Determinants of Solvency and Performance in Insurance: Role of Risk-Based Capital in Stability by Kevin Rafif, Noer Azam Achsani, Laily Dwi Arsyanti, Abylay Syzdykov

“…Findings: Profitability, company size, and leverage were identified as significant internal factors influencing solvency. Specifically, profitability positively impacts solvency, while high leverage heightens vulnerability during economic downturns. …”
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Canadian Standards Association Standard CAN/CSA/Z264.1-02:2002: A New Voluntary Standard for Spacers and Holding Chambers Used with Pressurized Metered-Dose Inhalers by Myrna B Dolovich, Jolyon P Mitchell

“…Advice was also sought from expert groups outside of Canada to ensure that the standard would be relevant internationally. Whereas monographs in the pharmaceutical compendia and guidance documents published by regulatory bodies provide information that is largely about the drug product and inhaler, this is the only standard whose focus is primarily on these add-on devices. …”
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An induced limitation in the reconstruction step for Euler equations of compressible gas dynamics in arbitrary dimension by Hoch, Philippe

“…We are interested in the limitation process for the reconstruction of quantities related to Euler’s equations of compressible gas dynamics for a general pressure law of type $P(\rho ,\epsilon )$ (density, specific internal energy). For example, for perfect gas laws, we recall the constraints $\rho >0$ and $\epsilon >0$, and that the velocity $\mathbf{U}$ is a priori not bounded in the continuous problem. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. International standards of occupations (HISCO) and diseases (ICD-10) have been applied, facilitating comparability. …”
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A pathway to cyclic carbonates: Cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to epoxidized methyl oleate on grafted heterogeneous catalysts by Wander Y. Perez-Sena, Fabrizio Ciccarelli, Kari Eränen, Martino Di Serio, Vincenzo Russo, Tapio Salmi

“…However, the production of cyclic carbonates from bio-sources such as epoxidized vegetable oils (EVOs) have significant challenges due to the low reactivity of CO2 and the steric hindrance of internal epoxides in these bulky substrates. Consequently, the majority of systems for CO2 fixation to bio-based epoxides rely on homogeneous catalysis. …”
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Prevalence of osteoporosis and its associated factors in older adult’s users of the Primary Health Care by Daniel Vicentini de Oliveira, Gustavo Vinicius do Nascimento de Oliveira, Diogo Alves da Silva, Naelly Renata Saraiva Pivetta, Mateus Dias Antunes, José Roberto Andrade do Nascimento Júnior, Cláudia Regina Cavaglieri

“…The instruments used were the sociodemographic questionnaire and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), short version. …”
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Probabilistic Prediction of Maximum Tensile Loads in Soil Nails by Yongqiang Hu, Peiyuan Lin

“…The proposed simplified nail load model is beneficial due to its simplicity and quantified model uncertainty; thus it is practically valuable to both direct reliability-based design and load and resistance factor design of soil nail wall internal limit states.…”
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Managing Major Life Changes: An Exploratory Study Using the Bridges Transitions Framework to Help Foster Youth Prepare for Discharge by Ande A. Nesmith

“…With very few empirically assessed models available for this population that specifically address internal coping with such substantial life changes, the Transitions Framework offers a tool that may help foster youth navigate aging out of care. …”
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A new NCL-targeting aptamer-drug conjugate as a promising therapy against esophageal cancer by Xue Zheng, Ying Wang, Huaiyu Duan, Junqi Hou, Shiming He

“…The experimental results revealed that AS1411-HSA-LDP effectively binds to esophageal cancer cells and could be efficiently internalized by esophageal cancer cells. In the KYSE520 xenograft tumor nude mouse model, AS1411-HSA-LDP could be targeted and enriched in the tumor location for a long time. …”
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Cytochrome P450 Metabolism of Betel Quid-Derived Compounds: Implications for the Development of Prevention Strategies for Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers by Che-Yi Lin, Tien-Szu Pan, Chun-Chan Ting, Shih-Shin Liang, Shu-Hung Huang, Hsiu-Yueh Liu, Edward Cheng-Chuan Ko, Chung-Wei Wu, Jen-Yang Tang, Ping-Ho Chen

“…Betel quid (BQ) products, with or without tobacco, have been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as group I human carcinogens that are associated with an elevated risk of oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) and cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx. …”
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Critical Theory and Constructivism in the Perspective of Islamic Epistemology by Noza Aflisia, Hendrianto Hendrianto, Nanat Fatah Nasir, Erni Haryanti

“…This library research uses various references and references from existing books, national and international journals. The data obtained is then processed with data analysis techniques through the stages of collecting data on critical theory and constructivism through various sources and literature, understanding and analyzing the substance of critical theory and constructivism, and finding comparisons between the two, analyzing the Islamic perspective on critical theory and constructivism, and carry out verification and inference. …”
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Fatigue fracture mechanism of Ni-base superalloy GH4065A at elevated temperatures by LI Linhan, ZHANG Ji, ZHANG Wenyun, TIAN Qiang, QIN Heyong, ZHANG Beijiang

“…When under lower levels of strain， however， subsurface/internal nitride-facet initiations dominate and fatigue life is prolonged by the elevated temperature. …”
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Smoking Behavior in First-year Medical Students at the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos by Yoel Hernández Guerra, Alain Rodríguez Gómez, Ignacio Marrero Silva, Carlos Manuel Mora Hernández, Zulema Tamara Mesa Montero

“…<strong>Background:</strong> smoking has become one of the biggest problems of international Public Health. The World Health Organization reports smoking as the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and premature death. …”
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Effectiveness of Glucocorticoids in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An Umbrella Review by Semagn Mekonnen Abate, Hailemariam Mulugeta Kassim, Bivash Basu, Solomon Nega

“…This umbrella review was registered in PROSPERO, the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (CRD42019130539).…”
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Complementary feeding and the early origins of obesity risk: a study protocol by Daniel D Reidpath, Ireneous N Soyiri, Naleena Devi Muniandy, Pascale A Allotey

“…Subsequently, the findings of this study will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, national and international conferences.…”
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Enhancement of Coal Permeability Using Aqueous NaCl with Microwave Irradiation by Weiming Guan, Qi Qi, Senlin Nan, Haichao Wang, Xin Li, Yingyuan Wen, Junhui Yao, Yanyan Ge

“…In addition, changes in coal surface temperature and internal thermal power were analyzed through thermal imaging and random sphere numerical modeling. …”
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The effectiveness of corpus-based training on collocation use in L2 writing for Chinese senior secondary school students by Fang Liuqin, Ma Qing, Yan Jiahao

“…This study investigated whether senior secondary school students in China, upon receiving corpus-based training under the framework of data-driven learning (DDL), could improve their vocabulary use, especially the use of collocations, in their writing for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test. …”
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Audit of Information Tecnology Governance at BKKBN Riau Province using the 2019 Cobit Framework by Ridho Arif Fandi, Muhammad Jazman, Mona Fronita, Eki Saputra

“…BKKBN is a non-ministerial government agency tasked with population control through family planning and prosperous family programs. Cobit 2019 is an international standard for assessing IT governance and management within companies, which also provides solutions for improving those issues.This research aims to measure the level of organizational capability in IT implementation. …”
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NÍVEL DE ATIVIDADE FÍSICA NO LAZER DOS PROFESSORES DE EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA DO ENSINO BÁSICO by Lúcio Kerber Canabarro, Marilda Borges Neutzling, Airton José Rombaldi

“…Método: estudo de caráter censitário, que utilizouo IPAQ (International Physical Activity Questionnarie) longo para verificação do nívelde atividade física no lazer destes profissionais. …”
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Efficient FPGA based architecture for high‐order FIR filtering using simultaneous DSP and LUT reduced utilization by Mountassar Maamoun, Adnane Hassani, Samir Dahmani, Hocine Ait Saadi, Ghania Zerari, Noureddine Chabini, Rachid Beguenane

“…Furthermore, the special structures of the FPGA Look‐up‐table Shift‐Register (LUT‐SR) and their internal connections are fully employed for pipelining and selecting the input samples. …”
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