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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"stickiness"”.
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Compositional and analytical factors affecting the stickiness of dairy powders
… products. However, challenges associated with stickiness development are often encountered during spray drying, particularly with spray dryer feed streams containing high levels of lactose, which can lead to lower yields, reduced powder quality and shorter runs. Stickiness in lactose-containing …
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Flour quality and dough stickiness of soft red winter wheat lines with and without 1B/1R translocations
… undesirable characteristics such as dough stickiness and reduced mixing tolerance. Many promising wheat lines have been developed by crossbreeding 1B/1R Jines with soft wheat in hopes of producing a 1B/1R soft wheat of good quality for use in soft wheat products. The purpose of this …
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Fabulous Khoisan:the politics of apoliticality in the indigenous Khoisan revivalism movement in South Africa; an exploration of sincerity,stickiness and fabulation in the emergence of a missing people
… production. Linking sincerity to Sara Ahmed's “stickiness” of affective flows and Gilles Deleuze's “fabulation” demonstrates how marginalised communities transform erased histories into tools for agency, actionable hope, and collective empowerment. Fabulation, in particular, enables the …
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Asymmetry In Operational Efficiency and Managerial Ability Benchmarks
… decrease than a demand increase due to cost stickiness and respond faster to negative returns than to positive returns due to accounting conservatism. As predicted, I find large asymmetries in the behavior of OE and MA measures. OE and MA in levels (changes) are 2.4 (1.4) times and 1.5 (1.6) …
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Rememoration, ‘sticky associations,’ and social media performativity in the pegida movement
… circulate emotions that carry political ‘stickiness’ that attaches to some bodies and objects, but not to others. Stickiness creates boundaries around the ‘we’ and the ‘them,’ and I draw attention to how stickiness accumulates through Bachmann’s Instagram posts from the start of the …
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Floral evolution of long-tubed Erica species
… preference. Chapter 2 focused on the role of stickiness for nectar robbers. I experimentally added stickiness to Erica flowers of one species and further compared stickiness to nectar robbing across several communities. Stickiness appears to reduce damage due to nectar robbing within and …
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Implications of Sticky Cost Behavior for Earnings Surprise and Market Reaction
… recognizes fixed and variable costs and cost stickiness can provide more accurate earnings forecasts, analysts and investors cannot fully capture sticky cost information. Since analysts are not fully aware of the correct cost behavior model, earnings surprises can be largely explained by a …
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Effect of 1B/1R Chromosomal Translocation on Dough Rheology of Soft Red Winter Wheat Flour
… were subjected to farinograph analysis and dough stickiness testing. Dough stickiness was determined by the Schwarzlaff-Shepherd Dough Stripping Method. Wheat samples from 1995-1996 were also analyzed for protein, ash, and moisture content, alkaline water retention capacity (AWRC), cookie …
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All Kinds of Touching
… growing up, blood, caves, art and general stickiness.
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Three essays in financial economics
… first project, I examine whether aggregate cost stickiness predicts future macro-level unemployment rate. I find that a one-standard-deviation-higher cost stickiness in recent quarters is followed by a 0.23 to 0.26-percentage-point-lower unemployment rate in the current and following quarter. In …
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Brain substrates of behavioural endophenotypes predictive of compulsive drug-seeking
… place preference and locomotor reactivity. ‘Stickiness’ – the tendency to repeat the same choice regardless of reward outcome – on a reversal learning procedure was positively associated with motor impulsivity. A concurrent punishment- drug-seeking procedure was next implemented to assess …
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A longitudinal analysis of the chiropractic profession from 1996 to 2007
… administrative registration data from 1996-2007. Stickiness and Inflow concepts acted as proxy measures for relative attractiveness. Survival analysis was employed to identify practitioner groups more likely to leave practice. Results: Chiropractors grew from 1,955 to 4,185 from 1996-2007 in …
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Implications of lump sum costs for empirical design in corporate finance research
… policy. The second study investigates the stickiness in credit rating. The existing literature on credit ratings typically assumes on accurate match between credit quality and agency ratings. This assumption ignores the agencies’ trade-off between the reputation among investors and the …
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Managerial tacit knowledge transfer and the mediating role of leader-member-exchange and cognitive style
… with this have been referred to as ‘internal stickiness’ (Szulanski, 1996) and is believed to be due to several factors. This study examines difficulties associated with the transfer of managerial tacit knowledge in the relationships involving supervisor and subordinates who work as managers …
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Materials science approach to characterization and prediction of sensory texture in confectionary systems
… to both trained and consumer evaluations of stickiness in order to deepen understanding of stickiness perception and the effects of sugar replacement on texture. By correlating TDS dominance parameters and check-all-that-apply (CATA) selection rates with sample stickiness ratings, two tiers …
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE INNOVATION
… decisions on mergers and acquisitions and cost stickiness, as well as how gender disparity affects innovation outcomes by female inventors.The first chapter (with Connie X. Mao, Xuan Tian, Chi Zhang) studies the effects of information frictions on acquisition activities by exploiting plausibly …
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Endogenous Shocks in the New Keynesian Model
… of transmission of monetary policy, nominal wage stickiness, and incomplete pass-through. With some reservations, these endogenous shocks produce the same sort of behavior of the model's variables in response to a technological shock as they would exhibit in response to an ad hoc cost-push shock. …
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The conditioning of confectionery products
… three primary aims of conditioning are to reduce stickiness which causes packing problems, allow the samples to strengthen so that they can resist mechanical handling without deformation, and to prevent the sweating of the confectionery after packing. Although conditioning appears to reduce these …
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The sticky property of Ypresian clays
… clays is proved to be an indicator of its high stickiness, and the cone pull-out test gives a value for adherence that quantifies the clogging potential. Ypresian clays also support the hypothesis that the Casagrande chart's U-line could be used as an evaluation method for clogging. In these …
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