Influence of CEO characteristics and audit committee on financial performance: evidence from Iraq by Hazzaa, Omar Turki, Abdullah, Dewi Fariha, Mohammed Sadaa, Abdullah

“…This study is added to critical studies for regulatory authorities and decision-makers, especially since shareholders and decision-makers always seek to appoint CEOs with the capabilities and talents to enable them to achieve shareholders' goals and enhance banks' competitiveness in different environments.…”
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Bayesian inverse problems for hyperbolic equations by Ng, Jeremy

“…Given an observation filled with noise which follows a known probability distribution, we seek to find the posterior measure on the coefficient space. …”
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Discovery zone in the library : a new service for the children by Tan, Florence Kia Mui.

“…The study also showed that difficulties faced by the children led them to seek assistance from their friends, parents and staff assigned to Discovery Zone. …”
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The education tracking process : a study of undergraduates in Singapore. by Seah, Serene Siew Keng.

“…Even when it comes to choice, there is empirical evidence that the upper classes choose the more mainstream route and seek to achieve higher qualifications than the lower classes. …”
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Effect of user-generated content on consumer's perception. by Seah, Zaiton Li Chun., Seow, Eileen Li Jing., Lee, Venetia Yong Yi.

“…This research could be of interest to hoteliers seeking to understand the effects of user-generated contents on Singaporeans.…”
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Sexting in Singapore : psychosocial risk and protective factors by Low, Joey

“…Additionally, histrionic personality, sensation seeking and positive attitudes toward sexting were found to be positively associated with intention to sext and actual sexting behaviours. …”
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A study to minimize 'A'-pillar blind spot in cars by Choo, Daryl Gavin Jun Yan

“…The solution proposals seek to help drivers check the blind spot passively without requiring them to look around the A-pillar. …”
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Motivated knowledge acquisition: implicit self-theories and the preference for knowledge breadth or depth by Crolic, C, Clarkson, JJ, Otto, AS, Murphy, MC

“…We address alternative explanations related to general openness, risk-seeking, and perceived quality differences, and we demonstrate the role of negative feedback in reversing these knowledge preferences. …”

A wireless, battery-free device enables oxygen generation and immune protection of therapeutic xenotransplants in vivo by Krishnan, Siddharth R, Liu, Claudia, Bochenek, Matthew A, Bose, Suman, Khatib, Nima, Walters, Ben, O’Keeffe, Laura, Facklam, Amanda, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G

“…The system relies on electrochemical water splitting based on a water-vapor reactant feed, sustained by wireless power harvesting based on a flexible resonant inductive coupling circuit. …”
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Enhancing fouling mitigation of submerged flat-sheet membranes by vibrating 3D-spacers by Tan, Yong Zen, Mao, Ziming, Zhang, Yanjun, Tan, Wen See, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wu, Bing, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Furthermore, two types of wave-like spacers were designed based on CFD simulation, in which perforation were placed on the spacer in order to enhance shear rate and provide a path for the back transport of foulants into the bulk feed. The MF membrane tests showed that the presence of either big holes (2 mm diameter) or small holes (1 mm diameter) could not benefit to reduce membrane fouling at a lower permeate flux (20 L/m² h), but the presence of small holes significantly improved membrane performance at a higher permeate flux (40 and 60 L/m² h).…”
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Performance enhancement of ultrafiltration membrane via simple deposition of polymer-based modifiers by Tian, Miao, Wang, Rong, Goto, Atsushi, Mao, Weijia, Miyoshi, Yasuyuki, Mizoguchi, Hirotaka

“…The results show that the random copolymer modified membrane exhibited average 26 % rises in water permeability compared with the virgin PES UF membrane when 0.5 wt% BSA solution was used as feed. The stable permeability and flux recovery rate during the cyclic study with chemical cleaning suggest good affinity of the newly synthesized random copolymer with the PES membrane and water. …”
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An induced population of Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes more resistant to complement lysis promotes a phenotype with greater differentiation, invasiveness, and release of extracel... by Rossi, Izadora, Nunes, Maria Alice Ferreira, Sabatke, Bruna, Ribas, Hennrique Taborda, Winnischofer, Sheila Maria Brochado, Ramos, Augusto Savio Peixoto, Inal, Jameel, Ramirez, Marcel I.

“…Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by , which uses blood-feeding triatomine bugs as a vector to finally infect mammalian hosts. …”
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Fabrication and biocompatibility evaluation of hydroxyapatite–polycaprolactone–gelatin composite nanofibers as a bone scaffold by Aminatun, None, Sujak M. K, Aisyah, Izak R, Djony, Hadi, Sofijan, Sari, Yessie Widia, Gunawarman, None, Cahyati, Nilam, Yusuf, Yusril, Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim

“…The SEM analysis confirmed the biocompatibility of the HA/PCL/gelatin nanofiber scaffold, as osteoblast cells attached and dispersed successfully five days after seeding. Based on these findings, the HA/PCL/gelatin nanofiber scaffold emerges as a very promising candidate for treating bone damage. © 2024 The Royal Society of Chemistry.…”
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Multifunctional Wireless Gut-Brain Neurotechnology by Sahasrabudhe, Atharva

“…This technology was validated by modulating the mesolimbic reward pathway in the mouse brain and the anatomically challenging intestinal lumen to demonstrate wireless control of sensory epithelial cells and vagal afferents that guide animal’s feeding and reward behaviors.…”
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Multi-criteria thermoeconomic and thermodynamic assessments of the desalination-integrated two-phase liquid-immersion data center cooling system by Kanbur, Baris Burak, Wu, Chenlong, Duan, Fai

“…The waste heat of the immersion cooling system is used to heat up the feed side of the desalination module. A direct contact membrane distillation system as preferred as the desalination module with the membrane area range of 5 to 75 cm2. …”
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Whole genome sequencing and comparative analysis of novel pathogen elizbethkingia anophelis against oxidative stress by Li, Yingying

“…Moreover, the transcriptome profiling comparison between E. anophelis NUHP1 treated with hydrogen peroxide and with mouse blood further showed that E. anophelis NUHP1 displayed the similar protective mechanism associated with iron siderophore and heme utilization when contact with mouse blood, indicating that oxidative stress is the major stress for E. anophelis NUHP1 when infect hosts and the strong resistance to oxidative stress enables E. anophelis to be dominant in the blood meal feeding mosquitoes. Furthermore, we also showed that hemoglobin but not ferric iron greatly facilitates the growth, hydrogen peroxide tolerance and biofilm formation of E. anophelis NUHP1. …”
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The effect of mixed carbon source on enhanced biological phosphorus removal in tropical climate by Cai, Xueyun

“…At the end of the study, the analysis would suggest the feasibility of high temperature EBPR and its feeding configuration in tropical climate.…”
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Research of modeling and optimization approaches for hybrid ejector-based air conditioning cycle by Wang, Hao

“…This thesis presents the research outcomes on the performance evaluation of a developed hybrid ejector-based air-conditioning system (hybrid system for short), an artificial neural network modeling for hybrid system with feature selection approaches for input parameters determination and trained with extreme learning machine (ELM), and the development and realization of a novel optimization approach based on single layer feed-forward neural network (SLFN) model. Furthermore, the centralized optimization problems of hybrid system are formulated, the corresponding solution methodology is then developed. …”
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Isolation and identification of tannin-degrading bacteria from goat feces, ruminal fluid, and rumen gut by Muhammad Syafiq Suhaimi, Fayyadhah Asyiqin Zailani, Nur Farah Syuhada Mohd Zaki, Farizan Aris, Mohd Taufiq Mat Jalil, Nurul Aili Zakaria

“…The isolated strains demonstrate their capabilities in reducing tannin's antinutritional effects in poultry feed.…”
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Life history and demography of the predatory mite, Amblyseius longispinosus Evans by Ibrahim, Yusof, Palacio, Victoria B.

“…Larvae were not observed to feed. Statistically significant differences between sexes were noted with respect to consumption of the deutonymphs (female, average 4.0±0.2; male, average 2.9±0.3 eggs/day) but not of the protonymphs. …”
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