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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
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CCPS 1(2), August 2015, Special Issue – Crossing the Chinese Frontier: Nation, Community, Identity and Mobility [PDF]

Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2015
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 2015, Special Issue – Crossing the Chinese Frontier: Nation, Community, Identity and Mobility, full ...
Samuel C.Y. Ku (ed.), Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh (ed.), Titus C. Chen (ed.)   +2 more
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SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF CHINA'S OFF-FARM MIGRANTS [PDF]

Existing research applying the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) in China is restricted to urban and rural samples. There are no studies for Chinese off-farm migrants.
Ingrid Nielsen, Qingguo Zhai, Russell Smyth   +2 more
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A Price Worth Paying: The Case for Controlling Marine Emissions in the Pearl River Delta [PDF]

, 2012
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a region with a single airshed, but different administrative and legal practices for controlling air quality. Under the Regional Cooperation Plan on Building a Quality Living Area (QLA Plan) released in June 2012 the ...
Agnes Yip, Alexis K.H. Lau, Che Hei Lee, Chit-Ming Wong, Hak-Kan Li, Hilda Tsang, Jimmy Chan, Jimmy Fung, June Chau, Li Ying, Lin Chubin, Mike Kilburn, Sarah M. McGee, Simon K.W. Ng, Wu Dongwei   +14 more
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Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 boys) from Hong Kong local primary schools with the mean age at 111.3 months (range = 98–132 months).
Dan Lin, Jinghan Liang, Xiuhong Tong, Susanna Siu‐Sze Yeung, Phil Duo Liu, Him Cheung   +5 more
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A nonhuman primate model with Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology induced by hippocampal overexpression of human tau

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy
Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most burdening diseases of the century with no disease-modifying treatment at this time. Nonhuman primates (NHPs) share genetic, anatomical, and physiological similarities with humans, making them ideal ...
Zhouquan Jiang, Jing Wang, Yongpeng Qin, Shanggong Liu, Bin Luo, Fan Bai, Huiyi Wei, Shaojuan Zhang, Junjie Wei, Guoyu Ding, Long Ma, Shu He, Rongjie Chen, Ying Sun, Yi Chen, Lu Wang, Hao Xu, Xiangyu Wang, Gong Chen, Wenliang Lei   +19 more
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Strategic development of the built environment through international construction, quality and productivity management [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis presents a coherent, sustained and substantial contribution to the advancement of knowledge or application of knowledge or both in the field of construction management and economics.
Low, Sui Pheng
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The Economic Effects of ‘Excessive’ Financial Deepening

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the causal implications of high levels of financial deepening for economic development and banking crises in a panel of countries over the past seven decades. We adopt a factor‐augmented heterogeneous difference‐in‐differences estimator and find, in contrast to the existing literature, that very high levels of financial development do
Rachel Cho, Rodolphe Desbordes, Markus Eberhardt   +2 more
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Tracing Sentinel Lymph Nodes and Inhibiting Lymphatic Metastasis with TiN Nanobipyramids Through Photothermal Therapy

International Journal of Nanomedicine
Yan-Neng Xu,1,* Xiaopeng Bai,2,* Jian-Li Chen,3,* Xuan Wu,1 Dan Yin,1 Gang Yuan,1 Rongyang Dai,4 Xiao-Ming Zhu,1,5 Jianfang Wang2 1State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine
Xu YN, Bai X, Chen JL, Wu X, Yin D, Yuan G, Dai R, Zhu XM, Wang J   +8 more
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Do institutions matter for FDI spillovers ? the implications of China's"special characteristics" [PDF]

The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China's domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007.
Du, Luosha, Harrison, Ann, Jefferson, Gary   +2 more
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