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Effects of self-efficacy and learning environment on Hong Kong undergraduate students’ academic performance in online learning [PDF]

Public Administration and Policy, 2022
Purpose – This paper aims to illustrate the importance of the quality of Online Learning Physical Environment (OLPE) and Online Learning Self-efficacy (OLSE) in predicting academic performance in online learning, which was the primary mode of teaching ...
Francis C.Y. Kuan, Stephanie Wing Lee
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Spatial diversity of absorption of EU Assistance funds and the level of socio-economic development in Poland

Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, 2019
The article presents the level and spatial structure of the absorption of EU funds within Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy during the 2007–2013 EU financial framework in Poland.
Roman Rudnicki, Anna Dubownik, Barbara Szyda, Czesław Adamiak   +3 more
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Jointly Production and Correlated Maintenance Optimization for Parallel Leased Machines

Applied Sciences, 2017
This paper deals with a preventive maintenance strategy optimization correlated to production for a manufacturing system made by several parallel machines under lease contract. In order to minimize the total cost of production and maintenance by reducing
Tarek ASKRI, Zied HAJEJ, Nidhal REZG
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County-Level Social Distancing and Policy Impact in the United States: A Dynamical Systems Model

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2020
BackgroundSocial distancing and public policy have been crucial for minimizing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States. Publicly available, county-level time series data on mobility are derived from individual devices with global positioning ...
McKee, Kevin L, Crandell, Ian C, Hanlon, Alexandra L   +2 more
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A Counterfactual Impact Analysis of Fair Use Policy on Copyright Related Industries in Singapore

Laws, 2014
Are more flexible fair use approaches, which require a test for determining whether new uses should be permitted, correlated with economic growth? Using the example of Singapore, we assess the extent to which fair use is related with growth in private ...
Roya Ghafele, Benjamin Gibert
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Country size bias in global health: cross-country comparison of malaria policy and foreign aid

Global Health Research and Policy, 2021
Background Foreign aid has been shown to be favourably biased towards small countries. This study investigated whether country size bias also occurs in national malaria policy and development assistance from international agencies.
Tomas Jezek
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Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Correlated Markovian Sources

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
We investigate real-time tracking of two correlated stochastic processes over a shared wireless channel. The joint evolution of the processes is modeled as a two-dimensional discrete-time Markov chain.
Mehrdad Salimnejad, Marios Kountouris, Nikolaos Pappas   +2 more
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Introducing CongressData and Correlates of State Policy

Scientific Data
Social science research into policymaking, electoral processes, and governmental functions is heavily influenced by the availability and usability of specific, granular data. Though vast amounts of data are generated by government and collected by researchers, their utilization in academia is limited due to lack of availability, aggregation, and ...
Grossmann, Matt, Lucas, Caleb, Yoel, Benjamin   +2 more
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Guidelines for Pediatric Radiotherapy Simulation: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Radiation Oncology Discipline

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric radiation therapy presents unique challenges compared to adult treatments, including those of immobilization, potential need for sedation, and the critical importance of accurate, reproducible positioning. Additionally, heightened attention to imaging doses is necessary to minimize long‐term toxicity in survivors.
Parham Alaei, Stephen Mihalcik, Sujith Baliga, Young Kwok, Dana Casey, Eric Ehler, Christiane Burton, John C. Breneman, Daphne A. Haas‐Kogan, Suzanne L. Wolden, Arnold C. Paulino, Nadia N. Laack, Natia Esiashvili, Sarah Milgrom, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, John A. Kalapurakal, Chia‐Ho Hua   +17 more
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Regulated Correlations -Climate Policy and Investment Risks

Energy Economics
Investments in energy technologies are substantially governed by climate policy. We demonstrate analytically that price-based instruments, such as carbon-taxes, and quantity-based regulations, like emission trading systems, have distinct effects on the (co-)variance of power plant profits.
Menglu Neupert-Zhuang, Oliver Schenker
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