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Zuriawati Zakaria, Noorfaiz Purhanudin, Ahmad Nazri Wahidudin
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This study uses a sample of 119 commercial banks in Asia (specifically China, Philippine, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand) to test the impact of board governance on the bank performance. The result reported based on OLS and within estimators. In ...
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Eugenia Harja
The last census of 20 October 2011, confirmed the decrease in the stable population in most localities, although this did not occur uniformly across the county. The analysis aims to highlight the stable population evolution in the last two censuses, whic...
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Fred Hebein
The complex rules and inter-related choices regarding spousal and survivor benefits imbedded in the social security system make the optimization of lifetime benefits for married couples a complex decision which can reduce or increase lifetime benefits si...
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Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Linda Kimsey and Hani Samawi
This paper examines the efficacy of telemedicine (TM) technology compared to traditional face-to-face (F2F) visits as an alternative healthcare delivery service for managing diabetes in populations residing in urban medically underserved areas (UMUPAs). ...
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Jason S. Drebber, Christopher T. Halsted, Lee B. Corbett, Paul R. Bierman and Marc W. Caffee
Constraining the timing and rate of Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) retreat through the northeastern United States is important for understanding the co-evolution of complex climatic and glaciologic events that characterized the end of the Pleistocene epoch. ...
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Selim Bayraktar,Alessandro Paletto,Antonio Floris
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Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to understand quantitative and qualitative characteristics of deadwood in recreational forests.Area of study: Belgrade forest in the North of Istanbul city (Turkey).Material and methods: The data has been collec...
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Jung Chul Lee, Chong Hoon Lee, Dong Wha Chung, Hee Joo Lee and Jae Yong Park
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) provides a reliable and accurate measurement of bone density and bone mineral composition. This research examined the composition and bone density (bone mineral composition and bone mineral density; BMD) of the who...
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Hui-Ying Chung, Chia-Jung Hsieh, Chun-Chieh Tseng and Lih-Ming Yiin
The occurrence of allergic rhinitis (AR) may be significantly influenced by air pollution. This study examined the association between the first occurrence of AR in preschool children and the pre-incident levels of air pollutants in Taiwan. We identified...
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Ricardo D. Brito,Paulo T. P. Minari
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This article answers the question: how much wealth should a Brazilian accumulate along time to sustain his (her) consumption during retirement? Using a life-cycle model, we simulate scenarios for different household incomes, family size, and life circums...
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Duncan Palmer,Niel Krige
AbstractThis study summarises the development of a model to determine an individual?s adjusted life expectancy based on his Real Age. The model incorporates aspects such as gender, residing province, income, HIV status, ethnic background, weight, exercis...
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Wahhaj Ahmed, Baqer Al-Ramadan, Muhammad Asif and Zulfikar Adamu
Energy and environmental challenges are a major concern across the world and the urban residential building sector, being one of the main stakeholders in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, needs to be more energy efficient and reduce carbon...
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Leonor Brandão and Marisa Matias
Work?family conflict (WFC) is a phenomenon known to affect an individual?s well-being. However, its affective consequences are yet to be explored. In this study, we focus on understanding work?family conflict affective consequences on positive and negati...
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Vivien Jóvér, Zoltán Major, Attila Németh, Dmytro Kurhan, Mykola Sysyn and Szabolcs Fischer
In the 21st century, one of the key requirements is to develop and maintain our infrastructure facilities most efficiently using the available resources. Tramways are of significant national economic importance and represent an important national asset. ...
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Vivien Jóvér, Zoltán Major, Attila Németh, Dmytro Kurhan, Mykola Sysyn and Szabolcs Fischer
The most important thing nowadays is to use available resources to develop infrastructure as efficiently as possible. In this regard, evaluating the deterioration of tramway tracks is critical from both a technical and an economic viewpoint. In Hungary, ...
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Anna Babicka-Wirkus, Pawel Kozlowski, Lukasz Wirkus and Krzysztof Stasiak
This article concerns internalizing and externalizing behaviors among Polish adolescents attending primary schools in a medium-sized city in Poland. The aim of the study was to examine the levels of select problem behaviors (i.e., depression, withdrawal,...
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Valentina Lanteri, Andrea Abate, Davide Cavagnetto, Alessandro Ugolini, Francesca Gaffuri, Alessandro Gianolio and Cinzia Maspero
Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare, through bidimensional cephalometry, skeletal and dental changes obtained from a rapid maxillary expander (RME) and a Ni-Ti leaf spring expander (Leaf) and compare them with an untreated contro...
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Ni Nyoman Kencanawati,Shofia Rawiana,Ni Putu Ria Ria Darmayanti
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To support sustainable materials, the ordinary Portland cement production has been reduced since it left a high carbon footprint during manufacturing. As an alternative, the use of pozzolan Portland cement and composite Portland cement has been encourage...
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Minsung Sohn, Xianhua Che, Sungwon Lim and Hee-Jung Park
The aim of this study was to measure the magnitude and distribution of a Korean?s lifetime dental expenses depending on age and sex, by constructing a hypothetical lifetime and life table of survival. Additionally, we estimated the difference in life exp...
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Nadia Mohammadi, Christopher R. M. McFarlane and David R. Lentz
A combination of in situ laser ablation inductively coupled plasma?mass spectrometry (LA ICP?MS) analyses guided by Scanning Electron Microscope?Back-Scattered Electron imaging (SEM?BSE) was applied to hydrothermal monazite from greisen veins of the Late...
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Marian V. Lupulescu, Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli, Mark E. Pecha, Jared W. Singer and Sean P. Regan
Columbite crystals from niobium-yttrium-fluorine (NYF) pegmatites lacking zircon or containing metamict cyrtolite were analyzed for major and minor elements (Electron Microprobe (EMP)), trace elements (Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spect...
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