IMPACT OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP STYLE ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF TABLE WATER ENTERPRISES IN MINNA, NIGER STATE by Ahmed ABDULKAZEEM, Modupe Mercy ADEYEYE

“…A cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study and data was elicited through questionnaire. …”
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Study on Gas Control Methods Optimization for Mining Safety by Liwen He, Yingcheng Dai, Sheng Xue, Chunshan Zheng, Baiqing Han, Xin Guo

“…Results indicate that the highly expensive gas drainage measure of a roof roadway has poor drainage performance and could be effectively replaced by roof boreholes. When adopting the optimized combination of gas drainage measures, drainage efficiency of No. 7 seam, No. 8 seam, and No. 9 seam could reach 58.64% and decrease gas pressure to be below 0.74 MPa. …”
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A Novel Method for DOA and Time Delay Joint Estimation in Multipath OFDM Environment by Xiangzhi Li, Weijia Cui, Haiyun Xu, Bin Ba, Yankui Zhang

“…Then, we calculate the extended channel frequency response matrix and adopt smoothing processing to eliminate the multipath effect. …”
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INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE IN NORTH EAST NIGERIA: UNOCHA IN PERSPECTIVE (2016 - 2022) by ABUBAKAR HASSAN, ADEJOH SUNDAY

“…The study relied on secondary source of data obtained from OCHA websites. The study adopts the human needs theory as its framework. This theory believes that conflict is a tragic expression of unmet human needs which implies that all actions undertaken by human beings are attempts to satisfy their needs and means of livelihood. …”
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Cloud-Based Transaction Fraud Detection: An In-depth Analysis of ML Algorithms by Ali Alhchaimi

“…It emphasizes the importance of continual ML innovation to tackle digital finance fraud, suggesting that adopting these advanced ML models can significantly reduce transaction fraud risks, ensuring a secure, efficient, and trustworthy platform for users. …”
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POLITICAL STRUGGLE OVER THE IMMIGRATION REFORM DURING G.W.BUSH PRESIDENCY by A. A. Filippenko

“…Democrats made considerable concessions, while moderate Republicans were willing to meet them halfway, but the conservatives would not let the Congress adopt a new legislation, calling any attempt at comprehensive immigration reform an amnesty for the criminals. …”
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Dynamic Parameter Identification of Tool-Spindle Interface Based on RCSA and Particle Swarm Optimization by Erhua Wang, Bo Wu, Youmin Hu, Shuzi Yang, Yao Cheng

“…Through translational and rotational springs and dampers, the tool point FRF of the machining center is obtained by coupling the two components. Finally, PSO is adopted to identify the connection parameters at the tool-holder interface by minimizing the difference between the predicted and the measured tool point FRFs. …”
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Developing Eco-Driving Strategies considering City Characteristics by J. F. Coloma, M. Garcia, A. Boggio-Marzet, A. Monzón

“…The aim of this paper is to compare the impacts of adopting eco-driving in different cities, road segments, traffic, and driver features. …”
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Control techniques of switched reluctance motors in electric vehicle applications: A review on torque ripple reduction strategies by Ameer L. Saleh, Fahad Al-Amyal, László Számel

“…Last, a comparison between each method in torque control and current control strategies was listed, including the adopted method, features, and drawbacks.…”
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The impact of social capital spatial structure and village collective action participation on farmland conservation behavior among farmers: evidence from three provinces of Northwe... by Xinjie Li, Qian Lu

“…Counterfactual analysis reveals that if farmers who have not previously participated in village collective actions were to do so, their likelihood of adopting farmland conservation practices would increase by 15.8%. …”
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A New Projection-Based Integrally Embedded Discrete Fracture Model and Its Application in Coupled Flow and Geomechanical Simulation for Fractured Reservoirs by Dawei Wu, Yuan Di, Yu-Shu Wu

“…As a significant improvement, a semi-analytical cone-shaped pressure distribution that follows the IEDFM is adopted in the pIEDFM to capture the sharp pressure change near the fracture surfaces. …”
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Post-verbal agreement and obligatory presence of particle to in Polish dual copula clauses by Rafał Jurczyk

“…Two crucial premises are adopted. One is Zeiljstra’s (2012) Upward Agree which requires i-features to c-command u-features and, hence, necessitates the closest NPNOM to T to SpecTP-move. …”
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The library of Troškūnai monastery by Arvydas Pacevičius

“…On the other hand, Enlightenment ideas were accepted and adopted in Lithuania, and the confessional intelligentsia participated in this process. …”
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Crack Detection of Reinforced Concrete Structures Based on BOFDA and FBG Sensors by Qinghua Zhang, Ziming Xiong

“…Through the experiment, it is found that if the combination of BOFDA and FBG technology is adopted, we can initially use the strain data obtained by multiple groups of BOFDA monitoring to predict the general location of the internal cracks, then to monitor the exact location of the surface cracks by FBG in the medium term, and to estimate the width of the final expansion of the cracks finally.…”
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Detection and identification technology of rotor unmanned aerial vehicles in 5G scene by Fengtong Xu, Tao Hong, Jingcheng Zhao, Tao Yang

“…In order to identify the “black flying” unmanned aerial vehicle, combined with the advantages of 5G millimeter wave radar and machine learning methods, the following methods are adopted in this article. For a one-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, the radar echo data are a single-component sinusoidal frequency modulation signal. …”
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Machine learning algorithms in air quality modeling by A. Masih

“…The work aims at highlighting the underlying principles of machine learning techniques and about their role in enhancing the prediction performance. The study adopts, 38 most relevant studies in the field of environmental science and engineering which have applied machine learning techniques during last 6 years. …”
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Optimizing Subchannel Assignment and Power Allocation for Network Slicing in High-Density NOMA Networks: A Q-Learning Approach by Suhare Solaiman

“…To address these issues, an optimization algorithm is proposed for subchannel assignment and power allocation in NOMA high-density networks for URLLC and mMTC devices. The solution adopts a Q-learning algorithm to optimize decision-making processes and ensure efficient resource sharing between URLLC and mMTC devices, while satisfying their distinct QoS requirements. …”
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Effect of Surface Hardening on Dynamic Frictional Rolling Contact Behavior and Degradation of Corrugated Rail by Yuan Gao, Jingmang Xu, Ping Wang, Yibin Liu

“…The explicit finite element method for material hardening characteristics and real contact geometry was adopted to set up the 3D transient FE model of wheel and rail, after which the value and distribution of stress/strain as well as contact solutions could be obtained during frictional contact, and then the Archard wear model and simplified wear superposition method are integrated as a numerical simulation tool for rail wear after hardening. …”
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Detection and Analytical Capabilities for Trace Level of Carbon in High-Purity Metals by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy with a Frequency Quintupled 213 nm Nd:YAG Laser by Masaki Ohata, Toshiki Nakae

“…From these results, the frequency quintupled 213 nm Nd:YAG laser, which was adopted widely as a commercial laser ablation (LA) system coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) for trace element analysis in solid materials, could be used for C analysis to achieve simultaneous measurements for both C and trace elements in metals by LIBS and LA-ICPMS, respectively.…”
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Predicting individuals’ behaviors during a pandemic: why we might have acted as we did during the COVID-19 pandemic by Shaikha S. Aldousari, William Ickes

“…In the case of the current COVID-19 crisis, some people adopt behaviors that ensure their safety and the safety of others, whereas other people display careless behaviors that contribute to spreading the infection. …”
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