Sustainable performance evaluation of pharmaceutical companies: sustainable balanced scorecard and hybrid MCDM approach by Deqiang Deng, Jiayang Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Xiuran Zong

“…Therefore, pharmaceutical companies need to focus on their performance, especially on the shift from a single financial performance to an integrated performance. This paper constructs a reticulated sustainable performance evaluation model for decision-makers based on the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) framework. …”
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Optimization Configuration Method of Energy Storage Considering Photovoltaic Power Consumption and Source-Load Uncertainty by Junjie Qiao, Xiaofang Meng, Weigang Zheng, Pengxue Huang, Tiefeng Xu, Yupeng Xu

“…Subsequently, the objective function, which seeks to minimize the total daily operating cost of the energy storage system and the PV abandonment rate, is constructed using the evaluation-based function method. …”
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Weakened Effective Connectivity Related to Electroacupuncture in Stroke Patients with Prolonged Flaccid Paralysis: An EEG Pilot Study by Yi-Fang Lin, Xin-Hua Liu, Zheng-Yu Cui, Zuo-Ting Song, Fei Zou, Shu-Geng Chen, Xiao-Yang Kang, Bin Ye, Qiang Wang, Jing Tian, Jie Jia

“…Resting-state networks were constructed from 18 subjects with flaccid upper extremity by partial directed coherence (PDC) analysis of multichannel EEG. …”
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Research on Slope Stability Evaluation Based on Improved Set Pair Analysis Method: A Case of Tonglvshan Open-Pit Mine by Xiaojie Yang, Zhenli Hao, Gaotong Ma, Gan Li

“…First, an open-pit mine slope stability evaluation index system with 14 indicators in 4 categories, namely the topography and geomorphology, geological structure, hydrogeology, and other factors, have been constructed. Second, the objective weight and subjective weight of each evaluation index are calculated by entropy and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, and then the comprehensive weight of the evaluation index is estimated based on subjective weight and objective weight. …”
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Driver Route Planning Method Based on Accident Risk Cost Prediction by Xiaoleng Liao, Tong Zhou, Xu Wang, Rongjian Dai, Xuehui Chen, Xiangmin Zhu

“…Firstly, an accident risk evaluation system was built based on traffic accident data, and a quantitative prediction model of accident risk cost based on driver-, vehicle-, road-, and environment-related factors was constructed. Secondly, the entropy weight method was used to calculate the weights of each indicator to determine accident risk considering the aforementioned factors. …”
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The Impact of Care Upon Alzheimer Patient’s Family Caregiver in Sulaimani City by Farida Abdulqadir Tahir

“…The instrument was designed and constructed by the researcher through an intensive review of the literature and also through a series of meeting survey with caregivers in order to measure the variables underlying the present study. …”
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An online intelligent electronic medical record system via speech recognition by Xin Xia, Yunlong Ma, Ye Luo, Jianwei Lu

“…For testing the proposed speech recognition electronic medical record system, we construct medical speech recognition data sets using audio and electronic medical records from real medical environments. …”
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Probable Relationship between COVID-19, Pollutants and Meteorology: A Case Study at Santiago, Chile by Giovanni A. Salini, Patricio R. Pacheco, Eduardo Mera, María C. Parodi

“…Finally, the correlation dimension was less than 5, revealing that new time-series constructed are not random.…”
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Fifth Lumbar Vertebral Shape in Early-Stage Lumbar Spondylolysis: Three-Dimensional Bone Morphology Analysis Using Homologous Models by Yuji Yamane, Hajime Toda, Masaki Katayose

“…Methods: Homologous models of the L5 vertebra were constructed using computed tomography data from 72 patients with early-stage spondylolysis (SP group) and 95 patients without spondylolysis (CON group). …”
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From deliberation to acclamation: how did Twitter’s algorithms foster polarized communities and undermine democracy in the 2020 US presidential election by Gustavo Morales, Gustavo Morales, Augusto Salazar, Diego Puche

“…Focusing on the 2020 US presidential election, this research investigates how Twitter/X structures online communities with specific socialization patterns and ways to construct the truth. The rise of these platforms has sparked debate with split conclusions over whether they are enhancing or undermining democratic processes. …”
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A simplified version of the method of calculation of multilayer composite rods according to the theory of A.R. Rzhanitsyn by V. V. Filatov, Thi Linh Quyen Hoang

“…Diagrams of maximum longitudinal and tangential stresses are constructed for different options for the layout of the cross section of a composite beamConclusions. …”
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Renal Tissue-Derived Exosomal miRNA-34a in Diabetic Nephropathy Induces Renal Tubular Cell Fibrosis by Promoting the Polarization of M1 Macrophages by Shuai Zheng, Yi Zeng, Liqing Chu, Taiyang Gong, Sihong Li, Min Yang

“…An animal model of diabetic nephropathy was successfully constructed. Macrophages could phagocytose exosomes. …”
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A predictive nomogram-based model for lower extremity compartment syndrome after trauma in the United States: a retrospective case-control study by Blake Callahan, Darwin Ang, Huazhi Liu

“…Specifically, a nomogram of variables was constructed in order to propose a risk calculator for ACS following lower extremity trauma. …”
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Exploring the most important factors related to self-perceived health among older men in Sweden: a cross-sectional study using machine learning by David C Currow, Magnus Per Ekström, Max Olsson

“…Machine learning offers a new way to assess composite constructs such as well-being or quality of life.…”
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Learning team-based quality improvement in a virtual setting: a qualitative study by Einar Hovlid, Gunnar Husabø, Eivind Alexander Valestrand, Miriam Hartveit

“…We identified three themes pertaining to the students’ experiences of the virtual learning activity: learning through active participation, constructing a virtual learning opportunity and creating a virtual learning environment. …”
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Correlates of condom use among school-going Thai adolescents: the critical role of bullying victimizations by Omid Dadras

“…Additional adjusted logistic regression models were constructed to examine the association between bullying experiences and condom use while controlling for the potential confounding effect of other explanatory variables. …”
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PSYCHO-SOCIAL CONGRUENCES BETWEEN RESILIENCE AND SOLITUDE by HARAZ Svetlana, SIMION Simion Dănuț

“…The experience makes us stronger, more resilient by knowing our resources, developing constructive behaviors for potentially traumatic situations. …”
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Integrating fast iterative filtering and ensemble neural network structure with attention mechanism for carbon price forecasting by Wang Zhong, Wang Yue, Wang Haoran, Tang Nan, Wang Shuyue

“…Subsequently, an integrated prediction model, AM-TCN-LSTM, is constructed, incorporating the attention mechanism (AM), temporal convolutional networks (TCN), and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks. …”
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Abstractive Summarization of Historical Documents: A New Dataset and Novel Method Using a Domain-Specific Pretrained Model by Keerthana Murugaraj, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer

“…Experimental results on our constructed dataset demonstrate that our HistBERTSum-Abs method outperforms recent state-of-the-art deep learning-based methods and achieves results comparable to state-of-the-art LLMs in zero-shot settings in terms of ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-L F1 scores. …”
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A modular, human body-mimicking phantom with active thermoregulation capabilities for validation and verification of convective hyperthermia devices by L. Van den Bossche, W. Vertessen, J. Van den Bossche, O. Rudenko, J. Bogers, L. Brancato

“…Objectives This study aims to design and fabricate a modular phantom for hyperthermia applications, addressing interpatient variability in thermal regulation mechanisms like sweating rate, metabolic heat production, and blood redistribution.Materials & methods The phantom can be constructed in various weights and dimensions by connecting identical units. …”
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