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Susceptibility of LoRa Communications to Intentional Electromagnetic Interference with Different Sweep Periods. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2022
De São José AN   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Late payments, higher prices? An experimental investigation of competitive procurement

open access: yesDecision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract The decision to pay one's supplier late is commonplace across global supply chains and, arguably, a key challenge for many businesses. In a multiple‐methods study, we contribute to the literature by documenting important empirical and anecdotal features about the likelihood and severity of late payments, formulating and solving a theoretical ...
Matthew J. Walker, Kyle Hyndman
wiley   +1 more source

Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Financial crisis of 1931? British banking stability and the role of open‐market operations

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To what extent was the summer of 1931 a financial crisis in Britain? Previous research has shown how London merchant banks were affected, but it remains unclear to what extent the largest commercial banks of London – the clearing banks – were under threat.
Matthias Römer
wiley   +1 more source

Bullshit activities

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Frankfurt gave an account of “bullshit” as a statement made without regard to truth or falsity. Austin argued that a large amount of language consists of speech acts aimed at goals other than truth or falsity. We don't want our account of bullshit to include all performatives.
Kenny Easwaran
wiley   +1 more source

Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were ...
James Foreman‐Peck, Leslie Hannah
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

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