Does CEO power affect audit's report lag in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies? the curtailing role of corporate governance by Khan, Faisal, Abdul-Hamid, Mohamad Ali, Saidin, Saidatunur Fauzi

“…Results show that CEO-tenure and duality increase ARL in GCC economies. Additionally, we find that the effect of CEO-tenure on ARL is curtailed when board independence is stronger, whereas the effect of CEO duality is unchanged by board independence. …”

Driven Factors to Sustainable Paddy Farming Production in Malaysia by Zahari, Fadhilah, Othman, Zakirah, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Salleh, Nurul Azita

“…System of Rice Intensification ( ability through improving paddy ecosystem, better sustainable economic due to improving paddy production and sales and social sustainability through local community development through community activity and health. This study aimed to find out whether the innovative practices of SRI affect the rice value chain and to determine the roles, activities of the actors in the value chain as well as challenges that impacted the value chain. …”
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Selection of Decomposition Technology using Fuzzy Multi Criteria Decision Making (S/O 14036) by Omar, Mohd Faizal, Mat Kasim, Maznah

“…This study was conducted to develop decision making tools for determine the best decomposition technology. In order to find the best decomposition technology for food waste management, there are multi-alternative is suggested and the relevant criteria to guide the selection of technology are listed. …”
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Analysis of subtelomeric virulence gene families in Plasmodium falciparum by comparative transcriptional profiling by Witmer, Kathrin, Schmid, Christoph D., Brancucci, Nicolas M. B., Luah, Yen-Hoon, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Bozdech, Zbynek, Voss, Till S.

“…Here, we analysed promoters of upsA, upsB and upsC var, rifA1-type rif, stevor, phist and pfmc-2tm genes and investigated their role in endogenous gene transcription by comparative genome-wide expression profiling of transgenic parasite lines. We find that the three major var promoter types are functionally equal and play an essential role in singular gene choice. …”
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The hollow fiber bioreactor as a stroma-supported, serum-free ex vivo expansion platform for human umbilical cord blood cells by Xue, Cao, Kwek, Kenneth Y. C., Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Chen, Qingfeng, Lim, Mayasari

“…We evaluated the efficacy of such a platform in comparison to standard cultures performed on tissue culture polystyrene (TCP), using a human stromal cell line (HS-5) as stromal support, co-cultured with lineage-depleted human cord blood cells in serum-free medium supplemented with a cytokine cocktail. …”
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Analysis and design recommendations for structures strengthened by prestressed bonded Fe-SMA by Li, Lingzhen, Wang, Sizhe, Chatzi, Eleni, Motavalli, Masoud, Ghafoori, Elyas

“…A parametric study and a sensitivity analysis are then conducted to assess the impact of the four influential features on the final prestress level, and their impact is ranked in the following order: recovery stress ≈ Fe-SMA width > activation length > bonded anchorage length. Based on these findings, a design strategy, in line with Eurocode 0, for the bonded/embedded Fe-SMA strengthening system is proposed. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…First, it proposes a rubric for assessing the quality of early-stage design sketches including line smoothness, proportion, and understandability. …”
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Modeling public transit route choice behaviour by Zhou, Yao Hui.

“…Some of these research findings are briefly decribed below. Through the comparison between the passenger arrival at various stations and the passengers’ stated rating of crowdedness of the platforms, it was inferred that passengers’ perceived crowdedness does not vary linearly with the platform passenger density and their perception of crowdedness was more sensitive when the crowd on-platform was either below 15 people or more than 30. …”
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Framework of key success criteria for high performance and sustainable ports - port management perspective by Lee, Nicole Jia Ying

“…The 19 received survey responses were subjected to Z-tests to obtain descriptive data for analysis and discussion. Research Findings: Sluggish market conditions have compelled PSA to focus on highly productive & efficient operations, coupled with the other criteria aggregated under the Internal Processes dimension. …”
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Dengue hemorrhagic fever prevention and control: DHF-solve model using linebot-application and GIS by Mala, M., Meenongwar, C., Jundaeng, J., Osman, M., Viegus, Z., Nithikathkul, C.

“…It features six menus accessible through the Line Official Account (LOA) and can function as a real-time platform. …”
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RSM and ANN-based optimized ultrasound-assisted extraction of functional components from olive fruit (cv Arbequina): assessment of antioxidant attributes and GC-MS metabolites prof... by Ali, Liaqat, Anwar, Farooq, Qadir, Rahman, Batool, Fozia, Mustaqeem, Muhammad, Mohsin Ali, Rana

“…The results of ANN, which employed the multilayer perceptron design, were fairly in line with the findings of the experiments. The antioxidant characteristics and GC-MS metabolite profile of the obtained extracts were examined. …”

Safeguarding PU air filter production: design innovations for risk management by Haziman, Zakaria, Faiz, Azizul, Fernando, Yudi, Diyana, Kamarudin

“…This study focuses on the PU Air Filter Production Line at a top-tier Malaysian automotive parts manufacturer. …”
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Analysis of visitors’ mobility patterns through random walk in the Louvre Museum by Yoshimura, Yuji, Sinatra, Roberta, Krebs, Anne, Ratti, Carlo

“…A random walk is a minimalistic model providing a reference line for the frequency of sequences as induced by the graph structure of the museum. …”
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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

“…Reduced thermal budget is required for back-end-of-line (BEOL) integration of application specific functionality into the multilevel metal stack of a processor “substrate.” …”
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Modular Verification of Secure and Leakage-Free Systems: From Application Specification to Circuit-Level Implementation by Athalye, Anish, Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry, Kaashoek, Frans, Tassarotti, Joseph, Zeldovich, Nickolai

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Cell activation-based screening of natively paired human T cell receptor repertoires by Fahad, Ahmed S, Chung, Cheng Yu, López Acevedo, Sheila N, Boyle, Nicoleen, Madan, Bharat, Gutiérrez-González, Matías F, Matus-Nicodemos, Rodrigo, Laflin, Amy D, Ladi, Rukmini R, Zhou, John, Wolfe, Jacy, Llewellyn-Lacey, Sian, Koup, Richard A, Douek, Daniel C, Balfour, Henry H, Price, David A, DeKosky, Brandon J

“…We then screened TCRα:β libraries expressed in an immortalized cell line using peptide-pulsed antigen-presenting cells and sequenced activated clones to identify the cognate TCRs. …”
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Three-dimensional flow structures and vorticity control in fish-like swimming by Zhu, Q., Wolfgang, M.J., Yue, D.K.P., Triantafyllou, M.S.

“…We employ a three-dimensional, nonlinear inviscid numerical method, in conjunction with experimental data from live fish and from a fish-like robotic mechanism, to establish the three-dimensional features of the flow around a fish-like body swimming in a straight line, and to identify the principal mechanisms of vorticity control employed in fish-like swimming. …”
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Richness and diversity in dust stormborne biomes at the Southeast Mediterranean by Ben-Dov, Eitan, Katra, Itzhak, Arotsker, Luba, Krasnov, Helena, Zaritsky, Arieh, Kushmaro, Ariel

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Nitrogen-doped graphene-supported transition-metals carbide electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction by Chen, Minghua, Liu, Jilei, Zhou, Weijiang, Lin, Jianyi, Shen, Zexiang

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New insights into the diverse electronic phases of a novel vanadium dioxide polymorph : a terahertz spectroscopy study by Chia, Elbert E. M., Lourembam, James, Srivastava, Amar, La-o-vorakiat, Chan, Rotella, H., Venkatesan, T.

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