Demand Shocks, Export Diversification, and Firm Performance During the Great Trade Collapse
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the impact of external demand shocks from the 2008 to 2009 Great Trade Collapse on the performance of Chinese exporters and examines how export diversification mitigates these effects. Using Chinese Customs data merged with financial data from all listed Chinese firms, we construct firm‐specific demand shocks based on pre ...
Qianlin Hong +3 more
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Characteristics and overall survival in patients with T1 melanoma: A nationwide matched cohort study
What's New? Thin cutaneous malignant melanoma has an excellent ten‐year melanoma‐specific survival of 93%–97%. Moreover, the incidence of melanoma is higher among individuals with high socioeconomic status, which may protect them from other diseases. This nationwide matched cohort study found that patients with thin cutaneous malignant melanoma have a ...
Ylva Naeser +4 more
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Editorial for the Special Issue: "Novel Solutions and Novel Approaches in Operational Research"
This special issue of Business Systems Research (SI of the BSR) is being co-published by the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA – Section for Operational Research (SSI -SOR). It focuses on recent advances in Operations Research and Management Science (OR / MS)
Drobne Samo +2 more
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TO NEGOTIATE OR TO GAME THEORIZE: Negotiation vs. Game Theory Outcomes for Water Allocation Problems in the Kat Basin, South Africa [PDF]
The 6th MEETING ON GAME THEORY AND PRACTICE Zaragoza, Spain 10-12 July 2006Negotiation, Role-playing game, Core, Nucleolus, Shapley value, Water allocation, Economic efficiency, Planning models, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, C61, C71, C78, Q25 ...
Dinar, Ariel +3 more
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Charmonium suppression in p-A collisions at RHIC
We discuss charmonium production in proton-nucleus collisions at RHIC energies under the assumption of xF and x2 scaling. We find that all the ambiguities due to energy loss are gone at this energy and therefore data will reveal the scaling law, if any ...
A. D. Martin +39 more
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What's New? Increasing cancer incidence and mortality in low‐ and middle‐income countries has heightened concerns about limited resources and barriers to care. This challenge is particularly urgent in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where cancer rates are rising sharply. Here, data from population‐based cancer registries in nine SSA countries was assessed to
Tamara König +19 more
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Software quality management: Machine learning for recommendation of regression test suites
Aim/purpose – This study aims to demonstrate machine learning (ML) applications to enhance software development quality management, specifically through optimizing regression test suites.
Owoc Mieczysław Lech, Stambulski Adam
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Belief Propagation Decoding of Polar Codes on Permuted Factor Graphs
We show that the performance of iterative belief propagation (BP) decoding of polar codes can be enhanced by decoding over different carefully chosen factor graph realizations.
Brink, Stephan ten +3 more
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Characteristics and outcomes of men presenting with complications of metastatic prostate cancer
Objectives To describe the incidence, characteristics and mortality of men who present with complications of metastatic prostate cancer, a previously under‐reported population. We investigate men who present with and without malignant ureteric obstruction (MUO) and skeletal‐related events (SREs), collectively termed ‘metastatic‐related events’ (MREs ...
Arjun Nathan +12 more
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Sticky Prices, Wages and Monetary Policy in the Iranian Economy [PDF]
Fluctuations in fiscal policy affect monetary policy and the central bank, because the government’s general budget is highly dependent on oil prices and its fluctuations.
Seyed Fakhredin Fakhrehosseini +2 more
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