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Can sector-specific REIT strategies outperform a diversified benchmark?

Alex Moss, Andrew Clare, Stephen Thomas et al. · 2017 · Journal of European Real Estate Research

Purpose The authors in this paper aim to investigate the performance of different portfolios of REITs which specialise by property type compared to the performance of a diversified free-float market capitalisation-weighted benchmark index…

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Effects of socialization mechanisms on managers’ desire to have a significant impact through work: evidence from the banking sector

Anderson Betti Frare, Vagner Horz, Ana Paula Capuano da Cruz · 2024 · Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change

Purpose This study aims to analyze the effects of socialization mechanisms (belief system and peer mentoring) on managers’ job engagement and their desire to have a significant impact through work, that is, the desire to substantially…

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Finding significant pathogens in blood cultures in children: Should we set the timer to 36 hours?

Eugene Yeung, Nadia Sant, Ewa Sucha et al. · 2024 · Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada

Background: Knowledge of time to positivity (TTP) for blood cultures is useful to assess timing of discontinuation of empiric antimicrobials for suspected bacteremia with no focus. Methods: An audit of positive blood cultures from the…

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How Did Second Clement Originally End?

James A. Kelhoffer · 2018 · Early Christianity

Eine sprachliche Analyse der stilistischen und theologischen Eigenheiten von 2Clem 19,1–20,5 im Vergleich zu 2Clem 1–18 macht einige Unterschiede deutlich, die für die letzten beiden Kapitel sehr wahrscheinlich auf einen späteren Autor…

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From SARS to COVID-19: lessons we should have learned (but we did not)

Luciano Rodrigo Lopes, João Henrique Campos, Alison Felipe Alencar Chaves · 2022 · Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare

In 2002, a severe acute respiratory (SARS) epidemic, caused by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV), affected a significant number of countries and was interrupted after one year, approximately. Currently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused…

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Will we find Martian lightning via Schumann resonances?

T. M. Esman, J. R. Espley, J. R. Gruesbeck et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Schumann resonances are electromagnetic resonances generally associated with lightning. If they exist on Mars, Schumann resonances are expected to resonate within the ionospheric cavity at a fundamental frequency of 7–14 Hz. We conducted a…

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Why do we find dead bumblebees under linden trees?

Malene Kyrkjebø Vinnes, Inger Marie Aalberg Haugen, Ola Diserud et al. · 2022 · Ecological Entomology

Abstract Linden trees ( Tilia spp . ) have for a long time been associated with bumblebee ( Bombus spp . ) mortality in Europe and North America. Several explanations have been suggested for this phenomenon. This study aimed to explore to…

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Comparison of intestinal leak pressure between cadaveric canine and commercial synthetic intestinal tissue that did and did not undergo enterotomy

Penny J. Regier, Mark J. Fealey, Stanley E. Kim et al. · 2020 · American Journal of Veterinary Research

Abstract OBJECTIVE To compare initial leak pressure (ILP) between cadaveric canine and synthetic small intestinal segments that did and did not undergo enterotomy. SAMPLE Eight 8-cm grossly normal jejunal segments from 1 canine cadaver and…

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The wild goat of Montecristo Island: did it ever exist?

Spartaco Gippoliti · 2016 · Mammalia

Abstract It has recently been claimed by Masseti that a wild goat survived on Montecristo Island until the first half of the 20th century and that subsequent selection procedures produced a goat that did not resemble any true wild goat. In…

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No Significant Effect of Phosphorous Doping on the Electrochemical Performance of Silicon-Carbon Composite Anodes for Li-ion Batteries

Trygve Tveiterås Mongstad, Hanne Flåten Andersen, Jan Petter Maehlen et al. · 2016 · ECS Transactions

In this paper we demonstrate production of doped silicon nanoparticles and testing of the material in Li-ion battery half cells. Incorporation of 3 at% of phosphorous in the reactants of the free-space reactor used resulted in a doping…

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Corn Yield Increase Under Constant Fertilizer Did Not Reduce Nitrate Export

Chelsea Connair Clifford, Emily R. Waring, Carl H. Pederson et al. · 2023 · Journal of the ASABE

Highlights Corn yields increased from 1989 to 2021 in Iowa experimental plots at nitrogen fertilizer rates consistently just above current recommendations. Increased corn yields did not result in a decrease in drainage nitrate exports.…

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Preoperative NSAID Use is Associated With a Small But Statistically Significant Increase in Blood Drainage in TLIF Procedures

Michelle A. Nakatsuka, Yong Kim, Themistocles Protopsaltis et al. · 2025 · Clinical Spine Surgery

Study Design: Retrospective analysis of retrospectively collected data. Objective: To determine the effects of preoperative nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use on estimated blood loss (EBL) and postoperative drain output in…

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Statistically linking extreme precipitation to global warming

Ernie Balcerak · 2013 · Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

Extreme rainfall can have serious effects on societies and ecosystems. Increases in extreme precipitation events are predicted to occur as Earth's climate warms, in part because warmer air has greater capacity to hold moisture, leading to…

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STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT ESTIMATES OF INFLUENCE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY ON PLANETARY WAVES IN THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AS DERIVED FROM MUAM MODEL DATA

Andrey Koval · 2019 · Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika

Numerical simulation has been used to examine the effect of changes in solar activity (SA) in the thermosphere on amplitudes of long-period planetary waves (PW) for the winter period in the Northern Hemisphere. The model of the middle and…

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Detecting statistically significant geographical anomalous regions from spatial sampling points by coupling Gaussian function and multidirectional optimization

Xuexi Yang, Min Deng, Yan Shi et al. · 2020 · Transactions in GIS

Abstract An anomalous geographical region refers to a collection of spatially aggregated objects whose non‐spatial attribute values are significantly inconsistent with those of their spatial neighbors. The detection of anomalous regions…

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