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Rethinking law in books versus law in action in China's first experiment of a personal insolvency regime: Towards a more debtor‐oriented procedural design

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Although a local experiment, the promulgation of the Regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on Personal Bankruptcy (SPBR) in 2020 was hailed as a significant milestone in China's insolvency lawmaking which has thus far addressed only corporate insolvencies.
Jenny Fu, Jin Chun
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Revisiting the Nexus Between Trade Liberalisation and Income Inequality: The Case of Sub‐Saharan African Countries

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on income inequality across 24 Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries from 2000 to 2020. Using IV‐Tobit and 2SLS models, we consistently find that greater trade openness significantly exacerbates inequality in the region. Critically, we document an inverted U‐shaped relationship between trade
Guivis Zeufack Nkemgha, Le Roi Nso Fils, Ulrich Kevin Kamwa   +2 more
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The Sector Liquidity Timing Ability of Bond Mutual Funds

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate whether bond mutual fund managers exhibit market liquidity timing skills in the U.S. corporate bond market. At the portfolio level, we find only weak evidence that bond funds adjust their overall market exposure in anticipation of changes in corporate bond market liquidity.
Zhengnan Yin, Niall O'Sullivan, Meadhbh Sherman, Yuting Chen   +3 more
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Engineering Bacteria for Medicine: Delivery, Diagnosis, and Therapy

iMetaMed, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With rapid advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering, genetically engineered bacteria (GEB) have emerged as a promising platform for biological therapy, addressing key limitations of conventional drug delivery systems and demonstrating significant clinical potential.
Shiyu Xia, Guiling Fu, Xiaoyue Ding, Wen Yang, Ruijie Bai, Yawei Cai, Jing xuan Zhang, Yanxia Wei, Conghui Han, Yi‐Zhou Gao, Ying Li, Zuobin Zhu   +11 more
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Secret Sharing Schemes Based on Room Squares

, 1996
Secret Sharing schemes based on Room squares In this paper, we describe secret sharing schemes. We discuss Room squares and their critical sets.
Jennifer Seberry, Ghulam Rasool Chaudhry
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Multiobjective Simulation–Optimization of Crop Allocation and Water Resources in Canal Command Areas Using Genetic Algorithms

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study develops an integrated simulation–optimization framework for sustainable crop allocation and water resource management in the Bargarh Canal Command (BCC), eastern India. Efficient irrigation allocation remains a critical challenge due to competing demands, groundwater–surface water interactions and environmental constraints ...
Priyanka Mohapatra, J. C. Paul, Sushree Sangita Dash   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Unified Approach to Secret Sharing Schemes with Low Distribution Cost

, 2012
[[abstract]]In secret sharing schemes, the secret holder has to distribute secret shares to each participant before distributing the secrets. To distribute or redistribute shares is a very costly process with respect to both time and resources.
Chien, Hung-Yu; Jan, Jinn-Ke; Tseng, Yuh-Min
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Longitudinal and Daily Links Between Impulsivity and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Positive Risk‐Taking

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction There is a growing interest in positive risk‐taking (PRT) during adolescence and young adulthood. Emerging evidence has documented positive associations of PRT with multiple positive adolescent socioemotional developmental outcomes, including prosocial behavior.
Weiyu Edith Chen, Hao Zheng, Yao Zheng
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Bayesian Model Averaging in Causal Instrumental Variable Models

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Instrumental variables are a popular tool to infer causal effects under unobserved confounding, but choosing suitable instruments is challenging in practice. We propose gIVBMA, a Bayesian model averaging procedure that addresses this challenge by averaging across different sets of instrumental variables and covariates in a structural equation ...
Gregor Steiner, Mark Steel
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Emotional Affairs

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discussions about infidelity in the philosophy of love typically emphasize sexual transgressions, often neglecting emotional infidelity. In this article, I provide a conceptual analysis of emotional affairs. In my view, emotional affairs are defined as extrarelational connections that (a) take on a pattern of intimacy that mirrors the intimacy
Justin Clardy
wiley   +1 more source