Determinants of investment attractiveness of countries and investment climate assessment methods. Survey analysis by Piotr Misztal, Vasili Kulakov

“…These questions were designed to assess the opinions of potential investors regarding the degree of influence of various factors on their decision on capital allocation and the investment climate of a country. …”
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Charge-Based Inhibitors of Amylin Fibrillization and Toxicity by Sharadrao M. Patil, Andrei T. Alexandrescu

“…To test the hypothesis that electrostatic repulsion is an important force opposing amyloid fibril assembly, we designed peptides that substitute strings of positively or negatively charged residues into the sequence of the amyloidogenic hormone amylin, which contributes to type 2 diabetes pathology. …”
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Fault analysis and fault degree evaluation via an improved ResNet method for aircraft hydraulic system by Kenan Shen, Dongbiao Zhao

“…The structure of the two improved ResNet blocks are designed, after that the whole structure of the SE-ResNet fault degree evaluation model is given. …”
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Prevalence of Internet-based Self-medical Diagnosis among Indian Nonmedical Undergraduate Students: An Observational Cross-sectional Survey by Jayati Pandey, Priya Nimish Deo, Revati Shailesh Deshmukh, Siddharth Shinde, Veera Bhosale

“…Methodology: After ethical clearance, an e-form with 12 closed-ended questions designed on Google Forms was randomly circulated to nonmedical Indian undergraduate students. …”
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A comprehensive outline of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic prescribing, and antimicrobial stewardship in South Africa: A scoping review protocol. by Suwayda Ahmed, Rukshana Ahmed, Razia Zulfikar Adam

“…This review will consider all types of study designs, conducted within South Africa. Studies that are published in English for the period 2019-2024, and that explore antimicrobial resistance (AMR) evidence in healthcare in South Africa, including antibiotic prescribing trends and antimicrobial stewardship and surveillance initiatives will be included. …”
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Sustainable Energy Transitions: Overcoming Negative Externalities by U. Yе. Pysmenna, G. S. Trypolska

“…It classifies the wide range of policy methods (classical and new) being applied separately and simultaneously, and analyses their application in energy policies designing aimed to combat negative externalities of energy sustainability transitions worldwide, so they might be minimized by properly tailored energy policy in each particular case.…”
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Identifying the Dimensions and Components of the Executive Requirements of Islamic Microfinance by Akram Taftiyan, Farideh Noor Mohammadi

“…The current research was carried out with the aim of designing and validating the dimensions and components of the executive requirements of Islamic wisdom financing. …”
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Comparative analysis of models of sports development management on example of football industry: international experience and russian peculiarities by Sh. M. Ramazanov

“…The author suggests possible directions of Russian football industry’s effectiveness and efficiency improvement which are: foundation of a unified center of management that would be in charge of professional football, increase of internal competition in Russian Football Premier League achieving both commercial and sports results. The need of designing a transparent program of collaboration among broadcasting companies and Russian Football Union is indicated. …”
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Big data and urban form: a systematic review by Vladan Djokić, Aleksandra Djordjević, Aleksandra Milovanović

“…Abstract The study of urban form as a central interest of architects, planners, and urban designers has faced various challenges over time, affecting the representation of this topic in the research, educational, and practical arenas. …”
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Quality Evaluation of Saposhnikovia divaricata (Turcz.) Schischk from Different Origins Based on HPLC Fingerprint and Chemometrics by Yuqiu Chen, Zhefeng Xu, Siying Gao, Tao Zhang, Changbao Chen

“…Partial least squares method-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) screened to obtain 2 differential markers, the different components were designated by the reference substance as 4-O-β-D-glucosyl-5-O-methylvisamminol and cimifugin. …”
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Disturbance Observer-Based Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Spacecraft Electromagnetic Docking by Jinghui Zhang, Guoqiang Zeng, Shifeng Zhang

“…Based on the proposed improved far-field model and the research results of magnetic moment allocation law, a fast-nonsingular terminal mode controller driven by a disturbance observer is designed in the presence of model uncertainties and external disturbances. …”
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Study on Explosion-Resistance of Biomimetic Layered Honeycomb Structure by Ji Li, Shaoqing Shi, Weiming Luo, Qifan Wang

“…A new type of explosion-resistant biomimetic layered honeycomb structure was designed based on the natural mechanism and biological inspiration, which was mainly composed of a sacrificial layer and a bearing layer. …”
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Artificial versus natural intelligence: Overcoming students' cheating likelihood with artificial intelligence tools during virtual assessment by Olalekan J. Akintande

“…These AI‐powered Chatbot is designed to appear similar to human speech or text and present information conversationally, making them tenable options for student assessment support worldwide. …”
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Comparative Neuroprotective Effects of Dexamethasone and Minocycline during Hepatic Encephalopathy by Maha Gamal, Zainab Abdel Wahab, Mohamed Eshra, Laila Rashed, Nivin Sharawy

“…The present study was designed to investigate the role of the inflammatory mediators and oxidative stress in the cytotoxic brain oedema and the neuroprotective effects of both minocycline and dexamethasone. …”
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Embedding of national cryptographic algorithm in Hyperledger Fabric by Qi CAO, Shuhua RUAN, Xingshu CHEN, Xiao LAN, Hongxia ZHANG, Hongjian JIN

“…Hyperledger Fabric is an extensible alliance blockchain platform and provides support for enterprise-level commercial blockchain projects.The cryptographic algorithm is the core technologies of the platform, ensuring the security and non-tampering of the data on the chain.But the original Fabric platform lacks the national cryptographic algorithm support.The embedding and support of the national cryptographic algorithm of the Fabric platform was designed and implemented.Firstly, the interaction logic of between components and the invocation scenario of each type of cryptographic algorithm in the Fabric platform were analyzed, an idea of embedding national cryptographic algorithm support for the platform was proposed.Secondly, the modules and interfaces for SM2, SM3 and SM4 were added to BCCSP of the Fabric platform based on the open source code of national cryptographic algorithm implementation.Thirdly, the interface of cryptographic algorithm invoked by the upper layer of each component is associated to the interface of corresponding national cryptographic algorithms, which realized the invocation support of national cryptographic algorithm for the upper layer applications.Finally, the correctness and effectiveness of the embedded national cryptographic algorithm were verified by creating a fabric-gm test instance.And compared with the performances of the test instance built by the mirror of the native Fabric platform.The experimental results show that the embedded national cryptographic algorithm interfaces are corrected and the generated national cryptographic certificates are effective.Moreover, compared with the native Fabric platform, the network start up time increases by about 3%.In the millisecond unit, the transaction time cost increases by about one time, the dynamic certificate generation time increases by about 9%, and all the performance are within the acceptable range.…”
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Textile study courses – evaluation of student performance over one complete decade by Boris Mahltig

“…With this background, for future developments a special designed part time master study course should be developed and offered for students who like the combination of a job carrier with gaining simultaneously a master degree.   …”
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SP-Loc: A crowdsourcing fingerprint based shop-level indoor localization algorithm integrating shop popularity without the indoor map by Jie Wei, Fang Zhao, Haiyong Luo

“…Moreover, a shop-level hierarchical indoor localization framework is proposed, and high robustness features based on Wi-Fi sequences variation pattern in the same shop analysis are designed to avoid the received signal strength fluctuations. …”
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Citrate: a key signalling molecule and therapeutic target for bone remodeling disorder by Qichang Liu, Yuchuan Xue, Junzhe Guo, Lin Tao, Yue Zhu

“…Citrate imbalance due to citrate transporter could result in the supression of osteoblast/OC function through histone acetylation, thereby contributing to disorders in bone remodeling. Therefore, designing drugs targeting citrate-related proteins to regulate bone citrate content provides a new direction for the drug treatment of diseases related to bone remodeling disorders.…”
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Cross-domain entity identity association analysis and prediction based on representation learning by Mingcheng Gao, Ruiheng Wang, Lu Wang, Yang Xin, Hongliang Zhu

“…Moreover, we creatively designed a network representation learning method. …”
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Using double attention for text tattoo localisation by Xingpeng Xu, Shitala Prasad, Kuanhong Cheng, Adams Wai Kin Kong

“…In addition to TTLN‐DA, two variants of TTLN‐DA are designed to study the effectiveness of different prior knowledge. …”
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