Innovation and Brands: The Managers’ Perspective in a Multiple Case Study in a Brazilian Region by Rogerio Bevilacqua, Verica Freitas, Veronica Angélica Freitas de Paula

“…A multiple case study was carried out with five innovative companies from four economic sectors: telecommunications, information technology, chemicals, and electricity. …”
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Differentiation between some Ulva spp. by morphological, genetic and biochemical analyses by M. M. Ismail, E. S. Mohamed

“…This study is the first time to investigate the morphological, genetic and biochemical variation within four Ulva species collected from Eastern Harbor, Alexandria. …”
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Numerical Study to Investigate the Performance of U-shaped Flat Plate Solar Collector Using Phase Change Materials (PCMs) by Ibrahim Lazim Ihnayyish, Ahmed Qasim Ahmed, Abdulrahman Th. Mohammad, Ali Khalid Shaker Al-Syyab

“…The data indicates that the highest outlet water temperature was observed at 45 ºC from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm for case-1 with a smooth pipe, whereas for case-2 with two lobes and case-3 with four lobes, the maximum temperatures were 41 ºC and 40 ºC. respectively, The results showed that case-1 with Paraffin wax has the best efficiency among the proposed cases. …”
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Simulation of Dissolved Oxygen Concentration in an Urban Lake Based on MLR and ARDL by ZHAO Hongcheng, YANG Fei, ZHOU Peng, GUO Jiacheng, HUANG Jinbai

“…Simulations for<italic> </italic>the observed sequence values of DO in 2020 (from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020) and four quarters of 2020 were carried out. The results indicate that the simulation results of the MLR model exhibit relatively low accuracy, while those of the ARDL model show relatively high accuracy; the coefficient of determination (<italic>R</italic>²) of the DO simulation results for different periods is 0.75~0.99. …”
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Automatic Lane Line Detection System Based on Artificial Intelligence by Gaoqing Ji, Yunchang Zheng

“…Secondly, the detection scale is adjusted to four detection scales, which is more suitable for small target detection such as lane line. …”
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Genetic Diversity and Population Differentiation of the Causal Agent of Citrus Black Spot in Brazil by Ester Wickert, Antonio de Goes, Andressa de Souza, Eliana Gertrudes de Macedo Lemos

“…The objective of this work was study the genetic diversity and population differentiation of G. citricarpa associated with four sweet orange varieties in two geographic locations using DNA sequence of ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region from fungi isolates. …”
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Quality Characteristics, Nutraceutical Profile, and Storage Stability of Aloe Gel-Papaya Functional Beverage Blend by Pushkala Ramachandran, Srividya Nagarajan

“…The SPB was acceptable up to four months and SAGPB for five months. The results indicate that nutraceutical rich AG could be successfully utilized to develop functional fruit beverages with improved quality and shelf life.…”
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Parametric study of I-shaped shear connectors with different orientations in push-out test by Farid Boursas, Djamel Boutagouga

“…This article presents the study of I-shaped connectors behavior under monotonic load welded in four different orientations in order to get the position which gives the high shear strength and the best ductility. …”
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Exploring barriers and facilitators of primary care physicians towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group: a qualitative study i... by Chun Yen Beh, Rose Wai-Yee Fok, Lay Hoon Goh

“…Objectives To explore the perspectives of primary care physicians with regard to the barriers and facilitators towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group.Design Qualitative descriptive study.Setting Four polyclinics in a public primary care institution in Singapore.Participants Seven men and five women working as primary care physicians were recruited for in-depth interviews.Results The major barriers to statin optimisation identified were patients’ lack of knowledge and awareness, patients’ fear of side effects, negative external influences on patients, poor doctor–patient relationship, time constraint during consultations, physicians’ unfamiliarity with guidelines, low health literacy among the local population and lack of strong national policy. …”
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Carrying Capacity Evaluation on Water Resources of Jilin Province Based on PCA-GA-XGboost Model by PANG Bowen, LI Zhijun

“…To improve the efficiency and accuracy of carrying capacity evaluation in water resources, this paper proposes an indicator evaluation model based on principal component analysis (PCA), genetic algorithm (GA), and eXtreme gradient boosting tree (XGBoost).Meanwhile, fourteen evaluation indicators are defined with water resources, socio-economics, and ecological environment employed as subsystems.PCA is adopted to reduce the dimensionality of the evaluation indicators.Additionally, based on XGBoost, this paper conducts an evaluation analysis on the carrying capacity of water resources from 2011 to 2021 and utilizes GA to optimize four parameters in XGBoost.The results show that after simplifying the evaluation indicators by PCA, the correlation coefficient of the PCA-GA-XGBoost model is better than GA-B, GA-SVM, GA-XGBoost, and XGBoost.The carrying capacity of water resources in Jilin Province from 2011 to 2021 is between 0.192 and 0.724, presenting a trend of first increasing, then decreasing, and finally increasing with improved carrying capacity situation.Meanwhile, the built-in function of eigenvalue importance ranking in the model is leveraged to conclude the fact that the indicator with the largest importance is identified as the applied fertilizer amount per hectare (0.530 7).…”
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Pre-service science teacher’s opinions on virtual labs and their use in biology by Koca Asiye Bilge, Kizilay Esra

“…The study group of the research consisted of four pre-service science teachers (two girls and two boys) who had virtual laboratory experience by taking at least one of the courses related to technology integration at a state university located in the Central Anatolia region in Türkiye. …”
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Treatment of Recurrent Primary Cutaneous Mucinous Carcinoma of the Eyelid with Modified Wide Local Excision by Stephanie M. Tillit, Siva S. R. Iyer, Eric J. Grieser, John T. LiVecchi

“…This case report describes a 53-year-old male who presented to the University of Florida, Gainesville, ophthalmology clinic and was referred to the oculoplastics service with a painless, subcentimeter mass on the lateral right upper eyelid including the canthus, consistent with recurrent primary cutaneous mucinous carcinoma of the eyelid. Four years prior, the patient had undergone excisional biopsy of the lesion in a clinic, which revealed residual tumor, but the patient deferred further surgery at the time. …”
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Statistical Tools for Air Pollution Assessment: Multivariate and Spatial Analysis Studies in the Madrid Region by David Núñez-Alonso, Luis Vicente Pérez-Arribas, Sadia Manzoor, Jorge O. Cáceres

“…The results obtained allowed classification of different monitoring stations on the basis of each of the four pollutants, revealing information about their sources and mechanisms, visualizing their spatial distribution, and monitoring their levels according to the average annual limits established in the legislation. …”
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Beauty Beyond the Golden Ratio: A Study of Perception Regarding Facial Proportions and Symmetry in the Turkish Population by Özlem Özgür, Leo Can Mazlum, Billur Sezgin Kızılok

“…The optimal values of four different facial ratios and the optimal degree of asymmetry were examined. …”
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Modeling the Internal Control Constraint of University Research Funding System by Jiacan Wang, Liangzhang Hu

“…This model puts forward suggestions to improve the internal control system of the scientific research funds in universities from four aspects of environmental constraint, psychological constraint, control constraint, and regulatory constraint. …”
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Multi-branch convolutional neural network with cross-attention mechanism for emotion recognition by Fei Yan, Zekai Guo, Abdullah M. Iliyasu, Kaoru Hirota

“…The model was assessed based on EEG emotion recognition experiments on the SEED and SEED-IV datasets. Furthermore, the efficiency of the proposed model was evaluated via multimodal emotion experiments using EEG and text data from the ZuCo dataset. …”
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Parametric study of I-shaped shear connectors with different orientations in push-out test by Boursas Farid, Djamel Boutagouga

“…This article presents the study of I-shaped connectors behavior under monotonic load welded in four different orientations in order to get the position which gives the high shear strength and the best ductility. …”
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A Fuzzy Logic Technique for the Environmental Impact Assessment of Marine Renewable Energy Power Plants by Pamela Flores, Edgar Mendoza

“…We tested this fuzzy methodology across four types of ocean energy devices: floating, submerged, fixed to the ocean floor, and onshore. …”
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NMR Pore Structure and Dynamic Characteristics of Sandstone Caused by Ambient Freeze-Thaw Action by Bo Ke, Keping Zhou, Hongwei Deng, Feng Bin

“…The experimental results show that the stress-strain curves all go through four stages, namely, densification, elasticity, yielding, and failure. …”
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Assessing alimony rights violations: a neutrosophic multi-criteria evaluation by Vanessa Lisseth Montenegro Altamirano, Jaime Rodrigo Cadena Morillo, Carmen Marina Méndez Cabrita

“…Five key violations were identified, including non-compliance with payment obligations and unilateral modification of agreements, which negatively affect the beneficiaries' well-being. Four main evaluation criteria were selected and assessed with the help of five experts. …”
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