Corporate governance as a catalyst for sustainability: insights from Malaysian Public listed companies by Normarliana Laili, Romlah Jaffar, Mohamat Sabri Hassan, Ahmad Monir Abdullah

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Exploring blockchain - based applications for digital copyright protection by Liu, Bin, Yasin, Megat Al Imran, Abdul Rahman, Saiful Nujaimi

“…The review identifies three main research dimensions: a holistic approach to digital copyright protection, specific field perspectives, and technological advancements. …”
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Hybrid system on temperature and humidity for swallow nest farm via mobile application in internet of things. by Riqsi Noverta, Riqsi Noverta, Abdul Wahab, Nur Haliza, Ahsan, M. A.

“…Swallows are poultry that is cultivated with nests as the main production. There are several types of swallows, one of which is Collocalia Fuciphaga, this species is a swiftlet that is capable of producing white nests. …”
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Protection from misleading advertisement under the Jordan Civil Law 1976 and the draft Law of Consumer Protection 2013 by Mohammad Alsharu, Ahmad Ibrahim, Mohd Noor, Fauziah, Abdul Rahman, Rohana

“…However, misleading advertising has become one of main forms unfair practise customers/ consumers. …”
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The Best Malaysian SMEs Practices in Solid Waste Management: A Case Study by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Lim, Hui Kheng, Mansor, Mohd Fitri

“…This study was preferred with the main objectives to determine the waste management practices especially in SMEs. …”
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Umrah Worship During the Pandemic Covid–19: Responses from Resident in Northern Malaysia by Anuar, Herman Shah, Osman, Wan Nadzri, Mohd Sharif, Kamal Imran

“…For Muslims, among the main effects are the barriers to perform Umrah and Hajj where Saudi Arabia is among the countries that close their country's border gates from the influx of travellers. …”
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Interventions for improving patients’ trust in doctors and groups of doctors by Rolfe, Alix, Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, Car, Josip, Sheikh, Aziz, McKinstry, Brian

“…We synthesised data narratively. Main results: We included 10 randomised controlled trials (including 7 new trials) involving 11,063 patients. …”
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Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample: its relationship with self-reported physical activity, dietary habits, and factor structure by Teh, Wen Lin, Abdin, Edimansyah, P. V., Asharani, Siva Kumar, Fiona Devi, Roystonn, Kumarasan, Wang, Peizhi, Shafie, Saleha, Chang, Sherilyn, Jeyagurunathan, Anitha, Vaingankar, Janhavi Ajit, Sum, Chee Fang, Lee, Eng Sing, van Dam, Rob M., Subramaniam, Mythily

“…Methods: Prior to the main analyses, confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were conducted to determine the factorial validity of a western derived concept of social desirability. …”
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Removal of ciprofloxacin by anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) and post-treatment of AnMBR effluent by Mai, Do Thi

“…Biological degradation was the main mechanism for removing CIP, with a few intermediate compounds detected, but when CIP was added to the feed at 4.7 ± 0.7 mg/L, the removal of CIP decreased to < 20%. …”
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A systematic review of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptomatology in religious people of Abrahamic faiths: implications for clinical practice by Hassan, H

“…A thematic analysis of free text across all participants found three main themes: ‘We are Too Different’, ‘It’s not Worth the Risk’, and ‘What we Need for Therapy to Work’. …”

Effectiveness of clinician client-centered counseling on knowledge, attitudes and sexual bahaviors of antiretroviral therapy patients in Yola, Nigeria by Martins, Olutayo Folashade

“…There was a significant main effect for time (F (2, 219) = 4.093, p = 0.020) for HIV status disclosure to spouse and/or sexual partners. …”
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Advanced Structural Materials

“…Concrete and cement properties and consistency, structural properties of modern wooden materials, and thermal insulation materials are the main topics of the last chapter. The edition will be useful to specialists in materials science, machinery and construction.…”
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Effectiveness of influencer marketing tactics and our understanding of consumers psychology in the digital era by Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Farghaly, Ahmed Taiseer, Nur Sofia Nabila, Alimin

“…Social media became very popular lately and social media influencers became a main driver in the marketing strategies in the last years, they also have the ability to influence a wild numbers of audience behaviours and their preference when it comes to purchasing decisions and all this became possible because of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, This paper aims to improve our knowledge of marketing through social media influencers by studying how influencer attributes effects customers behaviour, attributes such as expertise, trustworthiness, similarities, and attractiveness , this paper will provide some important ideas on how to improve influencers marketing strategies and will make us understand customers purchasing behaviour, the results of this paper might deliver a very useful insights on how to develop brands ethical marketing and will provide suggestions to help brands in implementing influencers marketing in their marketing strategies to be able to reach their target audience through better and real cost efficient manner…”
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Harnessing the potentialities of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics application for agriculture industry: A mini review by Siti Zulaiha, Zailani, Nurin Syakirah, Abd Rahim, Aizi Nor Mazila, Ramli

“…Synbiotics, a combination of prebiotic and probiotic offer an alternative approach to preserve and improve the quality of soil. The main objective of this review is to provide comprehensive overview of the application of the synbiotic approach to the productivity of the agriculture. …”
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Intersection Graphs of Maximal Sub-polygons of k-Lizards by Daugherty, Caroline, Laison, Joshua D., Robinson, Rebecca, Salois, Kyle

“…We derive bounds for which j-cycles appear as induced subgraphs of k-MSP graphs. As our main result, we construct examples of graphs which are k-MSP graphs and not j-MSP graphs for all $$k>1$$ k > 1 , $$j>1$$ j > 1 , $$k \ne j$$ k ≠ j .…”
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America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus by Desmaele, Linde

“…US policymakers today increasingly view China as the main challenge to the latter. Accordingly, this article’s driving hypothesis is that the more significance the USA assigns to its European allies in the context of its China agenda, the more it will, for better or worse, seek to maintain (some degree of) European security dependence on the USA. …”
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Scalable optical manufacture of dynamic structural colour in stretchable materials by Miller, Benjamin Harvey, Liu, Helen, Kolle, Mathias

“…Structurally coloured materials that change their colour in response to mechanical stimuli are uniquely suited for optical sensing and visual communication1-4. The main barrier to their widespread adoption is a lack of manufacturing techniques that offer spatial control of the materials' nanoscale structures across macroscale areas. …”
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Some Brief Thoughts on Housing Supply and Policy by Saiz, Albert

“…I elucidate the key interactions between supply and demand that generate macroeconomic problems and lack of affordability, and emphasize the distinction between short run and long run housing supply. My main conclusions are not new: policymakers should be aware of the Tinbergen rule. …”
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Achieving Secure and Performant Databases with Minimal Resource Overhead by Lim, Darren

“…However, this poses two main risks. Typically, trusted database code is run alongside stored procedure code, which means that user-inputted stored procedure code can pose a security risk to the database and data itself, if the code contains vulnerabilities. …”
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Using Adaptive Parsing to Integrate Dialogue Scripts in Game Development by Taylor, Temi

“…For people without programming experience, integrating their work into the main project forms a common bottleneck in video game development. …”
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