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Interlocking directorates and dynamic corporate performance: the roles of centrality, structural holes and number of connections in social networks
This study investigates how interlocking directorates affect dynamic corporate performance among 187 Taiwanese electronics companies during a 3 year sampling period (2013–2015). This study consists of two stag...
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Using Network DEA and Grey Prediction Model for Big Data Analysis: An Application in the Global Airline Efficiency
This study proposes a big data enabled analytics approach to extract the valuable information through network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) integrated with multiplicative efficiency aggregation (MEA) and Gre...
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Integration and application of rough sets and data envelopment analysis for assessments of the investment trusts industry
Approximately 40% of pension funds for military officials, civil servants, and educators in Taiwan are entrusted to international and domestic management funds. However, the average return rate for domesticall...
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Clinical observation on acupoint sticking therapy plus electroacupuncture for treating peripheral facial paralysis
To observe the clinical effect of acupoint sticking therapy with Mian Tan Gao (facial paralysis paste) plus electroacupuncture (EA) for treating peripheral facial paralysis and its influence on patients’ facia...
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Inhibitory effects of piceatannol on human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) in vitro
Human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus, which results in the establishment of a latent infection that persists throughout the life of the host and can be reactivated when the immunity is low....
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Benchmarking in Vietnam universities: teaching and research and revenue efficiencies
Assessing university resource allocation or misallocation is necessary to understand its impact on research and teaching productivity. To achieve this insight, this study conducts a two-stage data envelopment ...
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Open AccessPairing mechanism in multiband superconductors
It has been a long-standing puzzle why electrons with repulsive interactions can form pairs in unconventional superconductors. Here we develop an analytic solution for renormalization group analysis in multiba...
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Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease Amongst Schoolchildren in Southwest China
To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of congenital heart disease in Yunnan, China which has diverse ethnic groups.
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A Phenol-containing α-Diimine Ligand for Nickel- and Palladium-Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization
A phenol-containing dibenzhydryl-based α-diimine ligand bearing hydroxy group on para-position of aniline moiety was designed, synthesized, and investigated in Ni- and Pd-catalyzed ethylene polymerization. The Ni...
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Impulse response function analysis of the impacts of hospital accreditations on hospital efficiency
Improving hospital efficiency is an emerging area of interest among policy makers in the new global economy’s healthcare system. To ensure accurate efficiency analyses, we consider the nonhomogeneous input/out...
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The contribution from the creative industry to the regional economic growth has made the creative industry a new driver in economic development. But as a relatively young economic sector, the creative industry...
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Dynamic eco-efficiency evaluation of the semiconductor industry: a sustainable development perspective
Serious environmental problems have accompanied remarkable global economic growth for decades. To assist managers in the semiconductor industry with economic and environmental management, this study executes D...
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Open AccessAnomalous isotope effect in iron-based superconductors
The role of electron-phonon interactions in iron-based superconductor is currently under debate with conflicting experimental reports on the isotope effect. To address this important issue, we employ the renor...
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The freshwater macrophyte, Ottelia alismoides, is a bicarbonate user performing C4 photosynthesis in the light, and crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) when acclimated to low CO2. The regulation of the three mecha...
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Open AccessCollective resonances near zero energy induced by a point defect in bilayer graphene
Intrinsic defects give rise to scattering processes governing the transport properties of mesoscopic systems. We investigate analytically and numerically the local density of states in Bernal stacking bilayer ...
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Multiple genes phylogeny and morphological characters reveal Dextrinoporus aquaticus gen. et sp. nov. (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from southern China
Dextrinoporus aquaticus gen. et sp. nov. is proposed based on ITS, nLSU, RPB2, and mtSSU genes molecular phylogeny and morphological characteristics from southwestern China. The new species is characterized by an...
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Advancing the Quality of Care for Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer Patients: Novel Uses of Patient-Reported Outcomes
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Measuring Human, Physical and Structural Capital Efficiency Performance of Insurance Companies
Based on the strategy perspective of intellectual capital, this paper proposes an integrated framework that is practical to estimate the human, physical, and structural capitals (intellectual capital) efficien...
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Spouses of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients could be at increased risk of develo** CRC due to shared lifestyle habits with the patients which is a notable risk factor. This study explores the various issues ...
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The paper presents an improved plane layout for stabilizing piles based on a proposed piecewise function expression for the irregular driving force. Based on the specific morphological characteristics of a hig...
