Impact of TBL-Based CSR Disclosure on Financial Performance in Halal Food Companies: A System GMM Analysis by Zaki Ahmad, Mohammad Helmi Bin Hidthiir, Md Mahfujur Rahman, Mohd Zukime Mat Junoh, Mohd Faizal Bin Yusof

“…Based on the empirical results using a generalized moment of method (GMM), the dimensions of triple bottom line-based corporate social responsibility—economic, environmental, and social—have a significant effect on return on assets. …”
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Unattended Home Labor until Complete Cervical Dilatation Ending with Hospital Delivery: Analysis of 238 Pregnancies by Ozlem Gun Eryilmaz, Nasuh Utku Dogan, Cavidan Gulerman, Leyla Mollamahmutoglu, Nedim Cicek, Ruya Deveer

“…Although our preliminary data generally do support the safety of home active labor plus hospital delivery for low-risk pregnancies, the clinical implications of current data warrant further prospective trials.…”
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Mathematical probit and logistic mortality models of the Khapra beetle fumigated with plant essential oils by Alhadi E. Alamir, Gomah E. Nenaah, Mohamed A. Hafiz

“…In the current study, probit and logistic models were employed to fit experimental mortality data of the Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium (Everts) (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), when fumigated with three plant oils of the gens Achillea. A generalized inverse matrix technique was used to estimate the mortality model parameters instead of the usual statistical iterative maximum likelihood estimation. …”
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Acute graft-versus-host disease: a case report by JIANG Yuyang, TANG Lulu, CHEN Haiju, LV Chunying, XIONG Hongdi, WU Yi

“…A 54-year-old male presented with a fever for two weeks and generalized pruritic erythemas for three days. The patient had allogeneic liver transplantation one month ago. …”
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Prospective Memory Impairment and Executive Dysfunction in Prefrontal Lobe Damaged Patients: Is There a Causal Relationship? by Giovanni A. Carlesimo, Margherita di Paola, Lucia Fadda, Carlo Caltagirone, Alberto Costa

“…The prospective memory (PM) construct is aimed at capturing cognitive operations involved in the successful accomplishment of delayed intentions. It is generally agreed that PM impairment occurs in patients with prefrontal lobes damage. …”
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Quality of reporting of pre-recorded music interventions in surgical patients ‐ A systematic review by Thomas L.A. Dirven, Roos Geensen, Florine Bax, Jorrit G. Verhoeven, Johannes Jeekel, Markus Klimek

“…This hinders replicability, generalization of the results and might contribute to research waste. …”
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Non-drinking and social life in adolescence: a qualitative study in Switzerland by Lorraine Chok, Joan-Carles Suris, Lucie Vittoz, Diana Fernandes Palhares, Yara Barrense-Dias

“…Participants reported that not drinking alcohol is generally questioned and non-drinkers are almost always asked to justify their non-consumption. …”
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CFD analysis of the main operating parameters for a complete braking friction system under transient working conditions by F. Orlandi, C. De Marco, S. Meleti, A. Manian, M. Milani, L. Montorsi

“…Most approaches focus on a single braking element coupling, generally between a steel and a friction material element, which demonstrated to be insufficient to predict the effective behaviour of these systems. …”
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Studying Cortical Plasticity in Ophthalmic and Neurological Disorders: From Stimulus-Driven to Cortical Circuitry Modeling Approaches by Joana Carvalho, Remco J. Renken, Frans W. Cornelissen

“…Studies on cortical neuroplasticity have generally made the assumption that neuronal population properties and the resulting visual field maps are stable in healthy observers. …”
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A Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Method for Microgrid EMS Using Bi-LSTM Algorithm by Dongguo Zhou, Yangjie Wu, Hong Zhou

“…Nonintrusive load monitoring in smart microgrids aims to obtain the energy consumption of individual appliances from the aggregated energy data, which is generally confronted with the error identification of the load type for energy disaggregation in microgrid energy management system (EMS). …”
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Formulations for Estimating Spatial Variations of Analysis Error Variance to Improve Multiscale and Multistep Variational Data Assimilation by Qin Xu, Li Wei

“…First, a suite of formulations is constructed to efficiently estimate the error variance reduction produced by analyzing the coarse-resolution observations in one- and two-dimensional spaces with increased complexity and generality (from uniformly distributed observations with periodic extension to nonuniformly distributed observations without periodic extension). …”
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The Impact of the Disaster News on Social Capacity Building Against Disasters by Serhat Yılmaz

“…As a result of the study, it has been revealed that the disaster news are generally being addressed with sensational perspective, and the advantages being offered by the mass media tools are not effectively utilized for creating awareness on individual preparedness activities.…”
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Current Status of Detection Technologies for Indoor Hazardous Air Pollutants and Particulate Matter by Yuhan Wang, Bingquan Wang, Rui Wang

“…A number of researchers have published reviews of research on detection methods for hazardous gases, which are generally organized in terms of the detection of specific hazardous gases. …”
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Spiradenoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jia-Ying Chang, Yen-Chang Chen, Dah-Ching Ding

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> With an accurate diagnosis and appropriate surgical excision, the prognosis for spiradenoma is generally excellent. However, a long-term follow-up is advisable.…”
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The role of strategic management in the success of projects in educational institutions by Savićević Sara

“…The results showed that respondents generally rated the role of strategic management highly, with average scores ranging from 4.088 to 4.915. …”
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Seasonal Concentrations of Insecticide Residues, Ecological and Health Risks of Waters from Déganobo Lake System in San-Pedro, Cote D'Ivoire by K. F. A. Konan, M. K. Yao

“…The concentrations of these insecticide residues were obtained according to the MA. 403-Pest 3.1 standard (CEAEQ, 2011) with minor modifications. Generally, the seasonal concentrations of these residues were significant in these waters, especially those of methyl parathion, except for acetamiprid and deltamethrin, which were undetectable throughout the study period. …”
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Non-intrusive load monitoring based on time-enhanced multidimensional feature visualization by Tie Chen, Yimin Yuan, Jiaqi Gao, Shinan Guo, Pingping Yang

“…Furthermore, utilizing transfer learning, the model trained and tested on the PLAID dataset was further tested on the WHITED dataset to increase the model’s universality and generalization ability, showing significant effects in identifying loads with similar V–I trajectories and multiple states.…”
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Review of the Geological Strength Index (GSI) as an Empirical Classification and Rock Mass Property Estimation Tool: Origination, Modifications, Applications, and Limitations by Sajjad Hussian, Noor Mohammad, Zahid Ur Rehman, Naseer Muhammad Khan, Khan Shahzada, Sarfraz Ali, Muhammad Tahir, Salim Raza, Saira Sherin

“…The geological strength index (GSI) is one of the most exceptional rock mass classification system which is used to evaluate very weak and highly jointed rock mass by different approaches and related to rock mass geomechanical properties including generalized Hoek & Brown constants, deformation modulus, strength properties, and Poisson’s ratio for an appropriate design of tunnels, caverns, and other engineering structures. …”
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Opinion Expression Dynamics in Social Media Chat Groups: An Integrated Quasi-Experimental and Agent-Based Model Approach by Siyuan Ma, Hongzhong Zhang

“…First, the quasi-experimental study recruited twenty-five participants as the observation group and found that decreasing perceived peer support would significantly increase individuals’ expression willingness to protect his/her opinion. To generalize the individual level findings to a collective level, the second study treated the social media chat groups as an undirected fully-connected social network and simulated people’s opinion expression dynamics with an agent-based model. …”
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LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LOS BANCOS CENTRALES EN LAS CRISIS BANCARIAS DE LA AMÉRICA LATINA. Lecciones de los decenios de los noventa y de 2000 by Luis I. Jácome H.

“…Si bien con algunas salvedades, las conclusiones del presente artículo son pertinentes y los países en desarrollo deberían verlas como una advertencia contra la expansión excesiva de los balances generales de los bancos centrales para hacer frente a las crisis financieras, tal como lo han hecho recientemente varios países industrializados.…”
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