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Investment centre manager's multiperiod fairness perceptions and intertemporal dependency

Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-36, March 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the motivation of investment centre managers when their investment centre's performance is affected by decisions made by their predecessor. Through a qualitative case study of a Japanese manufacturer, the effectiveness of conventional remedies for motivational issues and further motivational issues caused by the same ...
Hiroyuki Selmes‐Suzuki
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Prey Partitioning in a Diverse Carnivore Community: Implications for Reintroduced Fishers in Washington

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Using fecal DNA metabarcoding, we quantified dietary overlap among reintroduced fishers and sympatric coyotes, bobcats, and Pacific martens in Washington's North Cascades. Niche overlap was substantial for common prey but varied with body size, revealing fine‐scale resource partitioning that may limit fishers' access to energetically efficient prey ...
Kayla A. Shively, Ellen M. Reese, Jason I. Ransom, Jeffrey C. Lewis, Tara Chestnut, David O. Werntz, Taal Levi, Laura R. Prugh   +7 more
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Effects of soil physical properties on dung beetle assemblages in pasture landscapes of the Brazilian Cerrado

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
We assessed the effect of the type of soil texture (loamy sand and sandy loam) and its physical properties on dung beetle species assemblages in a pastureland region of the Brazilian Cerrado. We found a reduction in the total and paracoprid beetle abundances in loamy sand soil. Furthermore, the increase of soil compaction negatively affected the entire
César Murilo de Albuquerque Correa, Renato Portela Salomão, Anderson Puker, Fernando Z. Vaz‐de‐Mello, Alfredo Raúl Abot   +4 more
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Brightness cues affect gap negotiation behaviours in zebra finches flying between perches

Royal Society Open Science
Flying animals have had to evolve robust and effective guidance strategies for dealing with habitat clutter. Birds and insects use optic flow expansion cues to sense and avoid obstacles, but orchid bees have also been shown to use brightness cues during ...
Emma Borsier, Helen Sanders, Graham K. Taylor   +2 more
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Power priors for latent variable mediation models under small sample sizes

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Latent variable models typically require large sample sizes for acceptable efficiency and reliable convergence. Appropriate informative priors are often required for gainfully employing Bayesian analysis with small samples. Power priors are informative priors built on historical data, weighted to account for non‐exchangeability with the ...
Lihan Chen, Milica Miočević, Carl F. Falk   +2 more
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Navigating Family Relationships and a Sense of Home in Foster Care: The Experiences of Children With Migration Backgrounds

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Establishing a sense of belonging and home in foster care can be demanding for children, as placement involves discontinuities such as ruptures with family and networks. For children with migration backgrounds, this can include adapting to new languages, traditions, religious and cultural practices. In this study, we shed light on how children
Eirinn Hesvik Ljones, Marte Knag Fylkesnes, Milfrid Tonheim   +2 more
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Is Positive Reframing an Adaptive Coping Strategy? Coping as a Moderator of Stress in Middle‐Income Families During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic introduced various stressors to families globally, significantly affecting children's environments. We investigated how these circumstances influenced children's psychosocial outcomes in middle‐income families. Specifically, we examined the effects of parental stress and coping strategies on the psychosocial well‐being of
Doroteja Rubez, Rita Obeid, Elizabeth J. Short   +2 more
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Renaming in Adoption: Exploring Name Ambivalence in Adoptive Parents' Name Stories

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Names are central to identity, yet their role in adoption, where identity and family dynamics are complex, remains under‐researched. This article draws on findings from a qualitative study of names and adoption in England and Wales to examine adoptive parents' decisions about the first names of their children.
Jan Flaherty, Jane Pilcher, Hannah Deakin‐Smith, Amanda Coffey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expression and regulation of SETBP1 in the song system of male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) during singing

Scientific Reports
Rare de novo heterozygous loss-of-function SETBP1 variants lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by speech deficits, indicating a potential involvement of SETBP1 in human speech.
Dana Jenny Grönberg, Sara Luisa Pinto de Carvalho, Nikola Dernerova, Phillip Norton, Maggie Mei-Ki Wong, Ezequiel Mendoza   +5 more
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Measures to Ensure That Social Workers Render Holistic Family Reunification Services: A South African Perspective

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Placement of children in alternative care is supposed to be a temporary arrangement while social workers address issues that led to the removal of a child from the care of the family. However, in the rendering of family reunification services (FRS), social workers encounter numerous challenges that hinder their ability and capacity to render ...
Sipho Sibanda
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