Candida rugosa lipase supported on biomass-based nanocellulose-silica hybrid polyethersulfone membrane for synthesis of pentyl valerate by Elias, Nursyafiqah

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Physiotherapists’ views on their role in self-management approaches: a qualitative systematic review by Killingback, Clare, Thompson, Mark, Chipperfield, Sarah, Clark, Carol, Williams, Jonathan

“…Self-management has been an increasingly important aspect of helping people manage their long-term conditions. The aim of this qualitative review was to synthesise the views of physiotherapists concerning their delivery of a self-management approach. …”
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Some aspects of fitting multinomial models in a GLM framework by Ali, Muhammad Younis

“…The method given here also allows us to find the ‘hat - matrix’ as is needed in the calculation of leverages and Cook’s distances. …”
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Socially constructing healthy eating: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of healthy eating information and advice by Mackenzie, Joanna

“…Background: It is well recognised that eating a poor quality diet can lead to a number of long term health conditions and premature mortality. …”
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Fiscal deficit and inflation: an empirical measure in view of Pakistan by Khan, Aurangzeb, Siddiqi, Masood Mashkoor, Khan, Ameerzeib, Khan, Shahbano

“…The paper concluded that budget deficit and exchange rate are the variables that affect INFL in the short as well as in long-run, whereas MSP has only long run effect on inflation.…”
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Are rating agencies' assignment opaque? Evidence from international banks by Bellotti, Tony, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…Although support vector machines can identify significant determinants we argue that ordered choice models are more reliable for this. Our findings suggest that ratings reflect a bank’s financial position, the timing of rating assignment and a bank’s country of origin. …”
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Finite sample sensitivity of the critical value of an F-test for cointegration in a single equation ADL model by Stewart, Chris

“…Using simulation methods we find that these critical values are sensitive to the degree of autocorrelation and lag length in the DGP in finite samples. …”
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Integration in European retail banking: evidence from savings and lending rates to the household sector by Rughoo, Aarti, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…This method analyses the degree as well as the speed of convergence, identifies the presence of club formation, and measures the behaviour of each country’s transition path relative to the panel average. We find evidence supporting integration in the deposit and short-term mortgage markets but not in the consumer credit market and longer term mortgages. …”
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Group of five people sitting at a table by London Irish Centre, LIC

“…Black and white group portrait photograph of three men and two women sitting on a long bench behind a table in a bar. Photographer unknown.…”
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Great expectations? Female expatriates’ perceptions of organisational performance and development reviews in supporting access to international assignments by Shortland, Susan, Perkins, Stephen J.

“…Design/methodology/approach A qualitative cross-sectional case study research design is used to analyse performance and development review, and international assignment policies in two firms, together with in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 14 Human Resource policy custodians and 21 female long-term current assignees. Findings Women assignees do not see performance and development reviews as effective mechanisms to access expatriate roles. …”

Exploratory validation study of the individual AUDIT-C items among older people by Stewart, Duncan, Hewitt, Catherine, McCambridge, Jim

“…No significant differences were found in the validity of the three items, though the combined sensitivity and specificity scores and ROC values for item 3 were consistently slightly lower than for items 1 and 2. The findings were similar for men and women, and for participants prescribed medications for long term conditions. …”
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Predicting stock investments based on sentiment and historical price data by Olawale, Idris Olayiwola, Iworiso, Jonathan, Amaunam, Idorenyin

“…The results indicate that both versions of the bot trading strategies, regardless of the machine learning or deep learning model employed, consistently outperform the passive, long-term investment strategy. The findings corroborate the utility of incorporating social media sentiment into traditional stock prediction frameworks, thereby providing valuable insights for investors and financial institutions. …”
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Stochastic optimisation model of oil refinery industry and uncertainty quantification in scenario tree of pricing and demand by Mohd. Noh, Norshela

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Core power control analysis and design for triga nuclear reactor by Minhat, Mohd. Sabri

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Developing rat testicular organoid models for assessing the reproductive toxicity of antidepression drugs in vitro by Wu, Sixian, Li, Xiaoliang, Li, Peiyu, Li, Tongtong, Huang, Gelin, Sun, Qun, Dinnyés, Andras, Shang, Lijun, Xu, Wenming

“…With the increasing incidence of depression worldwide, antidepressant medications are commonly used in males of reproductive age for long-term treatment of depression, as well as other disorders. …”
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The ‘expat factor’: the influence of working time on women's decisions to undertake international assignments in the oil and gas industry by Shortland, Susan

“…The research identifies an ‘expat factor’: assignees state that long hours are inherent in expatriation and necessary to further their careers. …”
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Irish building worker by O'Brien, Joanne

“…Black and white photograph, mounted on paper and laminated, showing a man standing precariously on the bucket of an excavator using a long-handled mallet to demolish a section of brick wall outside a block of flats. …”
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Price Competition, Efficiency and Riskiness in Investment Banking by Radić, Nemanja, Fiordelisi, Franco, Girardone, Claudia

“…Our paper examines the intertemporal relationships between price competition, cost efficiency and riskiness for a sample of investment banks inten large developed countries over 2000-2008.We show that price competition is rather limited in investment banking worldwide thus implying the existence of colluding oligopolies.We also find that although investment banks’ stability was granted by relatively low competitive pressures, banks appeared prone to take more risk thus giving some support to the competition-stability view for the investment banking industry.…”
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Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…The empirical evidence rejects VES and CES and supports the Cobb Douglas production function. We find that rural transformation has made a highly significant contribution to total factor productivity and output growth in China irrespective of the production function and capital series employed. …”
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EU banks rating assignments: is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries? by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. We find that country-specific factors (in the form of heterogeneous intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. …”
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