Can enhanced CSR quality reduce the cost of debt capital? An empirical analysis of CEO expertise and non-financial reporting practices in China by Oleh Pasko, Yang Zhang, Nelia Proskurina, Vadym Sapych, Yelyzaveta Mykhailova

“…This study aims to investigate whether stockholders and creditors place a positive value on corporate social responsibility (CSR) information disclosure when making decisions about providing financing to firms, thereby influencing their investment choices. Utilizing data from the China Stock Market & Accounting Research Database (CSMAR) and HEXUN, the study analyzes CSR disclosures and financial data of 7,123 firm-year observations of A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2012 to 2020. …”
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Spatiotemporal Video Denoising Based on Adaptive Thresholding and Clustering by Ali Abdullah Yahya, Jieqing Tan, Benyu Su, Kui Liu, Ali Naser Hadi

“…So, the K-means clustering method in the final estimate in this paper is adopted instead of the block-matching method in the VBM3D method in order to restrict the search of the candidate patches within the region of the reference patch and therefore improve the grouping. Experimental results emphasize the superiority of the new method over the reference methods in terms of visual quality, Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), and Image Enhancement Factor (IEF). …”
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INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE ON NEWS CONSUMPTION AMONG UNDERGRADUATES IN ILORIN by VICTOR OLUSEGUN BABATUNDE, OLUWAJUWONLO EMMANUEL AYANWALE

“…This research is framed within the foundational principles of the Uses and Gratifications Theory. The results elucidate the noteworthy influence of social media on the news consumption behaviors of undergraduates in the designated universities. …”
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ENTREPRENEURS CONFIDENCE IN INNOVATION AND THEIR INNOVATIVENESS by Nastooh Nochian, Thomas Schott

“…Using structural equations modeling, we conclude that there is a positive effect of organizational innovation confidence on innovation. Therefore, the Iranian owner managers who have more confidence in innovation act more innovatively.  …”
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About One Memorable Date in the History of Spain by G. I. Volkova

“…The ethnonational issue in the multiethnic Spain is far from being solved, because for centuries the process of forming a unified Spanish state was characterized by political union of several genetically related (except Basque) ethnic communities, although with significant socio-cultural and linguistic differences among them. It is not coincidental that regional identity in Spain is still extremely strong, while the interethnic consolidation of the Spanish nation can be characterized as incomplete, which can be seen, particularly, in the intensification in recent decades of radical nationalist and separatist sentiments in Catalonia, the Basque Country and some other autonomies. …”
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Hot Topic Propagation Model and Opinion Leader Identifying Model in Microblog Network by Yan Lin, Huaxian Li, Xueqiao Liu, Suohai Fan

“…As the network technique is fast developing, the microblog has been a significant carrier representing the social public opinions. Therefore, it is important to investigate the propagation characteristics of the topics and to unearth the opinion leaders in Micro-blog network. …”
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Physical and Sensory Long-Term Disabilities from <i>Bothrops</i> Snakebite Envenomings in Manaus, Western Brazilian Amazon by Eduardo M. G. Fernández, Débora N. Oliveira, Alexandre V. Silva-Neto, Rafaela N. Dávila, Ligia Lengler, Marco A. Sartim, Altair S. Farias, Luiz C. L. Ferreira, Érica da Silva Carvalho, Fan H. Wen, Felipe Murta, Fernando Almeida-Val, Manuela B. Pucca, Jacqueline A. G. Sachett, Wuelton M. Monteiro

“…Difficulty in moving the limb (<i>p</i> = 0.05), pain at the affected limb (<i>p</i> < 0.01), limitations of daily activities (<i>p</i> < 0.01) and decreased thermal sensibility (<i>p</i> = 0.05) were significantly associated with disability. …”
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Emerging Role of Histone Acetyltransferase in Stem Cells and Cancer by Daniela Trisciuoglio, Marta Di Martile, Donatella Del Bufalo

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A large synthetic dataset for machine learning applications in power transmission grids by Marc Gillioz, Guillaume Dubuis, Philippe Jacquod

“…Fast, essentially real-time computational approaches to evaluate their operational safety, stability and reliability are therefore highly desirable. Machine Learning methods have been advocated to solve this challenge, however they are heavy consumers of training and testing data, while historical operational data for real-world power grids are hard if not impossible to access. …”
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Preliminary Study by Differential Scanning Calorimetric Analysis of Red Blood Cells in Peripheral Artery Disease Patients Treated with Cilostazol: Correlation with Improvements in... by Dénes Lőrinczy, Dorottya Szabó, László Benkő

“…These thermal property changes correlated with clinical improvements in walking distance reported by patients. …”
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Analyzing radiative heat on third-grade fluids over an expanding inclined sheet subject to higher-order chemical reaction: An overlapping grid spectral quasilinearization approach by Titilayo M Agbaje, Folarin Oluwaseun, S.R. Mishra, Rupa Baithalu, Subhajit Panda

“…However, the analysis incorporates the influence of viscous dissipation that is significant in determining the thermal behavior of the fluid. Further, the proposed flow phenomena governed by the set of partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary ones by the operating of suitable similarity rules. …”
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A Comparative Study of Over-Current Sensing for Traction Inverters by He Niu

“…This paper reviews several widely used over-current detection methods and a few theoretically approved over-current detection methods. …”
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Research on the Effect of MT+FES Training on Sensorimotor Cortex by Yuan-xing Wang, Zhi-zeng Luo

“…Aiming at the motor recovery of patients with unilateral upper limb motor dysfunction after stroke, we propose a mirror therapy (MT) training method, which uses surface electromyography (sEMG) to identify movements on one side and control the other side to perform functional electrical stimulation (FES) while mirror therapy is used. …”
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CLDN4 as a Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker and Its Association with Immune Infiltrates in Ovarian Cancer by Pan Hu, Li Lei, Ying Wang, Xue Tian, Xia Wei, Ni Jiang, Lubin Liu

“…The findings of the ROC assays then confirmed the diagnostic utility of the test in screening OC specimens to differentiate them from nontumor specimens. Patients with high CLDN4 expression predicted a shorter overall survival (OS) and disease-specific survival (DSS) than those with low CLDN4 expression, according to clinical research. …”
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A Literature Review on Schema Evolution in Databases by Zouhaier Brahmia, Fabio Grandi, Barbara Oliboni

“…Since there is no research work that extensively deals with different proposals and compares them, the purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by reviewing the available schema evolution literature. …”
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The Importance of Magnesium in Clinical Healthcare by Gerry K. Schwalfenberg, Stephen J. Genuis

“…In clinical practice, optimizing magnesium status through diet and supplementation appears to be a safe, useful, and well-documented therapy for several medical conditions.…”
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Dilated cardiomyopathy and myocarditis: a clinical case by O.V. Onyshchenko, D.V. Riabenko, O.A. Yepanchintseva

“…However, despite the positive effect of the treatment of myocarditis and contemporary drug therapy, the progression of the pathological process in the myocardium was noted. …”
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The current status and influencing factors of diabetes knowledge among non-endocrinology nurses of tertiary general hospitals: a cross-sectional survey study by Jia Song, Su Li, Chongcai Gu, Shiyan Zhao, Xing Li, Siqin Liu, Jinmei Tuo, Shiming Huang

“…High-quality nursing care can delay the progression of diabetes and effectively reduce the incidence of complications. Therefore, understanding the level of diabetes knowledge and training needs of clinical nurses is of great significance. …”
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ECONOMIC CRIME UNDER MARTIAL LAW IN UKRAINE by Maksym Korniienko, Hanna Foros, Serhii Baranov

“…Secondly, and more commonly, victims are unable to report crimes committed against them, predominantly in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Class of Lewis Acid Doped Tetraaniline by K. Basavaiah, A. V. Prasada Rao

“…As synthesized BF3 doped tetraaniline have been well characterized by UV-Visible spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermogravimetry. Thermogravimetry studies revealed that the BF3 doping improved the thermal stability of tetraaniline.…”
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