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An update on microneedle-based systems for diabetes
Diabetes is one of the most serious chronic diseases today. Patients with diabetes need frequent insulin injections or blood sampling to monitor blood glucose levels. The microneedles are a painless transderma...
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Evaluating traditional, dynamic and network business models: an efficiency-based study of Chinese insurance companies
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is extensively adopted to evaluate the relative efficiencies of a group of insurance companies from a multidimensional perspective. Selecting an appropriate DEA framework for in...
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Open AccessOperational and investment efficiency of investment trust companies: Do foreign firms outperform domestic firms?
This study examines the efficiency of investment trust companies (ITCs) from 2011 to 2020 using a meta-frontier two-stage network data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on the directional distance function (DDF...
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Sources and health risks of nitrate pollution in surface water in the Weihe River watershed, China
Owing to the significant reductions in streamflow and an increase in human activities in recent years, the quality of surface water in Weihe River continues to pose environmental health concerns. We utilized h...
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Impact of research and development tax credits on the innovation and operational efficiencies of Internet of things companies in Taiwan
Following the emergence of the Internet, the Internet of things (IOT) brought about another wave of technological and economic revolutions. Through the lens of the production process, this study utilises the d...
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Multiplicative efficiency aggregation to evaluate Taiwanese local auditing institutions performance
This study evaluates the management efficiency and quality effectiveness of Taiwanese local auditing institutions (LAIs), whereby two outputs leave the first stage without being inputted to the second stage un...
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Open AccessExamining patient flow in a tertiary hospital’s emergency department at a low coronavirus prevalence region
Taiwan’s successful containment of the COVID-19 outbreak prior to 2021 provided a unique environment for the surveillance of unnecessary emergency medical use. The aim of the study is to examine the impact of ...
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An integrated multiple objective decision making approach for exploring the competitiveness of pharmaceutical multinational enterprises
This study integrated multiple objective decision-making approaches including data envelopment analysis (DEA), rough set theory and TOPSIS method for exploring the competitiveness of pharmaceutical multination...
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Several studies have documented a relationship between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and structural heart disease, particularly diastolic function. This meta-analysis will be the first to examine t...
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Open AccessPredict multi-type drug–drug interactions in cold start scenario
Prediction of drug–drug interactions (DDIs) can reveal potential adverse pharmacological reactions between drugs in co-medication. Various methods have been proposed to address this issue. Most of them focus o...
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Dissolving microneedle rollers for rapid transdermal drug delivery
Dissolving microneedle patch (DMNP) is a minimally invasive and painless self-administration device. However, due to skin deformation, it is difficult to apply it on the large areas of skin or curved skin as t...
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Micro and Nanofibers-Based Sensing Devices
In this chapter, the development of sensors by using micro and nanofiber by analyzing the optical properties of the material is briefly discussed. SPR fiber sensors are developed in a range of shapes and sizes...
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Open AccessThe effects of managerial ability on firm performance and the mediating role of capital structure: evidence from Taiwan
This study utilizes mediation analysis and bootstrap** to analyze the mediating effect of capital structure on the association between managerial ability and firm performance. The dataset consists of 6384 fi...
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Preparation, Structure Elucidation, and Cytotoxic Activity of Amide Derivatives of Hydroxysydonic Acid
Hydroxysydonic acid (1), a naturally abundant bisabolane sesquiterpenoid metabolite, has been obtained from the endophytic fungus Aspergillus versicolor isolated from Elaeocarpus decipiens Hemsl. To increase its ...
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The main purpose of this study was to explore the impact of peace dividends on global changes in national productivity. First, this study assessed changes in productivity from 2005 to 2014 in various countries...
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Open AccessMicrofluidics applications for high-throughput single cell sequencing
The inherent heterogeneity of individual cells in cell populations plays significant roles in disease development and progression, which is critical for disease diagnosis and treatment. Substantial evidences s...
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Enhancing the mechanical–electrical property simultaneously in pure copper composites by using carbonized polymer dots
In the development of copper-based composite materials, the dilemma of improving the mechanical properties without affecting the electrical properties is an important issue that must be solved. Here, carbonize...
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Open AccessClinical outcomes and patterns of failure of head and neck mucosal melanoma treated with multiple treatment modalities
The study aims to analyze the clinical characteristics of head and neck mucosal melanoma (MMHN) and the effects of multiple treatment modalities on distant metastasis, recurrence and survival rates to provide ...
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Do female directors will have impact on corporate performance?
The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of female directors on the corporate performance of Chinese banks and Taiwanese financial holding companies. The sample consists of 14 Chinese banks and 15...
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A Highly Selective Turn‐on Fluorescent and Naked‐eye Colourimetric Dual‐channel Probe for Cyanide Anions Detection in Water Samples
A highly selective turn-on fluorescent and naked-eye colourimetric dual-channel probe for cyanide anions (CNˉ) has been designed and characterized. In the mixed solution (DMSO / H2O, 9:1, v / v), only CNˉ could c...
