Role of Macroeconomic Factors, Institutional Quality and Digitalization Towards Performance of Islamic Microfinance Institutions by Ahmed, Mushtaq, Isa, Mohamad Yazid

“…The success of microfinance institutions is uneven in achieving both objectives, some achieve one objective, either financial or social, while some fail to achieve any objective altogether. In this line, study uses panel data of 35 Islamic microfinance institutions of OIC countries to investigate the impact of macroeconomic, macro institutional factors and digitalization on the financial and social performance of microfinance institutions in OIC countries from 2008 to 2019. …”
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Enhancing Performance of Private Higher Education Institution through Strategic Excellence Model (S/O 13617) by Abdullah, Haim Hilman

“…In the context of Malaysia, education has been earmarked as one of the important national agenda in line with the 11th Malaysia. Plan that is designed to make the country a knowledge-based economy. …”
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Monitoring membrane biofouling via ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry enhanced by silica dosing by Sim, S. T. V., Suwarno, S. R., Chong, T. H., Krantz, William B., Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…The UTDR response correlates with the transmembrane pressure and off-line measurements of the biofilm thickness via confocal laser scanning microscopy, the bacterial count, and extra-polymeric cellular substances (EPS). …”
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Identification of electromagnetic pre-earthquake perturbations from the DEMETER data by machine learning by Xiong, Pan, Long, Cheng, Zhou, Huiyu, Battiston, Roberto, Zhang, Xuemin, Shen, Xuhui

“…This study included the analysis of satellite data spanning over six years, during which about 8760 earthquakes with magnitude greater than or equal to 5.0 occurred in the world. …”
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Force transduction through the bacterial cell envelope by Williams-Jones, D

“…Through use of mutagenesis, fluorescence microscopy, and live cell assays, I demonstrate that system function can be modulated by altering the secondary structure of the periplasm spanning transducer protein, TolA. I also examine the cell-wide implications of reducing TolA function in such a manner, with respect to membrane stability and cell division (chapter three). …”

Coupled Néel domain wall motion in sandwiched perpendicular magnetic anisotropy nanowires by Purnama, Indra, Kerk, Inn Seng, Lim, Gerard Joseph, Lew, Wen Siang

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Characterization of the junction leakage of Ti-capped Ni-silicided junctions by Lee, Pooi See, Pey, Kin Leong, Toledo, N. G.

“…Ti-capped Ni-silicided devices rapid thermal annealed (RTA) at 400 °C exhibit high sheet resistances and suffer from narrow line effect, which leads to the suspicion that the total phase transformation of NiSi has not yet been achieved. …”
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Short-Term Shoreline Evolution Mapping by using UAV by Siddig, Mohammad lkhmal, Kaamin, Masiri, Daucla, Mohd Effendi, Mokhtar, Mardiha, Sabri, Muhamad Syamil, Ariffinm, Effi Helmy

“…The "Pix4D Capture" application has been programmed with the flight planning route, and the drone takes pictures along the entire grid line provided. The data on shoreline evolutions were processed using the Pix4d Mapper and Global Mapper tools. …”
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Population genomics and transcriptomics of Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia and Vietnam uncover key components of the artemisinin resistance genetic background by Nayak, S, Peto, TJ, Kucharski, M, Tripura, R, Callery, JJ, Quang Huy, DT, Gendrot, M, Lek, D, Nghia, HDT, van der Pluijm, RW, Dong, N, Long, LT, Vongpromek, R, Rekol, H, Hoang Chau, N, Miotto, O, Mukaka, M, Dhorda, M, von Seidlein, L, Imwong, M, Roca, X, Day, NPJ, White, NJ, Dondorp, AM

“…The emergence of Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to artemisinins compromises the efficacy of Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs), the global first-line malaria treatment. Artemisinin resistance is a complex genetic trait in which nonsynonymous SNPs in PfK13 cooperate with other genetic variations. …”

Perspectives of UK catering staff on Adolescents' Food Choices at School by Gilmour, A, Gill, S, Loudon, G

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Application To Child Nutrition Professionals:</strong> Exploring the perspective of catering staff or line level employees was a novel approach in better understanding the factors influencing adolescents’ decision-making in the school food environment. …”

Bach performance practice in the late French Romantic Organ School: a study of Welte organ roll recordings by Holman, C

“…Organists in this pedagogical line comprised the French Romantic Organ School, which developed distinct aesthetics and performance techniques in their own compositions based on their ideas of Bach performance practice. …”

Global availability of medications and health technologies for kidney care: A multinational study from the ISN-GKHA by Kelly, DM, Jones, ESW, Barday, Z, Arruebo, S, Caskey, FJ, Damster, S, Donner, J, Jha, V, Levin, A, Nangaku, M, Saad, S, Tonelli, M, Ye, F, Okpechi, IG, Bello, AK, Johnson, DW

“…Public funding (and free at point of delivery) for medications for dialysis and kidney transplantation was available in only 24% (n = 39) and 30% (n = 50) of countries worldwide, with the proportion increasing in line with country income levels. There was reduced capacity for the management of CKD mineral bone disease in low-income countries (LICs) - serum parathyroid hormone was available in only 26% (n = 5) of LICs and the ability to administer non-calcium-based phosphate binders and cinacalcet was also very limited in LICs [16% (n = 3) and 5% (n = 1), respectively]. …”

Longitudinal assessment of antibiotic resistance gene profiles in gut microbiomes of infants at risk of eczema by Loo, Evelyn Xiu Ling, Zain, Amanda, Yap, Gaik Chin, Purbojati, Rikky Wenang, Drautz-Moses, Daniela Isabel, Koh, Yanqing Michelle, Chong, Yap Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Gluckman, Peter D., Yap, Fabian, Eriksson, Johan Gunnar, Tham, Elizabeth, Shek, Lynette Pei-Chi, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Banerjee, Ritu, Lee, Bee Wah

“…Beta-lactam resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae were detected in 4 (5.3%) and 32 (42.7%) of subjects respectively. …”
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Rule-based meta-analysis reveals the major role of PB2 in influencing influenza A virus virulence in mice by Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius, Kwoh, Chee Keong

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Perceived inequality in society may not motivate increased food intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage by Cheon, Bobby K., Low, Xenia, Wijaya, Darren Jeffian, Lee, Albert

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Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

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Effective type label-based synergistic representation learning for biomedical event trigger detection by Hao, Anran, Yuan, Haohan, Hui, Siu Cheung, Su, Jian

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Tantalum based amorphous thin films as copper diffusion barrier by Yan, Hua

“…With the fast development of semiconductor industry, a novel barrier is required in order to address two challenges in the back-end-of-line technology: enhancing the interconnect reliability of back-end-of-line and reducing resistance-capacitance delay faced during further scaling of semiconductor devices. …”
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Point defect–dislocation interactions in BEOL-compatible Ge-on-Si epitaxy by Postelnicu, Eveline, Wen, Rui-Tao, Ma, Danhao, Wang, Baoming, Wada, Kazumi, Michel, Jurgen, Kimerling, Lionel C

“…Hall effect measurements following post growth heat treatment between 400 and 600 °C reveal an acceptor removal reaction that follows first-order kinetics with an activation energy of 1.7 ± 0.5 eV and a pre-exponential factor of 2.3×107 s−1 consistent with a point defect, diffusion limited process. …”
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A tri-level typhoon-DAD robust optimization framework to enhance distribution network resilience by Hou, Hui, Wu, Wenjie, Zhang, Zhiwei, Wei, Ruizeng, Wang, Lei, He, Huan, Dong, Zhao Yang

“…The typhoons are regarded as attackers, and a tri-level Defender-Attacker-Defender model for typhoon disaster is used to integrate multiple resilience resources. In the first level, line hardening and distributed generation unit commitment are used to improve resilience in pre-disaster. …”
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