Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure, Debt Financing Costs, and Innovation Capacity by Yang Miao, Xiaoxue Zhou, Xin Dai

“…The challenges of financing have been troubling the development of Chinese enterprises, especially private enterprises. This paper aims to examine the antecedents and consequences of debt financing costs. …”
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The Global Finical Crisis from an Islamic Point Of View by Hewa Majeed Zangana

“…Issues that will be discussed in this paper are Riba, Gambling, Uncertainty, Derivatives, Saucerization, Sell of debt, Creation of Money, and the Private “Personal” interests. However, the paper will focus on the Islamic financial system and the financial instruments which are based and designed in compliance with Shariah Rules and Regulations, whether if practicing Islamic banking would cause such a crisis to accrue. …”
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From economics to health outcomes: Delving into the significance of reduced insulin prices by M Leuschner, M Strydom, V Steenkamp

“…Despite efforts by the public and private sectors, insulin therapy initiation is delayed, impacting long-term outcomes. …”
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Homemade Inflation Risks by Stefan Kooths

“…Governments responded by running huge fiscal deficits (financed via central banks) to support firms and consumers, thereby injecting purchasing power into the private sector on a large scale. With no corresponding production of goods and services, these phantom incomes are by their very nature inflationary. …”
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Herbicides Registered for Pine Management in Florida – 2005 Update by Anna Osiecka, Jarek Nowak, Alan Long, Mark Mossler

“…Since an increasing number of private and public owners manage their forestlands for non-commodity purposes, herbicides that are intended mostly for turf and/or landscape maintenance, but also labeled for forestry, have been included as well. …”
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Intestinal Obstruction and Ileocolic Fistula due to Intraluminal Migration of a Gossypiboma by Evangelos Margonis, Dionysia Vasdeki, Alexandros Diamantis, Georgios Koukoulis, Grigorios Christodoulidis, Konstantinos Tepetes

“…Six months ago she had undergone a cesarean section in a private clinic. Computed tomography revealed a high-density mass occupying a portion of the intestinal lumen, which was reported as a “calcified parasite.” …”
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Topographie, urbanisme et gestion des réseaux d’eau à Autun/Augustodunum (Saône-et-Loire) : une nouvelle image de la capitale de cité by Laetitia Borau

“…This work highlights, for the first time in its context, the town’s water supply system, unknown until now, which consists in wood or lead pipes, the importance of urban amenities, especially private fountains, and the density of the sewer system which takes nearly half of the corpus. …”
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Scale of Organizational Structure Components (SOCS): Evidence of Validation of a Theoretical Model by Leandro Trigueiro-Fernandes, Joyce Mariella Medeiros Cavalcanti, Marcelo Victor Alves Bila, Miguel Eduardo Moreno Añez

“…The survey was conducted in 26 public and private organizational units. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was employed to assess the SOSC model properties and whether they fit the theory. …”
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Airline’s business performance indicators and their impact on operational efficiency by Alexandre Pinchemel, Mauro Caetano, Ricardo Messias Rossi, Marco Antônio Silva

“…With the use of a panel data regression for the four largest private Brazilian airlines - Avianca, Azul, Gol, and Latam, from 2009 to 2017, the results show that operational efficiency is achieved when there is a greater offer of routes and flight frequency to meet passenger demand, generating higher revenue passenger kilometer (RPK). …”
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State, By Claire Dunning, The University of Chicago Press, 2022 by Emily I. Nwakpuda

“… Dunning's (2022) conceptualization of nonprofit neighborhoods is a rebuke to the idea of the independent third sector in which private neighborhood nonprofits evolve as a unit of governance that structurally embeds nonprofits into the issue of urban crisis and the democratic process through their partnerships with government and other funders. …”
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Problems and prospects of the Russian Federation customs authorities digitalisation by I. A. Aksenov

“…The methodological basis of the study is a set of measures of scientific knowledge, including general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, as well as private scientific methods: system analysis, logical method. …”
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Chronic noncommunicable diseases among college students: Simultaneity of risk behaviors by Vitória Barbosa da Costa, Lorena Ribeiro Soares dos Santos, Cristiane Feitosa Salviano, Andréia Guedes Oliva Fernandes

“…METHOD: Cross-sectional study conducted in 2020 with 88 students from a private Higher Education Institution in the Federal District. …”
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On the excessive nature of the tax authority interim measures by A. V. Ilin

“…The study relevance is due to the incomplete decisions’ execution of tax authorities adopted based on the results of tax audits, which leads to the excessive restrictions’ problem on private property of organizations and individual entrepreneurs.   …”
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COMPARISON OF VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF STUDENTS IN THE 10YEAR TIME INTERVAL: METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS by Galina I. Saganenko, Alexey E. Geger

“…The authors point to the prevalence in the value structure of both student groups of the values of private life and the weak expression of humanities and social values, such as patriotism, freedom and democracy, environmental concerns and nature protection.…”
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IMPACT OF AGE AS A SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLE ON HEALTH INSURANCE PRODUCTS by Cătălin CÂMPEANU

“…The private health insurance has taken off over the recent years, boosted by the pandemic of COVID 19, setting the pace for other similar products, over a market severely dominated by MTPL. …”

Une balle blanche dans un roman noir by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper analyzes the place of baseball in Squeeze Play: it first appears as an essential element in the very structure of the plot, but it is also, for Auster, a way of questioning the myth of the hero in an American society whose main aspects (sports, politics, private life) are eaten up by corruption and perversion. …”
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La biodiversité aménage-t-elle les territoires ? De la présence d'espèces protégées et/ou patrimoniales…, ou comment passer d'une logique de contraintes à celle de projets de terri... by Guillaume Lemoine

“…Three examples taken among actors of the Nord department (France) (Port of Dunkirk, city of Auby and a private company) nevertheless prove otherwise. These actors demonstrate that it is possible to develop a different approach where the voluntary action of considering biodiversity progressively modifies projects. …”
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Authentic Materials and Tasks as Mediators to Develop EFL Students’ Intercultural Competence by Alix Norely Bernal Pinzón

“… This article reports on a study carried out in a foreign language course at a private Colombian university. Its purpose was to identify the role of authentic materials and tasks, based on cultural topics, in the development of intercultural competence in third-level English students. …”
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PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS by K.F. Chan

“…This research uses the narratives of six Catholic women about how their immersion in various public and private devotional practices creates solidarity and communities that are inclusive, empowering, and nurturing during the outbreak of COVID-19. …”
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Project modules – Prospects for ancient heritage towards ecological transition by Luca Velo, Alberto Cervesato

“…The aim is to employ an architectural module capable of adapting, either as a single unit or when aggregated, by disassembling the urban fabric and reassembling it into new forms, designed to mediate between public and private space, thereby becoming the embodiment of a renewed compositional archetype. …”
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