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Cladistics, EarlyView.Abstract Historical biogeography faces a persistent conceptual and methodological dilemma concerning the nature of its central analytical units. Using the recent proposal by Schultz and Cracraft (Cladistics 40, 653) as a catalyst, this article critiques the argument that causal inference necessitates the replacement of areas of endemism with barriers ...
Augusto Ferrari
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte +2 more
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The falling giant: a study on the drop-in sales of the New Straits Times (NST) newspaper / Farah Eziana Sarian [PDF]
, 2007 The main objective to conduct this research is to identify the main reasons for the drop-in sales of The New Straits Times newspaper. Factors such as customer promotion, competition, branding, and quality have been identified in order to investigate ...
Sarian, Farah Eziana
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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The illusion of competence: Managers and the Dunning–Kruger effect
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Do managers properly recognize their own expertise? This study explores distortions in self‐perception by investigating the presence of the Dunning–Kruger effect, a cognitive bias that distorts self‐assessment, within managerial contexts. Although widely studied in psychology, its implications for management remain underexplored.
Francesca Sanguineti +3 more
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Testing for Contagion in International Financial Markets: To See More, Go Higher
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traditional measures of financial contagion rely on correlation shifts, overlooking higher moments such as skewness and kurtosis. We examine contagion during two major financial crises, incorporating lower‐ and higher‐moment measures. We analyze stock market returns from 22 major markets at different frequencies, offering a global perspective ...
Simeon Coleman, Vitor Leone
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OIL SPILL ALONG THE TURKISH STRAITS SEA AREA; ACCIDENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS AND PROTECTION [PDF]
, 2018 The Turkish Straits Sea Area (TSSA) is a long water passage that is consisted of the Sea of Marmara, an inland sea within Turkey's borders, and two narrow straits connected to neighboring seas.
Alpar, Bedri +2 more
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.Abscisic acid signaling homeostasis is essential for seed storability. The molecular chaperone OsCPN10a enhances rice seed storability by forming a trimeric chaperone complex with OsCPN20‐OsHSP60‐3B that attenuates abscisic acid signaling via direct interaction with OsPYL10‐OsABIL1, thereby maintaining starch integrity and offering a promising target ...
Sufeng Liao +13 more
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Creativity and cultural globalisation in suburbia: Mediating the Perth-Singapore network
, 2006 According to Singapore-based academics Randolph Kluver and Wayne Fu, there is a need to seek out cultural proxy signifiers “which indicate the extent to which beliefs and values are moving across national boundaries” (Kluver and Fu 2004).
Lee, T.
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