The Impact of Female Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth in the Asean Countries: A Panel MM-QR Approach by Chikh-Amnache Sabrina, Mekhzoumi Lotfi

“…A panel data model was applied, with GDP per employed person serving as the dependent variable and seven key factors in female entrepreneurship serving as independent variables. …”
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Distance measure of picture fuzzy sets and its application in multi-criteria decision making problem by Amal Adak, Manish Gunjan, Aliakbar Haghighi

“…The score function is employed to determine the best alternatives for both Picture Fuzzy Positive Ideal Solution (PFPIS) and Picture Fuzzy Negative Ideal Solutions (PFNIS). …”
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Comparative Performance Evaluation of TCP Variants in WiMAX (and WLANs) Network Configurations by Konstantinos Tsiknas, George Stamatelos

“…The target is to evaluate how the above conditions would affect the TCP congestion control and suggest the best schemes to be employed in WiMAX networks.…”
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Approximation approach for backward stochastic Volterra integral equations by Kutorzi Edwin Yao, Mahvish Samar, Yufeng Shi

“…We used Newton's technique to solve a particular BSVIE by employing block pulse functions (BPFs) and the related stochastic operational matrix of integration. …”
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Design of high torque density motors for quadruped robot hip joints by YANG Heming, LIANG Bo, DOU Manfeng, DANG Mengxi, HUA Zhiguang

“…Finite element simulation is employed to model the motor, and a proof-of-concept prototype is designed based on the proposed analytical design method. …”
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Singular LQ Problem for Irregular Singular Systems by Qingxiang Fang, Baolin Zhang, Jun-e Feng

“…The full information feedback control method is employed to achieve the optimal control. By restricted system equivalence transformation, the system state is decomposed into free state and restricted state and the input is decomposed into free input and forced input. …”
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Distributed Consensus for Discrete-Time Directed Networks of Multiagents with Time-Delays and Random Communication Links by Yurong Liu, Hamid Reza Karimi, Xiaohui Liu

“…By introducing novel Lyapunov functionals and employing some new analytical techniques, sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the leader-following consensus in mean-square for the concerned multiagent systems, so that all the agents are steered to an anticipated state target. …”
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ADMINISTRATION OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES AS A FACTOR OF UNIVERSITY MODERNIZATION by Andrey P. Klemeshev, Irina Yu. Kuksa

“…These are administrative policy and human resource management, information infrastructure, material incentives for different categories of employees, as well as cooperation with employers.…”
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A Weighted Voting Classifier Based on Differential Evolution by Yong Zhang, Hongrui Zhang, Jing Cai, Binbin Yang

“…Ensemble learning is to employ multiple individual classifiers and combine their predictions, which could achieve better performance than a single classifier. …”
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Joint DOA and DOD Estimation in Bistatic MIMO Radar without Estimating the Number of Targets by Zaifang Xi, Xiao-feng Wu, Shuyue Wu, Zhijun Tang, Shigang Hu

“…Then the two-dimensional (2D) direction finding problem is decoupled into two successive one-dimensional (1D) angle estimation problems by employing the rank reduction (RARE) estimator.…”
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NON-DAMAGE BUSINESS INTERRUPTION INSURANCE POLICIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by Marina Brogi, Valentina Lagasio, Fabrizio Santoboni

“…We propose a model of catastrophe risk with Non-Damage Business Interruption (NDBI) policies to manage the pandemic risk due to the spread of Covid-19. The model employs a Monte Carlo simulation of different lockdown scenarios: the frequency and severity distributions of losses of Italian SMEs. …”
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The Failure of Orthogonality under Nonstationarity: Should We Care About It? by Jose A. Campillo-García, Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària

“…In this work, an optimistic corollary is provided: it is proven that the LS regression, employed in nonstationary and cointegrated variables where the orthogonality assumption is not satisfied, provides estimates that converge to their true values. …”
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Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany by Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Klaus Wälde

“…Their quantitative solution matches the number of sick individuals based on the most recent fi gures with the share of sick individuals following from infection rates and sickness probabilities. They employ this framework to study the expected peak of the number of sick individuals in a scenario without public regulation of social contacts. …”
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Stochastic Passivity of Uncertain Neural Networks with Time-Varying Delays by Jianting Zhou, Qiankun Song, Jianxi Yang

“…By constructing appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, and employing Newton-Leibniz formulation, the free-weighting matrix method, and stochastic analysis technique, a delay-dependent criterion for checking the passivity of the addressed neural networks is established in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), which can be checked numerically using the effective LMI toolbox in MATLAB. …”
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Waste valuing from urban wood management through design. Ideas from the case of Sãn Paulo by Cyntia Malaguti de Sousa

“…On the other hand, part of this waste could be employed in wooden artefacts production, reducing the pressure on the forests, in a circular economy and systemic design approach – the main hypothesis of ongoing research at the University of São Paulo. …”
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Immittance Spectroscopy of Smart Components and Novel Devices by Mohammad A. Alim, Sanjida Khanam, Martin A. Seitz

“…AC small-signal immittance spectroscopy is employed as a viable tool to demonstrate electrical characterization, performance improvement, and quality assurance issues of smart materials-based components and novel devices. …”
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Development of an Anchoring System for the Soft Asteroid Landing Exploration by Zhijun Zhao, Shuang Wang, Delun Li, Hongtao Wang, Yongbing Wang, Jingdong Zhao

“…In the paper, an anchoring system employed on the soft asteroid anchoring is designed. …”
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Advanced Analytical Treatment of Fractional Logistic Equations Based on Residual Error Functions by Saleh Alshammari, Mohammed Al-Smadi, Mohammad Al Shammari, Ishak Hashim, Mohd Almie Alias

“…In this article, an analytical reliable treatment based on the concept of residual error functions is employed to address the series solution of the differential logistic system in the fractional sense. …”
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Event-Triggered Stability Analysis of Semi-Markovian Jump Networked Control System with Actuator Faults and Time-Varying Delay via Bessel–Legendre Inequalities by Hongqian Lu, Chaoqun Guo, Yue Hu, Wuneng Zhou

“…For deriving a less conservative stability criterion, the Bessel–Legendre inequalities approach is employed to the stability analysis and plays a major role. …”
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Learning exactly linearizable deep dynamics models by Ryuta Moriyasu, Masayuki Kusunoki, Kenji Kashima

“…The proposed model is employed for the real-time control of an automotive engine, and the results demonstrate good predictive performance and stable control under constraints.…”
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