CORPORATE ATTRIBUTES AND FIRMS’ DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INSIGHT INTO NIGERIAN LISTED COMPANIES by Sunday Azeita Okoughenu, Michael Adeyemi OLAYIWOLA, Olutunji OPADIJO

“…Hence, the study recommends to the stakeholders of the Nigerian listed companies that they should encourage the management of their companies to invest more on the size of the company and profitability because of their positive impact on enhancing disclosure of corporate social responsibility that would enhance their decision making. In addition, leverage should not be encouraged because it would reduce the disclosure of Nigerian listed companies’ corporate social responsibility. …”
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A scenario-based alternative to conventional tools for choosing the strategy in turbulent environments by Ali Sorourkhah

“…Strategic decision-making is often complex and uncertain, especially in turbulent environments. …”
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Some practical aspects of using balanced scorecard tools by Yu. I. Rastova, М. A. Rastov

“…It is concluded that the tools of the balanced scorecard allow the best way to transform data into meaningful, ready-to-use information for decision-making.…”
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Cluster Analysis of Daily Cycling Flow Profiles during COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK by Matthew Burke, Dilum Dissanayake, Margaret Bell

“…The conclusions drawn from this study suggest consideration of noncommuting trips should be made when planning the design and location of future cycling schemes, and the HCA of flow profiles can assist in this decision-making process as a method to quantify changes in daily flow profiles of cycling.…”
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CSTN: A cross-region crop mapping method integrating self-training and contrastive domain adaptation by Shuwen Peng, Liqiang Zhang, Rongchang Xie, Ying Qu

“…Moreover, CSTN also enables early-season crop classification for pre-harvest decision-making applications. The interpretability of the model is demonstrated through an in-depth analysis of feature map visualizations, attention map visualizations, and the effectiveness of the modules. …”
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Effect of Work-Related Stress on Employee's Performance among Construction Professionals in Julius Berger PLC, Abuja, Nigeria by Waziri Babamaaji Goodnews, Kabiru Jinjiri Ringim, Halima Shuaibu

“…Therefore recommended among other things that taking responsibility for work which one has adequate capacity to handle, establishing realistic budgets and time frames for project delivery, provision of spatially adequate, visually and thermally comfortable site offices, adoption of appropriate job design practices and education of professionals in stress management, Ensuring staffs participate in the decision making process involving organizational change will reduce the incidence of stress among professionals in the construction industry in Nigeria. …”
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DIGITALIZATION: A TOOL FOR MODERNIZATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN UKRAINE by Oleksandr Yevtushenko

“…It is determined that the digitalization of public administration can be understood as a concept for developing public administration through the automation of decision-making processes and the provision of e-services; as a process of transitioning to digital public administration through the use of digital technologies; and as a tool for transforming the system of public administration at all levels of government-state, regional, and municipal – with the aim of strengthening communication between authorities and the public. …”
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Performance Evaluation and Disruption Recovery for Military Supply Chain Network by Biao Xiong, Rong Fan, Shuai Wang, Bixin Li, Can Wang

“…The performance of military supply chain networks (MSCNs) against disruptions is an important consideration for defense logistics decision making, and it is crucial to evaluate it scientifically and accurately. …”
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Value realization of intelligent emergency management: research framework from technology enabling to value creation by Yan Guo, Yan Song, Mingyue Zhang

“…Second, a research framework that includes technology enabling and enabling value creation for the decision-making paradigm in emergency management according to the big data environment is constructed. …”
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Semantic Approach for Evaluation of Energy Storage Technologies under Fuzzy Environment by Dega Nagaraju, C. Chiranjeevi, Y. Rajasekhar, Senthil Kumaran Selvaraj, Utkarsh Chadha, R. Nagalakshmi, Velmurugan Paramasivam

“…The objective of the proposed research is to decide the best technology for energy storage under the novel idea of hybrid multicriteria decision-making technique under fuzzy environment, that is, fuzzy AHP with fuzzy VIKOR. …”
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Analysis of Marketing Prediction Model Based on Genetic Neural Network: Taking Clothing Marketing as an Example by Hua Peng, Luxiao Dong, Yi Sun, Yanfang Jiang

“…A good forecast result can be used to guide the company’s decision-making. The results of the model help decision-makers to reasonably arrange production and formulate marketing strategies. …”
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Japanese Patients’ and Physicians’ Preferences for Anticoagulant Use in Atrial Fibrillation: Results from a Discrete-choice Experiment by Ken Okumura, Hiroshi Inoue, Masahiro Yasaka, Juan Marcos Gonzalez, A. Brett Hauber, Bennett Levitan, Zhong Yuan, Jean Baptiste Briere

“…**Objectives:** The aim of this study was to quantify patients’ and physicians’ willingness to accept tradeoffs between the benefits and risks of anticoagulants in order to 1) document the potential differences between patients’ and physicians’ perceptions of benefits and risks and 2) support physicians’ clinical decision making. **Methods:** Preferences from Japanese AF patients and board-eligible or board-certified physicians were elicited using a discrete-choice experiment. …”
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A linear tessellation model for the identification of "food desert": A case study of Shanghai, China. by Lu Wang, Yakun He, Zhonghai Yu, Hongrui Wang, Wenjuan Ye, Xin Li, Yingping Liu, Junxiao Zhang

“…This study also provides corresponding decision-making reference for the alleviation and resolution of "food desert" issues. …”
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A Blockchain-Assisted Federated Learning Framework for Secure and Self-Optimizing Digital Twins in Industrial IoT by Innocent Boakye Ababio, Jan Bieniek, Mohamed Rahouti, Thaier Hayajneh, Mohammed Aledhari, Dinesh C. Verma, Abdellah Chehri

“…The IIoT enables digital twins, virtual replicas of physical assets, to improve real-time decision-making, but challenges remain in trust, data security, and model accuracy. …”
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Model the allocation of productive financial resources from the perspective of livelihood poverty indicators using a combination of clustering methods and SAW technique by mehrdad Mohamadpour shatery, hoshang taghizadeh, sahar khoshfetrat

“…Finally, in order to rank the clusters, a multi-characteristic SAW decision-making method has been used. The research findings show the difference between the effectiveness of allocation in clustering method compared to other traditional methods.…”
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An Approach for Demand Forecasting in Steel Industries Using Ensemble Learning by S. M. Taslim Uddin Raju, Amlan Sarker, Apurba Das, Md. Milon Islam, Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami, Atif M. Al-Amri, Tasniah Mohiuddin, Fahad R. Albogamy

“…As it improves the performance of models and reduces the risk of decision-making, the ensemble method can be used to forecast the demand in a steel industry one month ahead.…”
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Trust in AI: progress, challenges, and future directions by Saleh Afroogh, Ali Akbari, Emmie Malone, Mohammadali Kargar, Hananeh Alambeigi

“…These systems are also evolving to act as co-assistants or semi-agents in specific domains, potentially influencing human thought, decision-making, and agency. Trust and distrust in AI serve as regulators and could significantly control the level of this diffusion, as trust can increase, and distrust may reduce the rate of adoption of AI. …”
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A Cooperative Lane-Changing Strategy for Weaving Sections of Urban Expressway under the Connected Autonomous Vehicle Environment by Zhi Zhou, Linheng Li, Bin Ran, Xu Qu

“…The strategy consists of an upper layer of decision making, which determines the lane-changing sequences of weaving vehicles based on their lane-changing advantages quantified by a set of utility functions, and a lower layer of control, which generates detailed instructions of speed adjustments and lane-changing manoeuvres for weaving vehicles. …”
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CLASSIFICATION OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN by D. V. Streltsov

“…Many voters, disillusioned with the ability of political parties to extrapolate their opinion on the sphere of public policy decision-making, become more and more inclined not to come to the polls at all.…”
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A Multi-Agent Approach to Modeling Task-Oriented Dialog Policy Learning by Songfeng Liang, Kai Xu, Zhurong Dong

“…This integrated approach ensures that both decision-making and learning phases are effectively aligned, thereby enhancing the overall performance of the dialogue agents. …”
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