Principles of organization and structure of the management system of a holding type company by A. Borovikov, O. Smolyakov

“…One of the main tasks of building an effective management structure for a group of companies of the holding type has been designated− it is the harmonization of the interests of top management and owners. …”
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Experimental Study of Volumetric Fracturing Properties for Shale under Different Stress States by Hongjian Wang, Jin Li, Fei Zhao, Jinyu Dong, Yanzong Cui, Wanlin Gong

“…Combining the in situ stress characteristics of a shale reservoir and fracturing technology, three types of true triaxial volumetric fracturing simulation experiments were designed and performed on shale, including three-dimensional constant loading, one-dimensional pressurization disturbance, and one-dimensional depressurization disturbance. …”
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A scoping review on the use of traditional medicine and oral health in Africa. by Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan, Mobolaji Timothy Olagunju, Olunike Rebecca Abodunrin, Omolola Titilayo Alade

“…All the studies were either experimental designs or ethnobotanical surveys and they all utilized plant-based remedies. …”
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A review of artificial intelligence techniques for optimizing friction stir welding processes and predicting mechanical properties by Roosvel Soto-Diaz, Mauricio Vásquez-Carbonell, Jose Escorcia-Gutierrez

“…The selection criteria were designed to identify studies that employed AI techniques for the prediction and optimization of FSW parameters. …”
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Tuzūkāt-i Tīmūrī as a Source on Chagatai Military Tactics, Late Fourteenth to Early Fifteenth Centuries by Leonid A. Bobrov, Aibolat K. Kushkumbayev, Zhaksylyk М. Sabitov, Myltykbayuly

“…It is possible to highlight data pertaining to Chagatai combat tactics of the designated period through comparing the text of Tuzūkāt-i Tīmūrī to those of early fifteenth-century Zafarnamas and other works of the Timurid era. …”
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Strategic foresight of staffing needs of innovative development of socio-economic systems by Elena Okunkova

“…The model of interaction of the labor market and the sphere of professional education, based on a strategic foresight of personnel requirements, has been designed to provide the independent, reasonable professional choice of youth today for satisfaction and social mobility of the population in future. …”
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Promoting Internal Armed Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: The Case of the U.S.-Colombia Relations (Part II) by A. A. Manukhin

“…The failure of the national referendum, which was designed to approve the agreement, not only revealed deep divisions in the society, but forced the government to make serious concessions to the opponents of the negotiations with FARC. …”
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Professionally focused vlog in pre-service foreign language teacher education by A. Melnyk

“…They entail: setting explicit  project objectives aligned with authentic outcomes reflective of prospective professional activities; creating quasi-professional tasks (a partial analogue of a professional one) designed to enhance university-level students’ professional motives and interests in teaching languages and cultures, and modelling situations that closely mirror challenges pertinent to professional advancement; maintaining a project log for a 4-5 weeks duration, meticulously managing ordered stages of work during classroom and extracurricular activities, accompanied by a set of exercises and tasks for improving linguistic, speech, educational-strategic and socio-cultural competences; promoting personalised learning to explore topics that align with their professional aspirations; facilitating reflection practices, taking into account the obstacles students encountered and the resolution strategies they surmounted in pursuit of project goals; emphasizing self-regulation, critical appraisal and revision.…”
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The Serbian version of the Pandemic-Related Pregnancy Stress Scale (PREPS-SRB)-A validation study. by Konstantin Kostić, Aleksandra Kostić, Aleksandra Petrović, Andrija Vasilijević, Jelena Milin-Lazović

“…The Pandemic-Related Pregnancy Stress Scale (PREPS) is a thoroughly designed tool that helps determine and analyze stress among pregnant women during pandemics in three domains: Preparedness in childbirth, (2) Infection, and (3) Positive Appraisal. …”
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Features of the receiving of piezoelectric thin films by plasma spraying of powdery AlN by V. S. Feshchenko, K. N. Zyablyuk, E. A. Senokosov, V. I. Chukita, D. A. Kiselev

“…But the widespread use of products based on AlN prevents low manufacturability designs based on it. In this regard, the development of new technologies for the production of devices based on AlN is relevant.The work is devoted to the study of thin AlN films obtained by plasma spraying from AlN powder. …”
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PEER TUTORING IN LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AS A NON-MAJOR by E. A. Makarova

“…The advantages of peer tutoring over traditional forms of education and a group form of work when students solve a problem are designated, but their roles are not accurately distributed. …”
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Reciprocation with different motions: an in vitro comparative study by Vittorio Franco, Maya Feghali, Rosalie Chakra, Mohammed Hammo, Valentina Vincenzi, Kadriye Ozdayi, Hyeon-Cheol Kim, Massimo Galli, Gabriele Miccoli

“…A new clinical motion, designed to improve the safety and efficiency of NiTi instrumentation, has been proposed and positively evaluated in several studies: the “MIMERACI” technique. …”
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First sliding area analysis of expansive soil slope based on the upper and lower bound solutions by Weiming HE, Shengwei SHI, Qiang CAI, Jiong LIANG

“…This study provides the basic information for evaluating disaster scales and designing prevention and control measures for expansive soil landslides.…”
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Mathematical Model and Numerical Simulation of Coalbed Methane Migration Considering the Adsorption Expansion Effect by Jianlin Xie, Shaoqiang Yang, Pengwei Li

“…The influence of gas adsorption and desorption on the volumetric strain of coal was measured by a self-designed, fluid–solid coupling triaxial coal adsorption deformation experimental system. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Lifestyle Intervention and Pioglitazone for Normalization of Glucose Status in Chinese with Prediabetes by Yingying Luo, Hongyuan Wang, Xianghai Zhou, Cuiqing Chang, Wei Chen, Xiaohui Guo, Jinkui Yang, Linong Ji, Sanjoy K. Paul

“…We conducted a randomized, multicenter, 2×2 factorial designed study to examine whether intensive lifestyle intervention and/or pioglitazone could revert prediabetes to normal glucose tolerance. …”
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Determinants of essential newborn care for institutional births in Bangladesh: Findings from the 2019 MICS Survey by Syeda Sumaiya Efa, Syed Nafi Mahdee, Md Fuad Al Fidah

“…Essential newborn care (ENC) is designed to lower neonatal morbidity and mortality. …”
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Dental caries and related factors in the elderly of the Azar cohort population: A cross-sectional study. by Maryam Hosseinpour Sarmadi, Nasrin Sharififard, Zeinab Mahboobi, Elnaz Faramarzi, Aylin Bilehjani

“…The Azar cohort study evaluated demographic factors, the history of chronic diseases, and behavioral habits using a well-designed questionnaire administered through face- to -face interviews. …”
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An Experiment-Based Simplified Method for the Model of Building Groups in CFD Simulation by Hongling Guo, Ying Zhou, Yingxin Li, Zhihui Zhang, Heng Li

“…Then, a single factor experiment and an orthogonal experiment are designed and performed to determine the reasonable value range of each factor. …”
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Using machine learning-based models for personality recognition by Fatemeh Mohades Deilami, Hossein Sadr, Mozhdeh Nazari

“…Although various methods have been recently proposed for the task of personality recognition, most of them have mainly focused on human-designed statistical features and they did not make use of rich semantic information existing in users' generated texts while not only these contents can demonstrate its writer's internal thought and emotion but also can be assumed as the most direct way for people to state their feeling and opinion in an understandable form. …”
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Study on Layered-Backfill-Based Water Protection Technology of Thick Coal Seam in the Ecologically Fragile Mining Area in Western China by Lei Zhu, Tianqi Song, Wenzhe Gu, Kai Xu, Zhicheng Liu, Fengqi Qiu, Xinfu Zhang

“…The panel layout of the layered-backfill-based water protection working face and the parallel operation of mining and backfilling are designed, and a feedback regulation system integrating hydrological monitoring and backfill ratios is established, which assists in evaluating the effectiveness of water protection. …”
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