Landslide Hazard Assessment and Zonation by using Slope Susceptibility Evaluation Parameter (SSEP) Rating Scheme- a Case from Debre Sina, Northern Ethiopia by Tamene Tadele

“…Validation of the landslide hazard zonation map with past landslide activities suggests the rationality of the considered governing parameters, the adopted technique, tools, and procedures in developing the study area's landslide hazard map. …”
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Board Gender Diversity and Risk Management in Corporate Financing: A Study on Debt Structure and Financial Decision-Making by Davood Askarany, Soleil Jafari, Azam Pouryousof, Sona Habibi, Hassan Yazdifar

“…<b>Findings:</b> The results reveal a significant negative relationship between female board representation and long-term debt, suggesting that companies with more female directors tend to adopt more conservative debt structures, thereby reducing risk. …”
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Course Evaluation of Advanced Structural Dynamics Based on Improved SAPSO and FAHP by Minshui Huang, Zhongao He, Jianwei Zhang, Zhihang Deng, Dina Tang

“…This study combines qualitative and quantitative evaluation indicators to achieve comprehensive assessment and adopts more scientifically rational algorithms for weight calculation, aiming to improve the accuracy and efficiency of weight calculation. …”
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From disagreement to rupture: the Soviet-Albanian conflict of 1960-1961 by K. K. Khudoley

“…Key findings include: 1) The conflict's primary catalysts were the divergent socialist models adopted by the USSR and Albania, coupled with the disparity in interests between the superpower and the bloc's smallest member; 2) The PLA's reluctance to conform to Soviet-style reforms was construed in Moscow as a challenge to the CPSU's hegemony within the global communist movement, while the PLA leadership viewed them as encroachments on its authority; 3) Disagreements pervaded all spheres, with ideology assuming heightened significance compared to conflicts with Yugoslavia; 4) External influences on the conflict's trajectory were marginal, with developments driven by internal dynamics, including Tirana's increasing alienation from the CPSU and the catalytic effect of deteriorating Soviet-Chinese relations; Western powers monitored events closely but refrained from direct intervention; 5) While objective factors underpinned the Soviet-Albanian discord, subjective elements were of secondary importance, yet pivotal in precipitating the conflict's acrimonious turn.…”
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Women middle and senior managers by Bassirou Gueye

“…This study, primarily using data from the 2021 Census of Population, examines the representation of women in middle and senior management positions in Canada, comparing their characteristics with those of their men counterparts. The analysis also adopts an intersectional approach to explore the representation of women managers among racialized and Indigenous populations. …”
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Patrones de relacionamiento y la cuestión de la indigenización: personajes euroestadounidenses en Ghost Singer y Garden in the Dunes by Bayu Kristianto

“…Se sostiene que no hay un relacionamiento provechoso de estos personajes, porque estos emplean modos de relacionamiento dualistas y dialécticos en lugar del dialógico, lo que realza la necesidad de que la sociedad colonizadora que vive en el mundo colonizado adopte un patrón de relacionamiento dialógico fundado en la igualdad, el respeto y la relacionalidad. …”
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Research on the mechanism by which digital transformation peer effects influence innovation performance in emerging industries: A case study of China's photovoltaic industry. by Aiqin Zhang, Xiaoqiang Guo, Wenjie Zhang, Zhangliang Liu

“…The results indicate that the digital transformation peer effect on innovation performance is most pronounced for technology-intensive firms adopting an analytical strategy after the withdrawal of photovoltaic subsidies. …”
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Modeling Acceleration and Deceleration Rates for Two-Lane Rural Highways Using Global Positioning System Data by Vinayak Malaghan, Digvijay S. Pawar, Hussein Dia

“…Most of them were spot speed studies with speeds measured at specific locations on curves (usually midpoint of the curve) and tangents to determine acceleration and deceleration rates. Fewer studies adopted an estimated value of 0.85 m/s2 for both deceleration and acceleration rates while approaching and departing curves, respectively. …”
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Nonlinear modeling of oral glucose tolerance test response to evaluate associations with aging outcomes. by Grant Schumock, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Chee W Chia, Rita R Kalyani, Luigi Ferrucci, Ravi Varadhan

“…In this study, we analyze data obtained during 75-gram oral-glucose tolerance tests (OGTT) on 1,120 adults older than 50 years of age from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging. We adopt a two-stage modeling approach. First, we fit OGTT curves with the Ackerman model-a nonlinear, parametric model of the glucose-insulin system-and with functional principal components analysis. …”
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The changes in health-related quality of life after attending cardiac rehabilitation: A qualitative systematic review of the perspective of patients living with heart disease. by Amineh Rashidi, Lisa Whitehead, Helena Halton, Lisa Munro, Ian Jones, Lisa Newson

“…This review indicated that adopting healthier habits, including healthy eating and regular physical activity, had substantial benefits in formulating healthy behavior. …”
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Investigating the Two Optimization Algorithms (GWO and ACO) Coupling with Radial Basis Neural Network to Estimate the Pile Settlement by Ehsanolah Assareh, Reza Poultangari

“…Theoretical ways to calculate the pile movement mathematically have been adopted to model the PS, mostly by using artificial intelligence (AI). …”
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OmoiwsiV Qew PROBLEMOS RABINISTINIAME IRHELENISTINIAME JUDAIZME by Kristina Gudelytė

“…In spite of Philo's loyalty to his ancestor's religious views and some traces of his influence on Midrash, the greatest influence he made on Church Fathers, who adopted many of his concepts. Keywords: assimilation to God, God, being, theocentrism, transcendence. …”
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Political technologies: structural and functional indifference by O. N. Zabuzov

“…Numerical uncertainty in relation to political technologies has been removed. The peculiarity of adopting political technologies in their activities and other social subjects that differ from political actors has been shown. …”
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Interconnections between BDH1-plasma protein-type 2 diabetes Mellitus: a mediated mendelian randomization analysis using plasma proteomics by Yi-Ying Liu, Yue-Yang Zhang, Qin Wan

“…Within this framework, we adopted a two-step, two-sample MR approach to evaluate the relationships between BDH1, plasma proteins, and type 2 diabetes. …”
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Progress in plant genome sequencing: research directions by M. K. Bragina, D. A. Afonnikov, E. A. Salina

“…New algorithms, sequencing technologies and bioinformatic approaches were adopted to obtain genome, transcriptome and exome sequences for model and crop species, which have permitted deep inferences into plant biology. …”
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Experiences of gender-based violence among women in sub-Saharan Africa: identifying evidence for intervention and public health priorities by Lucky Norah Katende-Kyenda, Judith I. Ani

“…The increasing demand for policymakers and public health practitioners to adopt evidence-based approaches in addressing GBV highlights the need for research prioritization on experiences of GBV among women in resource-limited settings such as sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Semi-automated Generation of Geometric Digital Twin for Bridge Based on Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data by Kaixin Hu, Daguang Han, Guocheng Qin, Yin Zhou, Long Chen, Chunli Ying, Tong Guo, Yanhui Liu

“…Second, an improved random sample consensus (RANSAC) algorithm based on distribution density is adopted to extract the cross sections of the arch bridge components, except the arch ring. …”
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Elección de un comportamiento urbano responsable a partir del beneficio, la saliencia del anuncio y la probabilidad de recibir aprobación y reproche by Raúl Fernando Pinilla López, Pablo Páramo

“…Participaron 177 individuos que estimaron la probabilidad de que un individuo involucrado en una viñeta adopte o no un CUR, a partir de variables como la distancia temporal y la magnitud del beneficio, la saliencia del anuncio de este beneficio, y la aprobación social y el reproche. …”
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On the Use of Min-Max Combination of Biomarkers to Maximize the Partial Area under the ROC Curve by Hua Ma, Susan Halabi, Aiyi Liu

“…The partial area under the curve (pAUC) is an alternative metric focusing on a range of practical and clinical relevance of the diagnostic assay. In this article, we adopt and extend the min-max method to the estimation of the pAUC when multiple continuous scaled biomarkers are available and compare the performances of our proposed approach with existing approaches via simulations. …”
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Evaluating the Performance of a Plasma Analyzer for a Space Weather Monitor Mission Concept by G. Nicolaou, R. T. Wicks, I. J. Rae, D. O. Kataria

“…Abstract We use historical analysis of solar wind plasma and coronal mass ejections to define the range of performance required for an ion analyzer for future space weather monitoring missions. We adopt the design of a top hat electrostatic analyzer, capable of measuring the plasma protons and constructing their three‐dimensional distribution functions. …”
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