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Hamzah Abdul-Rahman, Ali Mohammed Alashwal, Abdul Aziz Abdullah
Pág. 153 - 165
Rehabilitation is a key-initiative undertaken to overcome a prevailing problem in Malaysia that is the abandonment of housing projects during construction. However, rehabilitation is a complex process and involves various parties. The purpose of this pap...
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Hailan Qiu, Mingrui Feng, Yiming Chi and Mingzhong Luo
Agricultural machinery socialization services are an important means of alleviating poverty and promoting agricultural modernization. Based on 2750 items of survey data from farmers in Henan Province, this paper empirically tests the impact and mechanism...
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Jianwei Huang, Mei-Po Kwan, Zihan Kan, Man Sing Wong, Coco Yin Tung Kwok and Xinyu Yu
Understanding the relationship between the built environment and the risk of COVID-19 transmission is essential to respond to the pandemic. This study explores the relationship between the built environment and COVID-19 risk using the confirmed cases dat...
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Seong-Sim Yoon, Un Ji and Inhyeok Bae
The records of 24,797 traffic accidents (9039 involving fatalities or severe injury) during rainy conditions from 2007 to 2017 in Seoul, South Korea, were used to analyze the spatial distribution of the traffic accidents and rainfall events based on rada...
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Cherinet Boke Chakiso
Pág. 54 - 62
The advent and dispersal of technology is an interesting area of study since its success is dependent on the attitude for the adoption of it by customers. Extant literature indicates that mobile banking is the least adopted type of electronic banking whe...
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Rogério Paulucci Mauad,Denis Forte
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The vigorous growth of Private Equity Industry in the world generated basic questions; as for example how to explain if companies previously invested by Private Equity generate real returns for its shareholders after the IPO event. Few studies analyzed, ...
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Keiko Hirota, Shogo Sakamoto, Satoshi Shibuya and Shigeru Kashima
The increase of health effects caused by air pollution seems to be a growing concern in Asian cities with increasing motorization. This paper discusses methods of estimating the health effects of air pollution in large Asian cities. Due to the absence of...
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B. THAKUR,S. CHAKRABORTY,A. DEBSARKAR,S. CHAKRABARTY,R. C. SRIVASTAVA
Fireworks display during festive celebrations can cause acute short term air pollution. Deepawali ?the festival of light? is celebrated in India, every year during October or November with great fireworks display. Concentration of air pollutants such as ...
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Chawarat Rotejanaprasert and Andrew B. Lawson
Quantile modeling has been seen as an alternative and useful complement to ordinary regression mainly focusing on the mean. To directly apply quantile modeling to areal data the discrete conditional quantile function of the data can be an issue. Although...
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Khalid K. Naji, Murat Gunduz and Mohamed Adalbi
Fast-track construction has recently become the prevailing construction approach globally. It enables owners and developers to make rapid returns on investment through shortened construction periods. This strategy has many effects on the industry; theref...
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Samantha Maurotti, Roberta Pujia, Elisa Mazza, Maria Francesca Pileggi, Franco Arturi, Maria Grazia Tarsitano, Tiziana Montalcini, Arturo Pujia and Yvelise Ferro
Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and the presence of low muscle mass (sarcopenia) represent noteworthy health issues. Handgrip strength, a muscle function indicator, is vital for sarcopenia diagnosis. We investigated the link between...
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Pung-Guk Jang, Hyung-Gon Cha, Min-Chul Jang, Bonggil Hyun, Tae Seob Choi, Younseok Kang and Kyoungsoon Shin
To prevent the invasion of alien species, the International Maritime Organization and the United States Costal Guard require that a ballast water management system (BWMS) be installed on ships to treat the ballast water before discharging it. BWMS techno...
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Francesca Greselin and Ricardas Zitikis
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Lauren Joe, Sumi Hoshiko, Dina Dobraca, Rebecca Jackson, Svetlana Smorodinsky, Daniel Smith and Martha Harnly
Mortality increases during periods of elevated heat. Identification of vulnerable subgroups by demographics, causes of death, and geographic regions, including deaths occurring at home, is needed to inform public health prevention efforts. We calculated ...
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Henrik Olstrup, Christer Johansson and Bertil Forsberg
Combustion-related carbonaceous particles seem to be a better indicator of adverse health effects compared to PM2.5 and PM10. Historical studies are based on black smoke (BS), but more recent studies use absorbance (Abs), black carbon (BC) or elemental c...
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Jing Chen
Long-term exposure to elevated indoor radon concentrations has been determined to be the second leading cause of lung cancer in adults after tobacco smoking. With the establishment of a National Radon Program in Canada in 2007 thousands of homes across t...
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B. RAJESH KUMAR
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The study based on a sample of 61 UAE listed companies examines the determinants of value creation. Size in terms of total assets of a firm is inversely related to value creation. Value as measured by market to book value of equity is negatively related ...
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Zihao Liu, Zhaolin Wu, Zhongyi Zheng, Xianda Yu, Xiaoxuan Bu and Wenjun Zhang
In recent years, the increasing volume and complexity of ship traffic has raised the probability of collision accidents in ports, waterways, and coastal waters. Due to the relative rarity of collision accidents, near misses have been used in the research...
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Francois van Dyk,Gary van Vuuren,Paul Styger
AbstractThe residual variance method is the traditional method for measuring portfolio diversification relative to a market index. Problems arise, however, when the market index itself is not appropriately diversified. A diversification measurement (Port...
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Wei-Chuan Chen, Chien-Wen Chen and Wen-Kuo Chen
With the rapid development of mobile technologies in contemporary society, China has seen increased usage of the Internet and mobile devices. Thus, mobile payment is constantly being innovated and is highly valued in China. Although there have been many ...
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