”
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Improved Liu Estimator for the Beta Regression Model: Methods, Simulation and Applications by Nimra Ilyas, Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Nauman Akram, Syeda Maryam Siddiqa

“…Using the Mean Squared Error (MSE), we analytically show that the proposed estimator performs more efficiently than the MLE, Beta Ridge Regression Estimator (BRRE), and Beta Liu Estimator (BLE). …”
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La partecipazione politica nel tempo della post-democrazia by Michele Sorice

“…The transformations taking place can be better understood if framed in the “paradigm of the crisis”, made even more evident in the time of the pandemic. A review of many concepts then becomes necessary, within a scientific horizon that does not renounce to critically analyse its own tools. …”
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Effect of Admixture on Freeze-thaw Damage of Sleeve Grouting Materials by WU Zhaoyue, ZHU Haiqing

“…This paper compares the physical and mechanical properties of sleeve grouting materials with different admixtures under freeze-thaw action by means of control variable method,studies the effects of different admixtures and different contents on the apparent morphology,mass loss and strength loss of sleeve grouting materials under freeze-thaw action,and further analyzes the change of species,quantity and morphology of hydration products in freeze-thaw cycle by SEM (scanning electron microscope).The results show that:After 120 freeze-thaw cycles,the mass loss of mortar specimens with admixtures is less than 2%,which is lagged compared with the compressive strength loss;Based on the gray correlation analysis,the impact of expansion agent on the mechanical properties of mortar specimens under different freeze-thaw cycles is the lowest.However,with the addition of defoaming agent,the physical and mechanical properties of mortar specimens are more sensitive to freeze-thaw damage,and the sensitivity will increase with the increase of defoaming agent contents;From the microstructure analysis,the addition of expansion agent can improve the stability of internal C-S-H gel system after freeze-thaw action.…”
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Impacts of recent climate change on trends in baseflow and stormflow in United States watersheds by Darren L. Ficklin, Scott M. Robeson, Jason H. Knouft

“…Trends elsewhere and at other times of the year are more variable but still associated with changes in climate. …”
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UNA APLICACIÓN DEL MODELO PROBIT SOBRE EL EFECTO VECINDARIO EN ENTORNOS EDUCATIVOS by Charli Benavides Parra

“…The objective is that this methodology can be used in different academic environments, for example,in higher education classrooms where more variability is perceived in the distribution of student residences.…”
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Emotions of CLIL Preservice Teachers in Teaching Non-Linguistic Subjects in English by Lucía Belmonte Carrasco, Guadalupe de la Maya Retamar

“…The participants completed a questionnaire which showed that positive emotions were more frequent than negative ones. The variable causing such feelings included the subject taught, the sex of the teaching staff, previous experience, attitudes of educational centre tutors, and the students themselves. …”
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Analysis of The Impact of Placements In Bi, Securities, and Loans Disbursed on Net Income of Banks Listed on The Indonesia Stock Exchange by Maya Macia Sari, Aulia Aulia, Fara Dhia Naaura

“…This study aims to test and find out more clearly how “Analysis of the Effect of Placement on Bi, Securities and Disbursed Loans on Net Income at Banks Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange”. …”
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Population, Climate Change and the Philosopher’s Message by Craig Stanbury

“…Population size is a significant variable that can be addressed to help combat climate change. …”
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THE GIANT'S TRAIL: MOBILITY AND EXCHANGE OF WHALES AND THEIR BY-PRODUCTS IN ANTIQUITY (1ST CENTURY BC-5TH CENTURY AD) by Antonio Ruiz SÁNCHEZ, Sebastián Uribe RODRÍGUEZ

“…However, its scope was variable. Thus, we propose the coexistence of regional spaces where small-scale whaling was conducted to meet local needs, alongside large Eurasian exchange networks, which are more difficult to trace.…”
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Current and future state of the management of Hirschsprung disease by Jessica L Mueller, Ryo Hotta

“…This review focuses on discussing the recent advances to better understand HSCR and leverage them for more accurate and potentially less invasive diagnosis. …”
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Generalized 2D polynomial chaotic map and its application in information transmission by Wenhao YAN, Zijing JIANG, Xin HUANG, Shujuan ZHU, Qun DING

“…Existing chaotic systems have many defects in engineering applications, such as discontinuous chaotic parameter range, weak chaos, uneven output of chaotic sequences and dynamic degradation.Therefore, a generalized 2D polynomial chaotic mapping model was proposed.By setting different control parameters and the highest degree of polynomial, a series of 2D robust chaotic maps with specific Lyapunov exponent could be obtained.In order to avoid the output of the second state equation collapsing to a fixed value, a random disturbance variable which did not change with time was introduced.Finally, a numerical example was given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model, and the dynamic analysis showed that the mapping has complex dynamic behavior.Finally, the system was applied to information transmission technology.Compared with other chaotic maps, the system can achieve lower bit error rate, which indicates that the chaotic map is more suitable for chaotic information transmission.…”
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Analysis of wage dynamics in a public education institution by Birutė Balčytienė

“…Determining the value of an academic employee's work is variable and sensitive, in the absence of a more detailed and reasoned justification of official coefficients. …”
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Simulation of Control System Operation for D.C. Electric Drive Using CoDeSys Programming Medium by S. O. Novikov

“…The paper presents rather interesting tool for graphical laying-out of variable values which is used for adjustment of CoDeSys functions. …”
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Resilience of coastal wetlands to extreme hydrologic events in Apalachicola Bay by Subrina Tahsin, Stephen C. Medeiros, Arvind Singh

“…The recovery time for vegetation after impact from these extreme events can be highly variable depending on the hazard type and intensity. …”
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Rest vs. Rust: The Effect of Disproportionate Time Between Rounds of a Playoff Series by Urban T. L.

“…In addition to several control variables, variables reflecting the difference in the time between series for the two teams were used to measure this effect. …”
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