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ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of various unexpected networks in supporting the survival of female‐owned SMEs in the Global South. The research focuses upon Bangladesh, which is a context marked by institutional adversity and postcolonial legacies.
Sharmin Nahar +2 more
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Increasing College Graduation Rates: What Works?
ABSTRACT This article reports the findings of a study that examined five institutions that are outliers in terms of having higher‐than‐predicted graduation rates based on their student profiles and institutional resources. Notably, these institutions have accomplished this in the context of having limited or no endowments and far fewer financial ...
Christopher Bjork +6 more
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Plant Cognition—An Empirical Primer: Evidence, Implications, and Ethics
ABSTRACT Recent advances in plant biology suggest that plants engage in complex behaviours once thought to require nervous systems. This article surveys the empirical foundations of plant cognition, covering research on goal‐directed movement, decision‐making, anticipatory behaviour, communication, phytoacoustics, and plant neurobiology.
Miguel Segundo‐Ortin +3 more
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Twin fallacies about exchange rate policy: A note [PDF]
Two assertions about exchange rate regimes circulate with some frequency in policy circles. The first, which could be called the hypothesis of the excluded middle, holds that authorities must either choose perfectly floating exchange rates or a hard peg.
Reinhart, Carmen, Reinhart, Vincent
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ABSTRACT Data bias is a critical challenge in machine learning applications within the financial and insurance sectors, as it can lead to misleading risk assessments and inaccurate predictive models. A prevalent source of bias in real‐world datasets is the imbalanced distribution of classes, which is particularly problematic in fraud detection, credit ...
Alberto Gutierrez‐Gallego +4 more
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Can Mimosa pudica Plants Enumerate Light Exposure Events?
Abstract Plants sense and respond to information present in their surrounding environment. Recent work has sought to characterize the limits of these information processing abilities. Here, we present evidence that the movements of Mimosa pudica plants are mediated by the number of illumination events to which they have been exposed.
Peter M. Vishton, Paige J. Bartosh
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The Origins of Argentina\u27s Litigation and Arbitration Saga, 2002-2016 [PDF]
The voluminous and protracted litigation and arbitration saga featuring the Republic of Argentina (mostly as defendant or respondent, respectively) established important legal and arbitral precedents, as illustrated by three cases involving Argentina ...
Porzecanski, Arturo C.
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Multispecies Solidarity: How People and Cinchona Survived the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Loja, Ecuador
ABSTRACT This article uses the case of Cinchona officinalis entrepreneurship during the COVID‐19 pandemic to explore how dynamics of care and extraction figure within the construct of multispecies solidarity. C. officinalis is an endangered medicinal tree that holds global historical significance as a natural source of quinine.
Katharine McNamara
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The Christ-Logos question in Amelius [PDF]
The main thesis of Christians, according to which Jesus is the divine Logos, the Son of God, is unacceptably illogical for Plotinus closest disciples.
Zamora Calvo, José María
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Join the Circle: Developing a Non‐Western Framework for an Inclusive Circular Economy Discourse
ABSTRACT The Circular Economy (CE) has been identified as a promising tool for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 on responsible production and consumption. Instead of making things, using them, and then throwing them away, CE advocates for efficient use and reuse of materials and resources to reduce waste.
Augustus Kweku Sobeng +2 more
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