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Worker Relocations and Worker Performance: Evidence From the National Basketball Association
Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study uses National Basketball Association (NBA) player data to test for impacts of worker relocations on worker performance. Using mid‐season trades in the NBA as a setting in which workers are relocated with little notice and time for preparation, we estimate difference‐in‐difference fixed‐effects regressions to test whether employer ...
Kejian Zhu, Richard J. Paulsen
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A Discourse Approach to Causal Sentences in Mandarin Chinese
, 2015 This paper argues that the word order of adverbials can be captured only when the causal clauses are analyzed as focus. Previous studies on Chinese causal sentences usually treat the causal clauses on a par with other types of adverbial clauses.
Mei-chih Tsai, Tsai, Mei-Chih
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Polymer Engineering &Science, EarlyView.Field degradation inducing changes in the Polyamide 11 permeability. ABSTRACT This study investigates how long‐term natural aging affects the CO2 permeability of polyamide 11 (PA11) pressure sheaths recovered from decommissioned flexible risers. PA11 samples were extracted from two 18‐year‐old risers—a gas‐lift line and an oil‐production line—and ...
Antônio Pedro Andrade da Cunha Ponciano Gomes +3 more
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Le temps et la cause – analyse d'une métonymie universelle
Études romanes de Brno, 2013 The aim of this paper is to analyze the relations between time and cause as they are reflected by the French conjunctions. First, applying the diachronic point of view, we show which conjunctions expressing temporal relations are considered by different ...
Ondřej Pešek
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Causal relations in Classical Greek tragedy. An analysis of ἐπεί
The paper deals with causal relations in a corpus of Classical Greek tragedy, focusing on the usage of the conjunction epsilon pi epsilon iota. It accounts for different uses of epsilon pi epsilon iota-clauses on the basis of a typological description of
Giuseppina di Bartolo
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Spontaneous zonal symmetry breaking of tropical rain belt
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.Precipitable‐water snapshots show how a sea surface temperature (SST)‐forced tropical rain belt can remain zonally elongated or spontaneously reorganize into a localized convective cluster. The simulations identify the SST conditions favoring this zonal convective self‐aggregation and relate the transition to changes in boundary‐layer circulation and ...
Tomoro Yanase, Cathy Hohenegger
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Ne samo... nego/već (i) constructions
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2006 The conjunction ne samo… nego/već(i) (not only... but) connects constituents on all syntactic levels: on the level below sentence as well as on sentence and text levels. Only in coordinate sentences the conjunction ne samo da/što...
Lana Hudeček, Luka Vukojević
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Sovereign Debt Contracts and Financial Stability in Emerging Market Economies [PDF]
This thesis analyzes the influence sovereign debt contracts have on the incidence and the devolution of financial crises in emerging market economies. Chapter 2 focuses on the design of majority action clauses in bond contracts.
Hühnerbein, Ossip Robert
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do governance quality and corruption jointly shape sustainable development? We analyze an unbalanced panel of 38 Sub‐Saharan African countries (2002–2021) employing PCSE and FGLS estimators. The model also includes controls for health expenditure, digitalization, unemployment, trade openness, and GDP.
Deniz Erenel +2 more
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