Publications by authors named "N A Al-Nassar"

Family life dramatically changed following the COVID-19 pandemic onset. Parents faced school and childcare closures, employment changes, and other disruptions to daily life. This study utilized online survey data collected in late April 2020 ( = 1,009) of parents' experiences parenting children from 0 to 12 years during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This paper investigates the potential hedging and safe-haven properties of several alternative investment assets, including gold, Bitcoin, oil, and the oil price volatility index (OVX), against the risks of the Saudi stock market and its constituent sectors in different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using daily data, we employ the bivariate dynamic conditional correlation-generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (DCC-GARCH) technique to model volatilities and conditional correlations. Our findings show that all investigated alternative investment assets had a time-varying hedging role in the Saudi stock market, which became expensive during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The well-being of caregivers and their care recipients is interrelated, although conflicting evidence has emerged across different caregiving populations. Using data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the National Study of Caregiving (2015 and 2017, n = 742 dyads), we constructed actor-partner interdependence models assessing how spillover (i.e.

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The accumulated evidence from developed countries indicates that a large proportion of undergraduates exceed the normal time to obtain their degrees before completing their baccalaureate studies, which has attracted the attention of academics and policy-makers. However, the evidence on degree completion in developing countries is scant to nonexistent. The present study aims to fill this gap by developing a predictive model to explore the impact of the student's preadmission criteria and academic performance indicators on the study length for graduates of the bachelor of business administration (BBA) degree in finance and accounting in a Saudi public university.

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Three types of tissue (hypoblast, germ wall and epiblast) were dissected from early chick embryos and explanted on Falcon plastic dishes. After they had settled and spread, the explants were fixed, usually within 18-24 h after explantation, and sections were cut through the tissue and the Falcon dish. The closeness of the cells to the substrate varied even within the same explant, but the epiblast tended to be closer to the substrate than did the hypoblast or germ wall.

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