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
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Frequency domain characterisation of the sound insulation performance of wooden doors and optimal design of high performance wooden doors. [PDF]
Sci RepLong C, Song X, Xu D, Zhu X.
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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 +2 more
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Innovative use of textile waste in greenhouse construction: thermal impacts on hydroponic agriculture. [PDF]
Sci RepBouadila S +10 more
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Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most organisations are confronting a dilemma: the need to embark on digital transformation to be competitive and sustainable versus the inherently high costs and extremely high risks involved. Lack of executive support has long been identified as a leading cause of project failure, including digital transformation projects.
Natalie Smith, Andrew Burton‐Jones
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Optimization of multi-structural parameters in metamaterials based on the DGN co-simulation method. [PDF]
PLoS OneJin S, Chen F, Bai J, Liu B.
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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 +2 more
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Use of Recycled Plastic Waste from Electrical Cable Recycling Processes as Fillers in Concrete for Paving Block Production and the Associated Slip Risk. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Giedrowicz M +4 more
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 516-546, April 2025.Proliferation of the term “emotion dysregulation” in child psychopathology parallels the growing interest in processes that influence negative emotional reactivity. While it commonly refers to a clinical phenotype where intense anger leads to behavioral dyscontrol, the term implies etiology because anything that is dysregulated requires an impaired ...
Joseph C. Blader +2 more
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ΜEffect of polymeric foam core morphology and orthogrid stiffener design on the noise attenuation of fluid-immersed structures. [PDF]
Sci RepZafari H, Mardaneh T, Tarkashvand A.
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