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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
wiley   +1 more source

Broadband low-frequency sound absorption and high insulation in a clay-cement composite with hydrogel-foaming engineered gradient porosity. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hou Z, Zhou Z, Chen X, Zhang K, Li H, Zheng Y, Wang L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating Between Two Greedy Institutions: Family Resilience and Intergenerational Dynamics in Turkish Military Families

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how career military families in Türkiye navigate competing institutional demands, how military community structures foster resilience, and how military identity is transmitted across generations. Background Military families must negotiate the demands of two greedy institutions—the armed forces and the family—yet ...
Adem Baspinar, Halime Okay
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Specimen Size and Test-Opening Geometry on the Sound Reduction Index Measured in Small-Scale Coupled Reverberation Rooms. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Polaczek A, Baruch-Mazur K, Młynarczyk D.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Enacting Everyday Linguistic Citizenship: Language Life and Multi‐Membership Among Young Malaysian Chinese Immigrants in Australia

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the language life of young Malaysian Chinese immigrants in Australia and their construction of multi‐membership as reflected in their daily language behaviors. It develops the concept of everyday linguistic citizenship and uses this concept as a theoretical lens to understand how the young adults build, maintain, and ...
Xiaoyi Zhang, Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, John Hajek   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review and Research Proposal on Pioneering Sustainable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Kenaf Fibre Biocomposites for Structural and Electronic Integration. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Balakrishnan TS, Abdan K, Nozdrzykowski K, Grzejda R, Ali MR, Nayak SY, Pai A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring Our Hypothesis That Negative Stress Elicits Pain and Increases Neuromuscular Excitability via a Potentiated Startle Response

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
Gösta Alfvén, Eva Andersson
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence From Germany

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze how rising trade exposure from China and Eastern Europe affected collective bargaining coverage in German plants from 1996 to 2008. Using cross‐industry variation in trade exposure and instrumenting with trade flows from other high‐income countries, we find that higher import exposure increased the likelihood that plants exited ...
Daniel Baumgarten, Sybille Lehwald
wiley   +1 more source

Fiber Fabric-Reinforced Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) as Insulation Material for Green Buildings. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Kaya M, Ružiak I, Bülbül R, Çavuş V.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Accelerating Platform User Growth: Pinduoduo's Multi‐Motivational Selfish Referral Strategy

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Referral strategies, whereby existing platform users recruit new users and thereby strengthen same‐side network effects, have long been central to digital platforms' efforts to grow the installed user base. Current referral strategies often require the referee to complete a transaction as a prerequisite for the referrer to receive the reward ...
Runyu Shi, Panos Constantinides, Federico Iannacci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source