Impact of the Late Miocene Cooling on the loss of coral reefs in the Central Indo-Pacific by B. F. Petrick, L. Reuning, M. Pfeiffer, G. Auer, L. Schwark

“…This “Pliocene Reef Gap” has often been ascribed to non-climatic factors. However, a lack of proxy data prevents an understanding of climatic changes during this time. …”
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The Australian and New Zealand Fontan Registry Quality of Life Study: Protocol for a population-based assessment of quality of life among people with a Fontan circulation, their pa... by Daniel S J Costa, Kim Dalziel, Yves d’Udekem, David S Winlaw, David S Celermajer, Nadine A Kasparian, Diana Zannino, Rachel Bishop, Kate H Marshall, Susan R Woolfenden, Gary F Sholler

“…A suite of validated psychometric self-report and parent-proxy report instruments capture potential correlates and predictors of QOL, including symptoms of psychological distress, personality attributes, coping and cognitive appraisals, family functioning, healthcare experiences and costs, access to emotional support and socioeconomic factors. …”
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The effect of financial development on per capita income: A panel data analysis for heterogeneous countries between 1980 and 2020 by Felipe Massafera, Luciano Ferreira Gabriel

“…For this, panel data methods were used to analyze proxy variables of depth, risk and liquidity of the financial system for a heterogeneous sample of 95 countries from 1980 to 2020. …”
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Can Libya survive as a single State? by George Joffé

“…Now Libya is being dragged into a proxy war, involving the UAE and Egypt as opposed to Qatar and Turkey and the regional level and, more globally, Russia, the United States, France and Italy. …”
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An Evolutionary Video Assignment Optimization Technique for VOD System in Heterogeneous Environment by King-Man Ho, Wing-Fai Poon, Kwok-Tung Lo

“…In such systems, videos are delivered to clients either through a proxy server or video broadcast/unicast channels. …”
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Severe Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage due to Monkeypox Virus-Associated Proctocolitis by Sobaan Taj, Chris Austin, Azhar Hussain, Maryam Salma Babar, Harshavardhan Sanekommu, Steven Imburgio, Anmol Johal, Alejandro CruzPonce, Apurva Vedire, Edward Liu

“…In our case, monkeypox-induced proctocolitis progressed to severe rectal bleeding requiring one unit of packed red blood cells transfusion despite one week of tecovirimat (TPOXX) therapy. So, patients should be educated about the possibility of unusual complications of monkeypox infection, i.e., bleeding in immunocompromised hosts.…”
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Prêter son nom et simuler des transactions. Des stipulations d’Abû Ja‘far al-Ṭaḥâwî (ixe-xe siècles) aux consultations et actes juridiques des xviie-xviiie siècles by Brigitte Marino

“…A careful study of the recorded legal acts of eighteenth century Damascus courts suggests that parties to real property transactions - both buyers and sellers – acted sometimes for undisclosed third parties without being explicitly qualified as their proxy. Contrary to appearances, then, the real protagonists of these transactions were not necessarily those named in the documents.Collections of legal opinions (fatâwâ) and works of legal subterfuge (ḥiyal) refer to two phenomena related to this kind of situation: the use of straw men and the simulation of transactions. …”
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The Roots of the Obesity Boom. The Relationship Between Overweight and Educational Level Among Dutch Men, 1950–1979 by Björn Quanjer, Kristina Thompson

“…We test the relationship between obesity and educational level (as a proxy for socio-economic status) in a historical cohort of Dutch military conscripts, from the conscription years 1950–1979. …”
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The New Method of Sensor Data Privacy Protection for IoT by Yue Wu, Liangtu Song, Lei Liu

“…In order to avoid tracking the source of the data, a ring signature is used to anonymize the gateway transaction. The proxy re-encryption method realizes the sharing of encrypted data. …”
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Research on the Influence Mechanism of Platform Corporate Social Responsibility on Customer Extra-Role Behavior by Wenjun Liu, Chenye Wang, Lin Ding, Cuibo Wang

“…Based on the motivation theory and social exchange theory, this paper divides corporate social responsibility (CSR) into business ethical responsibility and public welfare responsibility using the CSR division method proposed by McWilliams and Siegel, puts forward self-moral restraint as the proxy variable for business ethical responsibility and explains the relationship between CSR and customer extra-role behavior. …”
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An Empirical Study on Listed Company’s Value of Cash Holdings: An Information Asymmetry Perspective by Chuangxia Huang, Xin Ma, Qiujun Lan

“…Drawing on the market microstructure and the index of information asymmetry of managers and investors, this paper constructs a new proxy for information asymmetry based on the principal component analysis. …”
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Tourism industry: Role of the real effective exchange rate by Gancho Todorov Ganchev

“…The real effective exchange rate (REER) is used as a proxy for the composite product price and other proxies are introduced for foreign income and domestic tourism industry capacity. …”
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Video-based collaboration to develop language production skills by Sandra Vasconcelos, Ana Balula

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A Survey of Research Progress and Development Tendency of Attribute-Based Encryption by Liaojun Pang, Jie Yang, Zhengtao Jiang

“…We also pay attention to other researches relating to the ABE schemes, including multiauthority, user/attribute revocation, accountability, and proxy reencryption, with an extensive comparison of their functionality and performance. …”
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Improved AB-CPREs with Revocability and HRA Security under LWE by Yang Wang, Mingqiang Wang

“…Attribute-based conditional proxy re-encryption protocols (AB-CPREs) enable a delegator to delegate his decryption rights via different policies and grant the data owner greater flexibility in allocating their encrypted private data stored in the cloud. …”
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Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect M&A Operations? Evidence from the Brazilian Market by Alexandre Teixeira Norberto Batista, Wagner Moura Lamounier, Poueri do Carmo Mário

“…The alternative metric used as a proxy for uncertainty, the Economic Uncertainty Indicator - Brazil, was not statistically significant. …”
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The role of internal audit on the quality of financial reports by Nurin Majidah, Falikhatun Falikhatun

“…In addition, there is a research gap regarding the role of internal audit on the quality of financial statements as a proxy for Organizational Culture and Masculinity. …”
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The Effect of Targeted Monetary Policy on Bank Lending by Olli-Matti Laine

“…The effect of targeted policy is identified utilizing the institutional setting that provides natural instrumental variables and a proxy for credit demand. Unlike previous papers, this paper studies the effects on corporate loans and loans for consumption separately. …”
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Strategic Competition and its implications for international security by Mirosław Banasik, Lech Chojnowski

“…Revisionist powers and rogue regimes use corruption, predatory economic practices, propaganda, political subversion, proxy wars, threats of military force and nuclear blackmail to alter the existing international order. …”
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FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: NEW EVIDENCE FROM TUNISIA by Zaïbi Oussama, Ahmed Hachicha, Fatma Hachicha

“…It has been found that economic freedom can be used as a proxy of developed institutions and that the effect of financial development on economic growth improves in the presence of the variable of economic freedom. …”
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