Country governance nexus with the financial stability of banks: the moderating effect of country’s income level by Ghosh, Protap K., Kharuddin, Saira B., Kamarudin, Fakarudin B.

“…Unlike previous studies, this study overcomes the limited regional context and scope of measuring the relationships between a country’s governance indicators and a bank’s financial stability and also measures the moderating effect of the country’s income level on the same.…”
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A Hierarchical Framework for Long Horizon Planning of Object-Contact Trajectories by Aceituno, Bernardo, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Momentary partner involvement in diabetes self-care and continuously measured glucose: a dynamic analysis by Soriano, Emily C., Lenhard, M. James, Gonzalez, Jeffrey S., Tennen, Howard, Otto, Amy K., Perndorfer, Christine, Shen, Biing Jiun, Siegel, Scott D., Laurenceau, Jean-Philippe

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A war in all but name: expanding the timeline of conflict in the Malayan emergency by Ho, Benjamin

“…Some narratives favour the influence of external factors like global and regional political movements, while others prefer to give precedence to local players in the Emergency. …”
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Development and characterization of deep reactive ion etching technology for through silicon interconnection by Nagarajan, Ranganathan

“…In the first part of the thesis, stress simulation studies were done on TSV structures of various via geometries and shapes to determine the regions of high stress due to CTE mismatch. It was determined that the top and bottom of the vias and the surrounding materials experience maximum mechanical stress. …”
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Studying properties of SLM fabricated parts and relating properties of SLM parts to heat treated metals by Lam, Lit Ping

“…Two different microstructural regions were identified resulting in two different hardness values which were consistent. …”
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Unsteady flow-induced vibration of the slider in a commercial hard disk drive by Toh, Jeffrey See Ren.

“…This was due to high turbulence in these regions. The results had also shown that pressure fluctuations around the HGA plate were highly related with FIV, with principle peaks occurring at approximately 1.5 kHz, 2.8 kHz, 4.3 kHz. …”
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Proximal tibial strains following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) : a finite element study by Muhammad Hidayat Salleh

“…From the results obtained, it was found that the model with shortest pinhole depth of 18 mm has the lowest stress at the regions in the pinholes. It is also found that the highest level of stress is found at the top edge of the web cut directly in contact with the implants. …”
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A study of image registration for 2D and 3D applications by Srikanth Sridhar

“…The images can be from different viewpoints, different time and also from different sensors, sensing different regions across the electromagnetic spectrum. Image registration algorithms defined in literature have been very specific to an application and hence most surveys conducted revolve around a particular application. …”
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Influence of rainfall pattern on suction distribution and slope stability by Lee, Min Lee

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Mobility and community at Mesolithic Lake Onega, Karelia, north-west Russia: insights from strontium isotope analysis by Eckelmann, R, Arppe, L, Tarasov, A, Pospieszny, Ł, Ackerman, L, Heyd, V, Gerasimov, D, Moiseyev, V, Fairbanks, V, Hyland, C, Mannermaa, K

“…Radiogenic strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) was used to identify group dynamics within the cemetery and examine the site’s place within local and supra-regional networks. The analysis of 57 humans and 31 animals was supported by the creation of an environmental baseline which identified four key geological zones and defines the strontium characteristics of Lake Onega. …”

Multiple kernels for object detection by Vedaldi, A, Gulshan, V, Varma, M, Zisserman, A

“…Our contributions include (i) showing that a linear classifier can be evaluated with a complexity proportional to the number of sub-windows (independent of the sub-window area and descriptor dimension); (ii) a comparison of three efficient methods of proposing candidate regions (including the jumping window classifier of Chum and Zisserman (CVPR 2007) based on proposing windows from scale invariant features); and (Hi) introducing overlap-recall curves as a mean to compare and optimize the performance of the intermediate pipeline stages. …”

Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests by Aguirre Gutierrez, J, Rifai. SW, Deng, X, Thomson, E, Wallin, G, Berenguer, E, Girardin, CAJ, Oliveras-Menor, I, Riutta, T, Zhang, H, Malhi, Y

“…An uncertainty analysis highlights priority regions for further data collection, which would refine and improve these maps. …”

Immunity debt for seasonal influenza after the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result of non-pharmaceutical interventions: an ecological analysis and cohort study by Chen, L, Guo, Y, López-Güell, K, Ma, J, Dong, Y, Xie, J, Prieto Alhambra, D

“…In addition, a positive association between the Stringency Index and post-relaxation influenza surge was observed globally (R² = 0.14-0.17) and replicated regionally. Our findings support the population immunity debt hypothesis for influenza and call for proactive preparations against its consequences in future pandemics.…”

The role of Wee1 in the hypoxia-induced DNA damage response and its potential as a therapeutic target by O'Brien, EM

“…This, coupled with the high oxygen demand often leads to regions of hypoxia. The physiological relevance of this includes resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as activation of specific signalling cascades. …”

Simulating impacts of reducing subsidies to Kuwait’s electricity sector by Gelan, A

“…The necessity for economic reforms in wider areas of public utilities management is rooted in recent shifts in economic development strategies, as well as in initiatives related to regional integration among GCC member countries. …”

Seismic node arrays for enhanced understanding and monitoring of geothermal systems by Hudson, T, Kettlety, T, Kendall, J-M, O'Toole, T, Jupe, A, Shail, RK, Grand, G

“…In our example case study, we find that the injection‐site fracture orientations significantly differ from that of the crust above and the regional stress state. These observations agree well with fracture orientations inferred from independent well‐log data, exemplifying how the nodes can provide new insight for understanding the geothermal systems. …”

Phase separation of a microtubule plus-end tracking protein into a fluid fractal network by Czub, MP, Uliana, F, Grubić, T, Padeste, C, Rosowski, KA, Lorenz, C, Dufresne, ER, Menzel, A, Vakonakis, I, Gasser, U, Steinmetz, MO

“…Unlike classical liquids, Bik1 condensates exhibit a heterogeneous, fractal supramolecular structure with protein- and solvent-rich regions. This structural evidence supports recent percolation-based models of biomolecular condensates. …”

Molecular detection of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) in clinically ill local cats by Mummoorthy, Kunambiga

“…Viral nucleic acid was extracted and subjected to One-Step RT PCR with specific primer targeting the highly conserved U3LTR and partial gag regions. Two cats were tested positive for the antigen from the clinically ill group. …”
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Embedded Object Detection and Mapping in Soft Materials Using Optical Tactile Sensing by Solano-Castellanos, Jose A., Do, Won Kyung, Kennedy, Monroe D.

“…The exploration phase is then followed by a mapping phase which exploits the probabilistic map to reconstruct the underlying topography of the workspace by sampling in more detail regions where there are expected to be embedded objects. …”
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