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Open AccessClimatic implications in earlywood and latewood width indices of Chinese pine in north central China
Latewood width (LWW) indices of trees are considered a reliable proxy of summer precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere. However, the strong coupling and high correlation between earlywood width (EWW) and LWW...
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Personalized email marketing in loyalty programs: The role of multidimensional construal levels
Loyalty programs offer unique opportunities for firms to personalize their marketing communications to consumers. However, limited attention has been paid to how consumers’ actions within a loyalty program can...
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The Impact of Medicaid and SNAP Program Participation on WIC Participants’ Redemption Behavior Pattern: An Abstract
The federal government spends a large amount of money on assistance programs such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Supplemental Nutrition Assista...
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Climatic control on the growth and regeneration of Juniperus przewalskii at alpine treeline in the eastern Qilian Mountains, northwest China
Temperature was the dominant climatic factor that controlled Juniperus przewalskii growth before 1988. However, the limiting effect of temperature on trees gradually weakened after 1988. Treeline shifted upward s...
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Extended xylogenesis and stem biomass production in Juniperus przewalskii Kom. during extreme late-season climatic events
Late-season extreme climatic events induced variations in wood density and extended growth for more than a month in 2016 in Juniperus przewalskii Kom. growin...
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The Joint Impact of Goal Type and Goal Completion Magnitude on Consumer’ Post-Goal-Completion Behavior: An Abstract
Goal pursuit represents an important psychological mechanism under loyalty programs (Bagchi and Li 2010; Fishbach and Dhar 2005; Lee and Ariely 2006). Although academic research on loyalty programs has examine...
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Loss or gain? The impact of Chinese local celebrity endorser scandal on the global market value of the endorsed brands
Can a local celebrity endorser event influence the endorsed global brand’s stock value? Employing cultural perspective, signal theory and attribution theory, we hypothesized that, in an emerging market such as...
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Forward modeling analyses of Qilian Juniper (Sabina przewalskii) growth in response to climate factors in different regions of the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China
The process-based Vaganov–Shashkin model simulations accurately represent the nonlinear process of Qilian Juniper growth–climate relationship over different regions of the Qilian Mountains. ...
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Application of Picea wilsonii roots to determine erosion rates in eastern Qilian Mountains, Northwest China
As a consequence of global change and human activities, processes of soil erosion are expected to increase in forested areas, resulting in exposed roots. Dendrogeomorphic research was conducted by analyzing ex...
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Optimization of spectroscopic properties of ytterbium-doped laser glasses
Four laser glasses with high emission cross sections are experimentally obtained. The laser performance parameters are determined from the spectroscopic parameters of these glasses and compared with those of d...
