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  • Not just diabetes: How slightly high blood sugar wrecks men’s sexual health

    Not just diabetes: How slightly high blood sugar wrecks men’s sexual health

    Metabolic health factors, including small increases in blood sugar, are the main drivers of change in the reproductive systems and sexual functioning of aging men, according to a study presented at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual…

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  • Mapping the landscape of digital financial inclusion and proposing integrative framework: trends, influential works, and future directions

    Mapping the landscape of digital financial inclusion and proposing integrative framework: trends, influential works, and future directions

    Performance analysis

    Performance analysis, as a bibliometric technique, depicts the performance of a specific research domain (Donthu et al. 2021). In this study, a performance analysis was carried out to reveal key aspects, such as publication…

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  • Unveiling the financial pathway to human development: insights from non-linear ARDL and Granger causality analysis

    This study focuses on assessing the impact of FI to strengthen the HDI in BRICS countries. This study concentrates exclusively on HDI in the context of FI rather than targeting overall economic growth. For this, the current study empirically…

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  • Wireless Power Milestone Achieved by DARPA

    Wireless Power Milestone Achieved by DARPA

    The United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently achieved a new record in transmitting energy over distance. In tests performed in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program team…

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  • SmellyCode++: Multi-Label Dataset for Code Smell Detection

    SmellyCode++: Multi-Label Dataset for Code Smell Detection

    To construct the dataset, we followed the approach illustrated in Fig. 1. Each step is described in detail below.

    Fig. 1

    The research methodology.

    Open Source Project Collection

    We began by collecting open-source Java projects from various…

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  • Nexus of environmental management accounting, and carbon emission management on environmental, social, and governance performance: evidence from symmetrical and asymmetrical approach

    Nexus of environmental management accounting, and carbon emission management on environmental, social, and governance performance: evidence from symmetrical and asymmetrical approach

    Demographic profile analysis

    The demographic profile analysis (n = 238) reveals a balanced gender distribution, with 54% male and 46% female respondents. In terms of age, the majority of participants fall within the 26–30 age group (29%),…

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  • Integrating Fintech, CSR, and green finance: impacts on financial and environmental performance in China

    Integrating Fintech, CSR, and green finance: impacts on financial and environmental performance in China

    Research background

    The Resource-Based View (RBV) offers a compelling lens through which to examine the strategic advantage of Fintech companies, especially in the realms of green finance and CSR. This theory posits that a firm’s competitive…

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  • Central transfers and incentives to collect local revenue among the Central Region of Ghana’s local government officials: analysing the flypaper effect

    Theory

    The theories that describe the relationship between central transfers and local government expenditures are the public choice theory, fiscal interest model, and flypaper effect model. This section explains these theories.

    Public choice…

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  • Portable SERS device for rapid detection of indoxacarb and chlorfenapyr in vegetable juice

    Portable SERS device for rapid detection of indoxacarb and chlorfenapyr in vegetable juice

    Characterization of the Ag/MOF-808(Zr) substrate

    In order to obtain a satisfactory SERS effect, it was first necessary to optimize the synthesis conditions of the composite substrate. As demonstrated in Fig. 1A, at a volume ratio of MOF-808(Zr) to…

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