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Insect Science, EarlyView.The level of aggressiveness of an individual is a factor that shapes intraguild predation (IGP) interactions. In Nabis americoferus, high aggressiveness leads to an increase in attack rate and IGP against Harmonia axyridis. Moreover, the absence of extraguild prey seems to exacerbate IGP. In docile N.
Pierre Royer +3 more
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Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to assist auditors in analyzing large amounts of data, automating audit tasks, and identifying risks and opportunities. AI can help improve the efficiency and accuracy of the auditing process as well as create value for both audit firms and their clients.
Nicolas Epelbaum +1 more
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Defence Contracting and Accrual‐Based Earnings Management
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine accrual‐based earnings management in Spanish defence firms in 2011–2020, using a unique database from the Spanish Ministry of Defence. We find higher levels of accrual‐based earnings management and lower accrual quality in firms where defence contracts represent a high proportion of their total sales.
Francisco José Callado‐Muñoz +3 more
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Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann +4 more
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
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Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2017 We obtain sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of positive solutions to some elliptic inequalities and systems containing the p-Laplace operators and coefficients possessing singularities on the boundary.
Liudmila Uvarova +2 more
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Solutions to semilinear elliptic PDE's with biharmonic operator and singular potential
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2016 We study the existence and nonexistence of positive solution to the problem $$\displaylines{ \Delta^2u-\mu a(x)u=f(u)+\lambda b(x)\quad\text{in }\Omega,\cr u>0 \quad\text{in }\Omega,\cr u=0=\Delta u \quad\text{on }\partial\Omega, }$$ where $\Omega$
Mousomi Bhakta
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The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle
Constellations, EarlyView.
Reid A. Kleinberg
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Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Victor Kriska
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