Peer Effects in Corporate Disclosure Decisions Mohammad Hossein Safarzadeh*: Associate professor of Accounting, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Te... by Mohammad Hossein Safarzadeh, Hamideh Asnaashari, Alireza Panahalipour

“…Information disclosure is considered one of the most important aspects of corporate performance and decision-making. …”
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Investigating the Nature of Orientalism from a Philosophical-Historical Point of View Based on the Relationship between Subject and Object by Ghorban Elmi, Alireza Nahri

“…This analysis aimed to fill that gap, providing a nuanced examination of how the rise of the autonomous modern subject gave rise to the Orientalist mode of engaging with non-Western civilizations and belief systems. …”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“…An illustration of this is the growing gap between the fast crisis-overcoming basketball and other fields of sport (especially football, which due to weak management, lost its once-possessed high rates).  …”
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The Assessment of Participatory Scenario Planning in Future-Study of the Environment in District 1, Tehran City by Aiub Maroofi, Jila Sajadi, Mohammadtaghi Razavian

“…Considering the fact that citizens involved in participatory scenarios in terms of citizenship environmental awareness indicators, citizenship accountability and environmental behavior were significantly different from those who were not involved in the participatory scenario process, but in the area of citizen cooperation with local institutions Preservation and promotion of urban environment has no significant difference revealing that the institutional problems and the gap between management institutions in the area of urban environmental protection in the region is very high, and only participatory scenarios cannot improve this indicator. …”
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Identifying Psychological and Sociological Factors Affecting Job Aspirations in Lower Secondary Students by Farid Ahmadi, Soheila Ahmadi

“…Regarding career choices, our findings revealed that medical-related careers were the most frequently selected paths among participants, with 52.4% expressing this preference. …”
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The antibiotic procurement saga: a long-neglected stewardship target to combat antimicrobial resistance in Pakistan by Shairyar Afzal, Mishal Bajwa, Nabeel Ahmed, Jawaria Jabeen, Mian Shahzeb Haroon, Rana Muhammad Zahid Mushtaq, Zikria Saleem

“…Results The study identified five central themes: (1) The state of antibiotic use in hospitals is characterized by a lack of antibiotic use policy, resulting in mostly empirical and irrational prescribing practices. (2) Medicine availability significantly influences prescribing decisions, often taking precedence over clinical needs. (3) The procurement process, although structured, is flawed owing to rigid adherence to the Standard Medicine List (SML). (4) Rationality in procurement is compromised by disregard for AMR, with decisions driven more by cost and demand than clinical evidence. (5) The clinical acumen of pharmacists is underutilized in procurement due to multifarious barriers. …”
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The Crisis of US-centric Globalization: Causes, Trends and Scenarios of Development by A. A. Kasantzev, V. M. Sergeev

“…Presumably, it’s a long-term process. And at the end it may cause the establishment of new political form of economic globalization (e.g. transition to the model of hegemony of a group of superpowers, a scenario mostly close to generally accepted in Russia idea of multi-polar world), or emergence of a new hegemon (e.g. …”
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Analysis of biased allelic enhancer activity of schizophrenia-linked common variants by Chengwen Gao, Qian Zhang, Chuanhong Wu, Lixia Peng, Mingxuan Wu, Baokun Wang, Baiqiang Xue, Mingming Niu, Yajie Jiang, Wenli Yuan, Haiyan Song, Xiangyu Li, Xiangzhong Zhao, Yujuan Niu, Yuanchao Sun, Yonghe Ding, Zhiqiang Li

“…To bridge this gap, we prioritized potential functional variants linked to schizophrenia by utilizing a human brain epigenomic roadmap. …”
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Uncovering the black box effect of Open Educational Resources (OER) and practices (OEP): a meta-analysis and meta-synthesis from the perspective of activity theory by Ahmed Tlili, Xiangling Zhang, Georgios Lampropoulos, Soheil Salha, Juan Garzón, Aras Bozkurt, Ronghuai Huang, Daniel Burgos

“…To address this research gap, this study conducts a two-level analysis based on a systematic review of the OER and OEP literature. …”
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Early intervention in psychosis programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America; challenges and recommendations by Els van der Ven, Xinyu Yang, Franco Mascayano, Karl J Weinreich, Eric YH Chen, Charmaine YZ Tang, Sung-Wan Kim, Jonathan K Burns, Bonginkosi Chiliza, Greeshma Mohan, Srividya N Iyer, Thara Rangawsamy, Ralph de Vries, Ezra S Susser

“…Given the major treatment gap of early psychosis in Africa, Latin America and large parts of Asia, publicly funded, locally-led and accessible community-based EIP care provision is urgently needed. …”
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Tools to improve discharge equity: Protocol for the pilot TIDE trial by Kirsten Austad, Cecilia Thai, Alegna Zavatti, Nhi Nguyen, Diana Bautista-Hurtado, Patrick Kenney, Noelia Lugo, Joo H. Lee, Howard Lanney, Ziming Xuan, Erika G. Cordova-Ramos, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Brian Jack

“…Innovative solutions to close this implementation gap at hospital discharge for patients with NELP are needed. …”
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Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Molecular Mechanism of PLIN1 in Goose Hierarchical and Pre-Hierarchical Follicle Granulosa Cells by Hua He, Yueyue Lin, Xi Zhang, Hengli Xie, Zhujun Wang, Shenqiang Hu, Liang Li, Hehe Liu, Chunchun Han, Lu Xia, Jiwei Hu, Jiwen Wang, Lin Liao, Xin Yuan

“…Gene Ontology (GO) analysis revealed that in the four groups (phGC: over_vs_over-NC; hGC: over_vs_over-NC; phGC: si_vs_si-NC; hGC: si_vs_si-NC), most differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were significantly enriched (<i>p</i> < 0.05) in pathways related to biological processes (BPs), particularly those associated with the regulation of cellular lipid metabolism and oxidative stress. …”
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Digital capital and food agricultural SMEs: Examining the effects on SME performance, inequalities and government role by Fanny Saruchera, Sinenhlanhla Mpunzi

“…It emerged that agricultural SMEs mostly adopt complimentary service digital tools, indicating that digital capital is a catalyst for inequalities. …”
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ADDRESSING CHALLENGES TO BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING IMPLEMENTATION IN UK: DESIGNERS' PERSPECTIVES by Abdul-Majeed MAHAMADU, Dharshana NAVENDREN, Patrick MANU, Rotimi JOSEPH, Krzysztof DZIEKONSKI

“… Building information modelling (BIM) has been proposed as a technology-enabled process for more efficient and effective management of information in digital and virtual environments. …”
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Temperature and AC electrical properties natural mixture, Abu Tartur plateau, Western Desert, Egypt by Mohamed Mahmoud Gomaa

“…AC electrical conductivity of a phosphate natural combination from Abu Tartur and its fluctuation with temperature is inadequate and this work seeks to close this information gap.…”
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I racconti del corpo. Tre storie di maternità di “madres solteras” by Martina Riina

“…It is, in fact, these women who find employment along the links of the global care chain, as caregivers, healthcare assistants, domestic helpers or babysitters; they are the same women who, in many cases, are forced to separate from their children, leaving a gap in the care system in their countries of origin, to fill another one in the countries of arrival, mostly European or American. …”
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Papel de la modelación matemática en la formación de los ingenieros // Role of mathematical modeling in the training of engineers by María Lucía Brito-Vallina, Isidro Alemán-Romero, Elena Fraga-Guerra, José Luís Para-García, Ruth Irene Arias-de Tapia

“…</p><p>__________________________________________________________________</p><p>Abstract<br />There is a huge gap between the mathematical skills required by the engineer, primarily related to the activities<br />of modeling, interpreting, communicating in precise language, etc., And skills that form in the courses of<br />Mathematics and listed in the programs study, which put the most emphasis on solving activity calculation<br />exercises. …”
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Mapping of the Glucose Metabolism Heterogeneity in Atherosclerosis: Correlation With 2-Deoxyglucose Uptake by Joseph Haddad MD, Selim Demirdelen MD, Clayton E. Barnes BS, Steven A. Leers MD, Sina Tavakoli MD, PhD

“…However, knowledge about metabolic processes underlying [ 18 F]FDG uptake is mostly derived from in vitro cell culture studies, which cannot recapitulate the complexities of the plaque microenvironment. …”
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Progress in photocatalytic degradation of industrial organic dye by utilising the silver doped titanium dioxide nanocomposite by Nirosha Ramesh, Chin Wei Lai, Mohd Rafie Bin Johan, Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, Amit Kumar, Gaurav Sharma, Femiana Gapsari

“…However, the practical application of TiO2 as photocatalyst has limitations for the following reasons; First, TiO2 has a low sensitivity to visible light due to a large band gap which can be 3.2 eV for the anatase polymorph. …”
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Examination and Tracing of Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Hydrogen in Diesel Oil from Different Regions by Han-yu ZHANG, Zhao-wei JIE, Han-yang ZHENG, Xiao-han ZHU, Wei-ya XIE, Can HU, Zhan-fang LIU, Hong-ling GUO, Jun ZHU, Hong-cheng MEI

“…This study effectively fills the gap in domestic stable isotope diesel source analysis, providing strong technical support for the investigation of diesel arson in the future.…”
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