Impact of Investment on Labour Productivity in Azerbaijan's Chemical and Petrochemical Industry by Vilayat Ismayilov, Nizami Gafarov, Sabina Valiyeva

“…The study investigates the direct impacts of investments in technology, human capital, and infrastructure on labour productivity within Azerbaijan's chemical and petrochemical industries and identifies which specific areas of investment most effectively enhance productivity and the underlying reasons for their success. The practical significance of this research lies in utilising the identified findings to tackle issues about enhancing labour productivity in Azerbaijan's economic sectors, thereby elevating this process to a higher level. …”
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Urban Vegetation Mapping from Aerial Imagery Using Explainable AI (XAI) by Arnick Abdollahi, Biswajeet Pradhan

“…These methods are promising in this domain, yet unreliable for various reasons, such as the use of irrelevant descriptor features in the building of the models and lack of quality in the labeled image. …”
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Approaches for estimating the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of compacted quartz sand via particle packing theory by Qiang Liu, Liang Guo, Jiali Miao, Xiangchao Qu, Shujie Xiao

“…Both Approach I and Approach II provided accurate and reasonable K values for 20 compacted quartz sand samples. …”
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Enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica by Reinaldo Pino Blanco, Orestes Álvarez Fernández, Juan De Dios Rivero Berovides

“…Even when it is a potentially modifiable disease, mortality and morbidity are also increasing, causing a major health, social and personal spending. For all these reasons, a multifactorial approach is needed both, for health and social issues.…”
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Peculiarities of initiating a pre-trial investigation on domestic violence (Article 126-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) by S. Ye. Ablamskyi, Yu. V. Lukianenko

“…If a person has not been brought to administrative responsibility, but has systematically committed acts (domestic violence), then it is reasonable to consider criminal liability for the relevant actions. …”
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Financialization and Level of Happiness in the Context of Sustainable Development. The Case of Central and Eastern European Countries by Aleksandra Ostrowska, Bogdan Włodarczyk

“…Although financialization may be an instrument for financing sustainable development, it does not have a positive impact on the level of happiness that results from it. The basic reasons may lie in the too low scale of financing activities related to sustainable development or in the inadequate structure of this financing. …”
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FIELD ASSESSMENT OF ACCESSIONS FROM THE MAIZE COLLECTION FOR RESISTANCE TO BOIL SMUT by V. N. Boyko

“…The efficiency of heterotic breeding is determined by reasonable selection of the lines with the best combining abilities and important breeding traits. …”
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The urgency of Polya model problem-solving on students mathematical ability in facing the Industrial Revolution 5.0 by Abdurrahman Al Kayyis, Mohammad Tohir, Muhasshanah Muhasshanah

“…Conditions like this occur for two reasons: problem-solving is difficult, or they get an educator who is usually called a killer. …”
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Features of the Application of the Amnesty Institution under the Laws of the Russian Empire (1845-1917) by G. G. Dedurin, D. G. Zavrichko

“…Thus, the normative consolidation of concepts and partially the procedures of “pardon” and “condonation” was reflected in the Criminal and Correctional Penal Code of 1845, which were duplicated in the Regulations of 1885 and 1903. The reasons for the abolition of punishment could be the following: incurable illness or death of the accused, reconciliation of the parties, the statute of limitations for the crime and pardon. …”
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Perceptions of medical doctors living in Ethiopia about physician migration: a qualitative study by Ephrem Tadele Sedeta, Temesgen Beyene Abicho, Bilain Yilma Jobre

“…Push factors are more crucial than pull factors, and financial reasons play the leading role. Junior physician unemployment, politicisation of hospital administration, and poor medical migration governance are growing problems. …”
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Variational Methods in Optical Quantum Machine Learning by Marco Simonetti, Damiano Perri, Osvaldo Gervasi

“…As a case study, we considered the binary classification of points belonging to a certain geometric pattern (the Two-Moons Classification problem) on a plane. We think it is reasonable to expect benefits from using hybrid deep learning systems (classical + quantum), not just in terms of accelerating computation but also in understanding the underlying phenomena and mechanisms. …”
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Data Augmentation-Based Enhancement for Efficient Network Traffic Classification by Chang-Yui Shin, Yang-Seo Choi, Myung-Sup Kim

“…As encryption becomes the norm for security reasons, the traffic classification problem is not easily solved. …”
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Russian-Speaking Population in Far-Abroad Countries by S. V. Ryazantsev, E. E. Pismennaya, G. N. Ochirova

“…The survey results indicate the heterogeneous structure of Russian-speaking communities by reasons of emigration, socio-economic status, degree of integration into the host society, gender, and ethnic composition, and geography of resettlement. …”
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Air Traffic Efficiency Analysis of Airliner Scheduled Flights Using Collaborative Actions for Renovation of Air Traffic Systems Open Data by Akinori Harada, Tooru Ezaki, Tomoaki Wakayama, Koichi Oka

“…., 1087 cases of four aircraft types, are analyzed with reasonable CI settings. Our research findings suggest that flight fuel consumption and flight distance can be saved by 312 kg and 19.7 km, respectively, on average for the object flights. …”
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Ferroelectric memory: state-of-the-art manufacturing and research by D. A. Abdullaev, R. A. Milovanov, R. L. Volkov, N. I. Borgardt, A. N. Lantsev, K. A. Vorotilov, A. S. Sigov

“…Semiconductor industry calls for emerging memory, demonstrating high speed (like SRAM or DRAM), nonvolatility (like Flash NAND), high endurance and density, good scalability, reduced energy consumption and reasonable cost. Ferroelectric memory FRAM has been considered as one of the emerging memory technologies for over 20 years. …”
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Event-by-Event Particle Ratio Fluctuations at LHC Energies by Shaista Khan, Bushra Ali, Anuj Chandra, Shakeel Ahmad

“…For peripheral collisions, however, the model predicted values of νdynπ,K are somewhat smaller, whereas for p,K and π,p it predicts larger values as compared to the corresponding experimental values. The possible reasons for the observed differences are discussed. …”
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Uneven Impact of Covid-19 on Sex Workers in Spain by Carmen Meneses-Falcón, Antonio Rúa-Vieites, Olaya García-Vázquez

“…Regarding the results, there were significant differences between the two groups, with the lower segment being more vulnerable and facing worse conditions: more difficulties with their documents, lower level of education, less support network, more clients, more insecurity in the place where they work (streets, industrial estates or roads), younger age of starting prostitution, more coercion or need to start (most reported reasons to start in prostitution were economic need, lack of documentation, family responsibilities and debts), less possibilities of health insurance, worse physical and mental health, more food insecurity, and lower income. …”
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Industry specialisation of the Kemerovsk region – Kuzbass: trends and problems that affect economic growth and development of the region by K. I. Bobko, O. A. Zatepyakin, T. V. Bobko

“…The trend of decrease in the industrial production index is analysed, it is shown that it has a trend similar to the dynamics of the decline in mining production, and the reasons for the decline are described. The strengthening trend of economic growth in the Kemerovo region – Kuzbass based on the raw model has been determined. …”
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Assessment of the Excavation Damaged Zones in the Surrounding Rock of an Underground Powerhouse under High In Situ Stress Using an Acoustic Velocity Detecting Method by Liguo Zhang, Dong Wang, Jiaxing Dong

“…Generally, EDZs distribution was consistent with deformation and failure phenomena distribution; compared to the field failure phenomena, the assessment results were reliable and reasonable. Finally, EDZs formation mechanism was discussed, and it can be concluded that the relatively large intermediate principal stresses σ2 were a critical driving factor of the EDZs evolution.…”
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A multivalent binding model infers antibody Fc species from systems serology. by Armaan A Abraham, Zhixin Cyrillus Tan, Priyanka Shrestha, Emily R Bozich, Aaron S Meyer

“…In total, our modeling approach provides a quantitative framework for the reasoning typically applied in these studies, improving the ability to draw mechanistic conclusions from these data.…”
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