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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The intensive lath‐shaped Ag2Te Widmannstätten nanoprecipitates are in situ generated in SnTe via AgPbSbTe3 alloying, and align with the formation of the parallel type and twin type interfaces. These Widmannstätten nanoprecipitates effectively scatter phonons to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity, resulting in a significantly enhanced average ZT ...
Tu Lyu +10 more
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Vox Patrum, 2018 The article discusses the influence of the way of the monastic dress code on helping nuns and monks stay on their spiritual path during formation. The Focus of the study are the rules for nuns and monks developed in the 6th and 7th centuries in Gaul and
Paweł Wygralak
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Behavioral Sciences, 2020 ‘Shelter in place’ and ‘lockdown’ orders implemented to minimize the spread of COVID-19 have reduced opportunities to be physically active. For many, the home environment emerged as the only viable option to participate in physical activity.
Navin Kaushal +3 more
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Crime and punishment with habit formation [PDF]
Moral concepts affect crime supply. This idea is modelled assuming that illegal activities is habit forming. We introduce habits in a intertemporal general equilibrium framework to illegal activities and compare its outcomes with a model without habit ...
Andrade, Joaquim Pinto de +1 more
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Journal of Global Ethics, 2019 ABSTRACTIn his action theory, John Dewey makes use of the concept of capability to highlight the way human capacities depend on the environment and the character of an agent.
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong +12 more
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Do Farmers Hedge Optimally or by Habit? A Bayesian Partial-Adjustment Model of Farmer Hedging [PDF]
Hedging is one of the most important risk management decisions that farmers make and has a potentially large role in the level of profit eventually earned from farming.
Dorfman, Jeffrey H., Karali, Berna
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Journal of Indian College of Cardiology, 2020 Background: In the developing countries, coronary artery disease commonly occurred in younger people and is the main cause of mortality worldwide. Aim: This study aims to identify risk factors and characteristics of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in ...
Islam Elsayed Shehata +3 more
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Smart Electrochromic Devices for Wearables
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This article reviews the recent progress of smart electrochromic devices in the field of intelligent wearable devices. Serving as displays, dimmers, energy‐saving and energy storage devices, and temperature management components, electrochromic devices have broad prospects in flexible displays, human–computer interaction, and personalized ...
Mengjie Zhu +6 more
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Twin picks: Disentangling the determinants of risk-taking in household portfolios [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates risk-taking in the liquid portfolios held by a large panel of Swedish twins. We document that the portfolio share invested in risky assets is an increasing and concave function of financial wealth, leading to different risk ...
Akerlof +73 more
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