Measuring the Efficiency and Productivity of Cement Companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Productivity Index in Gray Environment by Farjam Kayedppour, Shadi Sayadmanesh, Yasamin Salmani, Zahra Sadeghi

“…Purpose: In this study, the grey data envelopment analysis approach and the Malmquist productivity index were used to measure the efficiency and productivity of companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange cement industry. Methodology: First, we identify the appropriate financial ratios for measuring efficiency. …”
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Determination of the Levels of Heavy Metals and Formaldehyde in Baby Clothes in South Africa: A Case Study of Stores in the Greater Cape Town Region by P. Nyamukamba, C. Bantom, Z. Mququ, T. Ngcobo, S. Isaacs

“…The highest concentrations of Pb, Cr, and Co after wet digestion were found in baby apparel purchased from low-end market stores, whereas for As, Ni, and Cd were from high-end market stores. …”
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Decision-making in ethical dilemmas faced by auditors: a case study of small and medium sized audit firms that are trusted by the stock exchange by Maryam Rokhshi, Kaveh Azinfar, Seyyed Ali Nabavi Chashmi

“…Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine auditors' decision making in the face of ethical dilemmas in small and medium sized audit firms that are trusted by the stock exchange. This research seeks to investigate the relationship between the effective factors (such as auditor experience, audit firm size) on auditors' ethical decisions and to evaluate the role of these factors on audit quality and accuracy.Methodology: The statistical population in this study consists of the trusted auditing firms of the stock exchange, which includes 77 firms that have been studied by the full number method. …”
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The activities of the Russian joint stock company «Manufacturing Company Singer» in Siberia on the eve and during the First World War: espionage or spy mania? by A. A. Plekhanov

“…Based on the analysis of previously unpublished sources, the article examines the actions of the military counterintelligence agencies, the Separate Corps of Gendarmes, and the justice authorities to uncover the espionage activities of the Singer joint-stock company on the eve and the period of the First World War in Siberia, the investigation materials are interpreted, and its results are summed up. …”
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First Case Report of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Showing Refractory Ventricular Tachycardia Induced by Thyroid Storm due to Graves’ Disease by Masaki Matsubara, Tomohiro Tanaka, Akinori Wakamiya, Tamiko Tamanaha, Hisashi Makino, Tomonori Tanei, Takeshi Aiba, Kengo Kusano, Kiminori Hosoda

“…He was diagnosed with thyroid storm due to Graves’ disease, and treatment for hyperthyroidism was initiated. …”
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DSMC: A Novel Distributed Store-Retrieve Approach of Internet Data Using MapReduce Model and Community Detection in Big Data by Xu Xu, Jia Zhao, Gaochao Xu, Yan Ding, Yunmeng Dong

“…The traditional single-host web spider and data store approaches have some problems such as low efficiency and large memory requirement, so this paper proposes a big data store-retrieve approach DSMC (distributed store-retrieve approach using MapReduce model and community detection) based on distributed processing. …”
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Can the Implied Information of Options Predict the Liquidity of Stock Market? A Data-Driven Research Based on SSE 50ETF Options by Hairong Cui, Jinfeng Fei, Xunfa Lu

“…Liquidity reflects the quality of the market. When the market is short of liquidity, it often causes investors’ trading difficulties and stock price volatility, expanding the investment risk. …”
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Investigating the Role of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on the Frequency of Dust Storms in Selected Stations of Khuzestan Province and Tracking the Paths of Dust Entering it by Fatemeh Vatanparast Galeh Juq, Bromand Salahi, Batoul Zeinali

“…Analysis of the relationship between the Madden-Julian Oscillation and dust storms revealed that between 51% and 59% of dust storms in Khuzestan province occurred in the negative phase of the OMI index, while 40% to 49% occurred in the positive phase. …”
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Using Facebook to tell stories of premature ageing and sexual and reproductive healthcare across the life course for women with cerebral palsy in the UK and USA by Julie Taylor, Sonali Shah, C Bradbury-Jones

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Impact of Land Use Types on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks: A Study from the Lal Bakaiya Watershed in Central Nepal by Pramod Ghimire, Uchita Lamichhane, Sandesh Bolakhe, Chun-Hung Jeb Lee

“…Both SOC and N contents were found relatively higher at 0–15 cm depth in natural forest soil (1.40 ± 0.20% and 0.26 ± 0.04%) than those in grassland and cultivated land, respectively. The mean total SOC stock and N stock ranged from 46.3 ± 4.24 t ha−1 and 7.11 ± 1.86 t ha−1 in cultivated land to 62.05 ± 9.17 t ha−1 and 11.40 ± 1.92 t ha−1 in the land use with natural forest, respectively. …”
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Enhancing decay resistance and maintaining quality of stored apples (Malus domestica ‘Golden Delicious’) through essential oil-enriched edible coatings by Atiyeh Oraee, Yahya Selahvarzi, Mona Ghazimoghadam, Bahram Abedy, Mohammad Ali Sabokkhiz

“…Subsequently, the effects of these coatings on disease severity and incidence of Botrytis cinerea and Penicillium expansum, as well as storage quality features, were assessed. Inoculated apples with B. cinerea or P. expansum, the causative agents of apple postharvest gray and blue molds, were covered and stored at 25°C for 10 days and 2°C for 120 days. …”
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Allometric models for estimating aboveground biomass and carbon stocks of the semi-arid savanna woody species, Detarium microcarpum Guill. et Perr. by Adama Taonda, Issouf Zerbo, Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traore, Fousseni Folega, Anny Estelle N'Guessan, Justin N'Dja Kassi, Adjima Thiombiano

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Comparison of VaR Models to the Brazilian Stock Market Under the Hypothesis of Serial Independence in Higher Orders: Are Garch Models Really Indispensable? by Luiz Augusto Finger França Maluf, Jéssica Tamy Asano

“…Thus, it is recommended to entities of the National Financial System that keep relevant positions in the Brazilian stock market, the utilization of internal risk models based on conditional volatility, in order to minimize the occurrence of violation clusters.…”
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Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients, Its Impact on Organs and Potential Treatment by QTY Code-Designed Detergent-Free Chemokine Receptors by Mujahed I. Mustafa, Abdelrahman H. Abdelmoneim, Eiman M. Mahmoud, Abdelrafie M. Makhawi

“…The novel coronavirus gains entry into humans by targeting the ACE2 receptor that found on lung cells, which destroy human lungs through cytokine storms, and this leads to hyperinflammation, forcing the immune cells to destroy healthy cells. …”
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Torsades De Pointes Electrical Storm Induced by H1N1 in a Patient with KCNH2 Variant of Unknown Significance by Bashar Khiatah, Jonathan Dukes, Christina Desai, Amanda Frugoli

“…This report describes a case of an electrical storm of Torsades De Pointes in a structurally normal heart, following an H1N1 infection in the presence of a genetic variant of unknown significance. …”
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Effect of Stocking Density on Stress-Related Gene Expression of Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Infected with Infectious Myonecrosis Virus (IMNV) by Moch. Nurhudah, Nur Komariah Baladrat, Sinung Rahardjo, Heny Budi Utari, Putu Angga Wiradana

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A study on blocking store-operated Ca2+ entry in pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells with xyloketals from marine fungi by Zhou Jie-Bin, Sun Ying-Ying, Zheng Ying-Lin, Yu Chu-Qin, Lin Hua-Qing, Pang Ji-Yan

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Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Case Story of Anna. I. Long-Term Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Incest with a Treatment Approach by Søren Ventegodt, Birgitte Clausen, Joav Merrick

“…During therapy, the patient accumulated resources to start the painful integration of these old traumas. …”
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Being Entrapped Between Change and Return to the Kemalist Political Culture: Two Stories of the Ak Party Foreign Policy in the Context of Arab Spring by Rıdvan KALAYCI, Ünal TÜYSÜZ

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The Role of Gis in Monitoring the Impact of Climate Fluctuations on The Decline of Surface Water Stored in The Mohamed V Dam on the Moulouya River (Eastern Region) by Amghar Ahmed, Sbai Abdelkader, Mouadili Omar

“…Consequently, numerous dams have been constructed, forming significant infrastructure for water storage, with over 135 large and medium dams built by 2018. …”
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