PROBLEMS, CHALLENGES, AND POTENTIALS OF THE GREEK AIR CARGO INDUSTRY by Konstantinos MALAGAS, Athanasios PALAMARAS, Ayse KUCUK YILMAZ, Nikitas NIKITAKOS

“…Air cargo significantly contributes to trade, bridging the gap between production and consumption in a timely and reliable manner. The specific industry is a complex system, participating many players and requiring many documents and actions. …”
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Computational Comparison of Exact Solution Methods for 0-1 Quadratic Programs: Recommendations for Practitioners by Richard J. Forrester, Noah Hunt-Isaak

“…The goal is to provide practitioners with guidance on how to best approach solving BQPs in an effective and easily implemented manner.…”
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Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making in Romania by Bogdana Neamtu, Dacian C. Dragos, Laura Capraru

“… This article researches the manner in which the participation pillar from the Aarhus Convention was transposed into Romanian legislation and how its provisions were applied to a highly controversial case. …”
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Protection of whistleblowers in Serbia: The role and importance of whistleblowers in revealing corruption by Tanjević Nataša

“…It is crucial to determine specific solutions, so the problems could be identified and solved in a timely manner.…”
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Problems in the theoretical foundation of the functional-equivalent approach by G. J. C. Jordaan

“…This  transformation is conducted in a manner which corresponds with the idea that textual form and message can be separated. …”
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Un-quaring San Francisco in Milk and Test by Clayton Dillard

“…While it is perhaps unsurprising that Milk, a prestige Hollywood film, engages homonormative depictions of queerness, the fact that Test, an American indie, presents San Francisco in a similar manner demonstrates how pernicious this discourse is and that it persists no matter the industrial formation.…”
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It cautions against the simplified and false dichotomy between gentrification and depopulation, calling rather for a more fluid appreciation of the manner in which people exploit opportunities for mobility as they connect with, and from, peripheral places. …”
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Radical reflexivity, experimental ontology and RRI by Robert Braun

“…To do so the paper offers an analysis of in what manner current RRI discourse builds on old subject-object ontologies and relies on an outdated worldview. …”
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Fast Single Pbase Algoritbm for Utility Mining in Big Data by Junqiang Liu, Qingfeng Zhou, Wenhui Wang, Lei Shi

“…Most of the latest works on utility mining generates a huge number of candidates in dealing with big data,which suffers from the scalability issue.Some work does not generate candidates,but suffers from the efficiency issue due to lack of strong pruning and high computation overhead.A novel algorithm that finds high utility patterns in a single phase without generating candidates was proposed.The novelties lie in a prefix growth strategy with strong pruning,and a sparse matrix based representation of transactions with pseudo projection.The proposed algorithm works in a depth first manner and does not materialize high utility patterns in memory,which further improves the scalability.Extensive experiments on synthetic and rea1-world data show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the latest works in terms of running time,memory overhead,and scalability.…”
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“The Enchanted Hunters and the Hunted Enchanters: the dizzying effects of embedded structures and meta-artistic devices in Lolita, novel and film” by Marie Bouchet

“…This paper explores some of the various mises en abyme and metatextual devices in Nabokov’s and Kubrick’s Lolita, so as to explore how such devices create a poetics of reflections, and themselves reflect the manner in which the relationship to the reader/spectator is engaged by the literary and filmic narratives. …”
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It cautions against the simplified and false dichotomy between gentrification and depopulation, calling rather for a more fluid appreciation of the manner in which people exploit opportunities for mobility as they connect with, and from, peripheral places. …”
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Why Do People Come to See Mount Everest? Collective Representations and Tourism Practices in the Khumbu Region by Etienne Jacquemet

“…These elements are conducive to the processes of physical and mental renewal, in addition to social distinction which allows trekkers –in a more or less conscious, temporary, or performance-based manner– to push themselves to their limits. The popularity and increasing openness of the Everest region and its inhabitants to globalisation, which could theoretically call into question the meaning and very principles of this heterotopia, do not seem to affect the experience of trekkers, despite the fact that their practices are based on a complete break with the places and time frames of their everyday life.…”
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Optimal Pricing of Spectrum Resources in Wireless Opportunistic Access by Hanna Bogucka

“…The users equipment, or the network nodes in general are able to sense the spectrum and adopt a subset of available resources (the spectrum and the power) individually and independently in a distributed manner, that is, based on their local channel quality information and not knowing the Channel State Information (CSI) of the other nodes' links in the considered network area. …”
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Désirer le monde : le rôle de l’atmosphère au cinéma dans la subjectivation éthique et esthétique du spectateur by Louise Bouvet-Zieleskiewicz

“…Far from being only an encompassing ambiance in which the subject would be immersed, atmosphere is seen here as an active instance which shapes the spectator subject, participates in the creation of the spectator’s personality and prompts a form of continual renewal of his curiosity and manner of perception. L’art et le monde by Charles Bobant will allow us to update this productive dimension of atmosphere. …”
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An Optimized Approach for Time-Constrained and Reliable Bursty Data Acquisition in WMSNs by Phan Van Vinh, Hoon Oh

“…In real-time multimedia application that is used to monitor the safety of workers and working environment in industrial fields, a burst of multimedia data, such as still images and audio or video streams, generated by multimedia nodes equipped with cameras or microphones on demand, is required to be collected at a server within a specified time bound in a reliable manner. However, due to the limited resources in sensor devices, such as process capability, bandwidth, and energy, it is challengeable to satisfy the time constraints of various real-time multimedia applications. …”
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Using the three-way matrix for AHP-group decision-making by Elisa Fiorenza

“…This matrix allows us to examine, in a contemporary and global manner, the preferences of several decision-makers in the decision-making context. …”
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Dysfunctional Consumer Behavior: Proposition of a Measurement Scale by Marília Lara Marcondes Machado de Oliveira, Andres Rodriguez Veloso

“…This study focuses on the development of a scale that can identify customers that are more prone to behave in a dysfunctional manner. Dysfunctional Consumer Behavior can negatively influence the organization profits, since this kind of consumer can generate monetary losses, such as fixing damaged pr operty. …”
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Un objet d’histoire (presque) introuvable : les fourches patibulaires dans les sources tourangelles (xiiie-xviiie siècles) by Fabrice Mauclair

“…The second deals with their duration, their frequency and their manner of use. Finally, the third relates their location, appearance and materials used in their construction.…”
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N-Acetyl cysteine exhibits antimicrobial and anti-virulence activity against Salmonella enterica. by Selwan Hamed, Mohamed Emara, Payman Tohidifar, Christopher V Rao

“…In addition, NAC inhibits the expression of virulence genes at sub-inhibitory concentrations in a dose-dependent manner. The whole-genome sequencing revealed that continuous exposure of S. enterica to NAC leads to the development of resistance; these resistant strains are attenuated for virulence. …”
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“Liberty for Androids!”: Player Choice, Politics, and Populism in Detroit: Become Human by Stefan Schubert

“…I argue that it features and presents narrative choices in a way that encourages players to make decisions not solely for personal or empathetic reasons but also through a political contemplation, and I contend that the manner in which the game narratively presents individual agency and populist imaginations of “the people” complicates this political project. …”
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