Brand Equity and Debt Diversification
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how brand equity influences the diversity of firms’ debt structures. We propose that brand equity, by signaling larger and more stable future cash flows and greater product market awareness, alters the fundamental trade‐offs that drive optimal debt type diversity.
David C. Mauer +2 more
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Engineering High-Performance Asphalt Binders and Mixtures Through Micro- and Nanocoke/Polymer Hybrid Modification. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Ongarbayev Y +9 more
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Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners
Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness in reading–writing relations among young learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 177 students from non‐Chinese‐speaking backgrounds in Hong Kong were assessed annually from Grades 4 to 6 on word‐level literacy (character reading, spelling), sentence ...
Yu Ka Wong, Dongbo Zhang
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Patterns of Coke Adaptability and Evaluation Mechanisms Under Different Blast Furnace Atmospheres. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Li Q +5 more
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Beyond single cells: Ten years of commercial lattice light‐sheet microscopy
Journal of Microscopy, EarlyView.Abstract Lattice light‐sheet microscopy (LLSM) enables gentle, rapid, volumetric fluorescence imaging of living biological systems. The technique employs Bessel beam interference to produce a light‐sheet which retains its thickness over a relatively large field‐of‐view compared to other light‐sheets.
Helena L. E. Coker, David S. Corcoran
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Microstructural and Mechanical Property Analysis of Oil Shale Semi-Coke Slag Composite Cementitious Materials. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Li B +6 more
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Microwave-Assisted Desilication as a Route to Hierarchical Y Zeolites: Linking Pore Architecture, Acidity, and Catalytic Stability in VGO Cracking. [PDF]
MoleculesFals J +4 more
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