Recently, the Covid-19 uncertainties have raised interest in identifying factors that influence firms’ resilience. Existing Covid-19 research primarily focused on market reactions and lockdown impacts, overlooking the influence of ideological diversity of firms’ directors on resilience. To address this...

<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>In Jordan, household food waste remains substantial despite limited research, data and policy interventions targeting its reduction. This study addresses the critical gap by exploring household behaviours towards food waste...

The sudden collapse of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) in the face of the Taliban advance of July-August 2021, stands as a key moment of national embarrassment to the two intervening powers with the greatest exposure there: the US and the UK....

Executive Summary: This study reviews the current literature on national innovation system across Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) with a focus on sub Saharan Africa. The review primarily considers the application of the Triple Helix as an explanatory model, as well as to&#x...

In this work, a poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) (PTMSP) mixed-matrix membrane was fabricated for the selective removal of 1-butanol from aqueous solutions through pervaporation. Silica nanoparticles (SNPs), which were surface-modified with surfactant hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), were incorporated into the&...

Housing-market macroprudential measures are among the most commonly used by policymakers, but there remain a number of unresolved issues arising from their use. For example, there is some ambiguity concerning the objective of housing-market macroprudential policy, which may in turn lead to&#...

The home-sharing economy is growing on a global scale, enabling homeowners to short-term lease through online platforms such as Airbnb. These practices bear both positive and negative externalities at both regional and national levels. Positive externalities include job creation, rises in in...

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Results from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) can be used to infer causal relationships between phenotypes, using a strategy known as 2-sample Mendelian randomization (2SMR) and bypassing the need for individual-level data. However, 2SMR methods are evolving rapidly and GWAS results are...