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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Using PVA–borax hydrogels as carriers for off‐the‐shelf artificial sweeteners to fight multidrug‐resistant A. baumannii. These soft, biocompatible hydrogels rapidly reduce bacterial viability within multidrug‐resistant A. baumannii biofilms by more than 99% within one hour and sustain antimicrobial activity over time, while demonstrating safety in both
Jie Han +4 more
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Business Groups in Emerging Markets - Financial Control and Sequential Investment [PDF]
Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. One explanation is that business groups substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model where firms
Hainz, Christa
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Family business groups and earnings manipulation: An emerging economy perspective
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022 This paper examines the influence of family business groups' affiliated and non-affiliated firms on earnings manipulation on a sample of Pakistani listed firms for the period of 2014 to 2019. The sample of this paper consists of 323 listed firms from the
Sattar Khan, Yasir Kamal
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Environmental Synthesis Radar (ESR) evaluates the environmental impact of (early‐stage) multi‐step chemical syntheses, providing a holistic view by using 18 midpoint impact categories. Unlike conventional life‐cycle assessment (LCA) approaches, ESR reveals three complementary metrics: overall impact Vtotal, environmental hotspots VEF, and critical ...
Laura Plein +8 more
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The economical rumours: origin and social functions
Business: Theory and Practice, 2006 In every presentation of information about economical phenomena there are always things which are understated differently by different people. This is determined by two factors: firstly, different intelligence, cultural experience, age, profession etc ...
Valdas Pruskus
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Nonplanar Bouligand Architectures for Enhanced Mechanical Performance in Cementitious Composites
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Inspired by the impact region of the Mantis shrimp dactyl club, nonplanar additive manufacturing translates sinusoidal Bouligand architectures into cementitious composites. Printing‐induced anisotropy and architected interfaces promote distributed damage and arrest crack propagation, enhancing strength and energy absorption.
Yu Wang +7 more
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Effects of exposure to PM2.5 and its chemical components on survival of patients with lymphoma
BMC Public HealthBackground There is accumulating evidence of an association between particulate matter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and cancer. However, the impact of air pollution on the survival of lymphoma patients has received little attention.
Changpeng Liu +7 more
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Business groups and affiliated firms’ digital transformation
China Journal of Accounting ResearchConsidering the practical challenges of digital transformation (DT), this study examines whether business groups facilitate affiliate firms’ DT through internal markets.
Hui Xu +4 more
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith +6 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Faster phenol photolysis at the air–water interface arises from two cooperative factors: a more favorable initial microenvironment for solvent‐side electron stabilization, which lowers CI access, and a more labile hydrogen‐bond network, which more readily reorganizes to stabilize the dark‐state intermediate.
Qiang Yin +8 more
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