Banking Crises: Identification Problems and Resolution by O. I. Larina

“…Identification of the crisis is needed to develop and adopt strategies to overcome it. Banking crises can cause different and sometimes completely contradictory factors. …”
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INFLUENCE OF FEEDING NORMALIZED TRACE ELEMENTS IN MINERAL AND ORGANIC FORM ON GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND METABOLISM OF YOUNG CATTLE by Ye. Yu. Zalyubovskaya

“…The calves in the control group were fed the basic diet adopted in the farm, the animals in the first experimental group were fed the basic diet with addition of normalized trace elements (iodine, cobalt and selenium) in mineral form, the animals in the second experimental group were given the same trace elements in organic form. …”
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How Well Does the Traffic System Protect Transit from Congestion? Measuring Route-Level Costs That Congestion Imposes on Transit Operators and Users by Peter G. Furth, Ahmed T. M. Halawani

“…As transit agencies and road owners adopt the objective of protecting transit from congestion, it becomes important to have a method for measuring the cost that congestion imposes on transit. …”
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Can a Manufacturer Get Better off When Providing Product Sharing Services? by Xiaozheng Li, Xiaojian Hu, Ju Qiu, Xinxuan Zhu

“…Although the cost of purchasing products is decreased by adopting product sharing, consumers must accept that their demand cannot be responded to instantly and must use unfamiliar shared products. …”
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Restoration Model for Cascading Overload Failure in Syncretic Railway Network by Qingwei Zhong, Su Liu, Jingwei Guo, Linfeng Zhong, Zhihong Yao

“…With the rapid development of SRN, the limited transportation capacity is inadequate to meet the booming passenger flow during peak hours, where cascading failures caused by large passenger flow become a threat to SRN. This paper adopts a state equation to depict the failure-restoration process and investigates detailed restoration strategies considering the characteristics of recoverable and repeatable failures of stations. …”
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Le paysage humanisé au Québec by Gérald Domon

“…By defining biodiversity as the starting point for acknowledging the importance of the landscape, the Quebec government adopted an original approach. However, 12 years later, no humanised landscape has been created. …”
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Predicting Missing Links Based on a New Triangle Structure by Shenshen Bai, Longjie Li, Jianjun Cheng, Shijin Xu, Xiaoyun Chen

“…In addition, the proposed index adopts the theory of resource allocation by penalizing large-degree neighbors. …”
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Managing N Inputs and the Effect on N Losses Following Excretion in Open-Dirt Feedlots in Nebraska by Galen E. Erickson, Terry J. Klopfenstein

“…Nutritionists are continually refining protein requirements, and have recently adopted a new metabolizable protein (MP) system to more efficiently use nitrogen (N) and allow more accurate diet formulation. …”
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Evolutionary Game Dynamics for Financial Risk Decision-Making in Global Supply Chain by Zhi Li, Guanghao Jin, Shen Duan

“…By reducing the financial risk-sharing ratio of one supply chain player, his intention of adopting cooperation strategy would be enhanced. Finally, it is observed that financial risk sharing approach may lead to the alignment among supply chain members. …”
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Literature and History: Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels by Lere Adeyemi

“…It is against this background that this paper examines the relationship between literature and history and how Yoruba novelists use their works as vehicles for the repre­sentation of history. We adopt the theory of New Historicism to analyze T.A.A. …”
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水都大阪　水都再生という壮大な社会実験と新たな都市像 by Kana Koichi 嘉名光市

“…One of the approaches adopted to transform Osaka into a "aquatic metropolis", has been inspired by a new urban vision of the riverbanks which encompasses a deregulation of fluvial law.…”
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The Form and Content of Ọbasa’s Weekly Newspaper: The Yorùbá News by Clement Adeniyi Akangbe

“…Published weekly, Obasa – the Editor and Proprietor – successfully edited ̣ The Yorubà News ́ for over two decades from 1924 – 1945 when he died. Adopting the Diffusion of Innovations theory, this study examines the form and content of the newspaper. …”
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Juridical construction of socio-ecological security: Indonesia’s vulnerability to climate change by Atika Sari Diah Apriani, Triatmodjo Marsudi, Purwanto Harry

“…This research is a normative study that examines the legal framework of socio-ecological security concerning Indonesia’s vulnerability as an archipelagic nation due to the impacts of climate change. This research adopted a normative methodology with legislative and conceptual approaches.…”
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Simulation of the Compressive Strength of Cemented Tailing Backfill through the Use of Firefly Algorithm and Random Forest Model by Qi-Ang Wang, Jia Zhang, Jiandong Huang

“…The firefly algorithm (FA) was used to tune the random forest (RF) hyperparameters, and it was adopted to combine the RF model to improve the accuracy and efficiency for the prediction of the compressive strength of the cemented tailing backfill. …”
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Graph Convolutional Network for Word Sense Disambiguation by Chun-Xiang Zhang, Rui Liu, Xue-Yao Gao, Bo Yu

“…Training corpus of SemEval-2007: Task #5 is adopted to optimize the proposed WSD classifier. Test corpus of SemEval-2007: Task #5 is used to test the performance of WSD classifier. …”
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Applying systems theory to global mental health by Mark J. D. Jordans

“…At present much of the research efforts into psychological interventions in LMIC are focusing on single interventions, with little focus on how these interventions sit in, or influence, a larger system. Adopting systems theory and system dynamics tools can help in; (i) better analyzing and understanding the key drivers of mental health problems and services, (ii) optimizing mental health services; and (iii) understanding the organization of people, institutions and resources required for rolling out and scaling-up mental health services. …”
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Barriers for Large Integration of PV and Onshore Wind Energy in the Distribution Network on the Selected European Union Electricity Markets by Hanna Bartoszewicz-Burczy

“… The European Union (EU) has adopted ambitious and wide-ranging binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, energy systems’ transformation, and becoming climate neutral. …”
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An Analysis of Factors Influencing Green Supply Chain Drivers in the Indian Real Estate Sector Using the ISM-DEMATEL Approach by Koul Pawan, Roy Ghatak Ranjit

“…In response to compelling environmental and societal imperatives, the real estate sector is increasingly compelled to adopt environmentally sustainable practices, prompting a significant “green” shift. …”
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A Bayesian Network Approach to Causation Analysis of Road Accidents Using Netica by Xin Zou, Wen Long Yue

“…By taking Adelaide Central Business District (CBD) in South Australia as a case, the Bayesian network structure was established by integrating K2 algorithm with experts’ knowledge, and Expectation-Maximization algorithm that could process missing data was adopted to conduct the parameter learning in Netica, thereby establishing the Bayesian network model for the causation analysis of road accidents. …”
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Analysis of Livelihood of Rural Irrigated Crop Farmers in Kano State, Nigeria by Ahmadu Tafida, Amurtiya Michael, Markson Nandagoyang

“…The study’s specific objectives were to; describe the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents, assess their livelihood assets, household wellbeing, and constraints. The study adopted a multistage sampling technique to collect primary data from 251 respondents drawn from 18 communities in six Local Government Areas of the State. …”
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