Border governance through local community empowerment: insights from Indonesia-Papua New Guinea borderline by Usman Pakasi, Muhammad Faridz, Hasbi Majid, Susilawati Susilawati

“…The research aims at strategies to improve community livelihoods through the development of agricultural infrastructure, increased productivity, food security, and community participation in decision-making. The research methodology used was a qualitative case study conducted in Kampung Mosso, on the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea borderline. …”
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Exploring Lessons from Soviet Diplomacy and Western Allied Cooperation in World War II by V. O. Pechatnov

“…However, the study indicates that the Soviet Union exhibited greater fidelity in fulfilling its obligations and was more proactive in institutionalizing the coalition for enhanced stability and equal participation in strategic decision-making for war conduct and postwar arrangements. …”
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Multiagent Task Allocation in Complementary Teams: A Hunter-and-Gatherer Approach by Mehdi Dadvar, Saeed Moazami, Harley R. Myler, Hassan Zargarzadeh

“…We utilize market-based negotiation models to develop incentive-based decision-making algorithms relying on innovative notions of “certainty and uncertainty profit margins.” …”
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Robust Two-Stage Location Allocation for Emergency Temporary Blood Supply in Postdisaster by Dongqing Luan, Along Liu, Xiaoli Wang, Yanxi Xie, Zhong Wu

“…At the same time, the uncertainty of blood demand at each disaster site increased the difficulty of decision-making, and then, a robust location model (MIRP) was constructed with minimum cost with time window constraints. …”
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Critical Literature Review into Planning of Inter-Terminal Transport: In Port Areas and the Hinterland by Qu Hu, Bart Wiegmans, Francesco Corman, Gabriel Lodewijks

“…This paper provides a systemic review of ITT planning: we examine 77 scientific journal papers to identify what kind of objectives should be achieved in ITT system planning, which actors should be involved, and what methodologies can be used to support the decision-making process. Based on the analysis of the existing research, several research gaps can be found. …”
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Critical information quality dimensions of conversational agents for healthcare by Caihua Liu, Guochao Peng, Shufeng Kong, Chaowang Lan, Haoliang Zhu

“…Conversational agents start to be applied in public to support information seeking and decision making and provide a variety of services to users such as healthcare education and consultation. …”
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A Multi-Index Generative Adversarial Network for Tool Wear Detection with Imbalanced Data by Guokai Zhang, Haoping Xiao, Jingwen Jiang, Qinyuan Liu, Yimo Liu, Liying Wang

“…., L2-norm and temporal correlation coefficient (CORT), are put forward to measure the similarity between generated signals and testing signals. Finally, our decision-making function further combines L2-norm and CORT with two discriminator scores to determine the tool conditions. …”
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The Risks and Rewards of Embodying Artificial Intelligence with Cloud‐Based Laboratories by Nicolas Rouleau, Nirosha J. Murugan

“…However, as AI systems approach or exceed human intelligence, their decision‐making abilities could outpace the need for human input, raising ethical, economic, and safety concerns. …”
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IMPLEMENTING ETHNIC TOURISM AS A TOOL CONTRIBUTING TO THE DESTINATION COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, VIETNAM by Thi Thanh Kieu Nguyen

“…First, local wisdom and genuine characteristics of naivete, honesty, friendliness, and hospitality need to be promoted to attract visitors, while local residents need to be educated and trained to build capacity for improving tourism services and to actively engage in the tourism decision-making process. Second, improvements in political capital were strongly suggested to tackle common barriers to community empowerment and collaboration, tourism organizational structure, local policies, standards, and assessment procedures. …”
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DRCCT: Enhancing Diabetic Retinopathy Classification with a Compact Convolutional Transformer by Mohamed Touati, Rabeb Touati, Laurent Nana, Faouzi Benzarti, Sadok Ben Yahia

“…The model’s ability to classify retinal images into five distinct diabetic retinopathy categories demonstrates its potential to significantly improve automated diagnosis and aid in clinical decision-making.…”
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Effects of Gasoline and Hydrogen Blends on Exhaust Gas Emissions and Fuel Consumption from Gasoline Internal Combustion Engines by Merlin Zacharie Ayissi, Ivan Aquigeh Newen, Rhiad Alloune, Dieudonné Bitondo

“…Investigations on emission parameters and engine performance for a single-cylinder four-stroke petrol engine are carried out using multicriteria decision-making method (MCDM). Bar charts are constructed for three emission parameters in function of engine temperature and fuel consumption for different blends. …”
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Assessment of land suitability and crop water requirements for irrigated sugarcane in the Kuraz Irrigation Scheme, Lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia by Mesfin Mamo Haile, Ayansa Teshome Gelalcha

“…A combination of geographic information system (GIS) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) tools was used to classify land suitability and support decision-making by considering factors such as soil pH, texture, temperature, rainfall, land use-land cover, and slope. …”
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Adaptive Recognition of Motion Posture in Sports Video Based on Evolution Equation by Rui Yuan, Zhendong Zhang, Yanyan Le, Enqing Chen

“…The application of artificial intelligence technology to the training of athletes to recognize athletes’ posture can help coaches assist in decision-making and greatly enhance athletes’ competitive ability. …”
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Revisiting principles of partnership working in the third space by Julie Blackwell Young, Sarah Parkes

“…Collaborative efforts across institutional domains gained prominence, underlining the strategic importance of third-space professionals in facilitating agile decision-making and solution implementation. Here, they demonstrated resilience and adaptability, navigating the pandemic’s complexities while addressing the tandem feelings of messiness and uncertainty. …”
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Loan interest rates, credit guarantees, and lifestyle on credit making decisions at financing companies by Hendri Herman, Vargo Christian L Tobing, Andi Hidayatul Fadlilah, Syahrial Shaddiq, Muhammad Bahit

“…From the results of the study, it was obtained that credit rates have a significant effect on credit decision-making, credit guarantees have a significant effect on credit decisions, lifestyle has an insignificant effect on credit-making decisions,and credit interest rates, credit guarantees. and lifestyle simultaneously have a significant effect on credit-making decisions. …”
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A comparative study of interpolation methods for the development of ore distribution maps by Mahinaz M. Shawky

“…Abstract Mining projects require precise knowledge about tonnage and quality of ore reserves for planning and decision-making. This is hard to establish as exploration operations, which are costly, time-consuming and require an accurate description of the deposit. …”
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Automatic Estimation of Solar Rooftops and Power Generation From Publicly Available Satellite Imagery Through Georeferencing and Large-Scale Support by John Sullivan, Apichon Witayangkurn

“…This facilitates informed decision-making, cost reduction, and contributions to environmental goals.…”
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Self-assessment policy and perspectives for learning and organizational innovation in postgraduation programs in business administration in brazilian northeast region by Marcio Roque dos Santos da Silva, Maria Conceição Melo Silva Luft, Maria Elena Leon Olave

“…Elements confirming the perspective of learning, based on facilitating aspects, arranged in four dimensions (Experimentation, Interaction with the external environment, Dialogue, and Participatory decision-making) were identified. There was also an assertive perception regarding the perspectives for Organizational Innovation, highlighting, among other aspects, changes in the training process, approximation to other sectors of civil society, and changes in the management model. …”
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Shuffle-PG: Lightweight feature extraction model for retrieving images of plant diseases and pests with deep metric learning by Dong Jin, Helin Yin, Yeong Hyeon Gu

“…This study employs a content-based image retrieval approach to diagnose diseases and pests, suggesting similar candidate images to assist in decision-making. Previous research in disease and pest diagnosis has relied on large models for feature extraction, posing challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments like mobile devices. …”
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ADAPTATION OF DELONE AND MCLEAN MODEL FOR ERP SYSTEM QUALITY EVALUATION by Vesna Pavković, Dražena Gašpar, Mario Jadrić

“…A survey questionnaire is used to investigate the quality of the ERP system from the perspective of the middle and top management of the companies that use information from the ERP system for decision making.  The empirical research has confirmed that the D&M model of information system success, with some adjustments, can be used to investigate the quality of ERP systems. …”
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