Impact of stock market indices and raw material prices on the yield movements of Caterpillar company securities by Petrović Nevena, Novićević-Čečević Bojana, Krstajić Goran

“…The implication highlights the importance of analyzing Caterpillar's entire business system when making investment decisions. Such predictions contribute to a better understanding of the characteristics that enable optimal aggregation of information and efficient price determination. …”
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“It was a foregone conclusion”: a qualitative study of women’s experiences and meaning-making of later-in-life abortion in Belgium by Kato Verghote, Nathalie Neeser, Tenzin Wangmo, Guido Pennings, Veerle Provoost

“…Some participants felt additional emotional burdens because of delays caused by the mandatory waiting period and/or busy schedules at abortion centres. Third, the women expressed feelings of self-blame for their unplanned pregnancies. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURE QUALITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Saka Tunde Abdulsalam

“… The General perception of investors and other stakeholders is that self-developed environmental and social information disclosure (ESID) of companies lack quality required to make informed business decision which may impact company operating cash flow (OCF). …”
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DIVERSIFICATION OF OIL AND GAS COMPANIES’ ACTIVITIES IN THE CONDITION OF OIL PRICES REDUCTION AND ECONOMIC SANCTIONS by A. V. Sheveleva, L. B. Akieva

“…It is expedient to carry out diversification of oil and gas companies' activity in such directions as geographical diversification of the oil, oil products and gas realization directions, geographical diversification of oil and gas companies' purchasing activity, diversification of oil, oil products and gas transportation ways, diversification of oil and gas companies' business. This approach allows to expand the activities of the oil and gas companies and create additional ways to generate revenue and enhance efficiency of oil and gas companies.…”
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Helicobacter pylori: From Infection to Cure by ABR Thomson

“…Gastroenterologists are at increased risk of H pylori infection, particularly older gastroenterologists who are very busy endoscopists.…”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Zero Trust Architecture in Protecting Against Advanced Persistent Threats by Pushpendra Kumar Verma, Bharat Singh, Preety, Shubham Kumar Sharma, Rakesh Prasad Joshi

“…This study intends to investigate the assessment and application of Zero Trust Architecture in business networks. Network segmentation, continuous authentication, least privilege access, and micro-segmentation are some of the basic ideas and elements of Zero Trust Architecture that are covered in this research. …”
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The homogenization of China's city flowers and city trees by Zhuo Cheng, Ziyi Wu, Weizhe Chen, Wenxuan Li, Chen Lin, Qing Zhang, Chunlin Long

“…City flowers and city trees (CFTs) serve as emblematic cultural symbols of modern cities, often referred to as the ‘green business card’. While many cities have established CFTs in recent decades, there are instances of inconsistencies and irrationalities in the selection process. …”
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Influence of development factors of manufacturing industry on the economy of the North-Western Federal District by E. Yu. Shirokova

“…Thus, currently, the activation of the manufacturing industry with more employees of small business will become a driver of recovery and sustainable development of the macroregion’s economy.…”
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Revealing the fireworks-set-off pattern of spatial multi-function expansion across cities leveraging big geodata – a case of the Greater Bay Area, China by Ku Gao, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Yueming Liu, Huifang Zhang, Xiaoliang Liu, Qingyang Zhang

“…We found that (1) across-cities SMFE exhibited a fireworks-set-off pattern, including sprawling along river in the plains between coastal port cities and inland core cities and diffusing from inland core cities on the plains to inland node cities in the mountains; (2) social-living, business-trade, and industry-production functions were sequentially primary expanding functions; (3) paddy and forest were two major land cover types encroaching upon inland cities, while coastal cities primarily suffered from losses of water. …”
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APPLICATION OF DIBR AND MAIRCA METHODS IN THE EVALUATION OF THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE ECONOMY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA by Radojko Lukić

“…This was influenced by adequate management of the analyzed statistical variables (gross domestic product, inflation, agriculture, industry, export, import, capital, income, taxes, time required to start business – days, and domestic loans provided by the financial sector). …”
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After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce by Shuaishuai Wang

“…Drawing from Douyin walkthroughs and the company's business development presentations, this article analyzes how audience attention and platform traffic are manufactured and integrated with retail in the context of China's recent national policy that positions data as a factor of production equal to labor, land, technology, and capital. …”
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Colonial Diplomatic Relations and the Development of Pearling Industry in the Netherlands Indies, 1894-1899 by Rangga Ardia Rasyid

“…It also aims to understand how these diplomatic networks influenced the growth of the pearling business in the Netherlands East Indies. This research concludes that transnational forces played a significant role in shaping the legal structure of the Netherlands East Indies pearling industry. …”
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Credit factor of investment development of the Russian economy under sanctions by B. B. Loginov

“…Thirdly, in the list of Western sectoral sanctions, measures to break credit connections were the very first and still remain the most painful for the Russian business. Finally, the excessively high interest rate used by the Central Bank to cool currency profiteers and accelerated inflation even aggravates the problem of a compressed credit base for investment in capital stock.…”
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Deep learning for enhanced risk management: a novel approach to analyzing financial reports by Xiangting Shi, Yakang Zhang, Manning Yu, Lihao Zhang

“…Risk management is a critical component of today’s financial environment because of the enormity and complexity of data contained in financial statements. Business situations, plans, and schedule risk assessment with the help of conventional ways which involve analytical, technical, and heuristic models are inadequate to address the complex structures of the latest data. …”
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How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey by van Loon Olaf R., van Loon Tom A.J.

“…They do so because authors have to pay them article processing charges and these are commonly their exclusive business model. Authors become ever more reluctant to publish in predatory journals because such journals are not considered as scientifically reliable and the articles in such journals are commonly not or hardly read (and even more rarely cited). …”
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Job satisfaction and animal welfare at slaughter: A survey of Official Veterinarians in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland by Imogen O’Connor, Kelly Gouveia

“…Moreover, job satisfaction was often impacted by animal welfare incidents, and conflicts with food business operators were considered one of the greatest barriers to improving welfare at slaughter. …”
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Modeling the digital transformation of industrial holdings by A. E. Miller, N. S. Rudenko

“…As part of the methodological implementation of the proposed methodology, an instrumental approach is considered that allows to systematize the tools of digital transformation of industrial systems in the context of digital business models, digital technologies and platform solutions, as well as to argue the key features of each of the tools. …”
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Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain by Mohammad Barzegar, Aliakbar Hasani

“…Customer churn is one of the challenges of business management in today's complex competitive environment. …”
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THE PERSPECTIVES OF INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES’ by M. A. Nebolsina, A. I. Nikitin

“…States and international organizations together with business and non-governmental foundations have started to turn to private security actors more frequently. …”
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Infrastructure in the field of customs services: categorical and conceptual apparatus’ structural model and analysis by A. A. Lisitsa

“…The study purpose is to form theoretical approaches and analyze the categorical and conceptual apparatus of the infrastructure in the field of customs as an institution of customs service, the consumers of whose services are the state, society and business.   The problem urgency is due to the ongoing changes in the external and internal environment of customs administration: the service orientation global vector of public administration.   …”
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