Reforming Real Estate Valuation for Financial Auditors With AI: An In-Depth Exploration of Current Methods and Future Directions by Silviu-Ionut BABTAN

“…This article examines several AI methods – Regression Models, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Artificial Neural Networks, and XGBoost – and explores their applications for improving property valuation accuracy and efficiency, with implications for other professions involved, e.g. audit. The author starts by investigating traditional valuation methods' limitations, such as data constraints and subjectivity, and presents how these AI techniques, which are translated in property valuation field as automated valuation methods, tackle these challenges. …”
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Poupées japonaises. Présenter le Japon aux enfants français au début des années 1960 by Emmanuel Lozerand

“…In January 1961 two books were published to introduce Japan to francophone children: J’irai à Nagasaki [I will go to Nagasaki], a novel by Paul-Jacques Bonzon, author of the series "The six companions", in the "Green Library" by Hachette; and Noriko la petite Japonaise [Noriko the Little Japanese Girl], a picture-book with text and photographs by Dominique Darbois, in the collection "The Children of the World" by Fernand Nathan.These two works appear at the crossroads of two phenomena characteristic of the post-war period: the renewal of Western perception of Japan, and new developments in youth literature.Both are centered on the figure of a little Japanese girl. …”
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Banishment into Wilderness: The Trauma of Dispossession and Dislocation in "Gravel Heart" by Jacinta Matheka

“…I conclude that, telling the story from the perspective of the migrant, the author enables the narrator to illuminate his victimhood, while portraying his ability to survive in spaces that are intended to silence him.           …”
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At the Origins of Chartism: James O’Brien by Darya A. Avakyan, Kirill M. Anderson, Olga D. Talskaya

“…Another undeniable merit of O’Brien is his quite successful attempt at a theoretical and ideological justification of the Chartist movement, which none of his contemporaries tried to undertake. The authors dwell in the most detail on the content of his fundamental work O’Brien “The Rise, Progress and phases of human slavery: how it came into the world and what needs to be done to make it go away.” …”
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Vision-Threatening Behcet’s Disease: Severity of Ocular Involvement Predictors by Mohammed A. Hussein, Iman M. Eissa, Ahmed A. Dahab

“…Patients were further subgrouped by the authors as having a vision-threatening form of the disease or not. …”
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Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares Fiducial Interval for Variance in Unbalanced Variance Components Model by Arisa Jiratampradab, Jiraphan Suntornchost, Thidaporn Supapakorn

“…This research provides the probability distribution and the properties of the statistics to lead the constructing of the confidence interval. The authors also prove the construction of the fiducial generalized pivotal quantity through iteratively reweighted least squares. …”
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A Ccritical Rreview of the Bbook of “Ccapitalism, Ffamily and Ppersonal Llife” by Maryam Eskafi

“…The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate the book "Capitalism, Family and Personal Life." The author's question is how capitalism and feminism differentiate between two public and private spheres in the family. …”
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Pathways of Adaptation to Climate Change: Analysis and Transformation of the Governance System of the Ardennes Mountain Area by Jon Marco Church

“…This identified three main vulnerabilities: the absence of an observatory of the socio-ecological system as a whole, the lack of a structured intersectoral dialogue, and the limited capacity to act of local authorities and civil society. We therefore suggest conducting prospective and retrospective analyses to identify adaptation paths of the governance system in relation to climate change. …”
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A Critique of the Book “Visual Design and Communications: Contribution to a Teaching Methodology” by Alireza Taheri, Sahar Sadeghi

“…The purpose of this article is to express the points to be considered in order to make the work more effective and to introduce more and more of the author’s approach to planning for a complete teaching of visual communication at universities and colleges in the country. …”
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TO EMPTY THE SEA WITH A THIMBLE: READERLY EXPLOITS, DISCOVERIES AND LOSSES by Piotr Nowak

“…This essay examines the consequences of non-reading for culture. The author investigates the phenomenon of non-reading in its broadest sense, discussing different attitudes to this problem as well as diverse varieties of non-reading.…”
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Using network partnerships in management consulting by A. A. Soblirov

“…The consulting related to investing funds in the client’s business is in the author’s focus. At the same time, only clients belonging to small and medium-sized enterprises naturally stand out in the work. …”
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Defining and Diagnosing Obesity in India: A Call for Advocacy and Action by Sanjay Kalra, Nitin Kapoor, Madhur Verma, Shehla Shaikh, Sambit Das, Jubbin Jacob, Rakesh Sahay

“…There is an urgent need to identify obesity as a chronic disease requiring immediate attention, mandating timely screening, timely treatment, and economical ways of achieving and managing weight loss across the country. In this review, the authors have discussed various aspects of overweight and obesity and critically appraised the current status of obesity in India, its public health implications, the significance of screening, the role of BMI and other parameters in diagnosing obesity, and the need for treatment and cost-effective prescriptions.…”
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Media and information literacy of  young people: guidelines for public policy by Yu. V. Gnezdova, N. S. Sergienko

“…The article points to the urgent need to introduce accountable, transparent and flexible processes and structures of information resource management in public authorities. It is necessary to develop effective measures to respond to the threats posed by false information with their coordination in a specialised institute of public administration. …”
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« Traduit du riddleyspeak (Anterre) par Nicolas Richard » : quand le traducteur se fait lecteur de science-fiction by Elaine Després

“…Riddley Walker (1980) by the American-born British author Russell Hoban has become a cult post-apocalyptic science fiction novel over the years, and the language in which it is written, riddleyspeak, is no stranger to it. …”
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Employment in the modern era through understanding business social networks by Knežević Snežana, Vukolić Dragan, Gajić Tamara, Zrnić Miloš

“…To determine the structure of the questionnaire and the percentage of variance, an exploratory factor analysis was performed together with a higher order factor analysis, in order to obtain the desired number of factors. The authors used multiple regression analysis to confirm the significance of the predictors. …”
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Сurrent state of clinical significance of early kidney injury markers by D. N. Khotko, A. I. Khotko, A. I. Tarasenko, A. O. Efimova

“…Study objective was to reflect the current state of the early kidney damage markers clinical significance in patients with urolithiasis. Authors performed a literature review of articles (original studies and reviews) published between 2018 and February 2022 on the study of pro‑inflammatory, profibrotic and angiogenic factors in urolithiasis. …”
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Drivers and Limitations of the Indian Startup Industry by M. S. Reshchikova

“…By conducting a detailed study of Indian entrepreneurs, investors, and relevant government documents pertaining to startup ecosystem development programs, as well as reports from research and analytical centers providing key industry indicators, the author concludes that the current startup ecosystem in India, despite several achievements, lacks effectiveness due to persistent challenges of administrative and regulatory nature, as well as socio-economic factors. …”
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Bronze spoked wheels from Sanxingdui and ancient indian myths about Garuda by Varenov Andrey V.

“…The article presents a review and analysis of bronze wheels with fi ve spokes each and anthropomorphic statue of the Bronze Age Sanxingdui culture spread in the Sichuan province of the PRC. The author calls “statues” life-size human figures with a height of at least 50 cm (but not their parts, such as heads), assembled from pre-cast parts. …”
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L’histoire d’un vrai faux traité philosophique (Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob et Ḥatatā Walda Ḥeywat). Épisode 1 : Le temps de la découverte. De l’entrée en collection à l’édition scientifi... by Anaïs Wion

“…He sent to his mentor, Antoine d’Abbadie (well-known at the time for his writings on Ethiopia) his work, in particular two copies of a very rare philosophical text presumably authored by an Ethiopian in the 17th century. This first article in a series devoted to the history of Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob and its appendix, Ḥatatā Walda Ḥeywat, shows how these texts fit into Juste d’Urbin’s work, describes the manuscripts he sent to Antoine d’Abbadie, and analyzes the hitherto unpublished correspondence between these two men.  …”
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Stakeholder dynamics and territorial disputes in nature reserves management: A case of Cwebe community, Eastern Cape, South Africa by James Donald Nyamahono

“…Qualitative data was collected from women, youth, the elderly, and traditional authorities on one hand, and the management of the Nature Reserve on the other. …”
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