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Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 2023 In order to identify the economic driver of negative investment-cash flow sensitivities (ICFS), we derive testable predictions from extending a theoretical investment model with endogenous financing costs (“revenue effect”) and contrast them with the ...
Jochen Lawrenz, Julia Oberndorfer
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Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis and Second Language Learning
Journal of ELT Research, 2019 This article aims to provide an overview of some of the issues related to contrastive analysis hypothesis in second language learning. Contrastive hypothesis is one of the branches of applied linguistics which concerns with the study of two systems of languages between first language and target language.
Ali Akbar Khansir, Farhad Pakdel
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i-Perception, 2012 Two theories of distance perception—ie, the angular expansion hypothesis (Durgin and Li, 2011 Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 73 1856–1870) and the intrinsic bias hypothesis (Ooi et al, 2006 Perception 35 605–624)—are compared.
Zhi Li, Frank H Durgin
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Towards a computational model for stimulation of the Pedunculopontine nucleus [PDF]
, 2009 The pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) has recently been suggested as a new therapeutic target for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients suffering from Parkinson's disease, particularly those with severe gait and postural impairment [1].
Gils, Stephan A. van +3 more
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Laboratory Phonology, 2017 Mandarin Chinese has dental, palatal, and retroflex sibilants, but their contrasts before [_i] are avoided: The palatals appear before [i] while the dentals and retroflexes appear before homorganic syllabic approximants (a.k.a. apical vowels).
Jie Zhang, Mingxing Li
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Alzheimer’s disease: the Amyloid hypothesis and the Inverse Warburg effect
Frontiers in Physiology, 2015 Epidemiological and biochemical studies show that the sporadic forms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are characterized by the following hallmarks : (a) An exponential increase with age ; (b) Selective neuronal vulnerability ; (c) Inverse cancer comorbidity ...
Lloyd eDemetrius +4 more
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Soft Null Hypotheses: A Case Study of Image Enhancement Detection in Brain Lesions [PDF]
, 2013 This work is motivated by a study of a population of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients using dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) to identify active brain lesions.
Crainiceanu, Ciprian M. +4 more
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Resolving Lexical Ambiguity in Tensor Regression Models of Meaning [PDF]
, 2014 This paper provides a method for improving tensor-based compositional distributional models of meaning by the addition of an explicit disambiguation step prior to composition. In contrast with previous research where this hypothesis has been successfully
Kalchbrenner, Nal +2 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis +9 more
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Geographic variation in chin shape challenges the universal facial attractiveness hypothesis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The universal facial attractiveness (UFA) hypothesis proposes that some facial features are universally preferred because they are reliable signals of mate quality.
Zaneta M Thayer, Seth D Dobson
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