Trade policy uncertainty and corporate financialization: strategic implications for non-financial firms in China by Mingyao Wang, Normaziah Mohd Nor, Norhuda Abdul Rahim, Faisal Khan, Ziyu Zhou

“…Corporate financialization is the process in which corporations prioritize financial assets and generate profits primarily via financial investments rather than product markets. …”
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Investigating the Organization of Zakat in Iran with Emphasis on Zakat Law and Regulations by Hosin Hasanzadeh Sarvestani, Alireza Etemadifar

“…The Zakat Organization manages the mobilization and allocation of Zakat assets based on the Zakat Law and Regulations. The Zakat Law was approved in 1390 and its regulations in 1402. …”
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The Effects of Nonperforming Loans on Dynamic Network Bank Performance by Day-Yang Liu, Ya-Chiang Wu, Cheng-Hsien Lin, Wen-Min Lu

“…With increasing NPLs in recent years, the quality of lending assets is a key significant and influencing factor for banks’ operational risk. …”
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The Influence Of Green Accounting, Financial Performance, And Company Size On Financial Sustainability by Tasha Asprilla Pramastha, Liliek Nur Sulistiyowati

“…This research uses Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) as a proxy for green accounting, financial performance which is proxied by Return On Assets (ROA), Return On Equity (ROE), and Net Profit Margin (NPM), and firm size which is proxied by logarithms. from company size to Financial Sustainability which is proxied by the Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) in manufacturing companies listed on IDX. …”
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Complexities in Financial Network Topological Dynamics: Modeling of Emerging and Developed Stock Markets by Yong Tang, Jason Jie Xiong, Zi-Yang Jia, Yi-Cheng Zhang

“…There have been recent advances in applying data-driven science and network theory into the studies of social and financial systems. Financial assets and institutions are strongly connected and influence each other. …”
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Using Multi-Criteria Decision Models in Investigating the Key Factors of Success in Marketing and Location Branding in an Uncertain Environment by Ghasem Farajpour Khanaposhti

“…For this reason, brands are one of the most important visible assets of the organization. One of the prominent examples of marketing is location marketing. …”
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Recent Advancements in Planning and Reliability Aspects of Large-Scale Deep Sea Offshore Wind Power Plants: A Review by Pawan Kumar, Santanu Paul, Akshay Kumar Saha, Omkar Yadav

“…The review synthesizes current research findings, technological innovations, and industry practices, and the evaluation elucidates state-of-the-art methodologies, tools, and strategies employed in developing and operating these offshore renewable energy assets. Key focus areas include site selection and resource assessment, technological innovations in turbine design and foundation systems, risk assessment and mitigation strategies, grid integration, and socio-economic and environmental considerations. …”
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Real-Time Safety Risk Assessment Based on a Real-Time Location System for Hydropower Construction Sites by Hanchen Jiang, Peng Lin, Qixiang Fan, Maoshan Qiang

“…A quantitative calculation formula, integrating the influence of static and dynamic hazards and that of safety supervisors, is established to link the safety risk of workers with the locations of on-site assets. By employing the hidden Markov model (HMM), the RTSRA provides a mechanism for processing location data provided by the real-time location system (RTLS) and analyzing the probability distributions of different states in terms of false positives and negatives. …”
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Socio-Demographic Changes and Transmission of Tangible and Intangible Resources: Ethnographic Glimpses From the Western Italian Alps by Valentina Porcellana, Giulia Fassio, Pier Paolo Viazzo, Roberta Clara Zanini

“…We argue that the current focus on intangible heritage should not obscure the role of tangible assets – such as land, buildings and rights to private and collective resources – which are often essential to ensure that traditional craftsmanship is rescued and preserved. …”
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A robust scheme for securing relational data incremental watermarking by Maikel Lázaro Pérez Gort, Agostino Cortesi

“…However, unlike other digital assets, such as multimedia data, relational data are often subject to frequent updates that may dramatically compromise the quality of the embedded watermark. …”
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Islandora and TEI: Current and Emerging Applications/Approaches by Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Donald Moses

“…The Islandora framework is designed to ease the management of security and workflow for digital assets, and to help implementers create custom interfaces for display, search, and discovery. …”
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Effect of deterioration on critical infrastructure resilience – framework and application on bridges by Davide Forcellini, Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis

“…In the third step, the restoration of the assets is performed to compare the different performance of the configurations which leads to different resilience quantifications. …”
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Assessing the impact of personal income tax reforms on the income inequality dynamics in Russia in the 21st century by M. L. Dorofeev

“…We expect, that after illegal confiscations and freezing of Russian assets abroad, coupled with anti-poverty programmes, the level of income and property inequality in Russia will significantly decrease on the horizon of 2022−2024. …”
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Financial and economic mechanisms of urban agglomeration by N. K. Popadyuk

“…The possibility of applying non-traditional forms of financing the coordinated development by increasing the capitalisation of municipal assets is the conclusion of the study.   The relevance of the considered topic is due to the need to ensure the use of the entire arsenal of market instruments for purposeful development of the municipalities at a new stage of state development.…”
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The Dynamics of Village Treasury Land Management to Provide Legal Certainty and Benefits by Imam Ropii, Febry Chrisdanty, Ariska Cesar Divian Candra Kusuma

“…The management of village treasury land in Sukolilo Village faces various challenges that deviate from the provisions, especially related to the issue of securing and utilizing village assets. This study aims to examine legal management such as securing and utilizing village treasury land in Sukolilo Village in order to provide legal certainty and benefits for the community. …”
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Alpine gentrification: The mountain village as a metropolitan neighbourhood by Manfred Perlik

“…The article deals with the transformation of mountainous areas into residence places that replace older economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and even tourism) in the European mountains from the perspective of regional development and the influence on the regionally anchored assets, known as territorial capital. This new tendency affects the European mountains in two ways and is one element of the constitution of metropolitan regions (metro-regions) that combines metropolitan cores and leisure landscapes as new integral entities. …”
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Invisible lives: Occupied cities as a blind spot in geopolitical research by Yana Suchikova

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Évolution des paysages arborés dans les montagnes de Thừa Thiên Huế (Việt Nam) by Amélie Robert

“…Practices are changing, the ecosystemic services rendered are also evolving ; plantations provide resources and are therefore considered as economic assets and woodlands are no longer as sacred forests, a status reserved to spontaneous sylvosystems.…”
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Code switching and the so-called “assimilation narrative” by Tamás Vraukó

“…Assimilation means disappearing without a trace, continuing life as a new person, with new values, language, a whole set of new cultural assets. In this paper an effort is made to show that this is in fact not what many of the ethnic minority writers look for, so the term assimilation narrative is in many, although certainly not all, the cases, erroneuosly applied. …”
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