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Applied SciencesPartial discharge (PD) is a primary factor leading to the deterioration of insulation in electrical equipment. However, it is hard for traditional methods to precisely extract PD signals in increasingly complex engineering environments.
Jun Zhong, Zhenyu Liu, Xiaowen Bi
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States (U.S.) faces challenges in achieving its ambitious net‐zero carbon emissions target by 2050, with current emissions having fallen by less than 1% in 2024. Despite an investment of $500 billion in low‐carbon resources while holding the second‐largest green technology patent portfolio globally, it is further imperative to ...
Md Zubair Ahmad +5 more
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Moment characterization of higher-order risk preferences [PDF]
It is often said that prudence and temperance play key roles in aversion to negative skewness and kurtosis, respectively. This paper puts a new perspective on these relationships and presents a characterization of higher-order risk preferences in terms ...
Sebastian Ebert
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Greening the Bottom Line: Public Funding for Circular Economy Initiatives and Financial Stability
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public funding for circular economy (CE) initiatives plays a crucial role in shaping corporate financial performance, yet its effects remain underexplored. Grounded in the resource‐based view (RBV) of the firm, this study investigates the financial impact of CE funding on private firms, using Portugal as a case study. It analyses the financial
Rui Cruz +3 more
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SPECTRAL MOMENTS OF FRICATIVE CONSONANTS IN SERBIAN (AN ACCOUNT OF FEMALE SPEAKERS’ PRODUCTION)
Filolog, 2020 This paper deals with the measurement of spectral moments of Serbian fricatives. The four spectral moments: centre of gravity, spectral variance, skewness, and kurtosis were measured at the onset of the fricative, on the stable-state part and at the ...
Borivoje Petrović
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined the effectiveness of a brief educational intervention designed to reduce sex trafficking (ST) myth acceptance. Using a 2 × 2 mixed design, participants (N = 189) viewed either an educational video addressing common ST myths or a control video on human memory.
Dara Mojtahedi +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 1964 Summary This note “rediscovers” the original interpretation of kurtosis as an indicator of “a prominent peak and a prominent tail” on the density curve. A formal proof that such curves have indeed relatively high fourth moments is given. A comment is made concerning the recent decline of this correct classical interpretation.
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Towards a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM): Implications for Youth Justice
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Youth justice systems are frequently justified by reference to developmental change, yet chronological age is often treated as a proxy for underlying psychological processes. This paper develops a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM), integrating evolutionary criminology with contemporary developmental neuroscience to clarify ...
Evelyn Svingen
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The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1948 It is well known that, if the fourth moment about the mean of a frequency distribution equals the square of the variance, then the frequencies are piled up at exactly two points, namely, the two points that are one standard deviation away from the mean.
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The Career Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In an increasingly volatile global job market, students’ career development is shaped by both personal capacities and structural barriers. This study examined how academic marginalization—particularly related to educational background—influences the mental well‐being of South Korean college students, with attention to the mediating roles of ...
Eunjin Han
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