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An Attempt to Understand Stock Market Investors' Behaviour: The Case of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Forces in the Pakistani Stock Market
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2023 , Article)
The present study investigates the decision-making process of investors on the Pakistan Stock Exchange with regard to portfolio construction, explicitly focusing on the incorporation of ESG concerns. A quantitative research ...
Income inequality and its association with COVID-19 cases and deaths: a cross-country analysis in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
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BMJ Publishing Group
, 2023 , Article)
There is limited evidence on the associations between economic and social disparities in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR) with COVID-19 infections and deaths. This study aims to investigate the relationship between ...
Piton: Investigating the Controllability of a Wearable Telexistence Robot
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MDPI
, 2022 , Article)
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted collaborative activities, travel, and physical contact, increasing the demand for real-time interactions with remote environments. However, the existing remote communication solutions provide ...
Frugal entrepreneurship: A way to seize business opportunities for low-income customers
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Springer Nature
, 2023 , Article)
Frugal innovation (FI) is a recently emerged phenomenon that is increasingly gaining importance to serve a set of customers in developing countries. Frugal entrepreneurship (FE) based on frugal innovations is emerging from ...
Human olfactory bulb neural stem cells (Hu-OBNSCs) can be loaded with paclitaxel and used to inhibit glioblastoma cell growth
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MDPI
, 2019 , Article)
Exploitation of the potential ability of human olfactory bulb (hOB) cells to carry, release, and deliver an effective, targeted anticancer therapy within the central nervous system (CNS) milieu remains elusive. Previous ...
Arrhythmia-Associated Calmodulin E105A Mutation Alters the Binding Affinity of CaM to a Ryanodine Receptor 2 CaM-Binding Pocket
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MDPI
, 2023 , Article)
Calmodulin (CaM) is a small, multifunctional calcium (Ca2+)-binding sensor that binds and regulates the open probability of cardiac ryanodine receptor 2 (RyR2) at both low and high cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations. Recent ...
Treatment as prevention for hepatitis C virus in the Middle East and North Africa: a modeling study
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Frontiers Media SA
, 2023 , Article)
Background: Direct-acting antivirals opened an opportunity for eliminating hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the region most affected by HCV infection. Impact of HCV treatment ...
Maternal depressiveness and infant growth outcomes: Findings from the MAASTHI cohort study in India
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
ObjectiveThe study aims to examine the association between depressiveness in mothers on infant obesity and stunting at one year of age. MethodsWe enrolled 4829 pregnant women, followed them up at public health facilities ...
Development and Implementation of Energy-Efficient Magnetorheological Fluid Bypass Damper for Prosthetics Limbs Using a Fuzzy-Logic Controller
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2022 , Article)
Walking behaviour in amputees with lower-limb loss is absent from shock-absorbing properties. A damper can be used to reduce the impact of ground reaction force (GRF) during heel strikes. Magnetorheological fluid (MRF) ...
Conformal Invariants in Simply Connected Domains
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Springer Link
, 2020 , Article)
This paper studies the numerical computation of several conformal invariants of simply connected domains in the complex plane including, the hyperbolic distance, the reduced modulus, the harmonic measure, and the modulus ...