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Rotation capacity of continuous reinforced concrete slab strips revisited
Abstract Rotation capacity is a key characteristic of statically indeterminate reinforced concrete structures, as it (i) enables bending moment redistributions, whether intentionally introduced through optimized reinforcement layouts or arising from unforeseen self‐equilibrated stress states, and (ii) promotes large rotations at failure load, thereby ...
Nathalie Reckinger +2 more
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Anthropogenic resource subsidies can drive mesopredator population growth, altering predator–prey dynamics. The red fox Vulpes vulpes is a generalist canid that can readily exploit such subsidies. In the UK, tens of millions of pheasants Phasianus colchicus and red‐legged partridges Alectoris rufa are released annually for sport shooting, potentially ...
Nathan F. Williams +4 more
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DrLS: Distortion‐Resistant Lossless Steganography via Colour Depth Interpolation
ABSTRACT The lossless data steganography is to hide a certain amount of information into a container image. Previous lossless steganography methods fail to strike a balance between capacity, imperceptibility, accuracy, and robustness, commonly vulnerable to distortion on container images.
Youmin Xu +3 more
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families
ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
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ABSTRACT Repurposing agricultural public resources toward higher‐return incentives and investments can help transform agri‐food systems. This is important for low‐income countries, especially in sub‐Saharan Africa, where limited budgets restrict options for boosting agricultural spending.
Marco V. Sánchez +3 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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The κ opioid receptor (κ receptor, KOR) is a G protein‐coupled receptor with well established roles in analgesia and immune modulation. Although historically studied primarily in the central nervous system (CNS), growing evidence indicates that κ signalling in peripheral tissues plays an important role in regulating pain, inflammation and immune ...
Rumsha Khan +3 more
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Abstract This study contributes to the literature on the circular economy (CE) and small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) by advancing both theory and empirical evidence on the role of contextual factors. Theoretically, it refines institutional and cultural contingency perspectives by showing that national innovation systems and societal norms do ...
Lucio Fuentelsaz +2 more
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Board Independence and Adjustment Speed of CEO Inside Debt
ABSTRACT We find that firms with more independent directors adjust CEO inside debt towards an optimum more quickly. This effect is more pronounced in financially unconstrained, growth, and under‐levered firms, and also firms led by more powerful or overconfident CEOs.
Bonnie Buchanan, Shuhui Wang, Tina Yang
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