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Herding Trend in Working Capital Management Practices: Evidence from the Non-Financial Sector of Pakistan
(MDPI, 2023)Working capital management requires careful attention from corporate managers because it plays an important role in corporate stability. The social belongingness of managers induced them to learn from their society, ... -
Analysis of Demand and Supply for Mobile Payments in the UAE during COVID-19
(MDPI, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic impacted many if not all aspects of our lives, including the way we handle money. This paper takes mobile payments as an example to show how COVID-19 affected the United Arab Emirates. Many researchers ... -
Tourism, Remittances, and Foreign Investment as Determinants of Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Selected Asian Economies
(MDPI, 2023)This research discovers how international tourism affects the economic growth of selected Asian states, e.g., Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, throughout 2001–2019. To attain this objective, we have ... -
Dynamic Conditional Correlation and Volatility Spillover between Conventional and Islamic Stock Markets: Evidence from Developed and Emerging Countries
(MDPI, 2023)This study aims to investigate the dynamic conditional correlation and volatility spillover between the conventional and Islamic stock markets in developed and emerging countries in order to develop better portfolio and ... -
Ballota saxatilis from Jordan: Evaluation of Essential Oil Composition and Phytochemical Profiling of Crude Extracts and Their In-Vitro Antioxidant Activity
(MDPI, 2023)The chemical composition of essential oil extracted from the aerial parts of Ballota saxatilis Sieber ex C.Presl from Jordan has been elucidated by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Additionally, aqueous methanol ... -
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Appraise the Tolerability, Safety of Use, and Pleasantness of a Cosmetic Product
(MDPI, 2023)Background: Acceptability tests are designed to demonstrate that there is no chance that cosmetics would irritate or distress users in day-to-day situations. Objectives: to develop and validate a tool or scale that ... -
Mobile Phones: Reservoirs of Resistant Bacteria during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
(MDPI, 2023)Background: Mobile phones are excessively used even though microbes’ ability to survive on phone surfaces was confirmed. During the COVID-19 pandemic, heavy hygiene practices have been applied to mobile surfaces. Therefore, ... -
Evaluation of grit and its associated factors among undergraduate pharmacy students from 14 Asian and Middle Eastern countries amid the COVID-19 pandemic
(Elsevier B.V., 2023)Introduction: Grit is proposed as an essential trait for academic achievement. Thus, evaluating its current status and the associated factors could aid academic support planning. Objective: The present study aimed to assess ... -
A bibliometric analysis of socially responsible investment based on thematic clustering
(Cogent OA, 2023)Recently, scholarly interest in Socially Responsible Investment has increased significantly, and it is now regarded as one of the most important fields in business and strategy literature. The growth of socially conscious ... -
From smart grids to super smart grids: A roadmap for strategic demand management for next generation SAARC and European Power Infrastructure
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023)Due to an increasing of demands of electricity in a world on regular basis, different continents will initiate a step towards transforming their smart grids infrastructure into super smart grids (SSGs), in which various ... -
Drinking motives as a predictor of readiness to change alcohol use
(Springer, 2023)Drinking motives have been identified as important predictors of alcohol consumption. Similarly, the degree of readiness to change (RTC) can predict behavioral changes when drinking alcohol. However, the link between ... -
Knowledge, attitude, and readiness towards disaster management: A nationwide survey among healthcare practitioners in United Arab Emirates
(Public Library of Science, 2023)Health professionals are expected to be knowledgeable on disaster medicine and prepared to deal with medicine disasters. This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and readiness to practice disaster ... -
The Jordanian Teachers’ Resistance to the Use of the Fingerprint Attendance System: Critical Analysis and Resolution From an Educational Leadership Perspective
(North American Business Press, 2023)This paper aimed to present a critical analysis from the educational leadership perspective for the Jordanian teachers’ resistance to use of the fingerprint attendance system and tried to identify the reasons of this issue ... -
Factors Behind Virtual Assistance Usage Among iPhone Users: Theory of Reasoned Action
(International Association of Online Engineering, 2023)Smartphone usage is increasing due to several features and opportunities offered by the manufacturers and service providers. Existing literature attributes this increased usage to the availability of virtual assistants, ... -
Experimental Evaluation of Trilateration-Based Outdoor Localization with LoRaWAN
(Tech Science Press, 2023)Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain has been the subject of interest for researchers. There is an increasing demand to localize these IoT devices using LoRaWAN due to the quickly ... -
Home Automation-Based Health Assessment along Gesture Recognition via Inertial Sensors
(Tech Science Press, 2023)Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is used in a numerous applications, including medical health-care, industrial purpose and sports detection. We have developed a real-time hand gesture recognition system using inertial sensors ... -
Cognitive and behavioral abnormalities in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, and subjective memory complaints
(Springer, 2023)In this study, we investigated the ability of commonly used neuropsychological tests to detect cognitive and functional decline across the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) continuum. Moreover, as preclinical AD is a key area of ... -
A New Noise Shaping Approach for Sigma-Delta Modulators Using Two-Stage Feed-Forward Delays and Hybrid MASH-EFM
(MDPI, 2023)Sigma-delta modulators use a noise-shaping technique to curtail the noise power in the band of interest during digital-to-analog conversion. Error feedback modulator employs an efficient noise transfer function for time ... -
The Relationship between Geothermal Energy Consumption, Foreign Direct Investment, and Economic Growth in Geothermal Consumer Countries: Evidence from Panel Fourier Causality Test
(MDPI, 2023)This paper investigates the relationship between geothermal energy consumption, economic growth, and foreign direct investments in countries where geothermal energy production is possible. Panel Fourier Granger causality ... -
Artificial Intelligence Crimes
(Richtmann Publishing Ltd, 2023)The rapid evolution of information and communication technologies and the diversity of interconnection networks have been significant factors in broadening the application do-mains of such technologies. Consequently, ...