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Generative Cutout Animation

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Cutout animation is one of the earliest forms of animation, and to this day remains a popular technique featured in numerous films including Monty Python and South Park series. Most computer animation systems, however, focus on different styles, including cel animation, making cutout animation somewhat underexplored.
Ivan Puhachov, Noam Aigerman, Thibault Groueix, Mikhail Bessmeltsev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith, David R. Green, Laura Newman, Joe Chick, Kathleen McIlvenna, Holly Marley, Natasha Preger, Douglas Brown, Nicola Shelton   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk premia reconsidered: Illiquidity and selection bias for stocks and corporate bonds in the pre‐First World War period

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Financial history is plagued by a visibility trap. Using the Brussels Stock Exchange (1850–1913), we demonstrate that asset illiquidity introduced selection bias, which systematically inflated historical risk premia. Applying a latent return model, we argue that correcting for this illiquidity decreases the equity and corporate bond risk ...
Justin Case, Eline Poelmans, Gertjan Verdickt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPARISON OF DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGIES [PDF]

Современные наукоемкие технологии (Modern High Technologies), 2021
I.V. Karelin, I.V. Akimova, E.S. Grosheva, V.V. Artukhin   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Mapping of Intergenerational Caregiving: A Scoping Review of Dyadic and Family Caregiving

Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Families remain central to later‐life support, yet evidence on intergenerational caregiving is fragmented across dyads, generations, and cultural contexts. This scoping review maps how caregiving is organized and negotiated across structural, associational, affectual, functional, consensual, and normative dimensions.
Chuen Wei Alvin Seah, Tin Mei Yeo, Zoe Jane‐Lara Hildon, Yong‐Shian Shawn Goh, Xin Hui Jasmine Chua, Jun Yi Claire Teo, Wenru Wang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neurophysiological Methods in Accounting and Finance

Journal of International Financial Management &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent advances in neuroscience have made neurophysiological methods increasingly accessible, creating a timely opportunity to rethink how accounting and financial decisions are studied. Yet accounting and finance research has been slow to exploit its full potential.
Gaia Bassani, Silvio Vismara
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

Risks Associated With Benzodiazepine Long‐Term Use in Chronic Insomnia: A Systematic Review and (Network) Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review evaluated the risks of using benzodiazepine medications for more than 3 months in adults with chronic insomnia. Chronic insomnia is defined as ongoing dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality, causing significant distress and impaired functioning during the day.
Dieter Riemann, Chiara Baglioni, Christoph Nissen, Agathe Nevière, Omar Irfan, Pauline Le Nouveau, Chrysoula Leontiou, Damien Léger   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lights On or Off? The Efficacy of Light Therapy as Add‐On to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia—A Pilot Study

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT‐I) is recommended as first‐line treatment for insomnia disorder. However, around 25% of the patients do not respond to the treatment, and only 40% achieve full remission. The current study investigates the therapeutic potential of light therapy as an add‐on to CBT‐I.
Sarah R. Schmid, Christine Blume, Johanna Ell, Nikolas Konzen, Matthias Apweiler, Bernd Feige, Bernd L. Fiebich, Julian E. Schiel, Katharina Domschke, Kai Spiegelhalder   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enforcing intellectual property rights in metaverse gaming platforms: The next steps for the EU's metaverse agenda

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article delineates a comprehensive framework for the achievement of effective metaverse governance that reflects the EU's current metaverse agenda and promotes respect for intellectual property rights. To do so, this article follows a two‐strand methodology. It engages in a doctrinal legal analysis and a policy‐oriented assessment.
Zoi Krokida, Ioanna Lapatoura
wiley   +1 more source