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The Role of Headquarters Firms in Multinational Profit Shifting Strategies [PDF]
, 2010 This paper stresses the special role of multinational headquarters in corporate profit shifting strategies. Using a large panel of European firms, we show that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are reluctant to shift profits away from their headquarters ...
Dischinger, Matthias, Riedel, Nadine
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This paper investigates the attachment of overt and covert prestige to different varieties of Scottish Standard English (SSE), namely, Scots-SSE and Anglo-SSE. SSE itself encompasses wide linguistic variation and is often described as an accent continuum:
Abigail Salvesen
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Unraveling mysteries of personal performance style; biomechanics of left-hand position changes (shifting) in violin performance [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Instrumental music performance ranks among the most complex of learned human behaviors, requiring development of highly nuanced powers of sensory and neural discrimination, intricate motor skills, and adaptive abilities in a temporal activity.
Peter Visentin +3 more
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa +5 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This paper contributes to research on the social meaning of creaky voice in American English by offering an intraspeaker analysis of the speech of Lady Gaga, an American pop star.
Lewis Esposito
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Cognitive Research, 2022 Accumulating evidence suggests that individuals with greater executive resources spend less time mind wandering. Independent strands of research further suggest that this association depends on concentration and a guilty-dysphoric daydreaming style ...
David Marcusson-Clavertz +5 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Test-Time Style Shifting: Handling Arbitrary Styles in Domain Generalization [PDF]
, 2023 In domain generalization (DG), the target domain is unknown when the model is being trained, and the trained model should successfully work on an arbitrary (and possibly unseen) target domain during inference.
Kim, Soyeong +3 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This is the first issue of the second volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. Thanks to the success of our first volume, as well as a new partnership with this volume’s Guest Editor, Dr Laurel MacKenzie ...
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Code-Switching as Strategically Employed in Political Discourse
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 There is extensive scholarship in the field of sociolinguistics on mediated political discourse as strategically employed to gain support in the run-up to and during elections.
Yova Kementchedjhieva
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