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Welcoming the Homeless into Libraries
photo by Alex Barth on Flickr I hope those reading this post had a warm, happy Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. I spent most of last week in Florida at my parents’ “snowbird” house with my immediate family, all of us having traveled at ...
Kim Leeder
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S.O.S –Supporting Other Students: the role of student library ambassadors at Southampton Solent University [PDF]
Since March 2008, the library at Southampton Solent has been employing a team of students to act as ‘library ambassadors’. They provide alternative support to our users, particularly during periods when library staff are not on duty, such as during ...
Barber, Graeme
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IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPHET IN AMERICAN ELECTRICITY FORECASTING WITH AND WITHOUT PARAMETER TUNING
Prophet is one of the machine learning approximation methods that accommodate trends, seasonality, and holiday impacts in time series data. Generally, the performance of machine learning models can be improved by implementing hyperparameter tuning.
Winita Sulandari +4 more
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Top Dogs, Puppy Dogs, and Tax Holidays [PDF]
Why do host-country governments offer tax holidays to foreign multinational firms that establish local subsidiaries? This paper shows that a tax holiday has the effect of preventing the foreign firm from monopolizing the local market.
Kaz Miyagiwa, Yuka Ohno
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Effective Corporate Income Tax Burden in Croatia [PDF]
This paper provides an analysis of corporate income tax (CIT) in Croatia. Given the fact that Croatia implements a consumption-based CIT and a number of tax incentives, the purpose of this paper is to establish the level of effective tax burden on ...
Hrvoje Šimović
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ABSTRACT In order to reflect the actual production situation more comprehensively and optimize the production cost, this paper solves the short‐term scheduling optimization problem for a single pipeline containing high melting point crude oil. Based on the refining plan given by the upper layer, a multi‐objective optimization model with high melting ...
Jing Yao +5 more
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ABSTRACT In this study, the actual route of methylene blue (MB) dye adsorption by using fabricated polyfunctional activated carbon–copper oxide nanowires (AC@CuO‐NWs) from bulky wastewater bodies has been investigated. To better understand the exact pathway of the adsorption process, a prominent statistical physics formalism or grand canonical ...
Abdellatif Sakly +7 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Abstract Educating clients and teaching and mentoring colleagues are crucial yet underappreciated elements of a veterinarian's professional duties. Unfortunately, veterinary curricula rarely explicitly aim to encourage students to develop effective teaching practices.
Renato L. Previdelli +3 more
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Multinationals, Tax Holidays, and Technology Transfer [PDF]
Host country governments often grant investment incentives to foreign firms locating in their territories. We show that such preferential treatment of foreign firms can facilitate transfer of foreign technology, induce entry by the local firm, and ...
Kaz Miyagiwa, Yuka Ohno
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