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Anne Smith (a)1 Mary A. Meade (b) David Wolf (c)

Charles Rockefeller (d)
Anne Jee (e)

(a)
Professor, School of Management, Northern Canada University, Toronto, Canada; E-mail: [email protected]
(b)
Professor, School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China; E-mail: [email protected]
(c)
Professor, School of Management, Northern Canada University, Toronto, Canada; E-mail: [email protected]
(d)
Professor, School of Management, Northern Canada University, Toronto, Canada; E-mail: [email protected]
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Professor, Professor, School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China; E-mail: [email protected]

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INTRODUCTION
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LITERATURE REVIEW
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 The literature review shows who dealt with similar research topic before?
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MATERIALS AND METHODS

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 The article identifies strengths and weaknesses of the Materials and Method and its findings.

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reliability and the validity of your results, It also permits experienced investigators to replicate the study, If your
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research design. If the design of the study is complex or the stimuli require detailed description, additional subsections or
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Participant (Subject) Characteristics

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Sampling Procedures
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Sample Size, Power, and Precision

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Measures and Covariates

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the training and reliability of assessors or the use of multiple observations). Provide information on instruments used,
including their psychometric and biometric properties and evidence of cultural validity.

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Research Design
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random assignment or some other selection mechanism? Was the study conducted as a between-subjects or a within-
subject design?

Experimental Manipulations or Interventions

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how and when interventions (experimental manipulations) were actually administered.
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RESULTS
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Recruitment
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Statistics and Data Analysis

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Ancillary Analyses
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ancillary analyses for statistical error rates.

Participant Flow
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experiment or crossed over to other conditions and explain why. Note the number of participants used in the primary
analyses. (This number might differ from the number who completed the study because participants might not show up for
or complete the final measurement.)

Intervention or Manipulation Fidelity

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If interventions or experimental manipulations were used, provide evidence on whether they were delivered as intended.
In basic experimental research, this might be the results of checks on the manipulation. In applied research, this might be,
for example, records and observations of intervention delivery sessions and attendance records.

Baseline Data
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Statistics and Data Analysis
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ta- treat. That is, were all participants assigned to conditions included in the data analysis regardless of whether they
actually received the intervention, or were only participants who completed the intervention satisfactorily included? Give
a rationale for the choice.

Adverse Events
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each intervention group.

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Digits 31.8(33.2) 21.2 42.4

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DISCUSSION
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to your interpretation and to the reader’s understanding of the problem.
Your interpretation of the results should take into account (a) sources of potential bias and other threats to
internal validity, (b) the imprecision of measures, (c) the overall number of tests or overlap among tests, (d) the effect
sizes observed, and (e) other limitations or weaknesses of the study. If an intervention is involved, discuss whether it was
successful and the mechanism by which it was intended to work (causal pathways) and/or alternative mechanisms. Also,
discuss barriers to be implementing the intervention or manipulation as well as the fidelity with which the intervention or
manipulation was implemented in the study, that is, any differences between the manipulation as planned and as
implemented.
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the target population and the accessed sample. For interventions, discuss characteristics that make them more or less
applicable to circumstances not included in the study, how and what outcomes were measured (relative to other measures
that might have been used), the length of time to measurement (between the end of the intervention and the measurement
of outcomes), incentives, compliance rates, and specific settings involved in the study as well as other contextual issues.
End the Discussion section with a reasoned and justifiable commentary on the importance of your findings. This
concluding section may be brief or extensive provided that it is tightly reasoned, self-contained, and not overstated. In this
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larger issues, those that transcend the particulars of the subfield, might hinge on the findings; and what propositions are
confirmed or disconfirmed by the extrapolation of these findings to such overarching issues.
You may also consider the following issues:
 What is the theoretical, clinical, or practical significance of the outcomes, and what is the basis for these
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interpretations? If the findings are valid and replicable, what real-life psychological phenomena might be
explained or modeled by the results? Are applications warranted on the basis of this research? (Note 1)

 What problems remain unresolved or arise anew because of these findings? The responses to these questions are
the core of the contribution of your study and justify why readers both inside and outside your own specialty
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CONCLUSIONS
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PATENTS
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Author Contributions: Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis,
X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.;
Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”. Authors have read and agreed to the published
version of the manuscript.
Institutional Review Board Statement: Ethical review and approval were waived for this study, due to that the research does not deal with vulnerable
groups or sensitive issues.
Funding: The authors received no direct funding for this research.
Acknowledgments: In this section you can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections. This
may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).
Informed Consent Statement: Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.
Data Availability Statement: The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly
available due to restrictions.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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APPENDICES
Appendix A: The Heading to Appendix A

Total Capital Stock Income of Main Business Total Assets

Pudong Development Bank 39.2 214.7 5730.7
Bank of China 459.4 3345.7 59876.9

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demographic description of subpopulations in the study and other detailed and/or complex reporting items suggested in
the reporting standards section of this chapter.

Appendix B: The Heading to Appendix B

Total Capital Stock Income of Main Business Total Assets

Pudong Development Bank 39.2 214.7 5730.7
Bank of China 459.4 3345.7 59876.9
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