Stakeholders and sustainability disclosure: Evidence from an emerging market by Inusah Sulemana, Limei Cheng, Andrew Osei Agyemang, Abednego Osei, Timothy Masuni Nagriwum

“…This study used primary data from 214 participants from Ghana's mining and manufacturing firms. …”
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Placenta Accreta following Hysteroscopic Lysis of Adhesions Caused by Asherman’s Syndrome: A Case Report and Literature Review by Yuko Sonan, Shigeru Aoki, Kimiko Enomoto, Kazuo Seki, Etsuko Miyagi

“…Asherman’s syndrome is defined as partial or complete obstruction of the uterine cavity primarily caused by intrauterine procedures and infections. …”
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Effective Scheme of Channel Tracking and Estimation for Mobile WiMAX DL-PUSC System by Phuong Thi Thu Pham, Tomohisa Wada

“…This paper introduces an effective joint scheme of channel estimation and tracking for downlink partial usage of subchannel (DL-PUSC) mode of mobile WiMAX system. …”
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Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma. A Case Report by Dianarelys Villafuerte Delgado, José Jamil Torres Aranda, Martha Yudey Rodríguez Pino

“…She sought medical attention because of redness in the right breast accompanied by partial retraction of the nipple. On physical examination, redness covering more than half of the breast, thickened skin, and palpable axillary lymph nodes were found. …”
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New Exact Solutions of Kolmogorov Petrovskii Piskunov Equation, Fitzhugh Nagumo Equation, and Newell-Whitehead Equation by Yu-Ming Chu, Shumaila Javeed, Dumitru Baleanu, Sidra Riaz, Hadi Rezazadeh

“…This work presents the new exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). The solutions are acquired by using an effectual approach, the first integral method (FIM). …”
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Ground Motion and Air Overpressure Study by Michael K. Sharp, Donald E. Yule

“…The data were analyzed for peak particle velocities and peak air overpressures, then plotted versus scaled range. …”
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Crisis and reconfiguration: economic and political changes in the Brazilian accumulation regime in the XXI century by Marcelo Soares Bandeira de Mello Filho, Diogo Oliveira Santos

“…This reconfiguration implies a partial reversal in the internalization of the dynamic centre of Brazilian capitalism that occurred during the import substitution industrialization process.…”
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Finite Volume Method for a Time-Dependent Convection-Diffusion-Reaction Equation with Small Parameters by Uzair Ahmed, Daoud Suleiman Mashat, Dalal Adnan Maturi

“…Convection, diffusion, and reaction mechanisms are characteristics of transient mass-transfer phenomena that occur in natural and industrial systems. In this article, we contemplate a passive scalar transport governed by the convection-diffusion-reaction (CDR) equation in 2D flow. …”
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Trajectory Tracking of a Flexible Robot Manipulator by a New Optimized Fuzzy Adaptive Sliding Mode-Based Feedback Linearization Controller by M. J. Mahmoodabadi, N. Nejadkourki

“…Finally, a multiobjective particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to find the optimum fuzzy rules. …”
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Empirical Mode Decomposition Combined with Local Linear Quantile Regression for Automatic Boundary Correction by Abobaker M. Jaber, Mohd Tahir Ismail, Alssaidi M. Altaher

“…Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is particularly useful in analyzing nonstationary and nonlinear time series. However, only partial data within boundaries are available because of the bounded support of the underlying time series. …”
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Airborne Microplastics from Waste as a Transmission Vector for COVID-19 by Qingyang Liu, James Schauer

“…Abstract Occurrences of microplastics (plastic particle < 5 mm) have been observed in various environmental media (e.g., soil, water and air) worldwide, posing a threat to ecological, human, and animal health. …”
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Double-Scale Expansions for a Logarithmic Type Solution to a q-Analog of a Singular Initial Value Problem by Stéphane Malek

“…The equation under study represents a q−analog of a singular partial differential equation, recently investigated by the author, which comprises Fuchsian operators and entails a forcing term that combines polynomial and logarithmic type functions in time. …”
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Fixed Point Theorems on Ordered Metric Spaces through a Rational Contraction by Poom Kumam, Fayyaz Rouzkard, Mohammad Imdad, Dhananjay Gopal

“…Ran and Reurings (2004) established an interesting analogue of Banach Contraction Principle in a complete metric space equipped with a partial ordering and also utilized the same oneto discuss the existence of solutions to matrix equations. …”
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Theory and Application of Vessel Speed Dynamic Control considering Safety and Environmental Factors by Tianrui Zhou, Qinyou Hu, Zhihui Hu, Jiamao Zhi

“…In the second stage, the speed dynamic control model considering safety and environmental factors is established by combining multisource data and particle swarm optimisation algorithm. The model’s superiority and advantage are validated by experiments conducted on an ocean-going ship. …”
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Stagnation Point Flow of Nanofluid over a Moving Plate with Convective Boundary Condition and Magnetohydrodynamics by Fazle Mabood, Nopparat Pochai, Stanford Shateyi

“…A theoretical investigation is carried out to examine the effects of volume fraction of nanoparticles, suction/injection, and convective heat and mass transfer parameters on MHD stagnation point flow of water-based nanofluids (Cu and Ag). The governing partial differential equations for the fluid flow, temperature, and concentration are reduced to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. …”
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Decolonialidad y política de reconocimiento entre los Indigènes de la République by Roberto D. Hernández

“…Este artículo analiza las maneras como el Partido de los indígenas de la República en Francia moviliza y resignifica el término indigène (o indígena), a partir de su uso original en el contexto colonial francés como una palabra para describir los sujetos coloniales sin diferenciar su lugar de origen. …”
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Similarity Requirements for Mixed Convective Boundary Layer Flow over Vertical Curvilinear Porous Surfaces with Heat Generation/Absorption by Kh. Abdul Maleque

“…Similarity requirements for an incompressible fluid are sought on the basis of detailed analyses in order to reduce the governing partial differential equations into a set of ordinary differential equations. …”
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Del pueblo elegido y el maná escondido. La minera en San Juan (Argentina) by Mirta Alejandra Antonelli

“…Este artículo aborda el desastre ambiental provocado en la mina Veladero, que explota la canadiense Barrick Gold, como implosión del núcleo duro del modelo de la megaminería metalífera en Argentina, que ha tenido como «religión y culto» a la cordillerana provincia de San Juan. …”
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Analisis kompetensi dan peran coach akademik terhadap kemampuan guru dalam menerapkan strategi pengembangan kompetensi pedagogik by Ratnawati Susanto, Yuli Azmi Rozali

“…Penelitian kuantitatif dan pengolahan data dengan tools Partial least square (PLS). Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan instumen angket dengan skala likert, Pengambilan sampel dengan sampling jenuh dengan jumlah sampel 29 orang guru. …”
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A Comparison of Metaheuristic Techniques for Solving Optimal Sitting and Sizing Problems of Capacitor Banks to Reduce the Power Loss in Radial Distribution System by Tongfei Lei, Saleem Riaz, Hira Raziq, Munira Batool, Feng Pan, Jianfeng Wang

“…In this paper, several metaheuristic techniques such as particle swarm optimization (PSO), Harmony search, Bat, Cuckoo, and Grey-wolf (GW) algorithms are employed to find the size of capacitor banks. …”
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