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PUBLIC R&D POLICIES AND PRIVATE R&D INVESTMENT: A SURVEY OF THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE by Becker, Bettina

“…The importance of R&D investment in explaining economic growth is well documented in the literature. Policies by modern governments increasingly recognise the…”
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Lexical Entrainment in Written Discourse: Is Experts' Word Use Adapted to the Addressee? by Jucks, Regina, Becker, Bettina-Maria, Bromme, Rainer

“…Overlaps with one's interlocutor in the choice of words are called lexical entrainment. This article looks at accounts for these overlaps in word use. The…”
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The Effects of Politeness-Related Instruction on Medical Tutoring by Bromme, Rainer, Brummernhenrich, Benjamin, Becker, Bettina-Maria, Jucks, Regina

“…Tutors often fail to address learners' misconceptions. Although this may indicate a failure to grasp these misconceptions, it may simply be due to a wish to be…”
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College students' knowledge of concepts related to the metabolic syndrome by Becker, Bettina-Maria, Bromme, Rainer, Jucks, Regina

“…This paper explores lay understanding of illnesses related to the metabolic syndrome (MetS), a constellation of metabolic derailments associated with a higher…”
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Diagnosis and Repair?: How Experts Identify and Respond to a Layperson's Misconceptions in Online Medical Counseling by Jucks, Regina, Brummernhenrich, Benjamin, Becker, Bettina-Maria, Bromme, Rainer

“…Responding to misconceptions is an essential part of adaptive instruction. Nevertheless, research on both tutoring and expert-layperson communication has…”
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Knowledge to money: Assessing the business performance effects of publicly-funded R&D grants by Vanino, Enrico, Roper, Stephen, Becker, Bettina

“…•We examine the effect of all UK Research Council funding for R&D and innovation on business growth using data matching and a PSM-DID econometric…”
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Assessing innovation spillovers from publicly funded R&D and innovation support: Evidence from the UK by Becker, Bettina, Roper, Stephen, Vanino, Enrico

“…embodied, explicit, and tacit - drives innovation. Research and development and other knowledge creation activities play a key role, as does the type of…”
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Regional Growth and SMEs in Brazil: A Spatial Panel Approach by Cravo, Tulio A., Becker, Bettina, Gourlay, Adrian

“…Cravo T. A., Becker B. and Gourlay A. Regional growth and SMEs in Brazil: a spatial panel approach, Regional Studies. This paper examines economic growth for a…”
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Changes in body composition in male adolescents with childhood‐onset GH deficiency during transition by Binder, Gerhard, Donner, Julia, Becker, Bettina, Bauer, Jana Leonie, Schweizer, Roland

“…Objective Restarting rhGH in adolescents with childhood‐onset (CO‐) GHD is usually based on GH retest, IGF‐1, additional pituitary hormone deficiencies,…”
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WHAT DETERMINES INDUSTRIAL R&D EXPENDITURE IN THE UK? by BECKER, BETTINA, PAIN, NIGEL

“…In this paper we identify some of the factors behind the comparatively poor R&D performance of the UK in the 1990s, when R&D intensity in the business sector…”
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Ten years of European Monetary Union: Introduction by Becker, Bettina

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SMEs and regional economic growth in Brazil by Cravo, Túlio A., Gourlay, Adrian, Becker, Bettina

“…This paper examines the relationship between the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and economic growth for an annual panel of Brazilian states for…”
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Hot Melt Hybrids Open Entirely New Possibilities by Becker, Bettina, Butterbach, Ruediger, Marchese, Luca

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Do RandD strategies in high-tech sectors differ from those in low-tech sectors? An alternative approach to testing the pooling assumption by Becker, Bettina, Hall, Stephen G

“…Most studies investigating the determinants of RandD investment consider pooled estimates. However, if the parameters are heterogeneous, pooled coefficients…”
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Do R&D strategies in high-tech sectors differ from those in low-tech sectors? An alternative approach to testing the pooling assumption by Becker, Bettina, Hall, Stephen G.

“…Most studies investigating the determinants of R&D investment consider pooled estimates. However, if the parameters are heterogeneous, pooled coefficients may…”
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Intergenerational practice for a sustainable future: a case study by Becker, Bettina, Saville, Jasmine

“…Purpose - This paper seeks to report on a project working with young and older people looking ahead to a more sustainable future and sharing practical…”
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LAYERED MEANINGS: The construction of 'the family' in the interview by Becker, Bettina, Charles, Nickie

“…Recent sociological inquiry into the family has focused on the decline of the male breadwinner family and the increasing diversity of family forms. Yet the…”
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Woman, Violence, Nation: Representations of Female Insurgency in Fiction and Public Discourse in the 1970s and 1980s by Becker, Bettina T

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Foreign direct investment in RandD and exchange rate uncertainty by Becker, Bettina, Hall, Stephen G

“…The current practice in the literature on the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on foreign direct investment is to consider exchange rate volatility. In this…”
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Woman, Violence, Nation: Representations of Female Insurgency in Fiction and Public Discourse in the 1970s and 1980s by Becker, Bettina T.

“…Germany in the 1970s was subject to a wave of terrorist activities in which women such as Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin played a significant role. The mass…”
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