A Correlation Analysis of Knowledge, Experience, Religious Belief, and Behavior of Malaysian EPF Investors Towards Investing in Islamic and Conventional Unit Trusts by Md Abu Hasnat, Mohammed Monzurul Islam, Ziauddin Rahimi, Hüseyin Dağlı

“…Additionally, 125 valid responses were composed through surveys of Malaysian government and private employees. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences has been applied to analyze the collected data, using correlation analysis techniques. …”
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THE YOUNG LEARNERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES USING VIRTUAL PLATFORMS by Purwanti Taman, Sukma Septian Nasution, Tommy Hastomo, Nur Najibah Sukmawati, Laksmy Ady Kusumoriny

“…This is a case study involving 30 students in their third-year study at a private primary-school primary school in Tangerang City, Banten. …”
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Anticipated Reductions in Tax Rates and Earning Management of Listed Companies: Evidence from China by Mo Bai, Dandan Song, Helin Li

“…Our study shows that firms under the anticipation of tax reduction make use of earning management, including delaying sales, taking unusual income-decreasing discretionary accruals, and so on, which leads to lower income in higher tax rate period. We find that private enterprises have more attention to reduce earning in the higher tax rate period than state-owned enterprises (SOEs), indicating that the ownership has effect on the extent of earning management. …”
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Total Quality Management, British Standard accreditation, Investors In People and academic libraries by V. Mistry, R.C. Usherwood

“…Organisations, be they public or private, have been touched by a rhetoric which promises a new order of things; quality management systems (QMS) like Total Quality Management (TQM) and BS EN ISO 9000 (formerly BS 5750 and hereafter referred to as ISO 9000) are imbued with this rhetoric. …”
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Determinants of Public Sector Innovation: The Example of Capacity Development in Public Procurement by Nils Otter, Mike Weber

“…The Triple-Helix-Model stresses the idea that a successful national system of innovation ought to incorporate the complexity of three social subsystems: private sector economy, governmental system and science. …”
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A Modified Decision Tree Algorithm Based on Genetic Algorithm for Mobile User Classification Problem by Dong-sheng Liu, Shu-jiang Fan

“…We also take the context information as a classification attributes for the mobile user and we classify the context into public context and private context classes. Then we analyze the processes and operators of the algorithm. …”
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The effect of use-side gross domestic product on poverty level achievement in Indonesia by Thomas Ola Langoday

“…The study results show that consumption expenditures, government expenditures, private investment, and net exports affect the poverty level in Indonesia. …”
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The impact mechanism of geopolitical risks on ESG performance: The moderating effects of investor attention and government subsidies. by Pengfei Cheng, Mengzhen Wang, Kanyong Li, Baekryul Choi, Wenliang Chen

“…State-owned enterprises are found to mitigate these adverse effects, while privately-owned enterprises tend to exacerbate them. …”
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Reducing Side Effects of Hiding Sensitive Itemsets in Privacy Preserving Data Mining by Chun-Wei Lin, Tzung-Pei Hong, Hung-Chuan Hsu

“…Data mining is traditionally adopted to retrieve and analyze knowledge from large amounts of data. Private or confidential data may be sanitized or suppressed before it is shared or published in public. …”
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Reasons Behind the Migration of Highly Qualified Employees from Turkiye: The Case of Software Developers and Engineers by Mustafa Şeref Akın, Ebubekir Karadaş

“…They express that companies in their destination countries respect their work, private lives, and individuality. To address this issue, Turkish companies can consider measures such as assisting key employees in purchasing houses and cars, as well as supporting their families’ education and healthcare expenses, to ensure long-term loyalty. …”
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Mapping Antibiotic-Resistant Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Isolates in Metropolitan Toronto: Issues of Scale, Positional Accuracy and Confidentiality by Jody F Decker, Bob Sharpe, Jo-Anne R Dillon

“…The reporting locations of N gonorrhoeae isolates submitted from hospitals, doctor’s offices, private and provincial laboratories, and sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics were used as a model. …”
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Parameter Evaluation for a Statistical Mechanical Model for Binary Choice with Social Interaction by Alex Akwasi Opoku, Godwin Osabutey, Charles Kwofie

“…The model has a social and a private incentive part with coefficients measuring the influence individuals have on each other and the external influence on individuals, respectively. …”
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Crimillegal Orders: Revisiting Organized Crime’s Political Power by Markus Schultze-Kraft

“…Taking recourse to the conceptions of political order put forward by Weber, Fukuyama and North, Wallis and Weingast, I explain how regular patterns of social exchange and interaction - involving public and private, and state and non-state actors - that span an assumed divide between the realms of legality (“legitimate upper world”) and criminality (“illegitimate underworld”) influence the character, shape and evolution of political order. …”
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Mathematical Modeling of the Propagation of Democratic Support of Extreme Ideologies in Spain: Causes, Effects, and Recommendations for Its Stop by E. De la Poza, L. Jódar, A. Pricop

“…By considering the dynamic subpopulations transits built throughout data obtained from public and private prestigious institutions and sociopolitical analysis, a system of difference equations models the electoral population behavior in Spain allowing us to compute the expected electoral support in the time horizon of January 2016. …”
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Parenting Styles and the Development of Socio-Emotional Regulation Skills in Preschool Children by Rahmatallahi Taiye Ojibara

“…Two hundred (200) Preschool respondents were randomly selected from ten (10) pre-primary schools; five (5) public and five (5) private schools. Parenting Styles Questionnaire (PSQ) and a self-Constructed Rating Scale for preschool Children's Socio-Emotional Rating Scale (PCSRS) were used to elicit information about the preschool parents' parenting styles and the rate scale for evaluation about their Socio-Emotional Skills displayed in the classroom. …”
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Pouvoir et opposition en Algérie : vers une transition prolongée ? by Louisa Dris-Aït Hamadouche, Yahia H. Zoubir

“…The opening initiated by the authorities between 1989 and 1991 resulted in the emergence of a pluralistic and dynamic opposition, able to express itself through sixty “political associations” and dozens of private and public newspapers. In practice, often intense and conflicting political debates were conveyed through demonstrations and rallies, thus providing an assessment of public opinion. …”
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Blockchain-Based Anonymous Reputation System for Performance Appraisal by Hye Jin Lee, Duc Anh Luong, Jong Hwan Park, Hyoseung Kim

“…Although blockchain-based anonymous reputation systems have been discussed, permissioned blockchains are susceptible to Sybil attack vulnerabilities, while permissionless private blockchains do not provide full anonymity. …”
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Efficient Privacy-Preserving Protocol for k-NN Search over Encrypted Data in Location-Based Service by Huijuan Lian, Weidong Qiu, Di Yan, Zheng Huang, Jie Guo

“…In this paper, we propose an efficient private circular query protocol (EPCQP) with high accuracy rate and low computation and communication cost. …”
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Integrating Logistics and Information Systems in Urban Waste Management: The Road to a Sustainable Smart City by Koman Gabriel, Krúpová Silvia

“…This article also highlights the need for coordinated cooperation between the public and private sectors, as well as the importance of a legislative framework that promotes technological innovation and environmental sustainability. …”
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Human rights to Internet access and its safe use by V. V. Popov, P. I. Moskalenko, S. V. Cherkasova

“…The methodological and theoretical basis of the research are private and general scientific approaches to the study of this topic. …”
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