“That’ll Teach Them”: Investigating the Soft Power Conversion Model through the Case of Russian Higher Education by A. Crowley-Vigneau, A. A. Baykov, E. Kalyuzhnova

“…These preliminary findings suggest that the benefits of internationalizing national higher education systems are not just reserved to the norm initiators (US, UK) but extend to second wave norm adopters (Russia, China).…”
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Supply Chain Bilateral Coordination with Option Contracts under Inflation Scenarios by Nana Wan, Xu Chen

“…We find that the retailer prefers adopting portfolio contracts, but the supplier prefers providing option contracts under inflation scenarios. …”
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Internal Leakage Diagnosis of a Hydraulic Cylinder Based on Optimization DBN Using the CEEMDAN Technique by Peng Zhang, Xinyuan Chen

“…The reconstructed signals are regarded as the input of the optimization DBN, and the particle swarm optimization simulated annealing (PSOSA) algorithm is adopted to identify the four internal leakage levels. …”
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A New Strategy for Short-Term Load Forecasting by Yi Yang, Jie Wu, Yanhua Chen, Caihong Li

“…Firstly the seasonal ARIMA model is adopted to forecast the electric load demand day ahead; then, by using the residual load demand series obtained in this forecasting process as the original series, the follow-up residual series is forecasted by BP neural network; finally, by summing up the forecasted residual series and the forecasted load demand series got by seasonal ARIMA model, the final load demand forecasting series is obtained. …”
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Understanding Professional Discretion by Principals in Managing Drugs in Gauteng Province schools in South Africa by Kgwete Ephraim Matala

“…A qualitative research design was employed to collect data from secondary school principals in quintiles 1 to 3 (disadvantaged schools) in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. The study adopted an interpretivist paradigm. Data collection was done by the means of qualitative data collection techniques, in which semi-structured interviews supported by document analysis were employed. …”
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SOCIAL MEDIA AS AN ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL OF FACEBOOK USERS IN EKITI STATE by Awosenusi Omolara Christianah, Awofadeju Peter Olayinka, Babatola Deborah Bukunmi

“…Moreover, this study adopted survey design method and three local government areas each from the three senatorial districts in Ekiti state was stratified, and were randomly selected. …”
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Underwater source localization using time difference of arrival and frequency difference of arrival measurements based on an improved invasive weed optimization algorithm by Yunhang Lin, Zhenkai Zhang, Hamid Esmaeili Najafabadi

“…At the same time, under the condition that the observed noise of each observation is Gaussian noise and does not consider the influence of other error factors, the localization error is adopted as the objective function to obtain an initial estimate for the unknown source parameter. …”
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS: ECONOMIC CONTENT, TYPES AND GOALS by I. A. Zubritskaya

“…In accordance with the adopted digital agendas of the Republic of Belarus and the EEC, the proposed model is based on the end-to-end interaction between all participants in the value chains of industrial products, which are equally involved in production and economic planning, management, control of the creation and implementation of industrial high-tech products.…”
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Secure and Privacy Enhanced Gait Authentication on Smart Phone by Thang Hoang, Deokjai Choi

“…Gait signals are acquired by using an inertial sensor named accelerometer in the mobile device and error correcting codes are adopted to deal with the natural variation of gait measurements. …”
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Conflict of Interest: Legal and Ethical Aspects in Local Self-Government in Slovakia by Ondrej Mitaľ

“…Based on this fact, local self-government units should adopt codes of ethics if they want to improve the managing of risks and impacts of the conflict of interest. …”
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A Comparison of Explicit and Implicit Approaches to EAP Teaching to Postgraduate Students by O. A. Boginskaya

“…In order to investigate the effects of stance-taking instruction, this study adopted a combination of quantitative and interpretative analysis methods. …”
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Numerical Modelling Approaches for Assessing Improvements to the Flow Circulation in a Small Lake by Cheng He, Quintin Rochfort

“…Three-dimensional (3D) hydraulic and transport models were adopted in this paper to investigate the hydraulic conditions under various wind forces and causeway structures. …”
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Insecurity and the State’s Humanitarian Intervention in Northern Nigeria by Emmanuel Achus Jah, Yunusa Abare Kallah, Tanko Shawulu Paul

“…The methodology leverages content analysis from secondary sources. The study adopts the theory of State Failure as humanitarian intervention is a duty of the state but the Nigeria state lags. …”
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Research on structural fatigue residual life of pitch bearing rings after pre-damage by ZHANG Mingqian, CHEN Guanci, DING Yinke, LIU Minghan, MAO Huaping

“…To this end, a finite element model of replacing the whole pitch bearing with a local one was proposed to investigate the structural fatigue remaining life of pitch bearings after corrosion of the raceways.MethodsA combined method of finite element software Ansys and three-dimensional fracture mechanics software Franc3D was adopted to simulate the corrosion pit by inserting a pre-damage at the location of the maximum equivalent stress in the bearing ring. …”
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Digital transformation and corporate strategy by A. L. Denisova, A. N. Lopatnikov

“…A simplified model of a business as a network of processes and decisions helps illustrate why digital technologies first spread in the process domain but can become strategic and transformative when adopted to the decision domain. The latter also brings yet unquantifiable risks and uncertainties. …”
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AUDIT COMMITTEE CHARACTERISTICS AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AMONG LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by Adebowale OGUNSOLA

“… Unethical financial reporting practice may be linked to audit committee characteristics; hence this study investigated the impact of audit committee characteristics on earnings management among listed deposit money banks in Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design, with the population comprising twenty-four (24) deposit money banks listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group as of December 31, 2022. …”
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Thermal axion production at hard and soft momenta by Killian Bouzoud, Jacopo Ghiglieri

“…In more detail, we determine the leading-order thermal axion production rate for axion momenta of the order of the temperature adopting three different schemes for the incorporation of the collective dynamics of soft gluons. …”
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A two-layer network model of the evolution of public risk perception of emerging technologies by Xiaqun Liu, Xiaoyue Qiu, Yaming Zhuang

“…Considering the impact of the spread of risk events on public risk perception of emerging technologies, this study adopts complex network theory to construct a two-layer network model consisting of “the spread of risk events–the evolution of public risk perception” of emerging technologies. …”
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Resolving Village Head Election Disputes: Legal Pathways in State Administrative Courts by Firdaus Arifin, Ihsanul Maarif, Rika Kurniasari A, M. Nabiel Fadlilah

“…To address these concerns, this study adopts a normative juridical approach, relying on an extensive literature review of legal principles, norms, doctrines, and regulations. …”
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Model Tests of Earth Pressure on Buried Rigid Pipes and Flexible Pipes underneath Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) by Qiang Ma, Zhun Ku, Henglin Xiao

“…Based on the data obtained from the model tests, the nonlinear earth pressure calculation formula obtained from regression analysis is adopted, and the results from it are compared with the existing formula consequences of the earth pressure on the buried pipe. …”
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