Disfunctions of Bureaucracy dan Mal-Administrasi Pemerintah dalam Pengelolaan Sampah di Kabupaten Sinjai by Syahril Syahril, Rasyid Thaha, A.M. Rusli

“…The results showed: the form of pathology found, namely Disfunctions of bureaucracy and Mal-Administration of the government structurally must implement waste management policies, namely the facilities and infrastructure must comply with regulations and the performance of officers who should run according to their duties and functions Efforts that must be made by the government, namely guidance and supervision of the regulations that have been set and contained in the regional regulations of Sinjain Regency number 10 of 2017 must be maximized. …”
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An Artificial Intelligence Method for Asphalt Pavement Pothole Detection Using Least Squares Support Vector Machine and Neural Network with Steerable Filter-Based Feature Extractio... by Nhat-Duc Hoang

“…Experimental results obtained from a repeated subsampling process with 20 runs show that both LS-SVM and ANN are capable methods for pothole detection with classification accuracy rate larger than 85%. …”
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Good Worker Health and Hygiene Practices: Evaluation and Importance in GAPs and GMPs by Melissa Holmes-Pearce, Mark Ritenour, Amy Simonne, Jeff Brecht, Steve Sargent, Keith Schneider

“…Young children, the elderly, and people with immuno-compromising conditions such as HIV, AIDS, and cancer run even greater risk of serious illness or death related to contaminated foods. …”
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Determinants of the effective tax rate in the tourism sector: a dynamic panel data model by José Moreno-Rojas, M. Rosario González-Rodríguez, Rosario Carmen Martín-Samper

“…A dynamic model where the lagged endogenous variable ETR has been included as a regressor to identify the dynamic structure of the variable due to the existence of temporal adjustments between the short and long run in ETR payments has been estimated. The empirical analysis based on a panel data set over the 2008-2013 period explores the determinants of the ETR variable by using a Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) estimator controlling for heterogeneity in the tourism sector. …”
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURAL FINANCING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA by Rasaki Olufemi Kareem, Rukayat Adebunmi Arije, Zakariah Olayiwola Amoo, Hassan Yusuf Avovome

“…A Single equation cointegration test confirmed no cointegration and a short-run vector autoregressive model was used to analyze the data, after which the diagnostic test was carried out to confirm the normality of the series. …”
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EU-Compatible State Measures and Member States Interests in Public Services: Lessons from the Case of Hungary by Tamás M. Horváth, Ildikó Bartha

“…Measures examined in the paper run completely counter to the spirit of the original intention of the founders of the integration, and recent changes in EU law do not seem to raise unavoidable obstacles to such cases. …”
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Book Review: Against Liberalism, on a Repercussive Critics on Liberalism by Hamid Malekzadeh, Ahmad Khaleghi damghani

“…In this essay, we have tried to study the form and content of the book Against Liberalism, to show that John Kekes’s work is suffering from a kind of theoretical trap that runs throughout his book. In doing so, we have followed a textualist standpoint by which we aimed to highlight the main framework of Kekes’s understanding of liberalism. …”
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Designing a new magnetic g-C3N4 nanocatalyst based on Ag nanoparticles supported by β-cyclodextrin for effective reduction of nitroaromatic compounds by Saeed Rostami, Asieh Yahyazadeh, Hadi Adibi

“…Moreover, the organometallic nanocatalyst could be easily recovered from the solution using an external magnet and demonstrated consistent catalytic activity over six consecutive runs with a slight decrease.…”
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Assessment of Lower Sakarya River Water Quality in Terms of Irrigation Water by Çiğdem Özer, Rabia Köklü

“…The Lower Sakarya Sub-Basin is under the influence of the industrial activities and the wastewater from settlements, agricultural and urban run-off and the geological formations it has undergone since the birth of the Sakarya River. …”
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Financial Distress Warning: An Evaluation System including Ecological Efficiency by Shuang Wu, Hui Zhang, Yuan Tian, Liyuan Shi

“…Our experiments indicate that participating in ecological efficiency improves the evaluation system of financial distress warnings, and its accuracy is much better than the traditional evaluation system in the long run. The logit model confirms the essential of ecological indicators in financial distress warning, and the behavior of observing environmental regulation will prevent enterprises from getting into financial distress. …”
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Trusted Computing Strengthens Cloud Authentication by Eghbal Ghazizadeh, Mazdak Zamani, Jamalul-lail Ab Manan, Mojtaba Alizadeh

“…Cloud computing is a new generation of technology which is designed to provide the commercial necessities, solve the IT management issues, and run the appropriate applications. Another entry on the list of cloud functions which has been handled internally is Identity Access Management (IAM). …”
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A Cost Function Approach to the Prediction of Passenger Distribution at the Subway Platform by Xiaoxia Yang, Xiaoli Yang, Zhenling Wang, Yuanlei Kang

“…Simulation experiments are run for the model calibration and validation combining with the collected field data. …”
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Artificial Reefs in Florida 101: Effects on Fisheries--Part 4 of an Artificial Reef series by Lisa Chong, Angela B. Collins, Holly Abeels, Anna Braswell, Andrew Ropicki, Edward V. Camp

“…This publication, part 4 of the Artificial Reefs series, explores a complicated but fascinating aspect of artificial reefs—should we expect them to lead to better fishing in the long run? Many people think artificial reefs should be a “win-win” since both fish and fishers seem to like them. …”
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Optimizing Red Blood Cell Consumption Using Markov's Decision-Making Process (Case study: Blood Bank of Zanjan Province Blood Transfusion Center) by Mahdi Yousefi Nejad, Mehran Khayat Rasouli, Zohreh Khalilpour

“…By investigating different costs and comparing various (LIFO-LIFO), (FIFO-FIFO), and (LIFO, FIFO) policies, it can be concluded over iterations that policies (LIFO-LIFO) and (LIFO -FIFO) policies have better performances than the (FIFO-FIFO) policy, and will cost much less in the long run.…”
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Degradation State Recognition of Rolling Bearing Based on K-Means and CNN Algorithm by Qicai Zhou, Hehong Shen, Jiong Zhao, Xingchen Liu, Xiaolei Xiong

“…The proposed method was tested by bearing run-to-failure dataset provided by the Center for Intelligent Maintenance System, and the result proved the feasibility and reliability of the methodology.…”
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Total Thickness Bilateral Rupture of the Rectus Abdominis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Dernas Suhail, Olivia Smith, Philip Lim, Srinivas Chintapatla

“…Postoperatively, our patient could walk pain-free at 3 weeks, jog pain-free at 10 weeks, and run up to 2 miles at 25 weeks. As there is no consensus on the management of this rare injury, we conducted a literature review on all cases reporting rupture of the rectus abdominis from the year 2000. …”
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An Efficient GPU-Based Out-of-Core LU Solver of Parallel Higher-Order Method of Moments for Solving Airborne Array Problems by Zhongchao Lin, Yan Chen, Yu Zhang, Xunwang Zhao, Huanhuan Zhang

“…A parallel framework involving MPI and CUDA is adopted to ensure that the procedures run on a hybrid CPU/GPU cluster. An efficient two-level out-of-core scheme is designed to break the bottleneck of both GPU memory and physical memory when solving electrically large and complex problems. …”
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An Adaptive Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm with Lifecycle and Social Learning by Xiaohui Yan, Yunlong Zhu, Hao Zhang, Hanning Chen, Ben Niu

“…The bacteria could split, die, or migrate dynamically in the foraging processes, and population size varies as the algorithm runs. Social learning is also introduced so that the bacteria will tumble towards better directions in the chemotactic steps. …”
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Time Effort Prediction Of Agile Software Development Using Machine Learning Techniques by Muchamad Bachram Shidiq, Windu Gata, Sigit Kurniawan, Dedi Dwi Saputra, Supriadi Panggabean

“…To run a software development project, an effective and efficient project management mechanism is needed to coordinate the activities carried out. …”
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Analysis of the Impact of Magnetic Materials on Cogging Torque in Brushless DC Motor by K. Karthick, S. Ravivarman, Ravi Samikannu, K. Vinoth, Bashyam Sasikumar

“…The multiposition is simulated using a transient application that runs at constant speed. The results of cogging torque, rotational speed, angular position of BLDC motor, and magnetic flux density distribution have been presented. …”
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