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Extraction of Sodium Alginate from Sargassum sp. using Microwave-Assisted Extraction (MAE) [PDF]
Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry Research, 2019 The method used in alginate extraction has been using conventional heating. Lately, Microwave-Assisted Extraction (MAE) has been widely used to extract active compounds from natural ingredients.
Ruslan Ruslan +2 more
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West African manuscripts in Arabic and African languages and digital preservation [PDF]
, 2017 West African manuscripts are numerous and varied in forms and contents. There are thousands of them across West Africa. A significant portion of them are documents written in Arabic and Ajami (African languages written in Arabic script).
Ngom, Fallou
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When the Former CEO Acts as Board Chair: Does This Matter to Debt Policy and Risk of Default?
Abacus, EarlyView.This paper scrutinizes the interconnections between debt capital raising, firm risk of default, and the presence of a former CEO who now serves as a board chairperson, referred to as the Chair‐Former‐CEO (CFC). Employing a sample of the largest non‐financial firms within the US S&P 100 from 2002 to 2018, our results reveal that, when compared to their ...
Vu Quang Trinh +2 more
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Polyfunctional pronominal markers in South-Western Mande [PDF]
, 2014 http://www.nytud.hu/imm16/abs-vol-full-v1.pdfInternational audienceThe paper deals with the syntactic functions and morphosyntactic features of polyfunctional (PF) pronominal markers in South-Western Mande (SWM) languages.
Mishchenko, Daria
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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Using acoustic surveys, we investigated habitat use and diel activity patterns of insectivorous bats across the main land‐use types of the endemic‐rich Príncipe Island, in Central West Africa. We sampled bat activity at 48 sites spanning old‐growth forests, secondary regrowth forests, shaded cocoa plantations, and horticultural areas.
Ana Filipa Palmeirim +8 more
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From copula to focus, vice versa, or neither?
Mandenkan, 2023 This paper studies the system of non-verbal predication of Mano, a South Mande language, based on primary data, including elicited utterances and a corpus of spontaneous speech.
Maria Khachaturyan
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CEO social media activity and insider trading
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article studies the relationship between CEOs' social media activity and their insider trading behavior. Drawing on psychological evidence linking online activity to risk‐taking, we find that active CEOs on social media exhibit higher risk preferences and engage more in insider trading—particularly in terms of incidence, intensity, and ...
Zhichuan Li +2 more
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Gendered production and consumption in rural Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Recent research underscores the continued importance of gender in rural Africa. Analysis of interactions within households is becoming more sophisticated and continues to reject the unitary model.
Kevane, Michael
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Mandenkan, 2013 This paper examines the polysemy patterns of two postpositions marking class-membership and property assignment in Jeli, a Central Mande language, in terms of metaphorical extensions and iconic motivation.
Holger Tröbs
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