Gender and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: A review by Joydeb Garai

“…Along with biological susceptibility, other major causes of this vulnerability of women and girls are gender inequality, sexual abuse and violence, social stigma, inability to decision making power, economic dependency and men’s sexual power and privilege over women. …”
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Physiological-Social Scores in Predicting Outcomes of Prehospital Internal Patients by Abbasali Ebrahimian, Hesam Seyedin, Roohangiz Jamshidi-Orak, Gholamreza Masoumi

“…The physiological-social modified early warning score system is suggested to be used for decision-making of emergency staff about internal patients’ wards in EMS situations.…”
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DIE INDUSTRIEENTWICKLUNG UND DAS ORGANISIEREN DES STÄDTISCHEN RAUMES IM RUMÄNISCHEN SEKTOR DER UNTEREN DONAU. DER STUDIENFALL: GALAŢI by RADU SĂGEATĂ, MIRCEA BUZA

“…Within this context, the development of Galaţi City under communism was subordinated to political decision-making, therefore the location of a big iron-and-steel plant there had disturbing effects both for the City (by fast population growth due to the influx of migrants, concomitantly with the westwards extension of the built-in area) and for the rural neighbourhood (by diverging fluxes of materials and energy). …”
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Methodology for ensuring employee engagement in the context of enterprise digital transformation by I. V. Kablashova, I. V. Logunova, V. N. Rodionova

“…It necessitates the development of methodological approaches to the study of employee engagement in strategic decision-making to improve the quality of processes and production activities of the enterprise. …”
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Improving classic hungarian algorithm considering uncertainty by applying for grey numbers by Shahram Ariafar, Seyed Hamed Moosavirad, Ali Soltanpour

“…Linear Assignment Method (LAM), as an application of LAP, is among the most popular approaches for solving Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problems. LAM assigns a priority to each alternative based on a Decision Matrix (DM). …”
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Intragovernmental governance in South Africa - An analysis of recent jurisprudence by Andreas SJ Karsten, Marjoné van der Bank

“…Given the importance of a municipal council from a functionality perspective, any suspension of executive or legislative decision-making powers can impede the realization of municipal councils’ constitutional purpose, specifically, the objective to provide democratic and accountable governance to local communities. …”
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Enhancing trauma cardiopulmonary resuscitation simulation training with the use of virtual reality (Trauma SimVR): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. by Josef Michael Lintschinger, Philipp Metelka, Lorenz Kapral, Florian Kahlfuss, Lena Reischmann, Alexandra Kaider, Caroline Holaubek, Georg Kaiser, Michael Wagner, Florian Ettl, Leonhard Sixt, Eva Schaden, Christina Hafner

“…<h4>Background</h4>With the increasing availability and use of digital tools such as virtual reality in medical education, there is a need to evaluate their impact on clinical performance and decision-making among healthcare professionals. The Trauma SimVR study is investigating the efficacy of virtual reality training in the context of traumatic in-hospital cardiac arrest.…”
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Power Improved Generalized Heronian Mean Operators Utilizing Hamacher Operations with Picture Fuzzy Information by Baolin Li, Lihua Yang

“…In multiple attribute decision-making (MADM), to better denote complicated preference information of decision-makers (DMs), picture fuzzy set (PFS) as an expansion of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) has become a powerful tool in the recent years. …”
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The intersection of infant substance exposure, foster care placement &amp; child welfare policy by Abigail Novak, Colleen K. Gutman, Vitoria De Francisco Lopes, Brian B. Boutwell

“…Our results also suggest policies that structure decision-making regarding testing and placement may ultimately help improve child outcomes.…”
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Development of a mnemonic card game for sustainability literacy in Master of Business Administration programmes by Magdalena J. Grobler

“…It fosters critical thinking and ethical decision-making, aligning with the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). …”
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Do Ownership and Environment Affect Profits with the Role of the Independent Commissioners? by Muhammad Noval, Rimayanti Rimayanti, Malia Malia, Muhammad Syahid, Amina A.A Elzaanin, Aswini Arumugam

“…The results can encourage strategic decision-making related to ownership structure and corporate governance to achieve sustainability and profitability.   …”
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Inductive Reasoning in Patients with Paranoid Type Schizophrenia by Mehmet Emrah Karadere, Yasir Safak, Halime Seyma Ozcelik, Emre Demir, Mehmet Hakan Turkcapar

“…The goal of our study is to evaluate the decision making and reasoning of the paranoid type schizophrenic patients, and their confidence in reasoning and perseverance in keeping to their decisions via using Reasoning with Inductive Argument Test (RIAT). …”
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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

“…The application of multi-criteria decision-making methods enables an adequate control of the key factors of the economic performance of BiH’s economy. …”
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Increased FGF-19 levels following explantation in women with breast implant illness by S. Azahaf, K. A. Spit, C. J. M. de Blok, P. W. B. Nanayakkara

“…While symptom improvement is frequently observed following implant removal, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood, and the absence of reliable biomarkers complicates clinical decision-making. Here, we investigate inflammatory protein profiles in 43 women with BII, comparing pre- and post-explantation levels using the Olink Target 96 Inflammation panel and Meso Scale Discovery technology for absolute quantification. …”
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Are Shared-Goal Congruence, Customer Relationship Management, and Customer Relationship Advantages Matter to Leverage Firm Performance? Indonesia Cases on Retail by Mahfudz Mahfudz, Kardison Lumban Batu, Aulia Vidya Almadanaa

“…The implementation of GSCM, supported by strong management commitment and a shift in organizational culture, enhances energy and resource efficiency, process and product innovation, environmental risk reduction, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and cost reductions, leading to competitive advantages through faster and more accurate decision-making.…”
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Energy management of smart buildings during crises and digital twins as an optimisation tool for sustainable urban environment by Konstantinos Chatzikonstantinidis, Nicholas Afxentiou, Effrosyni Giama, Paris A. Fokaides, Agis M. Papadopoulos

“…The use of Digital Twins enabled real-time monitoring, proactive maintenance, and decision-making, significantly improving energy efficiency and resilience. …”
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What Drives Responses to Willingness-to-pay Questions? A Methodological Inquiry in the Context of Hypertension Self-management by Billingsley Kaambwa, Stirling Bryan, Emma Frew, Emma Bray, Sheila Greenfield, Richard J McManus

“…**Background:** The use of economic evaluation to determine the cost-effectiveness of health interventions is recommended by decision-making bodies internationally. Understanding factors that explain variations in costs and benefits is important for policy makers. …”
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Performance evaluation metric for statistical learning trading strategies by Jiawei He, Roman N. Makarov, Jake Tuero, Zilin Wang

“…By maximizing the metric, we find optimal combinations of models and methods and select the best approach for prediction and decision-making. Secondly, this metric enables us to construct profitable option trading strategies, which can also be used as an assessment tool to analyze models' prediction power. …”
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Knowledge Graph Analysis of Digital Emergency Management Research Based on CiteSpace Visualisation: Comparative Analysis of WOS and CNKI Databases by Rui Nan, Wenjun Zhu, Yejing Xiao

“…The former are information technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, whereas the latter are emergency decision making, scenario analysis, and public health.…”
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GPTOR: Gridded GA and PSO-based task offloading and ordering in IoT-edge-cloud computing by Arezou Mahmoudi, Leili Farzinvash, Javid Taheri

“…Several studies did not exploit all the IoT, edge, and cloud layers, whereas others only considered a few criteria for decision making on task offloading. Other approaches used greedy methods that could not provide high-quality solutions or employed standard optimization algorithms, which took a long time to converge. …”
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