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The ability to predict with some accuracy a given solid rocket motor’s performance before undertaking one or several costly experimental test firings is important. On the numerical prediction side, as various component models evolve, their incorporat...

The model internal year-to-year variability (hereafter, internal variability) is a significant source of uncertainty when estimating anthropogenic aerosol effective radiative forcing (ERF). In this study, we investigate the impact of internal variabi...

To accurately investigate the stress and deformation behavior of support structures during mechanical shaft construction, this study proposes an analytical method for active earth pressure calculation based on limit equilibrium theory, incorporating...

International headlines often make mention of side effects of international cooperation, ranging from aid-fuelled corruption to the negative side effects of volunteer tourism. The OECD Development Assistance Committee, an international forum of many...

The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the literature on the influential factors of internal audit effectiveness and articulate these factors in a conceptual model. A systematic literature review (SLR) is conducted to identify the infl...

This study investigated four factors affecting internal audit effectiveness in Vietnam, namely, independence of internal audit, the competence of internal auditors, management support for internal audit, and quality of internal audit work. Quantitati...

Victims of bullying and cyberbullying present internalizing problems, such as anxiety, psychosomatic and depressive symptoms, and are at higher risk of considering or attempting suicide. Researchers have put great effort into developing interventions...

The study explores the relationship between internal control effectiveness, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and technological innovation. By establishing a mediating effect model, we analyzed the effect of internal control effectiveness on tec...

In practice, the internal rubber dampers are widely installed inside the cable guide pipe between the external viscous damper and the cable anchorage. In order to study the effect of the internal damper on the performance of the external viscous damp...

Identifying factors/latent constructs deemed to influence internal audit effectiveness (IAE), through identifying variables used as measures of effectiveness and hypothesising which variables have a statistically significant relationship with IAE was...

Sustainable development education is a dynamic and developing process. In recent years, the rapid development of international courses has made great contributions to sustainable development education. The effectiveness of international courses is in...

Composite materials are widely used in various fields due to their superior properties. Given their complex internal structures, they are often modeled as homogeneous materials in engineering applications to simplify temperature distribution analysis...

In order to investigate the internal curing effect of recycled brick aggregate (RBA) in recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) and calculate its contribution to the final compressive strength, two RAC groups with different recycled aggregates and 6 replac...

This study investigates the mediation effect of motivation (MO) between internal marketing (IM) and service innovation (SI) using a hierarchical model. It adopts Bahman Group Corp of the automobile industry in Iran as a case study. This paper aims to...

International science and technology (S&T) cooperation is one of the important ways to ensure the continuous development of a national innovation system. “One Belt One Road” advocates the concepts of common business, common constructi...

Intra-product international specialization promotes the global diversification of manufacturing industries with various carbon intensities. With the emerging topic of global warming, a new constraint on the use of carbon in international trade is bei...

Catalyzed by COVID-19 and the Russia–Ukraine conflict, oil prices fluctuate dramatically on the worldwide market. Both international oil price changes and carbon tax policies have a direct impact on energy costs, thus influencing energy securit...

This paper investigated the effects of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) on homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion in internal combustion engines. The exhaust valve closing (EVC) timings were scanned to obtain a set of baseline opera...

This study aims to investigate how sustainable innovation (SI) influences the relationship between internal audit effectiveness (IAE) and sustainability auditing (SA) practices in Libya’s public sector, providing valuable insights into its impl...

Using a diagonal BEKK model, this paper estimates a spillover effect from the international crude oil market to the Korean stock market. Empirical results suggest that shocks and volatility in Dubai oil prices are significantly transmitted into twent...

This study tests the performance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) on corporate innovation and the mediating effect of internal control effectiveness and analyst coverage on this relationship, by using data on China’s A-share liste...

This study focuses on the silty clay of the Yellow River Delta, conducting laboratory experiments to explore the strength characteristics of typical silty clay in the Yellow River Delta. The study utilizes CPTu calibration chamber tests to systematic...

The paper retrospectively analyses the issue of the impact of international trade on developed countries’ labour markets in the 1990s, when the majority of academic opinion denied the role of trade in the misfortunes of unskilled workers. An analytic...

The effect of effective microorganisms (EM) on internal organ morphology, intestinal morphometry, and serum biochemical activity in Japanese quails under Clostridium perfringens challenge was determined. After 30 days of EM addition, one group of qua...

This study presents the design, numerical analysis, and experimental validation of an innovative wind turbine blade incorporating an internal flow channel and tangential slots to harness the Coanda effect for enhanced aerodynamic performance. The pri...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to receive greater attention in the current business world. Many studies on CSR focus on manufacturing or industrial companies by examining external CSR activities from external stakeholders’ perception...

Recent studies indicate that lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks is concentrated towardsdebt-based lending portfolio; however, the ideal lending portfoliocomposition in Islamic banks should be an equity-based lending portfolio. This article...

The literature rarely addresses the possible effects of organizations’ internal ethical context on their employees’ subjective well-being, that is, people’s evaluation of their lives based on positive and negative emotional experien...

Steel monopile support structures for offshore wind turbines require protection from corrosion and consideration with respect to biofouling on their external and internal surfaces. Cathodic protection (CP) works effectively to protect the external su...

The internal resonances of the coupling vibration among electro-dynamic modes of an NEMS are studied for the coupling resonators connected on a Josephson junction. The methodology adopted involves coupling a resonator connected on a Josephson junctio...

The stability of tailings dam will be affected by the internal erosion under unsteady seepage caused by heavy rainfall infiltration which changes the physical and mechanical properties of tailings. In this paper, the hydraulic sedimentary model was e...

The present work examines the effects of external and internal morphological features on the dynamic elastic modulus and its measure. It consists of two parts. The first part considers the effect of geometrical features of probes and shows the key ro...

An acoustic experiment to measure the sound field during internal wave activity was conducted in the South China Sea. During the experiment, a train of strong internal solitary waves (ISWs) moved from the acoustic source to the receiver array along t...

This study investigates how a company’s internal control team affects their investment decision making, considering the level of industry competition within the South Korean capital market. A model obtained from the literature was employed to t...

The concept of crowdsourcing, categorized into internal and external crowdsourcing, emerged relatively recently. Internal crowdsourcing gained increasing popularity in Chinese organizations. Based on the self-determination theory (SDT), this study ad...

Based on frequently used internal partitions in offices, the effects of pollutant source characteristics and an internal partition on airflow and contaminant distribution under different ventilation modes are studied in this paper. The indoor flow fi...

The role of family owners in the internal control environment is characterized by contradictory theoretical arguments i.e., entrenchment and alignment behavior. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the behavior exhibited by family...

Internal solitary waves evolving with time in shallow water are known to affect sound propagation significantly. Unlike prior work studying the acoustic effects of individual internal-wave properties separately, this paper elucidates and evaluates th...

New applications introduced capsule designs with features that have not been fully analysed in the literature. In this study, thin shells of revolution are used to model drug delivery capsules both with closed and open designs including perforations....

Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) are a promising admixture that can provide internal curing to freshly cast concrete and enhance concrete properties. Although many reviews have explored aspects of SAPs, the links among SAPs’ chemical and physical...

Punica granatum L., commonly known as pomegranate, is a typical fruit of Asia, Mediterranean countries, the Middle East and the USA. While in ancient times pomegranate was considered an ornamental plant, nowadays numerous scientific studies have high...

Research on the consequences of air pollution has tended to focus on the macro and environmental effects on human health, often ignoring micro effects. In this paper, we empirically investigate the micro-institutional costs of air pollution, and our...

An audit team includes engagement partners, CPAs, and staff. Among them, partners play a vital role in performing tasks that require expertise and experience, such as analyzing and understanding the industry, and supervising the overall audit process...

Previous research has studied the evolution of patterns during the evaporation of sessile droplets of pure liquid, although there is a lack of reports focusing on the transition of flow regimes and flow stability of nanofluids. In this study, we inve...

Among the phenomena attributable to the Moon’s actions on living organisms, one of them seems to be related to analytical fluid mechanics: along the route of the International Space Station around the Earth, experiments on plants have revealed leaf o...

Flower color, a critical phenotypic trait of ornamental plants, is an essential indicator for flower variety classification. Many physical and internal factors that affect flower color have been widely investigated; however, the effects of internal f...

This study aimed to investigate three variables that may interact with internal branding (IB) in the hotel context: employee engagement (EE), workplace friendship (WF), and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). This study adopted a survey method...

PURPOSE—This article reviews some theories and concepts of public management, including those related to public value, opportunity costs and efficiency, in order to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using Internal Audit in public orga...

Crocus sativus L., commonly known as saffron, is a precious spice coming from Asia, in particular from Iran, the country leader in its production. The spice is derived exclusively from dried stigmas and it is the most expensive one in the world. The...

Innovation has been elevated beyond the traditional forces of production, by the emergence of a new wave of industrial upgrading and the technological revolution, to become a significant force in the advancement of human society. Can an enterprise gr...