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This study aims to explore the various factors influencing students in adopting e-learning in educational institutions in Saudi Arabia and analyze the relationship between factors of students' adoption of e-learning and student behavior intention. The study also analyzes perceived opportunities and challenges faced by students in adopting an e-learning system in higher education. A well-structured questionnaire was developed, and information was collected from 509 respondents. The study found that students' behavioral intention to adopt e-learning is highly influenced by performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, computer self-efficacy, and internet knowledge. The study confirms the mediating role of student engagement that can act as an alternate path for strengthening the relationship between factors of adoption of e-learning and behavioral intention. In addition, several implications and new lines of investigation are recommended for meeting the educational transformation needs and future sustainability.

Objective: This study aims to examine the impact of e-WOM on customer purchase intentions in Facebook fan pages using theories of trust, value co-creation and brand attitude. The present research has set out to explore this emerging domain of study and has thus developed & tested propositions which attempt to establish a relationship between e-WOM and customer's purchase intentions. A deeper understanding of this possible association is obtained by studying the mediating roles of Trust, Value Co-Creation, Brand Image and Brand Attitude. Methodology: The context for exploring this phenomenon is chosen to be the fan pages of smartphone brands on Facebook. The study involved conducting a sample survey of 490 respondents, comprising of both male and female, who belong to 5 smartphone brands Facebook fan pages–Samsung, Moto G, Lenovo, MI and ASUS are considered for the study. Out of which sample of 100 each has been targeted individually Findings: The findings suggested that e-WOM significantly predicts the purchase intentions of the customers of a specific product and considerable impacted on the purchase decision. The findings of the study also reveal that customer 's trust beliefs, perceived value co-creation, brand image and brand attitude partially mediate in between relationships of e-WOM and purchase intention Conclusion: The actual presence of different types of consumer electronics brands on the social media, more prominently, the smartphones, which undoubtedly are the most ubiquitous product of this segment. In fact, this indicates that presence on social media is a well- thought organizational strategy developed by companies to gain partial control over the customer 's decision- making process by establishing a close connect with the customers for a long period. Implication: This consequence will significantly impact the decision-making process of marketers or practitioners in relation to their marketing tactics. This research also indicates that marketers could devise more effective methods for distributing marketing content through social networking sites, while corporations can cultivate favorable electronic word-of-mouth for their products or services. Through the implementation of social media marketing strategies, companies can increase their sales volume and generate higher revenue. The study examined the role of trust, virtual community participation, and desire to purchase as mediators on smartphone brand fan sites on Facebook. It was observed that these factors had a partial influence on customer purchase intention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the role of legal structure in explaining financial development in twenty-three emerging markets, which has not been explored in institutional economics literature before. This study relied on Pedroni, and Kao cointegration tests, which is followed by the renowned panel cointegration technique. The results of the Pedroni and Kao cointegration tests show that the variables understudy is cointegrated in the long-run. These findings are confirmed by the panel cointegration showing that legal structure (LS) has positive impact on financial development (FIND) in long-run that support Law and Finance, and New Institutional Economics theories in emerging markets. This study is the first to directly examine the long-run impact of LS on FIND in emerging markets, and the result remains consistent across alternative measure of FIND. The findings of this study have important policy implications for emerging markets. Policymakers should focus on creating a legal environment that is conducive to financial development. This includes strengthening the legal framework, improving regulatory regimes, and promoting market autonomy. Additionally, policymakers should work to attract foreign investment, which can help spur economic growth and development in emerging markets. The findings of the study are consistent across battery of robustness testing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: In tropical nations like India, ileocaecal emergencies are common in emergency rooms. Disorders such as typhoid, tuberculosis, and blunt force injury to the abdomen are acknowledged. This illness continues to be linked to high mortality and inevitable morbidity, even though there are contemporary diagnostic facilities and advancements in treatment regimens. The objective of the operating procedure is to fix the pathology while preventing major problems. Material and Methods: It was the combination of a retrospective and prospective study. In this study 40 individuals as subjects was used. This study was conducted at the Department of General Surgery, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Study period for this was the October 2022 to September 2023. Result: The purpose of this research was to catalogue the variables that influence the initiation, progression, and resolution of emergency laparotomies for ileocaecal emergencies. Assessing the linked rates of illness and mortality was another objective of the study. Forty individuals were evaluated, ranging in age from eighteen to seventyeight. Ten percent of individuals with systemic hypertension also had diabetes mellitus, making it the most common comorbidity. Half of all patients died if they went to the ER more than three days after their symptoms first emerged. Resection and anastomosis were the most common procedures. Conclusion: In order to treat a large number of patients effectively, it is necessary to integrate hydration, electrolyte correction, dietary management, and psychological support teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Although rare, locally progressed breast cancer is a major obstacle for clinicians. This study was conducted because there is a direct correlation between the pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and disease free survival. This study was out to evaluate the histological impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on breast cancer patients with locally advanced disease. Material and Methods: This study was observational based study. The research was carried out at the Department of General Surgery, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The study was done from September 2022 to July 2023. A total of twenty-five people were used as subjects in this research. Modified radical mastectomy was performed after clinical evaluation of tumour response and patient follow-up. Pathological reaction was assessed and notes were made on the specimen. Result: People in their 50s and 60s made up the bulk of the population. The majority of the 30 patients with locally advanced cancer (73%), ranging from stage IIIA to stage IIIB, were men. Nearly half of the patients tested positive for oestrogen receptors but negative for HER2, and a quarter of those individuals tested positive for all three. Everyone who tested positive for HER 2 was also considered to be a triple negative. Both the ER and PR positive tumour percentages were 67%.Forty percent of tumours tested positive for HER2. Possible explanations for the low response rate and high rate of ER positive include the fact that 83% of patients did not react to NACT and only 17% demonstrated a pathological response. Conclusion: Better prognosis may be possible if we could determine which tumours would respond best to which treatments. Recent developments in cancer biology and genetic profiling have the potential to revolutionise the clinical management of LABC by allowing for a more targeted and personalised approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and objective: To research the prevalence of hepatic abscesses at our facility. To examine the Age and Sex distribution. to examine the clinical characteristics based on variations in symptoms and symptomatology. To determine the disease's microbiology. To shed light on the role that radiological imaging plays in making a diagnosis and organising treatment appropriately. to classify the disease's mode of therapy. Method: On 100 patients who were enrolled in the trial throughout the time, a study was conducted at Department of General Surgery, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India from to December 2022 to October 2023. Ultrasonography was used to confirm the clinical diagnosis of hepatic abscess in these patients. Result: Men are more common than women. 6:1 ratio; 5 th decade is peak incidence. Eighty four percent of cases had alcohol as the cause. The most prevalent clinical features are abdominal pain (96%) and soreness (72%), with the typical mode of presentation being observed in 81% of patients. Sixty five percent of cases had a right lobe abscess. Aspiration is the most often used therapeutic method (45%). Conclusion: According to an ultrasound, the abscess in the current study had completely disappeared after three to four months; in our series, individuals with lower socioeconomic status account for roughly 70% of all abscesses examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aimed to investigate the green practices in the mega construction project of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Over recent years, there has been an increasing need for adopting and implementing more green and sustainable practices, leading to national and international sustainable and green environmental agendas. To address the issue, green project practices were considered an independent variable comprising green design, procurement, and construction. The dependent variables were environmental performance and economic performance. Primary data were collected from respondents working on the CPEC project. A representative sample of 276 respondents was used. The analysis was conducted using PLS-SEM. The results indicated that green design significantly influences economic performance, green procurement has a positive and significant effect on environmental performance, and green construction has a positive and significant impact on both environmental and economic and financial performance. The research showed that construction management at CPEC should adopt all facets of green project practices together, reducing negative environmental effects, increasing environmental benefits, and improving long-term economic performance in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The green leadership (GL) concept has significantly gained popularity over the last decade. Consequently, more research has been conducted on this emerging leadership concept, emphasizing leadership styles that promote the green environment so that sustainable goals can be achieved. In the present research, leaders' emotional intelligence (EI) is positioned as a mediating variable between GL and employees' green organizational citizenship behavior (GOCB). The data of this research comprised managerial and non-managerial staff from the manufacturing and service industries. A PLS-SEM was used to evaluate the relationship between the various factors among 422 employees. The empirical findings indicated that GL and GOCB had a favorable and robust relationship. The results of the study also suggested that a leader's EI mediates the influence of green leadership on their employees' green organizational citizenship behavior. Green leadership is essential in creating sustainable environmental behaviors among employees. It can strengthen leaders' EI, which successively helps them to garner positivity and foster an environment of mutual harmony and cooperation in the workplace to support pro-environmental policies. Overall, our study contributes to and advances previous studies and shows that green leadership plays a critical role in influencing a leader's own EI which, in turn, predicts the green OCB of their employees in the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted structural shocks on the global economic system by raising high economic uncertainty. Policymakers are exploring alternative measures and incentivizing foreign direct investment for the restoration of global economic operations to achieve short- and long-term growth. Given this, the study examines the global response of FDI inflow to measure the change in productive capacity. The productive capacity is proxied by structural change, private business sector, institutional quality, transportation infrastructure development, and natural capital. The study implements empirical analysis for a large panel of 170 countries in a data set from 2000 to 2021. Furthermore, the study employed the cross-sectional augmented auto-regressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) econometric estimation method for better examinations of current changes in an economic outbreak. From the results of the study, the estimations reveal that FDI inward has significant positive impact over the private business sector, institutional quality, transportation infrastructure, and natural capital on inward FDI. In accordance with discussions, the study suggests several pragmatic policy implications to achieve maximum output by utilizing the inward FDI as incentivized by the governments of the selected countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this research is to identify the impact of store design and ambience on consumer purchase decisions in retail chain outlets in Delhi-NCR, India. The foremost purpose of this research was to examine if the design and ambience of retail stores have any effect on the decisions of customers' purchases. The study was descriptive in nature. For this research, a sample of 100 consumers was drawn who generally visit retail stores for shopping. A systematic questionnaire was prepared to collect the data and to analyze it; SEM, reliability, Convergent, Discriminate Validity and model fitness were achieved through SmartPLS3. The current study's findings indicate that variables, such as window and mannequin display, visual merchandising, and store design and atmosphere have an effective impact on shoppers' purchase decisions, whereas lighting and color, music, and signage have negligible effects. The findings of this study will provide managerial involvement to the industry in order to emphasize purchase ambition in order to improve profitability and sustainability. More examination of the factors that contribute to purchase aspiration and in other geological areas is advised for future scrutiny. This study presents a validated instrument for measuring the association between design atmosphere and consumer purchasing behavior and serves as a tool for evaluating the influence of various design atmospheric indicators. It is important to keep a steady staff of well-trained, polite salespeople on hand at all times. Customers are more likely to come back and eventually recommend the store to others if their needs are met by customer-focused salespeople who provide excellent service. This helps the merchant to compete in the market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]