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Investment, Credit Rationing, and the Soft Budget Constraint: What Would a Well-Functioning Credit Market Look Like? [PDF]

IV estimates of the link between profits and investment in the Czech Republic find a complex relationship. While firms may occasionally be credit rationed or face soft budget constraints, investments generally flow to industries with the greatest profit ...
Jan Hanousek, Randall K. Filer
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Deciphering Small Molecule Diffusion Parameters Across Light Responsive Polymersome Membranes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Light‐responsive polymersomes bearing donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs) enable programmable control over small‐molecule transport across synthetic membranes. By systematically varying DASA density, an optimal functionalization regime is identified that maximizes light‐gated permeability.
Farzina Matubbar, Beyzanur Kaya, Buse Ipek, Tenzin Dorjee, Shoghik Hakobyan, Mohamed Chami, Julien E. Gautrot, Omar Rifaie‐Graham   +7 more
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MAGTWIST: A Magnetically‐Driven Rotary Actuator Using a Traveling‐Wave With Integrated Stiffness Tunability

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MAGTWIST: A compact magnetic rotary actuator, enabling smooth, stepless rotation, and on‐demand locking. Inspired by peristalsis, a soft polymer belt generates a traveling‐wave, enabling 270° rotation when heated. Cooling stiffens the belt, locking it in position and enabling it to withstand high loads.
Simon Frieler, Jean‐Paul P.M. de Vries, Sarthak Misra, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Empirical Approach for Evaluating Soft Budget Constraints [PDF]

In this paper, we develop an empirical framework for detecting the existence and estimating the magnitude of the softness of a budget constraint. The defining feature of a soft budget constraint is a subordinate organization’s expectations of being ...
Dahlberg, Matz, Pettersson-Lidbom, Per
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Bioinspired Polypeptide Dendrimer‐Modified Thin‐Film Composite Membranes for Selective Lithium‐Magnesium Separation with DFT Insights

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We fabricated a biomimetic dendrimer‐modified thin‐film nanocomposite membrane with a coordination‐assisted ion‐selective interface. pH‐responsive polypeptide sites preferentially bind Mg2+ and promote Li+ permeation, as predicted by density functional theory calculations of metal‐ligand interactions.
Mehrasa Yassari, Seyedeh Fatemeh Seyedpour, Bamlak Setegne, Amir Aghaei, Behzad Ahvazi, Mostafa Dadashi Firouzjaei, Mark Elliott, Mohtada Sadrzadeh   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

LapSDNMF: Label propagation assisted soft-constrained deep non-negative matrix factorisation for semi-supervised multi-view clustering

Machine Learning with Applications
Semi-supervised methods based on non-negative matrix factorisation have emerged as a popular approach for clustering. However, the pressing challenge of capturing complex non-linear relationships within multi-view data is seldom considered in the semi ...
Sohan Dinusha Liyana Gunawardena, Khanh Luong, Thirunavukarasu Balasubramaniam, Richi Nayak   +3 more
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Soft Budget Constraints and State Capitalism [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
I consider the application of János Kornai’s soft budget constraint (SBC) concept to the state capitalist economy. I argue that interaction of SBC with agency problems within the government bureaucracy helps explaining a major feature of state capitalism – failure to privatize underperforming state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
openaire   +2 more sources

"Overlapping Tax Revenue, Local Debt Control and Soft-Budget Constraint" [PDF]

This paper investigates how the soft budget constraint with grants from the central government to local governments tends to internalize the vertical externality by stimulating insufficient local expenditure when both the central and local governments ...
Toshihiro Ihori
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Drug‐Free Thrombolysis Mediated by Physically Activated Micro/Nanoparticles

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Overview of particle‐mediated thrombolytic effects (thermal, mechanical, and chemical) and their activating physical stimuli (light, ultrasound, and magnetic field) in drug‐free thrombolysis. ABSTRACT Thrombus‐associated disorders rank among the world's leading causes of death, with ischemic heart disease and stroke as the main contributors.
Pierre Sarfati, Yoann Lalatonne, Cédric Chauvierre   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Dimension Optimization of Rigid–Soft Hand Function Rehabilitation Robots

Machines
The growing population of hand dysfunction patients necessitates advanced rehabilitation technologies. Current robotic solutions face limitations in motion compatibility and systematic design frameworks.
Rui Zhang, Meng Ning, Yuqian Wang, Jun Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source