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

“…The study sample comprised 762 listed companies in Malaysia, spanning 2020 to 2022. Using content analysis on company annual reports, the results established the positive and significant influence of CG on CSP as consistent with the stakeholder theory. …”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…More than half of the PmP travel times are picked from earthquakes after the 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake. …”
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Reverse logistic operations in Asia-Pacific : an emprical study by Ho, Alex Chew Kin.

“…A 12-page survey is launched covering three main sections — Part 1: Company Profile; Part 2: Reverse Logistics Process; and Part 3: Reverse Logistics Information System. 145 companies were surveyed with a 15.7% response rate. Companies selected spanned across different industrial sectors: electronic/semi-conductor, consumer electronics, telecommunications, computer, data storage/disk drive, machinery/heavy metal, chemical and medical equipment supplies. …”
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Crepuscularis. by Lim, Aaron Zhe Yu.

“…This is achieved with the project spanning from the domain of design to that of art, where the designing of a product and the process of artistic creation convene. …”
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Bella's empowerment - why the twilight saga is not anti-feminist. by See, Shawn Kai Sheng.

“…Meyer’s compelling work is immensely popular among its young adult audience. The Twilight series spans four novels and focuses on the love story of Meyer’s female protagonist Isabella Swan (better known as Bella), and her vampire beau Edward Cullen. …”
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As firm as their foundations: creating transferable adversarial examples across downstream tasks with CLIP by Hu, A, Gu, J, Pinto, F, Kamnitsas, K, Torr, PHS

“…Solely based on open-sourced CLIP vision encoders, this method can produce highly effective adversaries that simultaneously fool more than 20 downstream models spanning 4 common vision-language tasks (semantic segmentation, object detection, image captioning and visual question-answering). …”

Continent-wide drivers of spatial synchrony in breeding demographic structure across wild great tit populations by Woodman, JP, Vriend, SJG, Adriaensen, F, Cole, E, Evans, Park, JS, Firth, JA, Sheldon, B

“…Using 32 great tit populations, spanning 4°W–33°E and 35–65°N involving >130,000 birds across 67 years, we quantify spatial synchrony in breeding demographic structure (subadult vs. adult breeders) and its drivers. …”

Search of the early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational waves from the Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. supernova remnants by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…We carry out the searches in the LIGO data from the first six months of the third Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run, using the Weave semi-coherent method, which sums matched-filter detection-statistic values over many time segments spanning the observation period. No gravitational wave signal is detected in the search band of 20--976 Hz for assumed source ages greater than 300 years for Cas A and greater than 700 years for Vela Jr. …”
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Cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives and its application to backdoor design by Wang, Haoyang

“…This thesis focuses on the cryptanalysis of symmetric-key cryptography, one of the most important branches of modern cryptography. The research spans two aspects of cryptanalysis. Studying cryptanalysis provides better evaluation on the security of symmetric-key primitives. …”
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Theoretical models for performance analysis of spintronic THz emitters by Yang, Yingshu, Dal Forno, Stefano, Battiato, Marco

“…The terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum, spanning from 0.1 to 10 THz, offers unique opportunities for imaging, spectroscopy, and communication applications. …”
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Risk management framework for construction project managers by Tan, Ying Ling

“…With an emphasis on process-driven projects, the research identifies the critical need for an integrated approach to risk management, spanning from project initiation through to operational and maintenance phases. …”
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Mg2SnO4 ceramicsII. Electrical characterization by Azad, Abdul-Majeed, Min, Liew Jing, Alim, Mohammad A

“…The inverse spinel-structured Mg2SnO4 possessing steady capacitance over the temperature range between 27 and 300°C in a frequency domain spanning nearly four decades has been examined by an a.c. technique. …”
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Understanding conflict in the franchised restaurant industry: insights from court records by Siti Nurhayati Khairatun, Zheng, Tianshu

“…This exploratory study employed a content analysis using a data triangulation of New York court records (23 cases, 3 dismissed) spanning from 1957 to 2016 and IFA corporate databases to explore the causes of conflict in the franchised restaurant industry. …”
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To What Extent Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Coal and Oil in Electricity Generation? A Mean-Group Panel Analysis by Liddle, Brantley

“…It does so by employing a first-difference model and a mean-group estimator applied to a panel that spans 1985–2019 for 27 high- and 13 middle-income countries. …”
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Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…The viscoelastic sheet spans over the entire water depth, and is tensioned and hinged on both ends. …”
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Generative AI: a systematic review using topic modelling techniques by Gupta, Priyanka, Ding, Bosheng, Guan, Chong, Ding, Ding

“…The study analyzes a corpus of 1319 records from Scopus spanning from 1985 to 2023 and comprises journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and selected working papers. …”
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The Creative Industries Effects on Economic Performance in the Time of Pandemic by Che Arshad, Noraziah, Irijanto, Tubagus Thresna

“…Design/methodology/approach – This paper applied a random effect and fixed effect estimation approach to investigate the impact of creative industries’ development (government expenditure on education, export of creative industries, trade openness, innovation index, sukuk issuances) on the economic performance spanning from 2010 to 2020. Findings – The economic performance was proxied by two dependent variables, namely, the gross domestic product and the Misery Index. …”
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The artifice that endures the burden of the past : analysing memory in Angela Carter's fictional works. by Yuvaneswari.

“…Carter, too, employs memory as text, using history and the past “as no more than debris to be picked over and eclectically assembled according to the whim of the individual” and an analysis of memory in her texts provides an introduction to the larger issues of fiction, reality, identity and notion of self which always remain central to Carter’s concerns (Gamble 8).…”
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BIM : interoperability issues between BIM authoring software and structural analysis software (RC) by Low, Khai Jer

“…This is an era of digitalisation, software usage is ubiquitous across all industry, including the Built Environment industry, spanning from concept development, design, construction, operations till demolition of the building. …”
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Revisiting values in evaluation: exploring the role of values in shaping evaluation practices and their influences on decision-making within English higher education providers by Kelly, Catherine

“…The results of semi-structured interviews with 17 staff members spanning the organisational hierarchy of three diverse English HE providers highlight conflicts between staff values, job roles and responsibilities and espoused organisational values, and how they can influence symbolic and legitimising evaluation practices. …”
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