ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS, WORK LIFE BALANCE AND EMPLOYEES’ EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S (BiH) IT SECTOR by Ognjen Riđić, Adnan Avdibegović, Senad Bušatlić

“…Although 64.80% of participants stated that their work life is balanced with their personal life, there is always place for improvement. Participants agree that better work life balance, caused by flexible work time and flexible work location, will improve their efficiency and reduce stress. …”
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Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicle Based on a Two-Layered Planning Model in Complex Environment by Jiajia Chen, Rui Zhang, Wei Han, Wuhua Jiang, Jinfang Hu, Xiaoshan Lu, Xingtao Liu, Pan Zhao

“…The study of path planning method has always been a core and difficult problem, especially in complex environment, due to the effect of dynamic environment, the safety, smoothness, and real-time requirement, and the nonholonomic constraints of vehicle. …”
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A multicriteria method to identify and rank IEQ criticalities: Measurements and applications for existing school buildings by Francesco Leccese, Michele Rocca, Giacomo Salvadori, Elisa Belloni, Cinzia Buratti

“…The discussion shows that to identify the most critical environmental factors, the choice of the weighting scheme is extremely important although the greatest weight does not always correspond to the most critical environmental factor. …”
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Experimental Study of Size Effects on the Deformation Strength and Failure Characteristics of Hard Rocks under True Triaxial Compression by Qiang Han, Yaohui Gao, Yan Zhang

“…Size effect has always been the focus of rock mechanics as a bridge between laboratory test and engineering site. …”
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Surgical Reimplantation for the Correction of Vesicoureteral Reflux following Failed Endoscopic Injection by Boris Chertin, Ksenia Prosolovich, Sagiv Aharon, Ofer Nativ, Sarel Halachmi

“…Unfortunately, endoscopic treatment is not always successful and sometimes requires more than one trial to achieve similar results to that of an open reimplantation surgery. …”
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Joint Channel and Nonlinearity Estimation for Memoryless Nonlinear Systems by Zahra Mokhtari, Rui Dinis, Sha Hu, Dzevdan Kapetanovic

“…System nonlinearity due to hardware impairments has always been a challenging issue. Distortion cancellation and iterative detection based receivers such as the Bussgang Noise Cancelling (BNC) receiver are used to detect the original data in the presence of strong nonlinear (NL) effects. …”
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Numerical Study on Soft Coal Pillar Stability in an Island Longwall Panel by Qingyun Xu, Jian-Biao Bai, Shuai Yan, Rui Wang, Shaoxu Wu

“…Roadway support and management of longwall panels in an island soft coal panel are always difficult work. In a test mine, stress distribution, deformation characteristic, and plastic zone distribution around the roadway and coal pillars in the development and mining periods were investigated with respect to the widths of different coal pillars using theoretical and simulation methods. …”
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Origin-Destination-Based Travel Time Reliability under Different Rainfall Intensities: An Investigation Using Open-Source Data by Qi Zhang, Hong Chen, Hongchao Liu, Wei Li, Yibin Zhang

“…The study found some results that tended to agree with the previous findings in the literature, such that, in general, rain reduces the O-D-based travel time reliability, and some seemed to be unique and worthy of discussion: firstly, although in general the reduction in travel time reliability gets larger as the intensity of rainfall increases, it appears that the change is more significant when rainfall intensity changes from light to moderate but becomes fairly marginal when it changes from normal to light or from moderate to extremely intensive; secondly, regardless of normal or rainy weather, the O-D-based travel time reliability and its consistency in different O-D pairs with similar average travel time always tend to improve along with the increase of average travel time. …”
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Nephron-Sparing Surgery for Adenocarcinoma in a Renal Allograft by Fernando Vázquez Alonso, Enrique Cardozo Rodríguez, Ignacio Puche Sanz, Jose Francisco Flores Martin, Jose Miguel Molina Hernandez, Raquel Berrio Campos, Javier Vicente Prados, Antonio Medina Benitez, Jose Manuel Cózar Olmo

“…Transplantectomy has always been the usual treatment. However, during the last years, nephron-sparing surgery of the allograft is more frequently done in well-selected cases, and therefore dialysis can be avoided. …”
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A Room with Two Views: An Insight into the 1985 and 2007 Film Adaptations of E. M. Forster’s Novel by Elena Raicu

“…The other characters lack substance and are not always convincing in their roles, but are present only insofar as they come in contact with the heroine. …”
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Challenge of Retinoblastoma in Mexico in 2020: Perspectives and Solutions by Lucas A. Garza-Garza, Raúl E. Ruiz-Lozano, Genaro Rebolledo-Méndez, Ismael Ibarra-Nava, Héctor J. Morales-Garza, David Ancona-Lezama

“…However, this is not always the case. An example is Argentina, where disease-free survival rates of retinoblastoma are notably higher than expected when taking into consideration its economic situation. …”
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Hierarchical Feature Attention Learning Network for Detecting Object and Discriminative Parts in Fine-Grained Visual Classification by A. Yeong Han, Kwang Moo Yi, Kyeong Tae Kim, Jae Young Choi

“…These mechanisms often assume that critical locations have a similar scale and are uniquely localizable, which is not always accurate. For instance, the size of a bird may vary across images, and the color of its beak might only be significant for species identification when its wing and tail colors are specific. …”
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Osteoblastic Differentiation of Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells on P3HT Thin Polymer Film by Paola Campione, Maria Giovanna Rizzo, Luana Vittoria Bauso, Ileana Ielo, Grazia Maria Lucia Messina, Giovanna Calabrese

“…Bone defects restoration has always been an arduous challenge in the orthopedic field due to the limitations of conventional grafts. …”
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Investigation of the impact of complex coastline geometry on the evolution of storm surges along the eastern coast of India: a sensitivity study using a numerical model by P. Tiwari, A. D. Rao, S. Pandey, V. Pant

“…Further simulations are carried out along real coastlines, with the different approach angles of the track exhibiting that maximum PSs are not always aligned with the east of the track. Depending on the track angle, PSs may also develop on the western side. …”
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Advanced Ovarian Dysgerminoma Infiltrating Both Ovaries and Uterus in a 7-Year-Old Girl by Nexhmi Hyseni, Sadik Llullaku, Hysni Jashari, Kaltrina Zahiti, Fjolla Hyseni, Fisnik Kurshumliu, Lumturije Luci, Fehim Muqolli, Antigona Hasani

“…Although malignant ovarian germ cell tumours are rare in children, physicians must always consider the possibility of MOGT-occurrences. …”
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Application of Emergency Specialist Nursing Combined with Green Channel Mode in Patients with Limb Amputation by Zaiyun Qian, Min Wang, Tonglong Xu

“…The treatment of limb amputation is always a challenge to emergency medical staff. The success of replantation of severed limbs requires not only emergency professional nursing measures but also rapid transport against time. …”
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Research on the Influence of Groundwater in Coastal Areas on the Stress and Deformation Characteristics of Integrated Pipe Gallery by Yuanyuan Tian, Qingbiao Wang, Zhongjing Hu, Shuo Yang, Chuanxiong Peng, Xu Zhang, Zhongying Li, Xugang Wang

“…Due to the effect of the effective stress, the Mises stress on the side wall shows a decreasing trend. (2) Due to the influence of the construction form of the cross-section interface, the maximum principal stress of each part of the M side is always smaller than that of the N side; with the continuous increase of groundwater level, the maximum principal stress at each part of the N and M sides of the pipe gallery structure joint gradually increases. (3) The overall structure of the pipe gallery floats up. …”
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Hydrogel as an alternative to agar for laboratory rearing of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae by Ana Paula Nascimento Silva, Camila Faria Chagas, Emanuel Lucas de Andrade Alves, Vinícius de Castro Carvalho, Khalid Haddi

“…However, agar is costly and its use in insect rearing is not always cost-effective. Here, the synthetic polymer hydrogel was tested as an affordable alternative for laboratory rearing of the green peach aphid. …”
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Study of different thermal management systems for traction batteries to obtain vehicle lightweighting by Giulia Sandrini, Daniel Chindamo, Marco Gadola, Andrea Candela, Paolo Magri

“…However, even fully electric vehicles are not characterized by zero global emissions, due to the production of electricity from sources that are not always renewable. Moreover, this type of vehicle is afflicted by the limited range provided by the battery pack and its long recharging time. …”
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Effectiveness of Traditional Healers in Program to Control Leprosy in Nagan Raya District in Aceh by Teuku Alamsyah, Said Usman, Mutia Yusuf, Said Devi Elvin

“…Based on these results, it is hoped that the District Health Department can implement a partnership model with the Tabib in Nagan Raya (and elsewhere) to use the pocket book with training to implement a program to control the spread of leprosy and also to always support the Tabib to improve their role in controlling and eliminating leprosy amongst the village people.…”
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