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Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Barbara Fiasca, Mattia Di Cicco, Ilaria Vaccarelli, Agostina Tabilio Di Camillo, Simone Crisante and Diana Maria Paola Galassi
Abundance?Biomass Comparison (ABC) models, first described for marine benthic macrofauna, have been applied successfully to other marine and terrestrial/freshwater fauna but never to ecotonal communities. In particular, to our knowledge, ABC models have ...
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Osamah AlKhazali, Hooi Hooi Lean and Taisier Zoubi
This paper examines whether small Islamic firms? returns stochastically dominate (outperform) the returns of large Islamic firms using Ascending and Descending Stochastic Dominance (ASD and DSD) approaches. In other words, we investigate the size anomaly...
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Eliza Gawel, Mieczyslaw Grzelak, Boguslawa Waliszewska and Magdalena Janyszek-Soltysiak
The intensive use or discontinuation of the use of swards can compromise biodiversity, yields, and feed quality; thus, leading to the degradation of permanent grasslands. Various methods of renovation are employed to restore the usability of degraded swa...
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Ma. Silvia Castillo-Zuñiga, César A. Meza-Herrera, Guadalupe Calderón-Leyva, Nicolas López-Villalobos, Cayetano Navarrete-Molina, Jorge A. Bustamante-Andrade, Pablo I. Sifuentes-Lamónt, Jessica M. Flores-Salas and Francisco G. Véliz-Deras
The possible relationship between udder morphometric variables (UMVs), chemical quality (CHQ) of both colostrum (CA), and milk (MK), as affected by goat?s social rank (SR) (i.e., low-LSR, or high-HSR), was assessed. In late June, goats (Alpine?Saanen?Nub...
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Na Ye, Cai Dai and Xingsi Xue
Decomposition-based evolutionary algorithms are popular with solving multi-objective optimization problems. It uses weight vectors and aggregate functions to keep the convergence and diversity. However, it is hard to balance diversity and convergence in ...
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Zhiheng Wang, Hongkui Fan, Daikun Wang, Tao Xing, Dongchuan Wang, Qiaozhen Guo and Lina Xiu
The highway is an important mode of transportation in the Qinghai?Tibet Plateau, and can be regarded as a major contributor to the high-quality and sustainable development of the Qinghai?Tibet Plateau. It is of great significance to explore its spatial d...
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Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita and Frédéric Giraut
Toponyms, along with other urban symbols, were used as a tool of control over space in many African countries during the colonial period. This strategy was epitomized by the British, who applied it in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya from the late 1800s....
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Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Minas Pergantis, Nikos Konstantinou, Aristeidis Lamprogeorgos, Laida Limniati and Iraklis Varlamis
The English language is the most dominant language in the Western world and its influence can be noticed in every aspect of human communication. It?s increasing diffusion, especially since the turn of the century, is hard to measure with conventional mea...
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M. Nithish Babu, Allan Thomas, Usha C. Thomas
Pág. Page:102 - 107Abstrac
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Fareha Hilaluddin, Fatimah Md. Yusoff and Tatsuki Toda
A study on seasonal phytoplankton abundance and composition in a mangrove estuary, Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve (MMFR), Malaysia, was carried out to determine the phytoplankton structure in this ecosystem, and to identify potential indicators of enviro...
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Marco Di Cintio
The aim of our research is to investigate whether the choice to export directly versus indirect export plays a role in the level of knowledge acquired by exporting firms. To the best of our knowledge, there is no empirical evidence in this stream of lite...
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Marco Di Cintio
Pág. 461 - 483
The aim of our research is to investigate whether the choice to export directly versus indirect export plays a role in the level of knowledge acquired by exporting firms. To the best of our knowledge, there is no empirical evidence in this stream of lite...
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Zhenzhen Zhu, Zhidong Bai, João Paulo Vieito, Wing-Keung Wong
Pág. 5 - 30
We analyze the impact of the most recent global financial crisis (GFC) on the seven most important Latin American stock markets. Our mean-variance analysis shows that the markets are significantly less volatile and, in general, investors prefer to invest...
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Muhammad Umer Farooq, Abdus Salam Khan, Iqra Ishaaq, Asim Ali Cheema, Muhammad Shahzad Afzal, Asif Ali and Jianqing Zhu
Drought has become more frequent in central Asia causing large losses in cereal yield. To surmount the existing problem, it is imperative to emphasize early maturing varietal development. However, the impact of heat units on spike morphology and its rela...
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Gordana Jevdovic,Ivan Milenkovic
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The conventional macroeconomic paradigm is that monetary policy provides the nominal anchor for inflation expectations and that fiscal policy is disciplined in implementing credible and timely revenue-expenditure measures when debt rises, in order to ens...
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Julia I. Chapman and Ryan W. McEwan
Identifying the drivers of community assembly has long been a central goal in ecology, and the development of functional diversity indices has provided a new way of detecting the influence of environmental gradients on biotic communities. For an old-grow...
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Aekkachai Nittayagasetwat,Jiroj Buranasiri
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This research paper investigates the benefit of risk diversification under the increase in the integration of AEC countries? capital markets during 1999 and 2016. The evidences from the correlation and mean-variance analysis confirm the higher stock mark...
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Raul Alberto Ponce Rodriguez,Ikuho Kochi
Pág. 40
We analyze how changes in the distribution of income, characterized by the comparison of Lorenz curves, affect public redistribution for an economy with international interfamily transfers (remittances). Our analysis suggests that a fall in the inequalit...
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Mihai Marginean
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Xu Guo, Xuejun Jiang and Wing-Keung Wong
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