Enterprise Risk Management and Performance of Financial Institutions in Iraq: The Mediating Effect of Information Technology Quality

Enterprise risk management represents a process of assessing exposure to risks in an institution.It is a systematic mechanism and a comprehensive tool for predicting events, including unexpected events, and their impacts.This paper is a conceptual study.It aims at designing a model for testing the mediation effect of information technology (IT) qua

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Attitudes toward annual COVID-19 boosters are highly structured by partisan self-identification and trust in government: Evidence from a longitudinal survey

Objectives: On January 26, 2023, an advisory panel of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a plan for annual vaccination for COVID-19.Given slowing booster uptake in the US, full participation of the public is in doubt.Using data from a longitudinal survey, we investigated the predictors of attitudes toward receiving a COVI

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Tuberculosis mortality and the male survival deficit in rural South Africa: An observational community cohort study.

Women live on average five years longer than men, and the sex difference in longevity is typically lower in populations with high mortality.South Africa-a high mortality population with a large sex disparity-is an exception, but the causes of death that contribute to this difference are not well understood.Using data from a demographic surveillance

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