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h i g h l i g h t s < Multi-year, international efforts for studying aerosol and climate impacts across Southeast Asia. < Aerosol and cloud properties measured from both ground-and satellite-based platforms. < Investigation of aerosolecloud interactions and planning for future experiments.

The study aims to examine the impact of productivity in addition to the policy of increasing the foreign investors' ownership rate on the performance of businesses which were listed on Vietnam's stock exchange market from 2010 to 2017. With the database of 3.961 observations, the study employs a statistical method -multiple regression to estimate the relationship between labor productivity, foreign ownership as well as other firm-level characteristics and firm performance. Research findings show that increasing labor productivity and increasing foreign ownership rates help increase firm performance. In addition, except for financial leverage, variables such as liquidity and firm size have positive effects on firm performance measured by Tobin's Q. These findings have theoretical contributions and practical implications for managers, investors and government in Vietnam. Managers should pay attention to improving labor productivity through employing incentive mechanisms, building a good working environment, investing in technology, etc. in order to enhance the firm performance. Investors could utilize the labor productivity and foreign ownership indicators to select stocks of good companies for investment. For Vietnamese government, relaxing the limit of foreign ownership and accelerating the divesting of State capital in Stateowned enterprises could help increase the investment scale of foreign investors and resulting in positive effects on the firm performance.

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We show the results of two-terminal and four-terminal transport measurements on few-layer NbSe2 devices at large current bias. In all the samples measured, transport characteristics at high bias are dominated by a series of resistance jumps due to nucleation of phase slip lines, the two dimensional analogue of phase slip centers. In point contact devices the relatively simple and homogeneous geometry enables a quantitative comparison with the model of Skocpol, Beasley and Tinkham. In extended crystals the nucleation of a single phase slip line can be induced by mechanical stress of a region whose width is comparable to the charge imbalance equilibration length.