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Practical implications |
This study provides an overview of voluntary corporate governance disclosures practices, which have shown an increasing trend of information disclosed by Malaysian listed property companies. Additionally, the AC structure was also found satisfactory with highly independent and higher number of meetings as required by M... |
Social implications |
By filling the gap identified in this study, investors’ confidence will boost as they will have sufficient information about the Malaysian listed property companies – resulting in strengthening competitiveness and growth by attracting local and foreign investments in the country. The influence of AC attributes over the... |
Originality/value |
This study has provided an insight into corporate governance of listed companies in Malaysia, which will contribute to the extended literature. Along with that, it will also provide an overview of corporate governance structure among Malaysian listed companies to the policy makers. |
The chitinolytic system of Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis comprises a nonprocessive chitinase and a chitin‐binding protein that promotes the degradation of α‐ and β‐chitin |
It has recently been shown that the Gram‐negative bacterium Serratia marcescens produces an accessory nonhydrolytic chitin‐binding protein that acts in synergy with chitinases. This provided the first example of the production of dedicated helper proteins for the turnover of recalcitrant polysaccharides. Chitin‐binding... |
C H I C A G O — A new study confirms that acetaminophen is safe and effective for the treatment of pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee and hip. The results reinforce the American College of Rheumatology guidelines that recommend acetaminophen as a first-line therapy to relieve osteoarthritis (OA) pain, but ... |
The eucaryotic transcription factor TFIIIA is required for 5S RNA transcription in Xenopus, and changes in the level of TFIIIA have been implicated in the differential expression of 5S RNA genes. In this paper, we report the isolation and sequencing of the X. laevis TFIIIA gene. The gene is approximately 11 kb in lengt... |
The structure of the complex perovskite (PFT), which belongs, according to the literature, to the ferroic species , has been refined by single-crystal and powder x-ray diffraction at room temperature, i.e. within the range of stability of the cubic phase. Attention has been paid to the possible presence of tetragonal s... |
The C-arm Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) increasingly plays a major role in interventions and radiotherapy. However, the slow data acquisition and high dose hinder its predominance in the clinical routine. To overcome the high-dose issue, various protocols such as sparse-view have been proposed, where a subset of... |
Study Design: Pilot, single-center, single-blinded, parallel-group, randomized clinical study. Objective: The aim of this study was to pilot a randomized clinical study to evaluate whether instrumented anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) with a new nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite embedded in a silica gel matrix (NH-... |
The degree of similarity between signal and masker in informational masking paradigms has been hypothesized to contribute to informational masking. The present study attempted to quantify "similarity" using a discrimination task. Listeners discriminated various signal stimuli from a multitone complex and then detected ... |
Gallium fluoride films were directly grown on gallium arsenide (GaAs) at temperatures below 300°C using a radio frequency (RF) remote SF6 plasma.The growth kinetics are exhibited a rapid initial increase for 60 minutes, with no significant increase thereafter. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) and secondary ... |
SnO2@carbon (SnO2@C) nanofibers (NFs) have been prepared by electrospinning method and evaluated as anodes in lithium‐ion battery half cells. XRD were carried out to provide further information about the structure of the as‐prepared NFs, and all the peaks can be readily indexed to the rutile phase SnO2 (JCPDS No. 41–14... |
In field operations of Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) services, vehicles are the most important tools. Today, the vehicles are increasingly dependent on ICT systems. PPDR responder's need is to enhance mission critical voice with broadband data. Command and control applications aboard a vehicle are common... |
We give a proof, following an argument of H.W. Lenstra, of the conjecture of L. Carlitz (1966) as generalized by D. Wan (1993). This says, there are no exceptional polynomials of degree n over Fq if (n, q− 1) > 1. Fried, Guralnick and Saxl proved a much stronger result, showing that primitive exceptional polynomials ha... |
Cancer survivors over the age of sixty-five have specialized supportive care needs related to maintaining their health and quality of life after treatment. However, cancer survivors living in rural areas may experience barriers like limited digital infrastructure and/or low health literacy when attempting to access ne... |
The type III secretion (TTS) pathway is used by many Gram‐negative bacteria to inject virulence proteins into cells of their host. The activity of the TTS apparatus is controlled by external signals and, in certain conditions, production and secretion are not coupled. Storage of some proteins before secretion involves ... |
In this paper, we introduce a 2-D non-isolated pixel modulation code to mitigate the problem of 2-D inter-symbol interference, the major obstacle of holographic data storage systems. The proposed modulation code does not allow a pixel to be isolated from its adjacent bits. We compare the bit error rate (BER) performanc... |
Monitoring of tritium concentration in tap water is an essential tool to determine the effective dose received from tap water. Liquid scintillation counting (LSC) is a widely used technique for determining tritium in water. Due to the very low activity of tritium in tap water, its detection requires a high-efficiency L... |
Adaptive filtering has found many applications in situations where the underlying signals are changing or unknown. While linear filters are simple from implementation and conceptual points of view, many signals are non‐linear in nature. Non‐linear filters based on truncated Volterra expansions can effectively model a l... |
Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two are related. Part of the confusion can be traced back to the measurement of entrepreneurship, biased towards independent entrepreneurship (self-employed and new firms), and excluding entrepreneurship w... |
Particle swarm optimization, a new good swarm intelligence paradigm, has been successfully applied to many non-linear optimization problems. In a swarm each particle adjusts it's flying toward a promising area depending on cooperative interaction with others. The cooperative interaction of particles provides effective ... |
Background: Although risk factors for complications following reduction mammaplasty are well known, it is difficult to assess risk for specific complications among patients with multiple factors or varying gradations of a single factor. The purpose of this study was to identify all associations between patient characte... |
This work is concerned with proposing an adaptive method to dynamically adjust genetic operator probabilities throughout the evolutionary process. The proposed method relies on the individual preferences of each chromosome, rather than the global behavior of the whole population. Hence, each individual carries its own ... |
In 1997, hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome (HMPS) was described in an Ashkenazi pedigree having colorectal polyps with mixed histology and risk for colorectal cancer (CRC). The mutation is now localized to 15q13–14. Since 1980, compliant relatives of an HMPS family were seen annually, tested genetically, and had colo... |
The article examines the entrepreneurial decision-making in the Greek tourism and hospitality sector, during a period of an economic crisis. The nationwide study includes the responses of 503 entrepreneurs engaged in the Greek travel, |
tourism and hospitality industry. The research employs fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), and examines trust, enterprising negotiation power, tourism decision-making considerations, and crisis effects. It also includes the categorical data of operational mode and |
company type. The analysis has generated three different pathways for entrepreneurial decision-making during crisis in the Greek tourism and hospitality sector. Those pathways are: (i) crisis conditions (ii) enterprising operations and focus, and (iii) enterprising capabilities. Due to the limited employment of fsQCA i... |
Objective Yttrium-90 (90Y) microsphere therapy has been increasingly used to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and liver metastasis of colorectal cancer (mCRC). This study aims to compare two different criterias used for therapy response evaluation following 90Y therapy within the same group of patients. Patients an... |
The PJM Interconnection has successfully designed and implemented a Transient Stability Analysis & Control (TSA&C) system at the PJM system control center using new techniques. TEPCO-BCU was selected as a fast screening tool to improve the performance of the PJM TSA system. This paper presents an evaluation study of TE... |
terpoint to Jamaica and Haiti. The distinctive history and culture of Puerto Rico, Mintz argues, centers on the late arrival of large-scale sugar production and on the peripheral nature of slavery there. Though colonized by Spain quite early, Puerto Rico was largely ignored by imperial powers until the United States la... |
The study attempts to illuminate and analyze facts from the biography of the professor of the Kyiv Art Institute Kostia Yeleva. The creative and pedagogical path of Kostia Yeleva is investigated, in particular, attention is paid to the artistic analysis of his drawing heritage. The chronology of Professor K. Yeleva's t... |
A comparative analysis of K. Yeleva's drawings with the works of M. Boichuk, O. Bohomazov is carried through. Dating of certain drawings of the naked nature of K. Yeleva in the 1920s-1930s is specified. The results of the research give reasons to claim that Kostya Yelev made a significant contribution to the developmen... |
With the continuous improvement of living standards, obesity has become an inevitable hotspot in our daily life. It remains a chronic and recurrent disease with serious adverse consequences. Over the past few years, several articles suggested that long non-coding RNA taurine increased gene 1（lncRNA TUG1）, a useful RNA,... |
OBJECTIVE |
To assess the characteristics of the dysfunction of semicircular canal in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and the relationship with the ectopic otoconia. |
METHODS |
There were 214 patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), including 107 cases of posterior semicircular canal canalithiasis (PSC-Can) 80 cases of horizontal semicircular canal canalithiasis (HSC-Can), 27 cases of horizontal semicircular canal cupulolithiasis (HSC-Cup). One hundred and ninety (88.8%) pat... |
RESULTS |
The positive cases of the three tests were vHIT: 15 (7.0%), HST: 52 (24.3%), CT: 152 (71.0%), a statistically significant difference (P < 0.05) was found between the three tests. When compared the Caloric Test, HST and vHIT between the BPPV patients with and without relevant diseases, there were no significant differen... |
CONCLUSIONS |
The lesion of semicircular canals has the same etiological factors with the utricle pathological change in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, and the dysfunction mostly happens in low frequency range of semicircular canal frequency band. The ectopic otoconia is not the main etiological factors for that. HST and vHIT... |
The present work describes a challenging, real-life finalization scenario that applies combined scalability and resource utilization pressure. Neither weak reference arrays nor ephemerons satisfactorily address the performance-critical demands. Confronting these existing limitations requires a new strategy. The proposa... |
ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of two proteins, albumin and type B gelatin, on the physical aging of EUDRAGIT® RS 30 D and RL 30 D coated theophylline pellets. The physicomechanical properties of sprayed films, thermal properties of cast films, influence of proteins on the zeta po... |
to house ex-patients. One observer of the politics of implementing deinstitutionalization in California has argued that &dquo;the residential care of the mentally ill in the community ... is the Achilles’ heel of the new system&dquo; (Bardach, 1977: 295). He further notes that the legislative designers of this system &... |
The fiscal administration possesses a number of powers, which is known as the fiscal authority, which gives it the ability to monitor the validity of written declarations, and taxes paid by taxpayers. In order to carry out control operations, the Algerian legislator developed a set of legal and regulatory texts, to con... |
To study the preventive mechanism of “Astragalus Heart-Prote cting Decoction” on acute myocardial ischemia, 40 rats were randomized into fou r groups: normal group, model group, treatment group and control group. The form er two groups were given normal saline, and the latter two groups were respectiv ely given “Shenfu... |
In this paper the economies of scale arising from the acquisition of costly information and their implications for the existence of a competitive equilibrium are investigated. As is known, the existence of economies in the scale of production undermines the possibility of a competitive equilibrium. This paper demonstra... |
The papers in this Special Section present the latest results of research into the waterlogged later prehistoric site at Flag Fen, Peterborough. The landscape is almost flat and very low-lying, and the archaeological site consists of two main elements: a man-made timber platform and a kilometre-long alignment of posts,... |
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