When red tape saves time: The Anti-corruption controls for the 2015 Universal Exposition by Simone Busetti, Bruno Dente

“…When a major corruption scandal emerged during the organisation of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan, the government set up a brand-new system of preliminary controls for the procurement of all Expo contracts. Controls can certainly be beneficial in many respects, but they inevitably complicate procedures and even produce delays and red tape. …”
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Stochastic model of economic cycles and its econometric application by Karmalita Viacheslav

“…An example of possible econometric applications of the model was considered using the current cyclic contraction in US incomes.…”
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Les deux piliers de la construction territoriale : coordination des acteurs et ressources territoriales by Hadjou Lamara

“…The logic of cooperation can be realized through the establishment of diverse governance systems, different from the traditional mode of regulation which is the market. Contracts, agreements, networks, and formal or informal cooperation are a range regulation models that are mobilized by the actors to transform their space in a dynamic territory. …”
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Improved GOA-based fuzzy PI speed control of PMSM with predictive current regulation. by Taochang Li, Ang Li, Limin Hou

“…The improved GOA is then employed to optimize the contraction-expansion factor of the variable universe fuzzy PI controller, achieving enhanced control performance for PMSMs. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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Viewing the African Political Leadership Challenge through the Lens of Music Drama: Reflections on Duro Ladipo’s Ọba Kòso by Kayode Samuel

“…Thematic exploration of the opera was carried out to establish the linkages between leaders’ (characters’) traits and styles as portrayed in the play, and Nigeria’s political leaders’ engagement and responses to social contracts with their citizens. By comparing the outcomes of the actions, inactions and (in) decisions of Nigeria’s political leaders and the attendant consequences on their subjects with those found in the opera. …”
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Art, Performance, and Outsourcing in Corporate Art Commissioning: An American Scenario by Charlotte Gould

“…The art world has indeed become a benchmark of production and management for the business world which praises its ever-youthful energy, its inventiveness, hipness, and sense of freedom, its flexible working hours and short-term or zero-hour contracts. Following the success of the creative industries, private companies have been keen to embrace this post-Fordist work model and link it to the global neoliberal market economy. …”
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Euler’s Numerical Method on Fractional DSEK Model under ABC Derivative by Fareeha Sami Khan, M. Khalid, Omar Bazighifan, A. El-Mesady

“…According to this theory, we will define two operators based on Lipschitzian and prove that they are contraction mapping and relatively compact. Ulam-Hyers stability theorem is implemented to prove the fractional DSEK model’s stability in Banach space. …”
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A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Two-Dimensional Shock Wave Modeling by W. Lai, A. A. Khan

“…Applications include circular dam break with shock, shock waves in channel contraction, and dam break in channel with 45∘ bend. …”
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THE NIGERIAN OIL RESOURCEAND SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: AN INTERROGATION by Joshua DANJUMA

“…Findings reveal poor political institutions, corruption and lack of accountability, weak executive control of oil resource governance with apparent inadequate checks and balances, and the resultant conflicts and clashes of interests, manipulations, and inflation of oil contracts with favouritism in allocating oil blocs to cronies.Therefore, this articleshades in a newlight by interrogating the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund to ensure optimal benefits of oil wealth to all citizenry; it submits that measures must be adopted in building political institutions, reforming the Niger Delta Development Commission; diversification, building a welfare state, equitable distribution of oil wealth and the imposition of direct tax. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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The Cyclicality of Loan Loss Provision in Brazilian Commercial Banks by Antônio Maria Henri Beyle de Araújo, Paulo Roberto Barbosa Lustosa, José Alves Dantas

“…The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between banks’ provisioning for credit losses and business cycles in Brazil, in an attempt to confirm its nature, a condition capable of avoiding potentiating the effects of economic contraction or expansion. Using an econometric model with accounting and macroeconomic variables, the survey involved 91 commercial banks in the period from 2001 to 2012. …”
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Evolution of concept of esophageal motor disturbances in pathogenesis of gastroesophageal reflux disease by V. T. Ivashkin, A. S. Trukhmanov

“…There are several components of TLESR mechanism: decrease of the lower esophageal sphincter pressure, modulated by inhibiting impulses; decrease of compression by crures of diaphragm; intensive contraction of longitudinal muscles of the esophagus; relaxation of circular musculature layer at its distal part. …”
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Applications of Matrices to a Matroidal Structure of Rough Sets by Jingqian Wang, William Zhu

“…Then some characteristics of the matroid are presented through the representable matrix mainly. Secondly, contraction and restriction operations are applied to the matroid through the representable matrix and approximation operators of rough sets. …”
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Du sol foncier au sol vivant by Atelier Georges, Thibault Barbier, Mathieu Delorme, Charles Rives

“…Starting from this theoretical framework, we conduct two case studies: a regional development project for which we provided assistance to the contracting authority and an urban planning project we were in charge of. …”
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A Report of Two Cases of Age-Related Changes in Cervical Morphology in Postmenopausal Women with Vaginal Adenosis by Marguerite B. Vigliani

“…Several decades of annual exams showed these stigmata of DES exposure gradually disappear as the upper vagina progressively contracted. After menopause the upper vagina in both cases transformed into what appeared to be a normal cervix with all adenosis involuted into a normal endocervical canal. …”
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Faire la paix devant notaire (Saint-Germain-des-Prés, première moitié du xviie siècle) by Diane Roussel

“…The sociology of the contracting parties and of the litigants thus sheds light on some of the motivations and demands of the populations in their choice to navigate more or less willingly between the one and the other recourse.…”
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The 'Rush Hour' of Life: Insecurities and Strains in Early Life Phases as a Challenge for a Life Course-Oriented, Sustainable Social Policy by Ute Klammer

“…Empirical data proves that, in Germany, the majority of flexibility risks in the labour market (such as fixed-time contracts, temp work, unemployment etc.) are taken by the young generation and by unskilled workers. …”
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La Vie de l’agence de Jean Dubuisson dans les années 1950 à Paris by Élise Guillerm

“…All of them share common aesthetic values, turned towards the avant-garde, which they confront with a sustained production rhythm.The study is based on administrative records from the office of Jean Dubuisson (pay sheets, contracts, certificates of competence) generally neglected by historiography. …”
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