Operationalising user behaviour: a study on the life cycle assessment of smart home technologies by Mareike Tippe, Henning Wigger, Urte Brand-Daniels, Thomas Vogt

“…While large parts of LCAs are standardised, the consideration of user behaviour related effects has not been specified. By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this literature study contributes to the future development of a standardized methodology for the operationalisation of behaviour in LCAs. …”
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Evaluating hospital performance with additive DEA and MPI: the Isfahan University of Medical Science case study by Shirin Alsadat Hadian, Reza Rezayatmand, Saeedeh Ketabi, Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh, Ahmad Reza Pourghaderi

“…These findings underscore the need for hospitals to adopt advanced quantitative models to optimize resource allocation and enhance service delivery.…”
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What are the expectations and experiences of a GMH research programme delivered in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda? A prospective longitudinal qualitative study by Stefan Priebe, Vian Rajabzadeh, Victoria Jane Bird, Francois van Loggerenberg, Michael McGrath

“…We conducted the first prospective study to assess the initial expectations as well as the final experiences of participants of a global health research programme.Design, settings and participants This study adopted a prospective longitudinal qualitative study, 38 participants of a global mental health research programme with partners in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Uganda and the (UK). …”
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Civil servants' activity regulation in Lithuania 1918-1940 by Jolanta Palidauskaitė, Milda Petrokaitė

“…The authors conclude the article raising the hypothetical question of what would happen if Lithuania adopted a new Civil Service Act as in Belgium and would not be occupied in 1940. …”
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Realist evaluation of the impact of the research translation process on health system sustainability: a study protocol by Yvonne Zurynski, Delia Hendrie, Suzanne Robinson, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Abby Mosedale

“…The timely translation of research evidence into sustainable interventions that can be adopted into the health system is one way of bolstering the sustainability of the system as a whole. …”
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One hundred years of zoonoses research in the Horn of Africa: A scoping review. by Lisa Cavalerie, Maya Wardeh, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Mark Nanyingi, K Marie McIntyre, Mirgissa Kaba, Daniel Asrat, Robert Christley, Gina Pinchbeck, Matthew Baylis, Siobhan M Mor

“…Recommendations arising from this scoping review include: (i) ensuring zoonoses research aligns with national and global research agendas; (ii) encouraging researchers to adopt a holistic, transdisciplinary One Health approach following high quality reporting standards (COHERE, PRISMA, etc.); and (iii) empowering local researchers supported by regional and international partnerships to engage in zoonoses research.…”
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Predictive modeling of air quality in the Tehran megacity via deep learning techniques by Abdullah Kaviani Rad, Mohammad Javad Nematollahi, Abbas Pak, Mohammadreza Mahmoudi

“…The conclusions confirm that the DL models achieve significant accuracy and serve as essential instruments for managing air pollution, providing practical insights for decision-makers to adopt efficient air quality control strategies.…”
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GREEN SUSTAINABILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF HALAL FOOD COMPANIES: EVIDENCE OF MALAYSIA by Md Mahfujur Rahman, Zaki Ahmad, Mahvish Nawaz Mokal, Muhamad Fikri Aziz, Nor Aina Mhd Khotib

“…With growing concerns about environmental degradation and its impact on global ecosystems, the Halal food industry is facing increasing scrutiny and pressure to adopt sustainable practices. This research examines the relationship between green sustainability and the financial performance of Halal food companies in Malaysia. …”
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Quad-Band 3D Rectenna Array for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting by Fatima Khalid, Warda Saeed, Nosherwan Shoaib, Muhammad U. Khan, Hammad M. Cheema

“…With the aim of powering up Internet of Things (IoT) nodes in practical ambient environments, a hybrid approach of combining power, both at RF and DC, is adopted using 98 MHz FM band, GSM900 (Global System for Mobile Communications), GSM1800, and Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz band. …”
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Enhance health evidence quality in classification tasks: A triangulation approach utilizing case-based reasoning and process features by Ruihua Guo, Ross Smith, Qifan Chen, Angus Ritchie, Simon Poon

“…The overall model performance (i.e. weighted F1 and area under the curve scores) increased after adopting this integrated approach. The proportion of cases misclassified by any of the six models decreased by 47% after incorporating process features (from 5.29% to 2.91%) and further decreased to 0.0% after applying the QCA solutions. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation of Top Coal Caving Methods at the Working Face of Extra-Thick Coal Seams Based on the Random Medium Theory by Shi Jiulin, Zhang Quntao, Gao Xiaojin, Xue Jisheng

“…Adopting an effective top coal caving method is the key to enhancing coal recovery and reducing gangue content for the fully mechanized top coal caving working face with extra-thick coal seams. …”
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Computational and numerical solutions to the Benney–Luke equation: Insights into nonlinear long wave dynamics in dispersive media by Mostafa M.A. Khater

“…Furthermore, a trigonometric-quantic-B-spline (TQBS) scheme is adopted as a numerical approach to corroborate the precision of the derived analytical solutions and demonstrate their relevance across diverse physical scenarios linked to the model under examination.The research outcomes underscore the efficacy of the analytical techniques in generating dependable solutions for the Benney–Luke model. …”
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Study on Stability of Tunnel Surrounding Rock and Precipitation Disaster Mitigation in Flowing Sand Body by Yongyi He, Bole Sun, Mingnian Wang

“…After the completion of the dewatering construction, the method of inserting plywood into the small pipe was adopted to avoid the collapse of the dry sand. Then, to solve the problem of borehole collapse in flowing sand bodies, pipe feeding was introduced, thus further enhancing the precipitation effect. …”
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Farmers-Herders Conflict and Nigeria’s Quest for Food Security: The Imperative Need for Information Communications Technology by Olawale Olufemi Akinrinde, Abdullahi Abdullazeez Osuwa, Kayode Wakili Olawoyin

“…However, only scanty attention had been devoted to the need to understand the imperativeness of the use of Information Communications Technology in the quest to proffer solutions to the incessant farmers-herdsmen conflicts that have also contributed to the unpalatable state of food security in Nigeria. The study adopts Karl Marx’s Conflict Theory as a framework of analysis and qualitative date elicited through content analysis of desktop date. …”
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Information Technology Framework for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Demand Management: a Brazilian Case Study by Pedro Domingos Antoniolli

“…The paper aims at proposing an information technology framework for demand management within a dyad on the supply chain pharmaceutical industry. The paper adopts the exploratory study as research method, involving a producer of generic drugs and its main distributor. …”
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Economic Spectrofluorometric Bioanalysis of Empagliflozin in Rats’ Plasma by Bassam Ayoub, Noha El Zahar, Haidy Michel, Mariam Tadros

“…Moreover, with the suitable modifications, the described novel extraction of empagliflozin could be adopted to human plasma samples and future clinical studies. …”
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Study on Clinicopathological Features and Risk Factors of Patients with Multiple Primary Breast Cancers and Thyroid Disease by Jie Li, Yonghong Liu, Jian Jin, Qingfeng Shi, Yanting Ji, Bo Zhang, Pengfei Hu

“…An analytic approach of the reviewing method was adopted to analyze the clinical data of 80 breast cancer patients who were admitted to our hospital from January 2020 to January 2022. …”
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Influence of Support Vector Regression (SVR) on Cryogenic Face Milling by Rao M. C. Karthik, Rashmi L. Malghan, Fuat Kara, Arunkumar Shettigar, Shrikantha S. Rao, Mervin A. Herbert

“…The performances of the adopted prediction approaches are compared through a range of attained error deviation, i.e., (RA: 3.95%–8.43%), (BNN: 2.36%–5.88%), (SVR: 1.04%–3.61%), respectively. …”
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Introduction of Powder Fluxes in Rotary Degassing System Towards Intensifying Refining Process of Aluminium Alloys by M. Piękoś, Z. Smorawiński

“…The scope of the tests included verifying the technical solutions that were adopted for the dosing of the bulk materials in the form of a fluid, selecting the melting temperature, and dispersing (distributing) the materials in the bath via the rotor head. …”
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Is rewilding too wild? Assessing the benefits and challenges of forest succession on abandoned land in the mid‐hills of Nepal by Nicola McGunnigle, Douglas Bardsley, Ian Nuberg, Bishnu Hari Pandit

“…Diverse livelihood benefits were recognised by rural households in the study area, with some respondents adopting agroforestry systems using regenerating species. …”
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