Adolescent Sports Behavior and Social Networks: The Role of Social Efficacy and Self-Presentation in Sports Behavior by Lei Lei, Huifang Zhang, Xin Wang

“…Social networks are a complex system that members communicate, create new connections or destroy existing connections, and further deliver major impacts on each member’s life. …”
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Using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) in Aviation Safety: A Systematic Review by Wulin Tian, Carlo Caponecchia

“…Current FRAM illustrates its advantages in capturing the dynamic and nonlinear nature of complex systems and facilitates our understanding and continual improvement of complex systems. …”
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An interdisciplinary method for assessing IPM potential: case study in Scottish spring barley by Stacia Stetkiewicz, Ann Bruce, Fiona J. Burnett, Richard A. Ennos, Cairistiona F. E. Topp

“…Together, these diverse sources of information give a more complete view of a complex system than any individual source could and allow the identification of IPM methods which are robust, practical, and not already in widespread use in this system. …”
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A Dynamic Model of Information-Vaccination-Disease That Accounts for Emerging Viral Variants: Model Development and a Case Study for COVID-19 in Iceland by Laijun Zhao, Mingmin Ying, Ying Qian, Lixin Zhou, Pingle Yang

“…To analyze these factors, we developed mean-field equations for system dynamics to model the complex system of vaccine information dissemination and vaccination, calculated the basic reproduction rate number, and used the Icelandic COVID-19 outbreak (Omicron variant) as a case study. …”
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A Case Study of Complex Policy Design: The Systems Engineering Approach by Shqipe Buzuku, Javier Farfan, Kari Harmaa, Andrzej Kraslawski, Tuomo Kässi

“…Design, structure, modelling, and analysis of complex systems can significantly benefit from a systematic approach. …”
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People of the Past and Present. Magazine Stolitsa i usaďba, the Russian Nobility and Its Self-Presentation in the Final Years of the Tsarist Regime by Zbyněk Vydra

“… As a ruling class for centuries, the nobility created a complex system of symbols and rituals which jointly formed the (political) culture in Russia. …”
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Exploring ways to respond to rising obesity and diabetes in the Caribbean using a system dynamics model. by Leonor Guariguata, Leandro Garcia, Natasha Sobers, Trevor S Ferguson, James Woodcock, T Alafia Samuels, Cornelia Guell, Nigel Unwin

“…These conditions are the result of a complex system of drivers and determinants that can make it difficult to predict the impact of interventions. …”
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The Ordinary Legislative Procedure in the EU as an Example of Cooperative Practices by N. Yu. Kaveshnikov

“…The reason for this is that the ordinary legislative procedure has a complex system of checks and balances. This allows a number of actors to block or delay the decision-making process. …”
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Dynamics of differentiation of rural North-West of Russia: main trends and features by Alexander I. Kostyaev, Galina N. Nikonova

“…Methodologically, it adopted an approach that views rural space differentiation as a product of the combined influence of the agro-industrial complex system and the ‘urban-rural’ system. The changes of interest were studied from the industrial, demographic and settlement perspectives, with a focus on indicators such as changes in acreage and livestock between 1989, 2007 and 2023, and the size of the rural population and the number of residents per rural settlement between 2002, 2010 and 2020. …”
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Economic Management within the Cossack Frontier in the Second Half of the 19th Century (Based on the Example of the Don and Azov Cossack Troops) by Petr A. Kolpakov, Ivan Yu. Yurchenko

“…The study concludes that economic management within the Cossack frontier involved a complex system of organizational and administrative measures tailored to the unique challenges of the region.…”
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A Conceptual Approach to Complex Model Management with Generalized Modelling Patterns and Evolutionary Identification by Sergey V. Kovalchuk, Oleg G. Metsker, Anastasia A. Funkner, Ilia O. Kisliakovskii, Nikolay O. Nikitin, Anna V. Kalyuzhnaya, Danila A. Vaganov, Klavdiya O. Bochenina

“…Complex systems’ modeling and simulation are powerful ways to investigate a multitude of natural phenomena providing extended knowledge on their structure and behavior. …”
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Folie a Deux: Shared Psychotic Disorder in a Medical Unit by Saumya Bhutani, Damir Huremovic

“…Evaluation of the patient along with observation of her mother revealed that the two shared a complex system of delusions revealing a diagnosis of shared psychotic disorder. …”
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Analytical study of steady state axisymmetric stagnation-point gold–blood Casson nanofluid through a rotating stretchable disk by Usman Ali, Hamid Khan, Waris Khan, Emad E. Mahmoud, Marouan Kouki, Jabr Aljedani, Hakim AL Garalleh

“…By using scaling variables, the complex system of partial differential equations is simplified into a set of coupled high degree nonlinear ordinary differential equations with convective boundary conditions. …”
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Architecture for Resource Allocation in the Internet of Vehicles for Cooperating Driving System by Nafeesa kalsoom, Iftikhar Ahmad, Roobaea Alroobaea, Muhammad Ahsan Raza, Samina Khalid, Zaheed Ahmed, Ihsan Ali

“…Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a complex system that consists of resource types such as vehicles, humans, and sensors. …”
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Assessing Air-Pocket Pressure Peaks During Water Filling Operations Using Dimensionless Equations by Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, Francisco J. Sánchez-Romero, Manuel Saba, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez

“…The main advantage of this study lies in the ability to easily compute pressure surges without the need to solve a complex system of differential and algebraic equations. …”
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A Review of Model Order Reduction Methods for Large-Scale Structure Systems by Kuan Lu, Kangyu Zhang, Haopeng Zhang, Xiaohui Gu, Yulin Jin, Shibo Zhao, Chao Fu, Yongfeng Yang

“…The large-scale structure systems in engineering are complex, high dimensional, and variety of physical mechanism couplings; it will be difficult to analyze the dynamic behaviors of complex systems quickly and optimize system parameters. …”
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Strategic triangle ‘Russia — India — China’: Structure and problems of interaction by Xu Zhu

“…A contemporary world order is based on an increasingly complex system of interstate relations, which implies the need to thoroughly consider the international context, even when analyzing bilateral interactions. …”
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Cybersecurity of the municipal infrastructure by S. V. Kaliakin, Yu. M. Onishchenko, V. V. Nosov

“…A modern city is a complex system that requires a unified systematic approach to ensuring public safety, law and order and environmental safety in the face of high levels of both man-made and natural risks. …”
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A Computational Approach to Understanding Agglutinative Structures in Urdu by Muhammad Shoaib Tahir, Mahnoor Amjad

“…This study investigates the computational challenges and opportunities presented by the agglutinative structures in Urdu, a language characterized by its complex system of morpheme-based word formation. …”
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FREEDOM OF THE INFORMATION SPACE. IS IT A REALITY OR ILLUSION? by Elena V. Korableva

“…Conclusions: 1) socialization in the new socio-cultural information space involves the formation of a complex system of person's intellectual and emotional development. …”
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